{"688257":{"#nid":"688257","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Christos Athanasiou to Receive 2025 Eshelby Mechanics Award for Young Faculty","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EChristos Athanasiou\u003C\/strong\u003E, assistant professor in the Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering, has been selected to receive the 2025 Eshelby Mechanics Award for Young Faculty. Presented annually by the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.asme.org\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAmerican Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, the award recognizes rapidly emerging junior faculty who exemplify originality, depth, and impact in the development and application of mechanics.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Eshelby Mechanics Award was established in 2012\u202fin memory of\u202fProfessor John Douglas Eshelby\u0026nbsp;to promote the field of mechanics, among young researchers. The award will be formally presented at the 2026 Applied Mechanics Division Awards Banquet during the ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition in November.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAthanasiou and his team advance the fundamental mechanics and physics of materials and translates these insights into systems-level design strategies that address global challenges in resource efficiency and sustainable development. His research integrates advanced experimental methods capable of capturing material behavior under realistic operational conditions, mechanics-based design principles, and tailored AI- and physics-informed modeling frameworks.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETogether, these efforts enable the development of life-cycle-efficient, cost-effective materials and structures for applications ranging from sustainable packaging to aerospace systems and space construction. His recent work published in \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.pnas.org\/doi\/10.1073\/pnas.2502613122\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cem\u003E (PNAS)\u003C\/em\u003E introduced a bioinspired framework to improve plastic recycling while addressing a foundational mechanics question: how can we build reliable structures from inherently variable materials?\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAthanasiou is also the recipient of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/funding\/opportunities\/career-faculty-early-career-development-program\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E2024 NSF CAREER Award\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E and the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ae.gatech.edu\/news\/2025\/06\/christos-athanasiou-receives-asme-orr-early-career-award\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EASME Orr Early Career Award\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, and is a Climate Tech Fellow at the New York Climate Exchange.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EChristos Athanasiou\u003C\/strong\u003E, assistant professor in the Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering, has been selected to receive the 2025 Eshelby Mechanics Award for Young Faculty.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The award recognizes early-career researchers who\u2019ve made impactful contributions to the field of mechanics."}],"uid":"36345","created_gmt":"2026-02-13 16:57:40","changed_gmt":"2026-02-13 17:03:06","author":"gwaddell3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2026-02-13T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2026-02-13T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"679280":{"id":"679280","type":"image","title":"headshot-anthansiou.png","body":"\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ae.gatech.edu\/directory\/person\/christos-e-athanasiou\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EChristos E Athanasiou\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cem\u003EAssistant Professor\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E","created":"1771002011","gmt_created":"2026-02-13 17:00:11","changed":"1771002011","gmt_changed":"2026-02-13 17:00:11","alt":"Christos Anthanasiou headshot","file":{"fid":"263417","name":"headshot-anthansiou.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/02\/13\/headshot-anthansiou.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/02\/13\/headshot-anthansiou.png","mime":"image\/png","size":943888,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2026\/02\/13\/headshot-anthansiou.png?itok=hBe5dgbw"}}},"media_ids":["679280"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/ae.gatech.edu\/news\/2025\/06\/christos-athanasiou-receives-asme-orr-early-career-award","title":"Christos Athanasiou Receives the ASME Orr Early Career Award"},{"url":"https:\/\/ae.gatech.edu\/news\/2025\/04\/georgia-tech-researchers-pioneer-eco-friendly-building-materials-earth-and-mars","title":"Georgia Tech Researchers Pioneer Eco-Friendly Building Materials for Earth and Mars"}],"groups":[{"id":"1188","name":"Research Horizons"},{"id":"1239","name":"School of Aerospace Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"154","name":"Environment"},{"id":"42921","name":"Exhibitions"},{"id":"42891","name":"Georgia Tech Arts"}],"keywords":[{"id":"2082","name":"aerospace engineering"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"194566","name":"Sustainable Systems"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMonique Waddell\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["monique.waddell@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"681216":{"#nid":"681216","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech to Collaborate on $6.7 Million NASA University Leadership Initiative","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EProfessor \u003Cstrong\u003EKyriakos Vamvoudakis \u003C\/strong\u003Ewill collaborate with colleagues from academia and industry on a \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/directorates\/armd\/tacp\/ui\/uli\/2025-university-teams\/\u0022\u003ENASA University Leadership Initiative (ULI) grant\u003C\/a\u003E to create intelligent systems for Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) that can independently learn and make safe decisions. These systems will be designed to consistently be aware of safety and ensure that the vehicles operate reliably and securely.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe four-year $6.7 million Safety Aware Learning Assured Autonomy for Aviation project will be headed up by \u003Cstrong\u003EHever Moncayo\u003C\/strong\u003E from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, and include collaborations with Georgia Tech, the University of Texas, Arlington, the University of Southern California, and Collins Aerospace.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI\u2019m thrilled to join forces and combine our multifaceted expertise to enhance the safety of Advanced Air Mobility vehicles. Our research is paving the way to make them a reality,\u201d Vamvoudakis stated. \u201cThis ULI will bring together experts from academia and industry to speed up progress in aviation safety, improve the reliability and autonomy of future air mobility, and facilitate the integration of autonomous safety systems into commercial and regulatory standards.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe project will investigate the significant knowledge gaps that have slowed down the national airspace\u2019s use of AAM vehicles such as drones and air taxis. Vamvoudakis and his team will create smart safety system software that can learn independently. This system will help monitor, manage, and control these vehicles safely and reliably. It will also produce national safety guidelines to ensure the vehicles follow safe flight paths and make harmless decisions based on their own learning. Additionally, they will allow vehicles to autonomously adjust their own actions to ensure safety within specific operational limits. The idea is that future AAM vehicles will use smart, non-traditional components to stay safe and perform well, even in unexpected situations and emergencies. Establishing an intelligent system that can diagnose and predict issues independently will be crucial. This system will help ensure these vehicles meet their mission goals safely, despite challenges like unpredictable environments.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis ULI research effort will support the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/directorates\/armd\/\u0022\u003EAeronautics Research Mission Directorate\u2019s\u003C\/a\u003E (ARMD) outcome for 2020-2035: Initial safe and efficient integration of highly automated vehicles into the National Airspace System (NAS) by introducing aviation systems with bounded autonomy, capable of carrying out function-level goals.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis is Vamvoudakis\u2019 second ULI. He is a part of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/uli.arc.nasa.gov\/projects\/10\/\u0022\u003ESafe and Secure Autonomy Project\u003C\/a\u003E that is still active.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECo-Pis: K. \u003Cstrong\u003EMerve Dogan, Maj Mirmirani, \u003C\/strong\u003Eand \u003Cstrong\u003EVictor Fraticelli \u003C\/strong\u003E(Embry Riddle Aeronautical University), \u003Cstrong\u003EKyriakos G. 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Some, however, come too close to Earth, with a potential threat of collision. Defending Earth from these unwanted objects is a growing concern globally. Planetary defense explores threat characterization, risk mitigation, and policy to defend Earth. One mitigation approach is sending an impactor to collide with the target object to deflect its trajectory from the original course toward Earth. This approach, known as kinetic deflection, is practical for intruders with a diameter up to a few hundred meters.