Air Force bioenvironmental engineers (BEs) use professional skills to evaluate the community and workplace environment and make recommendations to correct environmental hazards. BEs work in areas such as industrial hygiene, radiation protection, environmental engineering, disaster preparedness, medical facilities, biomedical engineering, medical readiness, biomedical and environmental engineering research. During disaster or combat conditions BEs evaluate environmental hazards and make recommendations to commanders regarding personnel protection, public health engineering, temporary shelters, decontamination and air base recovery operations.

Air Force BEs are members of the Biomedical Sciences corps and compete for promotion only against other BSCs and usually enter the Air Force as second lieutenants. Experience or advanced degrees may be afforded a higher rank and advancement to the rank of colonel is possible.

The USAF needs the best bioenviron-mental engineers. To meet this goal they offer you a variety of educational opportunities including pursuit of advanced degrees.

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Project #153A - Title: Electromagnetic Materials Research- Electronics and Computer Technology (electrical engineering). Description: Design software on PC, Macintosh, VAX, and other computer systems. Design and build custom electronic circuits as well as mechanical interfaces for laboratory systems. Laboratory equipment automation software and circuit design will be designed for semiconductor and nonlinear optical materials characterization facilities as needed by the in-house research staff under the direction of senior engineers.

Project #163A - Title: Structure and Properties of Biomolecules (chemistry, computer science). Description: Develop, improve, and apply computer programs to be used for the design of novel biomaterials. The student is required to have computer skills, for example, knowledge of UNIX, as well as analytical thinking capabilities.

Project #178A - Title: Analysis of Crack Growth Data and Fractographic Study of Constant and Variable Amplitude Loading Test (materials science, mechanical engineering). Description: Crack growth under various constant and variable amplitude loading will be investigated to understand crack growth under aircraft spectrum loading. Each load cycle that causes a fatigue crack to grow causes plastic deformation on the fracture surfaces. The fracture surfaces are thus the fingerprint of the loading history that was applied to the sample. Crack growth tests will be conducted using CT-specimens, and the fracture surfaces have to be investigated using optical and scanning electron microscopy. The plastic deformation on the fracture surface is to be correlated with the loading sequence, which contributes to the understanding of crack growth under aircraft loading conditions.

Project #TBA - Title: Tribology and Deposition of Cs Based Solid Lubricants (chemical engineering, materials science). Description: Use of time-of-flight mass spectrometer to determine the energy and angular distribution of atoms and molecules in the plume/plasma generated during pulsed laser deposition (PLD) of Cs-based solid lubricants. Determine the synthesis, structure, property relations of the Cs system. Analysis techniques such as X-Ray diffraction, X-Ray photoelectron spectroscopy, pin-on-disk tribometer, scratch tests, and nanohardness tests will be used to characterize the films. Deposition and characterization data will then be compiled and evaluated to determine links between plasma chemistry and coatings properties.

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