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Graduate Student Elisa Borowski Awarded NM Space Grant for the Second Year in a Row
January 12, 2015
For the second consecutive year, graduate student Elisa Borowski has been awarded a graduate research fellowship from the New Mexico Space Grant Consortium, a program administer by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The funding supports her research efforts under the guidance of civil engineering department chair Dr. Mahmoud R. Taha on a project to engineer a new generation of structural composites that exhibit desired viscoelastic properties for deployable aerospace structures. The project incorporates material and structural level testing and finite element modeling to better understand stress relaxation and creep behavior in polymer nanocomposites. Last fall, Elisa presented her research findings from her first year of funding at the 29th Annual American Society for Composites conference in San Diego, CA. She has also been an active participant in student outreach activities to share her love of engineering with middle school and high school students across New Mexico.