PengenalanProgram AEROFAIR USM 2014 anjuran Pusat Pengajian Kejuruteraan Aeroangkasa (PPKAero) Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) dibiayai oleh Majlis Pendidikan Pulau Pinang, Institut Pulau Pinang, di bawah agenda Program Penggalakan Sains dan Teknologi (PPST). Di bawah agenda tersebut, beberapa program termasuk AEROFAIR 2014 dianjurkan untuk menggalakkan dan meningkatkan minat pelajar terhadap bidang sains, teknologi, kejuruteraan dan matematik […]
IntroductionIndoor Flight is a category of light-weight indoor planes powered by rubber bands and flown without any remote controls. The aim of building one of these planes is to maximize its flight time, with flight times ranging from 1 to 5 minutes for beginners, and achieving more than 40 minutes in international competitions. These planes […]
There will be three competitions for this year’s AEROFAIR event: Indoor Flight, Airframe Modelling, and Rocket Launching. The competition event day will be held from 8.30 am to 1.30 pm on Saturday, 27/9/2014 at the Pusat Pembangunan Mahasiswa (PUMA) building. Special prizes and certificates will be awarded to winners in each category. All secondary schools […]
IntroductionThe AEROFAIR USM 2014 outreach program, organized by the School of Aerospace Engineering (SAE) at Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM), is funded by the Penang Education Council of the Penang Institute under their Program Penggalakan Sains dan Teknologi (PPST) agenda. Under this agenda, a number of other programs including AEROFAIR 2014 are organized to promote and […]
A quote by Robert B. O’Connor in the Journal of Occupational Medicine, April 1968: Computers are extremely fast, accurate and stupid. Human beings are notoriously slow, sloppy and highly intelligent. When the intelligence of humans is coupled with the speed and accuracy of computers, data processing that far outreaches anything in the past becomes possible. […]
For the initial phase of the FlyOutreach project, I am offering to fund a postgraduate student for a Master degree by research here at the School of Aerospace Engineering, USM. The main background of the two aspects of the FlyOutreach project can be read further here: Outreach & UAV. The scope of this Master degree […]
(There are two parts to this FlyOutreach project. The outreach part is described in this post.) The aerospace engineering aspect of this project is on designing, building, and integrating the tools (i.e. the flying vehicles) we use in the demonstration and practical sessions. We plan to build remote-controlled model planes and eventually autonomous unmanned aerial […]
(There are two parts to this FlyOutreach project. The flying vehicles part is described in this post.) The main goal of the outreach part of this project is essentially to get more secondary school students interested in science. Here, I’m referring to science in general, which includes fields related to math, engineering, and technology. The […]
My name is Zulfaa Mohamed Kassim, the person behind the FlyOutreach effort. I’m a faculty at the School of Aerospace Engineering, Universiti Sains Malaysia. I studied aerospace engineering at the University of Minnesota, from bachelor, master, to doctoral degrees. Previously, I worked in the areas of particle-image velocimetry, multiphase flows, truck aerodynamics, and aircraft noise […]
BackgroundIn Malaysia, the issue of students lacking interest in science and math is becoming more critical. One report in 2012 showed that only 20% of students in the secondary schools are taking up the science stream, while the rest are in the art stream. This is far from our national target to have 60% students […]