Ordonez, an expert in flight control systems, spent eight weeks this summer in the Boeing Welliver fellowship program. Boeing selects about 10 people a year for the program.

Embedded in Boeing's 787 flight control group, Ordonez climbed inside the first 787 prototype and took a spin in the Dreamliner flight simulator. He used analysis methods he teaches at UD to help predict the behavior of the 787 under extreme flight conditions. He said he cannot discuss specifics because of proprietary reasons. He also delivered lectures on control methods to Boeing's flight control engineers.

He did say that the way pilots interact with the Dreamliner will be much improved.

"Passengers don't think about the control systems of a plane," he said. "But improvements in those areas are important to help the pilot have an easier time flying the plane; therefore, it will be safer."

The Dreamliner will be designed for nonstop, international flights that avoid the traditional hub system. Flights will be longer but more comfortable. The Dreamliner's composite body will allow for larger windows and better air pressure and humidity in the cabin.

Back in the classroom at UD, Ordonez hopes to bring back the culture of teamwork that made Boeing successful.

"Very large groups of people, who seem to only be loosely coordinated, are nevertheless able to design and make complex products that are extremely reliable," Ordonez said.

Other teaching improvements Ordonez hopes to bring from his Boeing experience include producing more hands-on engineers who can design systems that work. He also will stress topics he found to be of great importance to Boeing.

Ordonez also performs research and teaches courses in coordinating multiple aircraft for search and rescue or military operations. He is director of UD's new Motoman Robotics Lab.

He is the second UD engineering faculty member in the last three years selected for the Welliver program. Danny Eylon, chair of UD's graduate materials engineering program, participated in the program in 2006.

UD performs more aerospace research than any other Ohio university. It is in the top 30 of all U.S. universities in engineering research.

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Boeing produces its CH-47 Chinook helicopters at the plant, as well as the fuselages for the V-22 tilt-rotor aircraft that it builds with Textron Inc's Bell Helicopter unit.

"It's a serious matter and we are taking it very seriously," Williamson said, in response to a query about the government's action.

He said Boeing had halted production at the plant until the company was able to determine how the foreign object debris had gotten into the V-22 fuselage. He said the latest incident was discovered by Boeing during a quality inspection this week.

Williamson gave no details on what object had been found, but such cases often involve tools, stray pieces of wire or protective coatings that wind up where they should not be.

"The Level IV CAR (corrective action request) means that the government will not accept aircraft from this facility until we have satisfied their requirements," he said.

Williamson said an investigation was underway to determine if the latest incident involved any deliberate sabotage.

One individual was arrested and convicted of deliberately placing foreign objects in an H-47 helicopter in May, Williamson said.

Defense analyst Loren Thompson said the latest incident was troubling and raised questions about a deliberate sabotage.

"There clearly is a pattern of foreign objects and material intruding into Boeing's rotorcraft process," said Thompson, chief operating officer of the Virginia-based Lexington Institute.

"I was actually in that plant a few months ago and, like other defense plants, it is extremely neat and clean, so these sorts of things don't usually happen by accident. You have to consider the possibility that someone is doing this deliberately."

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