Phil Deierling, doctoral student in mechanical and industrial engineering studying under Olesya Zhupanska, formerly in the College of Engineering and now professor of
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aerospace and mechanical engineering at the University of Arizona, has received the Lockheed Martin Student Paper Award in Structures at the AIAA SciTEch 2016 conference in San Diego ( https://www.aiaa-scitech.org/).
His paper was titled "Thermal Response of Spatially Graded Metal-Ceramic Structural Panel to Non-Uniform Heating in Hypersonic Flow." Deierling authored the paper along with Zhupanska and Crystal L. Pasiliao from Air Force Research Laboratory, Munitions Directorate, Eglin AFB, FL.