As Jeff Helstad walks around what he calls the "nerd-ery" – a long hallway of doors leading to multimillion-dollar 
equipment at the University of North Texas' Discovery Park – he's doing what he can now to arm himself with science, to aid him on the battlefield next year. The Flower Mound resident plans to graduate with a materials science degree in the spring and will be shipped off to the Middle East to serve with fellow National Guardsmen. Helstad is taking what he knows about metals and ceramics and working with other researchers to understand material failures that occur in guns, equipment and body armor when they wither under the hot desert sun. And he's doing this with the aid of a recent award – the Science, Mathematics and Research for Transformation (SMART) Scholarship, which includes a $25,000 stipend for two years, full tuition and job placement at the Air Force Research Laboratory in Dayton, Ohio. UNT materials science laboratories are already working with the Air Force to find new alloys and lightweight carbon composites to build materials that will help jet fleets last longer in the desert, Helstad said.
equipment at the University of North Texas' Discovery Park – he's doing what he can now to arm himself with science, to aid him on the battlefield next year. The Flower Mound resident plans to graduate with a materials science degree in the spring and will be shipped off to the Middle East to serve with fellow National Guardsmen. Helstad is taking what he knows about metals and ceramics and working with other researchers to understand material failures that occur in guns, equipment and body armor when they wither under the hot desert sun. And he's doing this with the aid of a recent award – the Science, Mathematics and Research for Transformation (SMART) Scholarship, which includes a $25,000 stipend for two years, full tuition and job placement at the Air Force Research Laboratory in Dayton, Ohio. UNT materials science laboratories are already working with the Air Force to find new alloys and lightweight carbon composites to build materials that will help jet fleets last longer in the desert, Helstad said.For further details visit as : http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/stories/DN-helstad_05met.ART.State.Edition1.4bdbde6.html
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