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/mission\/dart\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ENASA\u2019s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART),\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E led by Johns Hopkins University\u2019s Applied Physics Laboratory, was the first full-scale kinetic deflection mission to test how kinetic deflection could effectively push an asteroid measuring 150 meters in diameter. The 580-kg spacecraft (impactor) collided with the target asteroid, Dimorphos, at a speed of 6.1 km\/second on September 26, 2022, making the target\u2019s speed 2.7 mm\/s. This speed change could gradually make the course deviate from the original one. The more time that elapses after impact, the further it moves away from the Earth. Even though Dimorphos was not a threat before the impact, it was chosen as a test target for DART\u2019s kinetic deflection test.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ae.gatech.edu\/directory\/person\/masatoshi-toshi-hirabayashi\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMasatoshi Hirabayashi\u2019s\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E critical contribution to DART was recently published in \u003Cem\u003ENature Communications\u003C\/em\u003E. The study, \u201c\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-025-56010-w\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EElliptical ejecta of asteroid Dimorphos is due to its surface curvature\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u201d analyzed the behavior of fragments coming out by the high-speed DART impact and their push of the asteroid. This work was in collaboration with Professor \u003Cstrong\u003EFabio Ferrari\u003C\/strong\u003E from Politecnico di Milano, who jointly published the study, \u201c\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-025-56551-0\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMorphology of ejecta features from the impact on asteroid Dimorphos.\u201d\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EImagine a cannonball flying through the air and hitting a concrete wall. The wall shutters and fragmented pieces disperse at high speeds. Those smaller fragments, called ejecta, are known to be a key factor in controlling the asteroid push.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe study found that the ejecta from the impact site on Dimorphos highly depends on the asteroid\u2019s shape. As a rule of thumb, a cannonball hitting a flat concrete wall creates ejecta departing from the wall at an angle of about 45 degrees from the wall\u2019s surface. The cloud of ejecta thus looks like a waffle cone. However, if the concrete wall\u2019s surface is tilted against the impact direction, the fragment ejection changes, making the ejecta structure differ even if the impactor has the same mass and speed.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis changes the asteroid push dramatically. Dimorphos has a squashed round shape, like an M\u0026amp;M,\u201d Hirabayashi explained, \u201cIf the impact is large, more ejecta fly out of the surface but are more affected by surface tilts. This process makes the ejecta deviate from the ideal direction, reducing the asteroid push.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor the DART impact on Dimorphos, the study identified the impact scale and the asteroid\u2019s rounded surface lowered the asteroid push by 56% compared to when Dimorphos was tested as an entirely flat wall. Thus, sending a large impactor does not mean a big push, and considering how to send impactors strategically is necessary. One way to keep the asteroid push effective is to send multiple small impactors rather than a single large impactor. This way, each small impactor may avoid the target\u2019s rounded shape, and the net asteroid push by multiple impacts can be more efficient than the single impactor.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cSending multiple smaller impactors not only results in a higher asteroid push but also potentially saves operational cost and \u0026nbsp;increases tactical flexibility for deflection,\u0022 Hirabayashi said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFerrari\u2019s study offered crucial information for Hirabayashi\u2019s conclusions. \u201cWe used Hubble Space Telescope\u2019s images and numerical simulations to quantify a viable mechanism of the ejecta evolution and successfully estimated ejected particles\u2019 mass, velocity, and size. We also found complex interactions of such particles with the asteroid system and solar radiation pressure, i.e., sunlight pushing ejecta particles,\u201d Ferrari said. \u201cDocumenting how ejecta looks over time offers crucial insights into how the DART impact acted on ejecta, giving tight constraints on the target asteroid\u2019s properties.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENASA\u2019s DART mission was a success, and Hirabayashi\u2019s study discovered an innovative approach to kinetic deflection, offering new potential for its future demonstration in space. He is building a new capability of characterizing a target\u2019s properties beneficial for planetary defense, such as mass, size, composition, etc., at limited observational conditions. This is aligned with the fast reconnaissance concept, a new community effort that develops planetary defense strategies to identify these properties within a limited time and resources. This work continues to evolve Georgia Tech into a key player in planetary defense, connecting international communities.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ae.gatech.edu\/directory\/person\/masatoshi-toshi-hirabayashi\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMasatoshi Hirabayashi\u2019s\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E critical contribution to DART was recently published in \u003Cem\u003ENature Communications\u003C\/em\u003E. The study, \u201c\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-025-56010-w\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EElliptical ejecta of asteroid Dimorphos is due to its surface curvature\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u201d analyzed the behavior of fragments coming out by the high-speed DART impact and their push of the asteroid. This work was in collaboration with Professor \u003Cstrong\u003EFabio Ferrari\u003C\/strong\u003E from Politecnico di Milano, who jointly published the study, \u201c\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-025-56551-0\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMorphology of ejecta features from the impact on asteroid Dimorphos.\u201d\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"A Georgia Tech study analyzes NASA\u2019s DART mission and proposes an innovative approach for kinetic deflection."}],"uid":"36345","created_gmt":"2025-02-21 19:40:26","changed_gmt":"2025-02-21 19:52:51","author":"gwaddell3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2025-02-19T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2025-02-19T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/ae.gatech.edu\/news\/2024\/06\/hirabayashi-chosen-nasa-join-european-space-agencys-planetary-mission-study-results","title":"Hirabayashi Chosen by NASA to Join European Space Agency\u2019s Planetary Mission to Study Results of Asteroid Deflection"},{"url":"https:\/\/ae.gatech.edu\/news\/2022\/11\/aes-third-space-imaging-workshop-creates-hub-imaging-experts","title":"AE\u2019s Third Space Imaging Workshop Creates Hub for Imaging Experts"}],"groups":[{"id":"1188","name":"Research Horizons"},{"id":"1239","name":"School of Aerospace Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"136","name":"Aerospace"}],"keywords":[{"id":"1325","name":"aerospace"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"193657","name":"Space Research Initiative"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMonique Waddell\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["monique.waddell@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"680141":{"#nid":"680141","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Yang Awarded with AIAA\u2019s Highest Honor for Achievements in Aeronautics","body":[{"value":"\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDaniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering (AE) Regents Professor\u003Cstrong\u003E Vigor Yang\u003C\/strong\u003E has been selected to receive the 2025 American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Reed Aeronautics Award. The award recognizes Yang\u2019s significant contributions to the understanding of combustion physics in aerospace systems, technological innovation in aerospace propulsion, and advancement of aerospace engineering education and literature.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EYang will be presented with the award in Washington, D.C., on April 30, 2025, at the AIAA Awards Gala.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cReceiving this award is a profound honor that reflects not just personal achievement but the collective efforts of an incredible community. I am grateful and also humbled by this recognition, which would not have been possible without the enormous support from my mentors, colleagues, and students over the years. They have been a continuous source of energy and inspiration,\u201d said Yang. \u201cIn aerospace engineering, the sky is not the limit, and I am privileged to collaborate with and learn from people worldwide to extend our field\u0027s frontier.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe award, named after Dr. \u003Cstrong\u003ESylvanus A. Reed\u003C\/strong\u003E, aeronautical engineer, designer, and founding member of the Institute of Aeronautical Sciences in 1932, is the highest honor AIAA bestows for notable achievements in aeronautics.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EYang\u2019s illustrious career spans over forty years. He has expertise in a variety of topics, including combustion dynamics in propulsion and power-generation systems; multi-fidelity modeling and simulations of fluid flows and combustion; combustion of energetic materials; high-pressure transport phenomena, thermodynamics, and combustion; nano technologies for propulsion and energetic applications; and data science and technology.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe served as the William R.T. Oakes Professor and Chair of AE from 2009 through 2018, and he has been the principal or co-principal investigator on over 70 research projects, including nine of the Department of Defense\u2019s Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) projects.\u003Cbr\u003ENotably, he has published 12 comprehensive volumes and numerous technical papers on combustion, propulsion, energetics, and data science and technology.