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AEDC's STEM spokesperson addresses national educational challenges and how to tackle them

Jere Matty, AEDC’s STEM educational outreach specialist, shows 1st Lt. Will Parker, AEDC’s commander’s executive officer, how to operate the flow visualization tunnel at a presentation of STEM teaching aids held recently in the lobby of the A&E Building. Matty, AEDC’s Air Force officers and engineers visit local public schools to hold STEM events to encourage young people to pursue science, technology, engineering and mathematics educations and careers. (Photo by Jacqueline Cowan)

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AEDC's STEM spokesperson addresses national educational challenges and how to tackle them

Kemp Brooks, an engineer in AEDC’s Capability and Integration Branch, cut colored pieces of paper to make the fins, or canards for his rocket at a recent STEM presentation on base. His experience with the rockets and other educational aids the STEM program offers will enable Brooks to help promote careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics to young people (Kindergarten through senior high school students) at STEM events held in surrounding communities. (Photo by Jacqueline Cowan)

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AEDC's STEM spokesperson addresses national educational challenges and how to tackle them

Dow Jones, AEDC contracting officer, and her daughter, Holly Jones, with base services, watch as Jere Matty, AEDC’s STEM educational outreach specialist, sets up a flow visualization tunnel at a presentation of STEM teaching aids held recently in the lobby of the A&E Building. The tunnel was one of a number of teaching aids on display to promote educations and careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields to kindergarten through senior high school students in the surrounding counties. (Photo by Jacqueline Cowan)

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AEDC's STEM spokesperson addresses national educational challenges and how to tackle them

This scene of colonists on the surface of the Moon is part of a multi-media presentation that can be generated on the parabolic screen inside an inflatable planetarium in a recent STEM presentation held at AEDC’s lobby in the A&E Building. It is one of several teaching aids taken to events hosted by Jere Matty, AEDC’s STEM education outreach specialist, and AEDC’s engineers to encourage young people to pursue science, technology, engineering and mathematics educations and careers. (Photo by Jacqueline Cowan)

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AEDC's Tunnel 9 director celebrates the landing of NASA's Mars Science Lab

An Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle heat shield material sample model undergoes preproduction aerothermal testing in AEDC's H2 test facility as part of a facility validation and calibration run. (Photo by Rick Goodfriend)

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AEDC's Tunnel 9 director celebrates the landing of NASA's Mars Science Lab

In AEDC’s National Full-Scale Aerodynamics Complex, two engineers are dwarfed by NASA's Mars Science Laboratory's parachute. The parachute holds more air than a 3,000-square-foot house and is designed to survive loads in excess of 36,000 kilograms (80,000 pounds). The parachute is attached to a launch arm mounted on a swivel-base that allows the test item to pitch and yaw under simulated conditions of subsonic entry into the Martian atmosphere. (Photo courtesy of NASA/JPL and Pioneer Aerospace Corp.)

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AEDC's Tunnel 9 director celebrates the landing of NASA's Mars Science Lab

A 1/30-scale model of the aeroshell configuration for the Mars Science Laboratory underwent aerodynamic atmospheric descent testing at AEDC’s Hypervelocity Wind Tunnel 9 Facility. (AEDC photo)

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AEDC's Tunnel 9 director celebrates the landing of NASA's Mars Science Lab

Aerospace Testing Alliance Instrumentation Technician Doyle Jones performs a continuity check on thermal instrumentation inside a NASA heat shield wedge test model prior to a test run in AEDC's H2 test facility. (Photo by Rick Goodfriend)

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AEDC's Tunnel 9 is the site of unique program debut

Tunnel 9 Director Dan Marren was the tour spokesman during the COTE kick-off event at the AEDC-managed Hypervelocity Wind Tunnel 9. Participants (left to right) included Michael Kendra, Eric Marineau, Edward Greer, Derrick Hinton, Patrick Carrick, Ricky Peters and Tom Russell. (Photo provided)

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AEDC's Tunnel 9 is the site of unique program debut

