Advisor Information

FACULTY ADVISOR:

Dr. Lesley Wright is a professor in the Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering department at the University of Arizona. She teaches the AME 432 Heat Transfer course, and her research interests lie in studying heat transfer effects in her lab on campus.

 

 

 

CUSTOMER CONTACT:

Dan Crites is the project contact at Honeywell in Phoenix, Arizona. Honeywell is a diverse company that tackles projects including air conditioning systems, safes, air filters, turbochargers, and more. The Phoenix location works primarily on developing and producing turbine engines.

Honeywell makes small jet engines, but they dominate the market in Auxiliary Power Units (APU’s), that produce electrical power in aircraft when the main engines are shut down. It is Honeywell’s turbine interests that give rise to our project.