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECurrently, he is the editor of the\u003Cem\u003E Aerospace Book Series \u003C\/em\u003Eof Cambridge University Press, Deputy Editor of the \u003Cem\u003EAIAA Journal\u003C\/em\u003E, and founding editor of the \u003Cem\u003EMachine Learning in Science, Technology, Technology, and Mathematics (ML-in-STEM) Book Series\u003C\/em\u003E of de Gruyter Academic Publishing GmbH.\u003Cbr\u003EIn 2014, AE Regents Professor Emeritus Professor Ben T. 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Zinn\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E \u003C\/strong\u003Ewas selected for the Reed Aeronautics Award.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Regents Professor Vigor Yang will receive the 2025 Reed Aeronautics Award for his substantial work in combustion research and education."}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDaniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering (AE) Regents Professor\u003Cstrong\u003E Vigor Yang\u003C\/strong\u003E has been selected to receive the 2025 American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Reed Aeronautics Award. The award recognizes Yang\u2019s significant contributions to the understanding of combustion physics in aerospace systems, technological innovation in aerospace propulsion, and advancement of aerospace engineering education and literature.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Regents Professor Vigor Yang will receive the 2025 Reed Aeronautics Award for his substantial work in combustion research and education."}],"uid":"36345","created_gmt":"2025-02-03 18:37:30","changed_gmt":"2025-02-03 18:47:33","author":"gwaddell3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2025-01-30T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2025-01-30T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"676193":{"id":"676193","type":"image","title":"Yang header.jpg","body":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERegents Professor Vigor Yang\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","created":"1738608230","gmt_created":"2025-02-03 18:43:50","changed":"1738608230","gmt_changed":"2025-02-03 18:43:50","alt":"Vigor Yang","file":{"fid":"259929","name":"Yang header.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2025\/02\/03\/Yang%20header_1.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2025\/02\/03\/Yang%20header_1.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":113376,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2025\/02\/03\/Yang%20header_1.jpg?itok=o7zgGhHA"}}},"media_ids":["676193"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/ae.gatech.edu\/news\/2024\/09\/ae-professors-koki-ho-and-kai-james-named-associate-fellows-aiaa","title":"AE Professors Koki Ho and Kai James Named Associate Fellows by AIAA"}],"groups":[{"id":"1188","name":"Research Horizons"},{"id":"1239","name":"School of Aerospace Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"136","name":"Aerospace"}],"keywords":[{"id":"2082","name":"aerospace engineering"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39541","name":"Systems"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMonique Waddell\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["monique.waddell@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"678585":{"#nid":"678585","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Engineering the Origin of the Wheel","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESome historians believe the wheel is the most significant invention ever created. Historians and archeologists have artifacts from the wheel\u2019s history that go back thousands of years, but knowing that the wheel first originated back in 3900 B.C. doesn\u2019t tell the entire story of this essential technology\u2019s development.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA recent \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/royalsocietypublishing.org\/doi\/epdf\/10.1098\/rsos.240373\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003Estudy\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E by Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering Associate Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ae.gatech.edu\/directory\/person\/kai-james\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EKai James\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, Lee Alacoque, and Richard Bulliet analyzes the wheels\u2019 invention and its evolution. Their analysis supports a new theory that copper miners from the Carpathian Mountains in southeastern Europe may have invented the wheel. However, the study also recognizes that the wheel\u2019s evolution occurred incrementally over time \u2014 and likely through considerable trial and error. The findings suggest that the original developers of the wheel benefited from uniquely favorable environmental conditions that augmented their human ingenuity. The study, published in the journal \u003Cem\u003ERoyal Society Open Science,\u003C\/em\u003E has gained the worldwide attention of experts and more than 58 media outlets, including \u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ct.moreover.com\/?a=55120414867\u0026amp;p=1pl\u0026amp;v=1\u0026amp;x=Nn7Ozxhhg37uXpWFulhboQ\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPopular Mechanics\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ct.moreover.com\/?a=55102419746\u0026amp;p=1pl\u0026amp;v=1\u0026amp;x=_kLNRH7aRiViqfL4AYBuBg\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EInteresting Engineering\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, and \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ct.moreover.com\/?a=55113970190\u0026amp;p=1pl\u0026amp;v=1\u0026amp;x=fhgi-6KEXPwy_HmdSgcyVg\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ENational Geographic\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E en Espa\u00f1ol.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe way technology evolves is very complex. It\u0027s never as simple as somebody having an epiphany, going to their lab, drawing up a perfect prototype, and manufacturing it \u2014 and then end of story,\u201d said James. \u201cThe evidence, even before our theory, suggests that the wheel evolved over centuries, across a very broad geographical range, with contributions from many different people, and that\u0027s true of all engineering systems. Understanding this complexity and seeing the process as a journey, rather than a moment in time, is one of the main outcomes of our study.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ENecessity Is the Mother of Invention\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn 3900 B.C., the Neolithic copper miners from the Carpathian Mountains lacked written language, and they were not advanced mathematically or scientifically. However, they discovered the wheel as a means to an end.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERecently, archeologists uncovered a series of small drinking mugs that rolled on wheels. There were features on the mugs, like wickerwork patterns, indicative of woven basketry used by miners around 3900 B.C. These replicas represent the earliest known depictions of wheeled transport.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETools of Engagement\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EJames and his team use computational analysis and design as a forensic tool to learn about the past, studying engineered systems designed by prehistoric people. Computational analysis offers a deeper understanding of how these systems were created.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe have to interpret clues from ancient societies without a writing system \u2014 artifacts like bows and arrows, flutes, or boats \u2014 but we need to use additional tools to do this,\u201d James explained. \u201cCarbon dating tells us when, but it doesn\u0027t tell us how or why. Using solid mechanics and computational modeling to recreate these environments and scenarios that gave rise to these technologies is a potential game-changer.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETheir theory suggests that the wheel evolved from simple rollers, which took the form of a series of untethered cylinders, poles, or tree trunks. These rollers were arranged side-by-side in a row on the ground, and the workers would transport their cargo on top of the rollers to avoid the friction caused by dragging.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr\u003E\u201cOver time, the shape of these rollers evolved such that the central portion of the cylinder grew progressively narrower, eventually leaving only a slender axle capped on either end by round discs, which we now refer to as wheels,\u201d James explained.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers derived a series of mathematical equations that describe the physics of the rollers. They then created a computer algorithm that simulates the progression from roller to wheel-and-axle by repeatedly solving these equations. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cOur investigation also indicates that environmental conditions played a key role in this evolutionary process,\u201d he said. \u201cPrevious studies have shown that rollers are only effective under very specific circumstances. \u0026nbsp;They require flat, firm, and level terrain, as well as a straight path. \u0026nbsp;Neolithic mines, with their human-made tunnels and covered terrain would have offered an environment highly conducive to roller-based transport.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe research was funded by National Science Foundation grant # 2311078.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECitation:\u003C\/strong\u003E Alacoque, L. R., Bulliet, R. W., \u0026amp; James, K. A. (2024). Reconstructing the invention of the wheel using computational structural analysis and Design. \u003Cem\u003ERoyal Society Open Science,\u003C\/em\u003E 11(10). https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1098\/rsos.240373\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EOther Research on the Horizon\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EJames\u2019 research group is currently working to create algorithms to design aircraft structures for crashworthiness, focusing on helicopters. He uses these algorithms to design vehicles that can withstand impact with minimal structural damage and minimal passenger injury.