{"425481":{"#nid":"425481","#data":{"type":"news","title":"ASDL welcomes industry and government leaders at EAB meeting","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDozens of government, academic and aerospace industry leaders converged on Georgia Tech this week for the Aerospace Systems Design Lab (ASDL) annual External Advisory Board meeting, held April 28-29.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe two-day meeting featured presentations by AE graduate students that focused on some of the grand challenges facing the discipline and the world. Dressed to impress and ready to discuss details, the students spent Monday presenting their research on subjects ranging from gyrocopter-type airborne wind turbines to high bypass ratio engine integration.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESee a complete list of the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ae.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/img\/EAB-Schedule-Final%20%282%29.pdf\u0022\u003EASDL presentations\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECheck out this\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/117948618@N08\/sets\/72157644427068144\/\u0022\u003Eslideshow\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;from the ASDL\u0026nbsp;EAB\u0026nbsp;reception.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022A lot of the people who come are leaders in industry, so it says a lot for the quality of the ASDL presentations that they took the time out to attend. It\u0027s not easy to get this kind of time,\u0022 said EAB co-chairman Dr. Gary Seng, a retired Chief at the NASA Glenn Research Center.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022I\u0027d say a lot of them get revitalized by the presentations, because the students here are fully involved in studying the latest research. They give us new perspective.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEAB co-chairman, Bill Kimmel, a chief technologist at NASA\u0027s Langley Research Center, said that working with the students at ASDL was something of an investment in the future.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022These are very smart students, the future researchers that we\u0027ll see at NASA, so what we do is stretch them a little,\u0022 he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022For instance, they might present one of the best projects in the world, but if the cost is too high, that project will have a hard time getting by the suits. So we ask them to think about lower cost options, not just the best-case scenario.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ctable width=\u0022200\u0022 border=\u00220\u0022 cellspacing=\u00221\u0022 cellpadding=\u00225\u0022 align=\u0022center\u0022\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003Cem\u003EAfter their presentations, ASDL\u0026nbsp;students remained standing as they carefully listened to the advice and queries of the EAB\u0026nbsp;members.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Dozens of government, academic and aerospace industry leaders converged on Georgia Tech this week for the Aerospace Systems Design Lab (ASDL) annual External Advisory Board meeting, held April 28-29."}],"uid":"27456","created_gmt":"2015-07-16 11:05:31","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:19:08","author":"Britanny Grace","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-04-29T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-04-29T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1239","name":"School of Aerospace Engineering"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"2082","name":"aerospace engineering"},{"id":"100921","name":"ASDL"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":["communications@ae.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}