Engineering students use smart materials to design a smart wing

A new aircraft wing design uses smart alloys and heat to position flaps.

A prototype aircraft wing designed last year by four Temple mechanical engineering seniors to use “memory alloys” an electrical current to control and position the wing’s flaps, was a finalist in the recent Collegiate Inventors Competition, a program of the National Inventors Hall of Fame Foundation and co-sponsored by the Abbott Fund and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

The students, Jinho Kim, Charlie Hanna, Andrew Guion and Noah Heulitt, conceived the idea and built a model of the “smart wing” last year as part of their senior design project for the College of Engineering, where it won the Ridenour Prize for best mechanical engineering senior project.

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