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#camx2025 #hailstate #innovation #composites | MSU Advanced Composites InstituteCongratulations to Polynt Composites USA Inc. on being named a finalist for the #CAMX2025 Awards for Combined Strength! We’re grateful for the opportunity to collaborate with you. It’s always exciting to see innovation in action — and to celebrate wins for research, industry, and the future of aerospace manufacturing. #HailState #Innovation #Composites

Interview with Mark Adams of Polynt Group | Crisler HerndonCheck out this interview with MSU Advanced Composites Institute and Polynt Group from CAMX. What a great group of people to work with! https://lnkd.in/gwAw6B5u

Join ATA Engineering in congratulating Dr. S. Michael Spottswood, recipient of the 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗕𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗿 𝗜𝗻𝗱𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘆 𝗔𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗔𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱. This award was established by the… | ATA EngineeringJoin ATA Engineering in congratulating Dr. S. Michael Spottswood, recipient of the 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗕𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗿 𝗜𝗻𝗱𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘆 𝗔𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗔𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱. This award was established by the ASME (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers) Technical Committee on Vibration and Sound (TCVS) to honor the late Dr. Mary Baker. In naming the award for Mary, whose incredible career involved the founding of ATA, ASME/TCVS seeks to recognize engineering professionals who exemplify her spirit of innovation, originality, and meaningful impact in their work. ATA’s president, Joshua Davis, will introduce Dr. Spottswood’s keynote and present the award today at IDETC-CIE. Dr. Spottswood is a member of the senior technical staff of the Air Force Research Laboratory Aerospace Systems Directorate (AFRL/RQ) and a Principal Aerospace Engineer at the Structural Sciences Center (SSC), where he leads multidisciplinary research efforts focused on complex aerospace challenges, including pioneering work in reusable hypersonic vehicle structures. He has held key leadership roles, including managing the Midwest Structural Sciences Center and heading SSC’s basic research mission, strengthening collaborations with academic and international research communities. Dr. Spottswood’s accomplishments have earned him many honors, including the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) in 2010, an AFRL Commander’s Cup/Richard Neal Special Recognition Award in 2015, a Courtland D. Perkins Award in 2017, and an S.D. Heron Award in 2022. He is also a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/eVBw_gyq 𝗔𝗻 𝗔𝗱𝘃𝗼𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗚𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗼𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗦𝗺𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗕𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 For more than 15 years, ATA Engineering has had the opportunity to collaborate with Dr. Spottswood and his research team on several projects to advance methods for predicting the complex coupled aerothermoelastic response of high-speed structures. Recent work culminated in a first-of-its-kind test campaign conducted at the Arnold Engineering Development Complex (AEDC) von Kármán Facility Tunnel C (VKF-C) employing a compliant, reusable test article that exhibited sufficient structural deformation to observe aerothermoelastic coupling under relevant hypersonic flight conditions. The existence of such unique datasets is thanks to Dr. Spottswood’s leadership and technical oversight in pioneering both computational analysis and experimental methods to gain new insight into the complex phenomena of high-speed flight. As a result of this collaboration, ATA has been able to validate and improve computational codes, such as the company’s Multiphysics Engine, so that they are available for use on real-world systems. As our national focus turns toward development of high-speed systems, Dr. Spottswood and the SSC community are positioned to be a national asset in overcoming technical design challenges.

#advancedcomposites #studentresearch #aerospaceengineering #msu | MSU Advanced Composites InstituteMadelyn Sloan Berry, a senior in Aerospace Engineering from Dr. Kim’s class, spent her summer researching ways to improve the fatigue life of composite aircraft materials by comparing stitched vs. unstitched carbon fiber beams. Her goal: making future aircraft stronger and more reliable. She presented her work at the MSU Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium and the Mississippi IDeA/EPSCoR Conference, and even shared her poster with us to display in our student work room! We’re so impressed by Madelyn’s hard work, inspired by all she has learned, and grateful we had the chance to meet her while she was in our facility this summer. ✈️🔬 #AdvancedComposites #StudentResearch #AerospaceEngineering #MSU Bagley College of Engineering EPSCoR/IDeA Foundation (EIF) Madelyn (Sloan) Berry

🚀 Celebrating Undergraduate Research in Aerospace Engineering! | Mississippi State University Aerospace Engineering

Our research on mode-II fracture in composites has been published in Elsevier's Engineering Fracture Mechanics: https://lnkd.in/gGf8qc9G. | Han-Gyu Kim

I’m excited to share that I successfully defended my thesis in Computational Engineering at Mississippi State University on June 23, 2025. | Justin Xie

My favorite lab tech got some autoclave training in at the Mississippi Advanced Composites Training Center while working on Dr. | Cody Hardin

I was honored to receive the Faculty of the Year Award for two consecutive years. | Han-Gyu Kim

With Christopher Bounds, PhD and Dr. | Han-Gyu Kim

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