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CRG Engineers Speak to Honors Seminar Students
  CRG
engineers Chris Hemmelgarn and Bryan Pelley presented technology
updates, coordinated hands-on experiments, and led discussion
with a group of high school students involved in the the Honor
Seminars of Metropolitan Dayton on October 4, 2007. The Honors
Seminar program was formed in February 1962 to provide the
opportunity for outstanding high school students to work and
study with highly qualified professional people. The program
successfully enlists technologists, scientists, educators,
and other top talent in the greater Dayton community.
Hemmelgarn and Pelley, both systems engineers,
provided students with background on smart materials and shape
memory polymers. Students were then given samples of SMP to
manipulate while brainstorming possible uses for the high-performance
resin. The students presented their ideas and discussed the
properties of the material. The engineers then illustrated
how CRG incorporates and develops SMP technologies and outlined
real applications, including deployable structures for space
and terrestrial uses and self-healing structures for aerospace.
(10-5-2007)
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