Kevin Ryan, a University of Maryland student, explains important aspects of his research to Edward Greer, TRMC program manager for test, evaluation, science and technology, at the Jan. 31 Centers of Testing Excellence (COTE) pilot program kickoff at the Hypervelocity Tunnel 9 facility in Silver Spring, Md. (Photo provided)

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AEDC's Tunnel 9 team implements major facility upgrade during busy year

From left, Dan Marren, the director of AEDC’s Hypervelocity Wind Tunnel 9 at White Oak, Md.; leads a ground-breaking ceremony with Tom Smith, project manager with Mack Mechanical, Inc., Tenn., Jeff Waldo, Tunnel 9’s chief facility engineer, and Steve Grant, Tunnel 9’s electrical systems engineer, marking the installation of a new transformer at the facility. (Photo provided)

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AEDC-sponsored Team America Rocketry Challenge team competes at national competition

The AEDC Commander, Col. Rodney Todaro, recently met with the Lebanon High School junior rocketry team to congratulate the students on making it to the 14th annual national Team America Rocketry Challenge in Virginia. Pictured left to right is Col. Todaro with LHS juniors Emily Naylor, Kevin Brown and Olivia Fancher. Not pictured is team member Christina Greer. (U.S. Air Force photo/Holly Peterson)

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AERODYNAMIC AND PROPULSION TEST UNIT FACTSHEET

An Aerospace Testing Alliance outside machinist inspects the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Falcon Combined-cycle Engine Technology (FaCET) scramjet test article in the center’s Aerodynamic and Propulsion Test Unit test cell prior to a test. (Photo by Rick Goodfriend)

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AERODYNAMIC AND PROPULSION TEST UNIT FACTSHEET

The Aerodynamic and Propulsion Test Unit combustion air heater. (Photo by Rick Goodfriend)

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Aerodynamics to treehouses: The benefits of acquisition skills shared during Lunch and Learn

Mike Dent’s treehouse, known as the “Zulu Brew Co.” has been completed since February 2018. Dent recently spoke at a Project Management Institute Lunch and Learn at Arnold Air Force Base and told colleagues how he applied knowledge used on the job when building the treehouse. (Courtesy photo by Mike Dent)

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Aerodynamics to treehouses: The benefits of acquisition skills shared during Lunch and Learn

Gene Klingensmith, a friend of Mike Dent and a test engineer/ test manager for the Aeropropulsion Combined Test Force at Arnold Air Force Base, was one of the many people who assisted in the building of the treehouse. (Courtesy photo by Mike Dent)

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Aerodynamics to treehouses: The benefits of acquisition skills shared during Lunch and Learn

Mike Dent, Chief of the Capital Improvements Branch at Arnold Air Force Base, recently built a “treehouse” near his residence in Tullahoma. He got the idea to construct the treehouse as there was already an existing one in same area, shown in this photo. However, due to stability and safety issues, Dent started from scratch and built his own treehouse, with full heating and air, electricity, running water and plumbing. (Courtesy photo by Mike Dent)

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Aerodynamics to treehouses: The benefits of acquisition skills shared during Lunch and Learn

Mike Dent, Chief of the Capital Improvements Branch at Arnold Air Force Base, recently built a “treehouse” near his residence in Tullahoma. He got the idea to construct the treehouse as there was already an existing one in same area. However, due to stability and safety issues, Dent started from scratch and built his own treehouse, with full heating and air, electricity, running water and plumbing, as seen in this photo. (Courtesy photo by Mike Dent)

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Aeropropulsion CTF hosts Family Day

Aeropropulsion Combined Test Force team members and their families socialize during a cookout Oct. 5 at Arnold Lakeside Center as part of a Family Day. The Family Day event provided an opportunity for everyone to get to know one another and gave families some insight about the work being done at Arnold Air Force Base. In addition to lunch at the ALC, Aeropropulsion CTF team members and their families received a tour of some of the facilities on base. (Courtesy photo)

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Aeropropulsion Systems

2nd Lt. Brad King, aeropropulsion systems test project manager, helps other members of the 717th Test Squadron explain how a test is conducted in SL-2/3. They also discussed the Air Force Component Improvement Program and the use of Accelerated Mission Tests to validate CIP Task Hardware. (Photo by Rick Goodfriend)

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