I presented my research on jet fuel gauging systems at the University of Dayton's 2025 Brother Joseph W. Stander Symposium in the poster presentation sections!
The research focuses on studying how additives and impurities affect measurements of the Dielectric Constant of jet fuels.
The dielectric constant is critical to determining onboard fuel mass because it can be correlated to fuel density using the Clausius-Mossotti relationship.
The volume of the fuel tank is known, and the fuel density can be found using the relationship. Multiplying volume by density reveals the fuel mass.
The dielectric constant data is gathered using an intricate network of Fuel Capacitance Probes throughout the fuel tank. I am pictured holding a probe in my right hand.
The research was part of the FAA ASCENT CoE Project 089.
Future work will study the effects of water impurities. That extension was recently sponsored by NASA via the Ohio Space Grant Consortium.
To view my poster PDF, click here.
I was invited to present at University of Dayton's chapter of Sigma Xi Scientific Research Honor Society.
The research was the preliminary results and design of the poster for Stander Symposium seen above.
I am not a member of Sigma Xi. This event was an open poster competition that I was approved to join.
While I did not win any awards, I was one of the few undergraduate presenters accepted into the event.
Thank you to Dr. Rydge Mulford for organizing the event.