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe is also designing 3D-printed morphing mechanisms. \u0026nbsp;These mechanisms contain active materials that change shape in response to heating. \u0026nbsp;By systematically combining active and passive materials in a precise spatial arrangement, James\u2019 group is able to encode specific motions into the material layout. In this way, they create specialized mechanisms that transform into pre-programmed shapes upon being submerged in a heated water bath.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA recent \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/royalsocietypublishing.org\/doi\/epdf\/10.1098\/rsos.240373\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003Estudy\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E by Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering Associate Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ae.gatech.edu\/directory\/person\/kai-james\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EKai James\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, Lee Alacoque, and Richard Bulliet analyzes the wheels\u2019 invention and its evolution.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"A multidisciplinary team of researchers used structural mechanics and computational design to understand how the wheel was invented.  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He and his team will establish a framework that leads to the design and implementation of SLES in which safety is ensured with high confidence levels. The framework will leverage tools from control theory, multi-agent autonomy, and formal methods for rigorously probabilistic reasoning to create safe learning-enabled systems. Before anyone releases an autonomous machine, the public expects it to be safe for those around it. For example, sensors in drones and other machines are sensitive to infiltration, malfunction, and the environment. If the wind is strong, the drone would need to be\u0026nbsp;able to adjust to the environment, stay on course, and perhaps change altitude. If the drone encounters a telephone pole or even a person in its path, it would be able to adjust accordingly without waiting for human control.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHis research approach will take elements from various theories and combine them to improve the safety of these LES within the machine.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cOur approach algorithmically combines model-based and model-free reinforcement learning for enhancing safety by using the learned model to predict how well a safe policy will behave and then update the resulting actions,\u201d Vamvoudakis explained. \u201cAs a result, our approach does not rely on improving the model and does not require an infinite amount of time for convergence. Instead, our plan optimally enhances safety and combines the predefined time-convergent actions generated to achieve high performance in the specified task.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe fundamental knowledge created in his research could inform how future-assured autonomous systems with embodied intelligence can be built. Their results could inform the design of key enablers of the global economy, including smart and connected cities, networked actions of smart and autonomous systems by enabling system flexibility, efficiency, and capacity, and automated financial trading, such as creating automated news digests around finance.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGaming Strategies Inform Military LES Frameworks\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAutonomous machines are changing the way that the military operates. Uncrewed battles between autonomous systems require the systems to learn and adapt to unknown environments and to distinguish allies from enemies. Learning-enabled systems are trained to take the circumstances at hand and give recommendations for the desired response.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhen humans have control over these machines, this is considered humans in the loop. When humans move further into the background and give the machines decision-making autonomy, it is called humans on the loop. Humans would still have oversight, but the machine could ultimately decide without human approval.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThrough his newly awarded $480,000\u0026nbsp;project \u201cEmbodied and Secure Physical Intelligence with Possible Humans-on-the Loop in Complex Adaptive Systems\u201d with the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/arl.devcom.army.mil\/what-we-do\/#competencies\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EArmy Research Office\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E (ARO),\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003EVamvoudakis and his team are developing decision-making algorithms to assist during conflict in adversarial environments. This is needed because military maneuvers can be unpredictable, and autonomous machines need to be able to adapt accordingly. He will use game-theoretic strategies to inform his work.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EVamvoudakis\u2019 team has created algorithms in the context of games, where a \u201cdefender\u201d wants to regulate a cyber-physical system around a trimming point, but an \u201cattacker\u201d intends to disrupt this regulation as much as possible.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThey also employed level-k thinking to capture the behavior of the attacker. Particularly, instead of assuming that the attacker can reason perfectly about the behavior of the defender, the employed level-k thinking model imposed that the attacker can only make finitely-many (though arbitrarily many) steps of reasoning about what the defender might do, how the attacker can best respond to that, how the defender can then best respond.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe project is a continuation of his ARO YIP award that developed a way to understand different types of attackers in a unified framework. Attackers who think a little ahead are called low-level, while those who think more strategically, like those near a Nash equilibrium, are called high-level. This understanding helps create better defense strategies without assuming that attackers always act perfectly.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETo demonstrate how this model works in real military situations, he and his students looked at it through the lens of a pursuit-evasion game. They found that using level-k thinking to understand and respond to attackers is more effective than assuming attackers always optimize their strategies perfectly.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMathWorks Gift to Enhance Learning for Artificial Intelligence\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECurrent methods for protecting closed-loop reinforcement learning systems (artificial intelligence where the system continuously learns and adapts based on feedback from the environment) don\u0027t work well against potential threats. These existing methods often rely on guesswork, need a deep understanding of the system, and require a lot of training time. They also fail to guarantee safety when facing adversaries.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EVamvoudakis\u2019\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMathWorks\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E gift, \u201cAdversarial Reinforcement Learning\u201d aims to create a new generation of smart, flexible, autonomous systems that can learn and adapt. This is the first-ever gift from MathWorks made to Georgia Tech.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe will develop the next generation of agile, highly adaptive autonomous systems that use mechanisms from cognition and learning to process information from distributed sensors. In particular, looking to autonomous systems appearing in nature for inspiration,\u201d he said. Specifically, behavioral scientists have validated the need for intermittent data sharing in learning tasks. They have shown that the central nervous system in human beings minimizes effort and sorts through impulses and stimuli by maintaining intermittent signaling. Specifically, the spinal cord transmits a channel of information and effectively exploits its neural resources via intermittent strategies to produce a sequence of muscle-bone interactions that induce movement.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBy looking to such ideas, they will develop safe and strong reinforcement learning methods to handle teamwork, assign tasks, and manage resources effectively. They will also collaborate with MathWorks to create useful toolboxes and provide internship opportunities.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EProfessor Kyriakos Vamvoudakis is designing frameworks and algorithms to make autonomous systems safer and smarter. 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Together, with an international consortium of 11 other scientists, Hirabayashi will perform a multi-faceted, detailed, post-impact study of NASA\u2019s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/mission\/dart\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDouble Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E. The DART mission was led\u0026nbsp;by\u0026nbsp;the Johns Hopkins University\u2019s Applied Physics Laboratory.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe DART mission targeted the binary asteroid system where Dimorphos (the smaller secondary) orbits Didymos (the larger primary), to intentionally cause a spacecraft crash on Dimorphos. The collision, which occurred on September 26, 2022, was the first to demonstrate asteroid deflection by changing the asteroid\u0027s motion in space through kinetic impact. Astronomers monitored this event using ground- and space-based telescopes like the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/hubblesite.org\/home\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EHubble Telescope (HST)\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E. A recent \u003Cem\u003ENature \u003C\/em\u003Earticle, \u201c\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-023-05811-4\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EEjecta, From the DART-Produced Active Asteroid Dimorphos\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E,\u201d\u003Cem\u003E \u003C\/em\u003Eon which Hirabayashi is a co-author, documented HST\u2019s detailed observations of the intense dust ejection generated by the impact.