{"id":141090,"date":"2023-06-12T10:45:24","date_gmt":"2023-06-12T14:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/?p=141090"},"modified":"2023-06-12T10:49:02","modified_gmt":"2023-06-12T14:49:02","slug":"a-future-flying-free-of-fossil-fuels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/2023\/06\/12\/a-future-flying-free-of-fossil-fuels\/","title":{"rendered":"A Future Flying Free of Fossil Fuels"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>Terrier engineers win NASA student design competition on clean aviation energy<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>By Patrick L. Kennedy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Days after their Boston University graduation, a team of newly minted engineers won a NASA competition with a proposal to make tomorrow\u2019s aviation industry run on aluminum powder instead of jet fuel. Odin Francis, Patrick Olah, Michael Osuji, and Max Pounanov\u2014all ENG\u201923\u2014labored over their innovative design throughout their senior year, and in early June they took first place in the second annual Gateways to Blue Skies: Clean Aviation Energy student competition, held at NASA\u2019s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s overwhelming,\u201d says Olah. \u201cEight months ago I had no idea how aluminum powder might be used to power an airplane, but I\u2019m so glad we picked this topic for our senior design project and just dived in. It\u2019s like the butterfly effect.\u201d The four young alums have been offered internships in NASA aeronautics centers as a result of their victory.<\/p>\n<p><em>Read the full story at <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/articles\/2023\/eng-terriers-win-nasa-student-competition\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BU Today<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of just-graduated BU engineers won a NASA competition with a proposal to make airplanes run on aluminum powder combustion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2662,"featured_media":141092,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[236,982,908,1000],"tags":[1011,423],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141090"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141090"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":141096,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141090\/revisions\/141096"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}