STEM Careers | Drive your future: protecting soldiers with water
Huon Bornstein
Huon Bornstein has mapped his own STEM program which is helping drive the future of Australia's ground forces. His approach involves subjecting armoured vehicles to rigorous testing using water, enhancing their resilience, particularly in arid environments where water storage is critical. Proper water placement could potentially serve as a protective measure against landmines and improvised explosive devices.
STEM Program at University
Huon never imagined he'd be working on these problems when he was an undergrad in Aerospace Engineering and Science at Monash University in 2009. With majors in maths and astrophysics, Huon joined the graduate program at DSTG and was invited to join the mechanics and vehicle survivability team.
Now he's pursuing a PhD at RMIT University with support from DSTG. Huon's work ranges from theoretical exploration to practical application. This involes creating numerical models and simulating explosions on the computer, then testing his models with real-life explosions at the DSTG test range.