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Hera mission, launching in October 2024, will analyze the post-DART impact conditions of Didymos and Dimorphos by performing remote sensing observations and employing two CubeSats from its parent spacecraft, Hera. Hera will arrive at the asteroid in 2026. The \u003Cem\u003EPlanetary Science Journal\u003C\/em\u003E article, \u201c\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/iopscience.iop.org\/article\/10.3847\/PSJ\/ac6f52\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe ESA Hera Mission: Detailed Characterization of the DART Impact Outcome and the Binary Asteroid Didymos,\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E highlights the project\u0027s developments.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPlanetary defense is the primary reason for studying near-Earth asteroids (NEAs), particularly potentially hazardous objects (PHOs). While Didymos does not threaten the Earth, scientists want to prepare for the possibility that PHOs could hit the planet. Hera mission researchers can learn valuable information about the system\u0027s impact behavior.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHirabayashi, a co-investigator for the DART mission, said, \u201cI was thrilled to apply my experience in the DART mission, and I\u2019m honored to now be part of the Hera mission.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESpecifically, Hirabayashi will analyze the mutual motion of the two asteroids in the Didymos binary system and provide detailed forecasts of the asteroids\u2019 locations and velocities. During this investigation, he will use Georgia Tech\u2019s high-performance computing system, Partnership for an Advanced Computing Environment (PACE). His results will also be used to quantify the system\u0027s post-DART impact behavior and develop new knowledge about planetary defense.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cDinosaurs were completely wiped out by an asteroid about 66 million years ago. There are many possible threats, and we need the capability to defend the Earth properly,\u201d Hirabayashi explained. \u201cSuch capability includes performing detailed potential risk assessment in a limited time span and, if necessary, deflecting and disrupting PHOs with proper measurements.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHirabayashi joined Georgia Tech in August 2023. His research concentration is in space operations, celestial mechanics, planetary science, and design and navigation. He works across the campus to explore lunar science at Georgia Tech\u2019s Center for Lunar Environment and Volatile Exploration, one of the NASA\/SSERVI nodes led by \u003Cstrong\u003EThom Orlando\u003C\/strong\u003E in the College of Science\u2019s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chemistry.gatech.edu\/news\/georgia-tech-leads-center-lunar-research-and-exploration\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESchool of Chemistry and Biochemistry\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"The AE professor is working with an international group of scientists who are focused on near-Earth asteroid science and planetary defense.  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One opportunity that eluded Smith as an undergraduate was study abroad. He\u0026rsquo;d signed up for the Aerospace India program for Summer 2020, but Covid-19 made it impossible.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EStill, he credits Tech with \u0026ldquo;pushing me to my academic limits and making me extremely resilient.\u0026rdquo; Just as importantly, he said, \u0026ldquo;I feel like I have the context I need about every corner of the aerospace industry to know exactly what I want to pursue and how to do it successfully.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAnd, as many graduating seniors do, Smith has advice for students just beginning their own Georgia Tech journeys. \u0026ldquo;Have fun. Tech is tough, but going through it alone is tougher,\u0026rdquo; he said. \u0026ldquo;Our time at the Institute really isn\u0026#39;t that long, so I urge you to enjoy it and make as many friends as you can here. The students at Tech are some of the brightest people I\u0026#39;ve met in my life, and I\u0026#39;ve only been enriched by spending time with them and learning as much as I can from them.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGrowing up in Plano, Texas, watching \u003Cem\u003EStar Wars\u003C\/em\u003E,\u003Cem\u003E Battlestar Galactica\u003C\/em\u003E, and\u003Cem\u003E Star Trek \u003C\/em\u003Ewith his parents, Jason Smith developed an early interest in all things aerospace.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Growing up in Plano, Texas, watching Star Wars, Battlestar Galactica, and Star Trek with his parents, Jason Smith developed an early interest in all things aerospace. 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Their briefcase-sized satellite was catching a ride on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket in late November, four months ahead of schedule.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESuddenly the team of researchers and students found themselves ramping up preparations for a journey to the moon in search of frozen water at the lunar south pole.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThose preparations are now complete. Launch week has arrived, with liftoff scheduled for the early morning hours of\u0026nbsp;Nov. 30.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAbout an hour after launch, Georgia Tech\u0026#39;s team will get to work. They\u0026#39;ll begin communicating with Lunar Flashlight after it is\u0026nbsp;ejected into space. Over the course of the next few days, the aerospace engineering students will check systems, run through scheduled propulsion burns, and put the CubeSat on a path for the moon.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/coe.gatech.edu\/news\/2022\/11\/mission-moon-lunar-flashlight\u0022\u003ERead the entire story\u003C\/a\u003E, which runs through the series of critical steps the\u0026nbsp;students will make for their mission to the moon.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"After years of preparation, a team of Georgia Tech students will shepherd the Lunar Flashlight spacecraft around the moon in search of frozen water."}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech is serving as mission control for Lunar Flashlight, a satellite that will launch this week and orbit the moon this spring. 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"}],"uid":"27560","created_gmt":"2022-11-28 20:50:15","changed_gmt":"2022-12-12 14:24:24","author":"Jason Maderer","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2022-11-28T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2022-11-28T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"663460":{"id":"663460","type":"image","title":"Lunar Flashlight","body":null,"created":"1669666978","gmt_created":"2022-11-28 20:22:58","changed":"1669667388","gmt_changed":"2022-11-28 20:29:48","alt":"Illustration of lunar flashlight and the moon","file":{"fid":"251129","name":"Lunar-Flashlight-Illustration-NASA-JPL-Caltech-t.jpeg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Lunar-Flashlight-Illustration-NASA-JPL-Caltech-t.jpeg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Lunar-Flashlight-Illustration-NASA-JPL-Caltech-t.jpeg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":404536,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Lunar-Flashlight-Illustration-NASA-JPL-Caltech-t.jpeg?itok=p4DTwLRf"}}},"media_ids":["663460"],"groups":[{"id":"1237","name":"College of Engineering"},{"id":"1239","name":"School of Aerospace Engineering"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"187915","name":"go-researchnews"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"71881","name":"Science and Technology"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJoshua Stewart\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nCollege of Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jstewart@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejstewart@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jstewart@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"658933":{"#nid":"658933","#data":{"type":"news","title":"RotorJackets Win Collegiate Drone Racing Championship","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/rotorjackets.tech\/\u0022\u003ERotorJackets\u003C\/a\u003E, a Georgia Tech student drone racing team, recently placed first in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/und.edu\/research\/rias\/cdrc\/\u0022\u003ECollegiate Drone Racing Championship\u003C\/a\u003E in Grand Forks, North Dakota. The competition was hosted by the University of North Dakota. The team took three students to the championship, fielding a team for the first time since 2017.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We practice for big races like this every weekend in the Burger Bowl, and put in countless hours in our simulator,\u0026rdquo; said Tanner Beard, a mechanical engineering major and vice president of racing for RotorJackets. The simulator, called Velocidrone, is run on participants\u0026rsquo; personal computers with their controllers.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBeard was joined at the Drone Racing Championship by teammates Matt Kelsey, a computer science major; and Luke Lawver, an aerospace engineering major; with contributions from teammate Jordan Moss, an electrical engineering major. Beard also recently competed in the International Open drone race, representing RotorJackets and finishing 17th in the world.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDuring the academic year, RotorJackets host weekly events both in person and online and have weekend signup times for students to practice flying drones. Once a month they meet in the Invention Studio to build, repair, and troubleshoot their devices. 