Darren Hartl

Darren Hartl, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Texas A&M University, won first place in the Student Paper Presentation Contest at the 2009 SPIE Smart Structures/NDEConference in March in San Diego.

Hartl is a graduate student of Dr. Dimitris Lagoudas. His current research includes developing new constitutive models for conventional and high-temperature shape memory alloys exhibiting plastic and viscoplastic behavior in conjunction with transformation. Models are motivated and calibrated by self-performed experimnetal studies and are implemented for use with three-dimensional structural analysis tools such as FEA.

Hartl expects to finish his Ph.D. in August 2009. For his work, Hartl received a certificate and a $500 cash award.

SPIE and the ASME Adaptive Structures and Material Technical Committee sponsor the best student paper presentation contest. Entrants are judged by a committee of the ASME Adaptive Structures and Materials Technical Committee. Six finalists are chosen from among all students submitting papers for consideration, and these finalists present their papers at a special session on Tuesday afternoon of the meeting. The committee voted to determine the top three finalists, each of whom receive cash awards.

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