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Vanderbilt researchers, students part of inaugural SEC symposium on renewable energy
Feb. 10, 2013—Vanderbilt’s Aerospace Club represented the university in the SEC university showcase. The club displayed its fabricated ramjet engine prototype, designed to burn biohybrid fuel. The engine will be used to power the club’s rocket in NASA’s annual rocketry challenge in April. As part of the SEC Symposium, the showcase consisted of one booth per university...
Students use rocket flight to test thermoelectric generator for waste heat recovery
Jul. 9, 2010—Vanderbilt mechanical engineering students have designed a thermoelectric generator for aerospace applications that elicited strong accolades at the spring 2010 NASA-sponsored University Launch Initiative and won the Payload Design prize. It has no moving parts and can convert some of the waste exhaust heat into usable electrical power.
Vandy Aerospace Club gets big lift from launch win
Jun. 2, 2008—Vanderbilt’s Aerospace Club recently won a prestigious altitude contest when its rocket reached a height of 5,264 feet at a launch contest held in late April at a north Alabama farm. “The corn growing in that field will never taste as sweet as the success of our rocket,” said senior Nathan Grady, a member of...