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The movie also solidified Tom Cruise as a superstar, grossing more than $356 million at the box office.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHow did \u0026ldquo;Top Gun\u0026rdquo; change movie making, and why does it continue to be relevant 36 years later? To address those questions and much more, the Georgia Tech community reflects on the film and its legacy on the eve of its long-awaited sequel \u0026mdash; \u0026ldquo;Top Gun: Maverick.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EA film studies professor discusses that rebirth of military movies, as well as a memorable soundtrack, and a psychology professor explains adrenaline rush. Three recent ROTC graduates prepare for their own flight school experience. And a current faculty member remembers his days in the real TOPGUN, where he helped Hollywood create a classic.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/coe.gatech.edu\/news\/2022\/05\/top-guns-return-sparks-another-adrenaline-rush\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ERead the entire story on the College of Engineering website\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Insight into the real world of the film, its cultural significance, and the role of adrenaline in flight."}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EHow did \u0026ldquo;Top Gun\u0026rdquo; change movie making, and why does it continue to be relevant 36 years later? 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The free event, open to students, faculty, and staff, will be held in the Clough Undergraduate Learning Commons (room 152) from 12:30 \u0026ndash; 1:30 p.m.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EKimbrough is returning to his alma mater for the first time since living on the International Space Station (ISS) for six months in 2021. In three trips to space, he has spent 388 days away from Earth, the fourth highest total among U.S. astronauts.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe event will be moderated by Naia Butler-Craig, a Ph.D. student in the Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering. Butler-Craig is a NASA Space Technology Graduate Research Fellow and a NASA Pathways intern in the Science and Space Technology Systems branch at Glenn Research Center.\u0026nbsp;The Q\u0026amp;A will be streamed live on the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/georgiatech\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech YouTube channel\u003C\/a\u003E, where viewers can submit questions. K-12 schools around Atlanta will also participate remotely.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Q\u0026amp;A session is one of several Georgia Tech events for Kimbrough on Friday. He will spend the morning touring labs dedicated to spacecraft design and space-related research. That evening, he will throw out the first pitch at \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ramblinwreck.com\/sports\/m-basebl\/\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s baseball game\u003C\/a\u003E against the University of Georgia. The action starts at 6pm at Russ Chandler Stadium.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EKimbrough grew up in Atlanta, attending Georgia Tech sporting events as a kid. He was an NCAA pitcher while earning his undergraduate degree at the United States Military Academy. After nearly a decade serving in the U.S. Army, Kimbrough graduated with a master\u0026rsquo;s degree in operations research from the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EH. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE)\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EKimbrough was selected to be an astronaut in 2004. His first mission was aboard space shuttle Endeavour in 2008. He returned to orbit in 2016 aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket, serving as commander of the ISS for six months.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ELast April, Kimbrough was commander of NASA\/SpaceX Crew-2, launching from Cape Canaveral, Florida. By flying on Crew Dragon, Kimbrough became the fourth person to travel on three different spacecrafts.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDuring his three missions, Kimbrough has taken Georgia Tech jerseys and a \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LSvDw0pNx0c\u0022\u003Eflag from the Ramblin\u0026rsquo; Wreck into orbit\u003C\/a\u003E. He also \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GTAthletics\/status\/1395863469908496386\u0022\u003Ethrew out the first pitch in a taped ceremony from the ISS\u003C\/a\u003E before a 2021 Georgia Tech baseball game and recorded a message that was played during last fall\u0026rsquo;s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ae.gatech.edu\/news\/2021\/11\/space-day-bobby-dodd-stadium\u0022\u003Espace-themed football game\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Graduate Shane Kimbrough to spend day on campus, four months after returning to Earth"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ENASA astronaut and alumnus \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/astronauts\/biographies\/robert-shane-kimbrough\/biography\u0022\u003EShane Kimbrough\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;will spend Friday, March 4, on campus for a series of events.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"NASA astronaut and alumnus Shane Kimbrough\u00a0will spend March 4 on campus for a series of events.\u00a0"}],"uid":"27560","created_gmt":"2022-02-25 03:21:17","changed_gmt":"2022-02-25 17:42:34","author":"Jason Maderer","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2022-02-24T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2022-02-24T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"652615":{"id":"652615","type":"image","title":"Shane Kimbrough in the space station\u0027s cupola in August (courtesy: NASA)","body":null,"created":"1636479473","gmt_created":"2021-11-09 17:37:53","changed":"1636479473","gmt_changed":"2021-11-09 17:37:53","alt":"Shane Kimbrough in the ISS","file":{"fid":"247592","name":"Shane_Kimbrough-2.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Shane_Kimbrough-2.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Shane_Kimbrough-2.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":110732,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Shane_Kimbrough-2.jpg?itok=VC5RTi_n"}},"655773":{"id":"655773","type":"image","title":"Shane Kimbrough","body":null,"created":"1645758997","gmt_created":"2022-02-25 03:16:37","changed":"1645758997","gmt_changed":"2022-02-25 03:16:37","alt":"Shane Kimbrough","file":{"fid":"248623","name":"shane folded arms crop.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/shane%20folded%20arms%20crop.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/shane%20folded%20arms%20crop.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":61543,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/shane%20folded%20arms%20crop.jpg?itok=2AH0siNo"}}},"media_ids":["652615","655773"],"groups":[{"id":"1237","name":"College of Engineering"},{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"1239","name":"School of Aerospace Engineering"},{"id":"364801","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (EAS)"},{"id":"607235","name":"Radiation Effects on Volitiles and Exploration of Asteroids and Lunar Surfaces (REVEALS)"},{"id":"1275","name":"School of Biological Sciences"},{"id":"85951","name":"School of Chemistry and Biochemistry"},{"id":"126011","name":"School of Physics"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"166882","name":"School of Biological Sciences"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"71871","name":"Campus and Community"},{"id":"71881","name":"Science and Technology"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJason Maderer\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nCollege of Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nmaderer@gatech.edu\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["maderer@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"655356":{"#nid":"655356","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Trio of Faculty Join Alums Named to National Academy of Engineering","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThree Georgia Tech faculty members are among the newest members of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.chbe.gatech.edu\/people\/christopher-w-jones\u0022\u003EChristopher Jones\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ae.gatech.edu\/news\/2021\/04\/georgia-tech-welcomes-sandy-magnus\u0022\u003ESandra Magnus\u003C\/a\u003E, and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/users\/nsahinidis\u0022\u003ENick Sahinidis\u003C\/a\u003E have been elected to the NAE, one of the highest professional distinctions awarded to an engineer.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to the three faculty members, two additional alumni were honored. Nick Lappos (AE \u0026rsquo;73), was also elected to the NAE Class of 2022. Lappos is a senior technical fellow (emeritus) of Sikorsky Aircraft Corp and serves on the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ae.gatech.edu\/about\/advisory-board\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech Aerospace Engineering School Advisory Council (AESAC)\u003C\/a\u003E. He was honored for \u0026ldquo;improving rotary wing flight performance and serving as test pilot, engineer, inventor, technologist, and business leader.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ENathan Meehan (Phys \u0026#39;75), a member of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cos.gatech.edu\/about\/advisory-board\u0022\u003ECollege of Sciences Advisory Board\u003C\/a\u003E, was also elected. He is president of CMG Petroleum Consulting Ltd. and was recognized for \u0026quot;technical and business innovation in the application of horizontal well technology for oil and gas production.\u0026quot;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThey are among this year\u0026rsquo;s 133 new members (including international selections).