Under a five-year contract with the U.S. Army Research Office, a rotorcraft Center of Excellence was established in the Fall of 1982 at the University of Maryland. As one of the universities chosen for the program, Maryland had the responsibility to attract and involve a significant number of experienced faculty into the program; to develop and add to its graduate curriculum a number of specialized rotorcraft courses which cover the disciplines applicable to rotorcraft design; to attract the best and brightest students into the program and motivate them into rotorcraft as a career; to upgrade and develop experimental facilities which meet the specialized needs of rotorcraft research; to blend faculty, students and facilities into a research combination which concentrated on leading edge research areas; and finally, to disseminate widely the results of the research. The degree to which these responsibilities were met at the end of the contract period is summarized herein. Keywords: Helicopters, Rotorcraft, Aerospace, Education, Rotary wing aircraft, Rotor blades(Rotary wings). (SDW)
Establishment of Center for Rotorcraft Education and Research
1988
25 pages
Report
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English
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