AAE Assistant Professor Carson Slabaugh selected to receive DURIP award

AAE Assistant Professor Carson Slabaugh has been chosen by the U.S. Department of Defense to receive a research instrumentation award. The award is being made under the Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP), which supports the purchase of state-of-the-art equipment necessary to conduct cutting-edge research. Professor Slabaugh’s DURIP funds will be used to purchase a high-speed imaging system.

“What we’re doing is looking at this new detonation engine type cycle,” says Slabaugh. “The combustion wave is actually moving at supersonic speed, so in order to capture that and image the way that the combustion process takes place we need a really fast camera.”

Slabaugh says this new camera has the fastest sensor, shooting 20,000 frames/second. He says that will allow for the clear images needed for the research being done at Zucrow Laboratories.

DURIP awards are the result of a merit competition jointly conducted by three DoD research offices: the Army Research Office, Office of Naval Research, and Air Force Office of Scientific Research. The program is highly competitive. Of the 622 proposals received, just 176 were selected.