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;On behalf of Georgia Tech, I extend my sincere congratulations to Chris, Sandy, and Nick for this incredible honor, which highlights a lifetime of achievement,\u0026rdquo; said Raheem Beyah, dean of the College of Engineering and Southern Company Chair. \u0026ldquo;Chris and Nick\u0026rsquo;s research have advanced their respective fields and left an indelible mark on their peers at Georgia Tech and around the world. Sandy, in addition to her service with NASA, is a tireless advocate of raising awareness of STEM and diversity within the aerospace industry in an effort to grow the next generation of the AE workforce. The College of Engineering is tremendously proud of this trio.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EJones is the John F. Brock III School Chair in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chbe.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESchool of Chemical \u0026amp; Biomolecular Engineering (ChBE)\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E. He has been a faculty member at Georgia Tech since 2000, leading a ChBE research group that works in catalysis and adsorption, with a strong emphasis in materials chemistry. The NAE is honoring him for \u0026ldquo;contributions to the design and synthesis of catalytic materials and for advancing technologies related to carbon capture and sequestration.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EJones is known in the field for his pioneering work on materials that extract carbon dioxide from ultra-dilute mixtures such as ambient air, which are key components of direct air capture technologies that have the potential to reverse climate change.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMagnus (MSE, 1996) is a professor of the practice with joint appointments in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ae.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EDaniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.mse.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE\u003C\/a\u003E), and the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/inta.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESam Nunn School of International Affairs\u003C\/a\u003E. She is currently a principal at\u0026nbsp; AstroPlanetview LLC and is being recognized by the NAE for \u0026ldquo;national accomplishments in the U.S. civil space program and in Department of Defense engineering and technology integration.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAs a NASA astronaut, Magnus flew to space three times and spent 157 days in orbit. Before joining NASA, Magnus worked for McDonnell Douglas Aircraft Company as a stealth engineer. After retiring as an astronaut, she served as executive director of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). She is now one of three Georgia Tech women in the NAE, joining Marilyn Brown and Susan Margulies.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESahinidis is the inaugural\u0026nbsp;Gary C. Butler Family Chair\u0026nbsp;in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EH. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E, with a joint appointment in ChBE. In the NAE announcement, Sahinidis was selected for \u0026ldquo;his contributions to global optimization and the development of widely used software for optimization and machine learning.\u0026rdquo; His research activities are at the interface between computer science\u0026nbsp;and\u0026nbsp;operations research, with applications in various engineering and scientific areas.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDuring his career, Sahinidis developed \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sahinidis.coe.gatech.edu\/software?q=baron\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EBARON\u0026nbsp;(Branch-and-Reduce Optimization Navigator)\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;a\u0026nbsp;global optimization software system that solves\u0026nbsp;challenging,\u0026nbsp;nonconvex optimization\u0026nbsp;problems, including continuous, integer, and mixed-integer nonlinear problems. Sahinidis also\u0026nbsp;created\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sahinidis.coe.gatech.edu\/software?q=alamo\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EALAMO (Automated Learning of Algebraic Models)\u003C\/a\u003E, a black-box\u0026nbsp;modeling tool that generates simple, yet accurate, algebraic\u0026nbsp;models\u0026nbsp;from data.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Academy annual inducts new members, recognizing \u0026ldquo;engineering research, practice, or education, including, where appropriate, significant contributions to the engineering literature.\u0026rdquo; The Academy also honors engineers for being instrumental in \u0026quot;the pioneering of new and developing fields of technology, making major advancements in traditional fields of engineering, or developing\/implementing innovative approaches to engineering education.\u0026quot;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech now has 45\u0026nbsp;NAE members. 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The team, led by Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ae.gatech.edu\/people\/marilyn-j-smith\u0022\u003EMarilyn Smith\u003C\/a\u003E, is one of six \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/press-release\/nasa-awards-contracts-for-rotorcraft-vertical-lift-technology-services\/\u0022\u003Echosen by NASA\u003C\/a\u003E and the only higher education institution selected as a leader.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech will provide resources and technical expertise to support the Rotorcraft Vertical Lift Technology Development through task orders in areas such as advanced rotorcraft technologies, testing, flight controls, and health management. Most of the work will be performed on campus, with some taking place at NASA\u0026rsquo;s Ames Research Center in California.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Rotorcraft Vertical Lift Technology Development (RVLTD) award is an IDIQ (Indefinite Delivery\/Indefinite Quantity) contract with a total ceiling of $40 million. It allows Georgia Tech to propose, apply, and quickly learn if they\u0026rsquo;re selected for NASA research projects that could also include developing codes, accessing models for validation, and more.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Instead of writing a 30-page research proposal and waiting up to year for a decision, this contract vehicle allows us to submit a brief statement of work in response to NASA\u0026rsquo;s requests for support. We will learn within a few weeks if NASA selects our team for each request,\u0026rdquo; said Smith, a faculty member in \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ae.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EDaniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering (AE School)\u003C\/a\u003E. \u0026ldquo;It\u0026rsquo;s a significant advantage that allows us to collaborate closer with NASA.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech group includes GTRI (Georgia Tech Research Institute) and the University of Texas at Arlington. It also includes a number of private companies around the country, with an emphasis on small businesses and organizations led by veterans and women. One of them is Laser Aviation in Duluth, Georgia, which specializes in 3D laser scanning and modeling.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOf the six submissions accepted, Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s proposal was ranked first by the Source Evaluation Board (SEB).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe AE School was one of the nation\u0026rsquo;s first helicopter rotorcraft research and educational institution. Montgomery Knight became the School\u0026rsquo;s first director in 1942 and developed one of the first jet-powered rotors for a helicopter. He was among the country\u0026rsquo;s earliest top researchers of helicopter design.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThrough the decades, Georgia Tech has expanded its research to fit the current definition of rotorcraft, which also includes tilt rotors, unmanned air vehicles, and advanced urban air mobility. Georgia Tech has been a Vertical Lift Research Center of Excellence (VLRCOE) since 1982, conducting basic research focused on scientific barriers in technologies that support current and future vertical lift capabilities.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe RVLTD award is not restricted to AE researchers. Any Georgia Tech faculty member supporting vertical lift technology can ask to be on the list of faculty who will respond to each NASA request. Those interested should send their contact details and research areas of interest to Smith.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Georgia Tech faculty and students are contributing to rotorcraft technology research in a variety of ways,\u0026rdquo; said Smith, who serves as director of the VLRCOE, which receives funding from the U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, and NASA. \u0026ldquo;This includes not only vehicle design and analysis in AE, but air traffic control, cyber-physical security, vertiport design, public policy, robotics and sustainability. We have the core faculty and students across the Institute to drive this field. 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Now the idea is reaching other disciplines in the College of Engineering at Tech with the support of a $3.1 million grant from the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.kffdn.org\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EKern Family Foundation\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EUnder the new project, led by Coulter BME Professor Joe Le Doux, the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ae.gatech.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EDaniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E, the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ce.gatech.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ESchool of Civil and Environmental Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E, and the College\u0026rsquo;s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/create-x.gatech.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ECREATE-X entrepreneurial program\u003C\/a\u003E will infuse story-driven learning into their curricula to help students build \u0026ldquo;entrepreneurial mindsets.