A&E Expo

This family event has been a fixture in the Stow/Kent community for more than two decades and we are thrilled to bring this event back and showcase our Airport and FedEx Aeronautics Academic Center to the community. 

The expo offers a unique look into the Kent State Airport (1G3) and offers one-of-a-kind activities for both the young - and young at heart. Activities at this community event include, but are not limited to: 

UAV Flight Propels Fuel Cell Research

Kent State University’s College of Aeronautics and Engineering (CAE) developed an innovative hybrid fuel cell capacitor that prolongs the flight time of unmanned aircraft vehicles (UAVs), the first hybrid fuel cell battery capacitor specifically developed for commercial UAVs. The project team, led by Yanhai Du, Ph.D., professor in Kent State’s CAE and principal investigator at Kent State’s Fuel Cell Research Lab, developed a lightweight-high-energy-density onboard power source that enables vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) type aircraft to potentially increase flight time and&nbsp...

Dear Members of the Kent State University Community, Kent State Police received a report of a racial slur visible in a restroom in the Kent Campus University Library. It is not certain when it was written, but its appearance serves as a reminder that racism, intolerance and violence, in all of their forms, have no place at Kent State. Our university is committed to its core value of creating a community of kindness and respect, and the recent appearance of this symbol of hate tells us again of the work still ahead of us. At any time, students in need, or individuals who are concerned abo...

Information Technology

div.pane-node-field-article-sub-title div.pane-content { display:none !important;} h1 { font-size:2em !important;}   By:  Haifa Alsaab, Staff Writer, Division of Information Technology Donald (Wayne) Fincher is an Applications Developer who started as a student developer, landed a graduate assistantship and then eventually became a full-time employee for SDI.  Wayne first Joined the SDI team “to satisfy the requirement for professional work experience". He has been writing code for 30 years. But until his student developer experience with SDI, he could not list...

By: Haifa Alsaab, Staff Writer, Division of Information Technology   Andy Hayworth is a former Student Applications Developer who just graduated with a Computer Science major (game programming emphasis) from Kent State University. He started a full-time job in the tech industry the Monday after his graduation. Andy Hayworth worked as a student developer on the Systems Development and Innovations (SDI) team. During that time, he performed a wide variety of common full stack development tasks. “Everything from fixing bugs in a wide variety of Kent State's Outsyste...

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