Thursday, August 21, 2008
Writer: Shanna Relford
news@utsi.edu
University
of Tennessee Space Institute proudly announces a retirement
reception in honor of Dr. Roy J. Schulz. Dr. Schulz has dedicated 29
years of service to UTSI in the fields of Mechanical and Aerospace
Engineering. Dr. Schulz is also recognized for his outstanding work
with Arnold Air Force Base. He assisted in the design and evaluation
of Vertical Take-Off and Landing (VTOL) wind tunnel propulsion
testing. Dr. Schulz was also responsible for subscale and full-scale
model and prototype testing at AEDC facilities.
Also at AEDC, Dr. Schulz helped create a widely used analysis code
for aircraft icing simulations. Dr. Schulz has worked on the design,
development and operation of both model and full-scale aerospace
test and research facilities for gas turbine engines, ramjets,
scramjets, and rocket engine propulsion systems.
At UTSI, Dr. Schulz was responsible for the design and development
of the high temperature combustion system for the
magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) facility at UTSI as well as for part of
the heat recovery systems in the exhaust system of the facility. He
also helped support several other major research projects at UTSI
for the US Department of Energy and for NASA.
The reception honoring Dr. Schulz will be held at the Arnold
Lakeside Club on Sept. 2 at 4 p.m. Please RSVP by Aug. 27 to
Charlotte Henley
chenley@utsi.edu, 931-393-7205 or Barbara Birdsong
birdsong@utsi.edu, 931-393-7318.
Dr. Roy Schulz is shown above, third from the right, in a publicity photo shot at UTSI in 1966 just before the building actually opened. Far left shows Dr. Robert Young, one of Schulz’ professors, and Mr. Frank Lewis with the AEDC co-op program is shown at right. At the time, Dr. Schulz was still a student
