Purdue Energetics Research Center

It’s National ! We are grateful for our faculty, staff and graduate students who serve as mentors to AAMP-UP undergrads each summer. They impart valuable skills and knowledge while providing emotional support during what is often a new, challenging process. Thank you, mentors!

AAMP-UP is an immersive, experiential undergraduate summer research program where students collaborate with experts on a variety of projects. Applications for this program open Jan. 9 and close Feb. 10. Don't miss out! Learn more: https://bit.ly/3WjbakT

Congratulations to Prof. Monique McClain, who received an Air Force Research Laboratory - AFRL Young Investigator Research Program award for her project, “Enhanced microstructural control of plastic bonded explosives via additive manufacturing”! YIP recipients receive 3-year grants of up to $450,000.

Congratulations to all PERC-affiliated students graduating today and tomorrow. We look forward to hearing about all your next giant leaps. !

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Prof. Steve Beaudoin addressed students at Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane Division as they began a new course in radar sensing taught by colleagues at Cranfield University. This course contributes to an MS in Defense Engineering and Technology, a customized degree program created by Cranfield and Purdue University.

Prof. Steve Son’s research group creates novel , pioneers solid rocket , explores safer hypergolic propellants and characterizes in unique ways.

Preview some of the group’s innovative projects at their YouTube channel: https://bit.ly/3PcySw7

And that’s a wrap! Happy last day of classes, , and good luck on finals next week! We know you’ll finish out strong.

Congratulations to Prof. Monique McClain, whose layered modeling research at NAWCWD Chinal Lake recently won the 2021 AIAA - The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Propellants and Combustion Best Paper Award! Shoutout to everyone, including our very own Prof. Steve Son, who contributed to this vital project.

Prof. Chris Goldenstein's group is currently working on the Light Speed Grand Project Challenge with Sandia National Labs. This multi-university effort seeks to improve prediction & interpretation of optical radiation emanating from post-detonation fireballs. In this project, the Goldenstein Group has developed and deployed mid-infrared laser-absorption-spectroscopy diagnostics that measure gas temperature, pressure, CO, CO2 and H2O at 1 MHz in post-detonation fireballs of energetic materials. To date, their experimental results have been used to evaluate and improve predictive models for fireball radiation.

Read more about the research associated with this project: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1540748922004680

Learn more about the Goldenstein Group’s work: http://goldensteingroup.com/

Camilo Duarte-Cordon, PERC's Nov. Alum of the Month, received his PhD from Purdue University Mechanical Engineering in Dec. 2021. He is now a postdoctoral researcher at Columbia University. Read more about his experiences with PERC: http://bit.ly/3U6Qry9

PERC director Steve Beaudoin participated on the panel, “Shoring Up Workforce Gaps: Issues & Strategies Across Industries” at the Defense Production Act Title III C4 Collaboration Event. This event aimed to identify opportunities to aggregate demand for critical chemicals from multiple U.S. markets, as well as share best practices to improve efficiency and effectiveness in munitions .

Approximately, 150 representatives from government, industry, and academia were in attendance.

A core component of AAMP-UP's mission is to promote diversity & inclusion in and research. Read about how staff & grad students are helping to realize that goal through student recruitment efforts at the Society of Women Engineers - SWE & the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE) national conferences:

AAMP-UP, PERC aims to promote diversity and inclusion in energetics A core component of the Advancing Army Modernization Priorities – Undergraduate Program’s (AAMP-UP) mission is to promote diversity and inclusion in the field of energetics. To accomplish that goal, staff and graduate students traveled to two national conferences, the Society of Women Engineers ...