Center for Gas Turbine Research, Education, and Outreach

GTREO Seminar: Dr. Paul Van Slooten, Pratt & WhitneyPratt & Whitney: Powering the Future ABSTRACT: In 2025 Pratt & Whitney will celebrate its 100th anniversary – a remarkable milestone that few companies in any industry achieve. Since our founding, the...

Seminar: Dr. David Hall, Penn StateElectrified Aircraft Propulsion: Challenges, Benefits, and Mechanisms Revealed through Design Optimization Abstract: Electrified Aircraft Propulsion (EAP) has been suggested as an approach to reduce aviation emissions. The weight,...

GTREO Seminar: Dr. John Clark - AFRLAn Alternate Means to Form Non-Dimensional Products in Dimensional Analysis ABSTRACT: Engineering students encounter dimensional analysis early in an undergraduate curriculum. A critical step in the process involves the selection...

GTREO Seminar: Dr. Jamesa Stokes - NASA GlennAdvanced Environmental Barrier Coating Testing and Development for Gas Turbine Engines ABSTRACT:  Environmental barrier coatings (EBCs) are an enabling technology for the use of SiC-based ceramic matrix composites (CMCs)...

GTREO Seminar: Jason Bargender, MHI Hydrogen InfrastructureHydrogen Solutions: Towards a Global Decarbonized Future ABSTRACT:  For decades, hydrogen has played a subtle but integral role in society, supporting the oil & gas and chemicals industry and serving as...

GTREO Seminar: Dr. Gregg Abate, AFOSR​Working with AFOSR and Highlights from the Unsteady Aerodynamics and Turbulent Flows Program ABSTRACT: The Unsteady Aerodynamics and Turbulent Flows portfolio supports basic research into the dynamics and control of aerodynamic...

GTREO Seminar: Dr. Tim Smith, NASA Glenn​ ABSTRACT: The need for metal alloys which are suitable for additive manufacturing (AM) processes (e.g. laser powder bed fusion (LPBF)) that can perform at temperatures above 1000°C has led to a resurgence of interest in...

GTREO Seminar: John Crane, NETLDOE Zero Carbon Energy: Progress to Net Zero ABSTRACT: The Department of Energy has established inspirational goals to achieve clean, carbon-free electricity by 2035 and reach complete net-zero by 2050 with significant investments to...

GTREO Seminar: Michael J. Hughes, GE VernovaGE Vernova, Gas Turbines, and The Energy to Change the World ABSTRACT: Power plants featuring Industrial Gas Turbine engines are capable of operating for years at a time with high efficiency, low emissions, and a great...

GTREO Seminar: Dr. Gregory Laskowski, Dassault SystemesOpportunities and Challenges for Lattice-Boltzmann CFD in the Aerospace Industry:  Airframes and Engines Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) plays a critical role in accelerating product time to market, reducing...