\u0026rdquo; The idea is to help students see themselves as engineers ready and able to act, using all the skills they\u0026rsquo;re learning to solve problems and improve the human condition.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Throughout engineering education, I would argue, we often don\u0026#39;t give students a chance to sit back, reflect, and make connections about what they\u0026rsquo;re learning and how they can use it,\u0026rdquo; said \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.bme.gatech.edu\/bme\/faculty\/Joe-Le%20Doux\u0022\u003ELe Doux, executive director of training and learning in the Coulter Department\u003C\/a\u003E. \u0026ldquo;Some students do it on their own. But some don\u0026#39;t. Those who do, really benefit from it. So, the whole concept of the story-driven learning piece is to help students make these connections about what they\u0026#39;re learning, who they are, where they\u0026#39;re going.\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Coulter Department has been developing this story-driven learning idea for a few years through the Foundation\u0026rsquo;s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.engineeringunleashed.com\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EKern Entrepreneurial Engineering Network (KEEN)\u003C\/a\u003E. It has developed into a thread that weaves throughout students\u0026rsquo; courses: All along their journey, students have significant learning experiences that add to their bank of stories (Le Doux thinks of it like a \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.wizardingworld.com\/writing-by-jk-rowling\/pensieve\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Epensieve from the Harry Potter novels\u003C\/a\u003E \u0026mdash; a storehouse of memories and stories).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOften, students are asked to reflect on what they\u0026rsquo;re learning and how it connects to their own life experiences. They spend significant time talking to each other about their work and doing peer reviews. They interview people to discover real-world problems to solve and understand user needs. They even write articles in the style of the New York Times.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThen, near the end of their coursework, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.bme.gatech.edu\/bme\/bmed-4000-curious-students-making-connections-and-creating-value\u0022\u003Ethey take BMED 4000, The Art of Telling Your Story, where they pull from all their experiences at Tech and beyond\u003C\/a\u003E. It\u0026rsquo;s here that they learn what makes a good story with the help of \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/janeceshaffer.com\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Eaward-winning Atlanta playwright Janece Shaffer\u003C\/a\u003E. She co-teaches the course alongside Le Doux and another faculty member, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.bme.gatech.edu\/bme\/faculty\/Cristi-Bell-Huff\u0022\u003ECristi Bell-Huff\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We\u0026#39;re teaching them how to tell real stories that make the movie run in your head, so to speak,\u0026rdquo; Le Doux said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe new grant expands these ideas into the other programs, scaling up story-driven learning.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;It\u0026#39;s really exciting, because 40% of College of Engineering students will be impacted,\u0026rdquo; Le Doux said. \u0026ldquo;Every civil, environmental, aerospace, and CREATE-X student will get it \u0026mdash; but in different ways.\u0026rdquo;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECREATE-X \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe idea of an entrepreneurial mindset isn\u0026rsquo;t really about creating startups or taking ideas to market. 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The goal is for students to always be thinking about how they, and their companies, can solve problems and create value for society using the resources at hand.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We believe that entrepreneurial confidence is a life skill that every Georgia Tech student should possess when they graduate,\u0026rdquo; said \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/create-x.gatech.edu\/create-x-team\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EJoyelle Harris, associate director of CREATE-X LEARN programs\u003C\/a\u003E. \u0026ldquo;We see story-driven learning as an effective methodology to help students understand the entrepreneurial confidence they have gained by participating in CREATE-X programs, regardless of whether they have launched a successful startup.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECREATE-X will infuse story-driven learning techniques in each component of the LEARN-MAKE-LAUNCH pathway that forms the core of the program.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMost of the 2,000 students who participate in CREATE-X courses each year don\u0026rsquo;t launch a company. Those who don\u0026rsquo;t sometimes wonder what they\u0026rsquo;ve gotten out of the experience, so using story-driven learning techniques can help them reflect on the confidence and skills they have learned and internalize them.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECivil and Environmental Engineering\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, the project will build on a larger, multi-year effort to transform the School\u0026rsquo;s culture and curriculum by improving students\u0026rsquo; sense of belonging and connection.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESchool leaders are designing a series of four vertically integrated courses \u0026mdash; for freshmen, sophomores, juniors and seniors \u0026mdash; focused on interactive problem-based learning and problem solving around the grand societal challenges that civil and environmental engineers work to solve. 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Lee\u0026#39;s too smart to predict exactly what that story will include, but life has taught her to not argue that point.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026quot;I never expected to be where I am now, but I\u0026#39;ve always been excited about the next challenge, the next opportunity to be better,\u0026quot; she says. \u0026quot;My growth has always occurred in the challenges.\u0026quot;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThose challenges have produced mightily for the Richmond, Virginia native.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWhat started out as a post-high school stint in the Coast Guard led Lee to earn a BS in civil engineering from the elite United States Coast Guard Academy. Lee is one of just five African American women pilots in the Coast Guard - the first to fly an MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter and the first to be assigned to flight school straight from the Academy. 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It stands out in her memory:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026quot;I asked a BM-3 \u0026#39;What do you need to do to get up there?\u0026#39;\u0026quot; she recalls. \u0026quot;He said you have to be an officer and get selected for flight school, which were things I was far way from being able to do. But I believed him. And I kept it in my head, even if I didn\u0026#39;t think about it again until my senior year at the Academy.\u0026quot;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAfter about a year in the Coast Guard, Lee\u0026#39;s supervisors realized that she was \u0026quot;Academy material.\u0026quot; A particularly observant lieutenant helped her put together a successful application package.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026quot;I believe that Lieutenant reached out to me as a woman, but also because she recognized the determination and ambition that I carried every day.\u0026quot;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOnce in the Coast Guard Academy, Lee found herself among other high-achieving, ambitious men and women. But there were differences. For one, most of her classmates had come straight from high school -- a one-year age difference that symbolized the kind of privilege that Lee did not enjoy. Defying that privilege, then, was a great equalizer. Describing that struggle, now, brings her great equanimity:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026quot;For me, this was my second chance, my only chance to earn my degree just like they were,\u0026quot; she says. \u0026quot;I was there to work hard, to perform. And that\u0026#39;s what I did.\u0026quot;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ELee was also the only Black woman in her graduating class\u0026nbsp; -- a distinction that continues to make her stand-out in her chosen career. She acknowledges that this was not always easy, but, again, her love of a good challenge triumphed.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026quot;Attending the Academy was exciting and so very very rigorous. It changed the trajectory of my life in ways that I could never have expected. There was racism, and sexism, yes, but there were also people there, friends who understood the nuances of the experience and would not let me fail.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ELee\u0026#39;s support system -- her Coast Guard family and her birth family -- were critical to her success when she found herself in flight school, one of the most competitive environments in the military. She chuckles a little as she once again tries to describe the enormity of the challenge.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026quot;They tell you that, with your [undergraduate] engineering degree and your good grades from the [Coast Guard] Academy, flight school will be easier. [She laughs]. But it\u0026#39;s not easy. It\u0026#39;s hard in ways I\u0026#39;d never known before. A lot of my classmates had flown little Cessnas before they got there. I had never piloted a plane. They had pilot\u0026#39;s licenses. I did not. On top of that, the Navy -- which runs the flight school --\u0026nbsp; looks at flight school as a way to accomplish attrition. So they are looking to thin out the ranks. You get three \u0026#39;fails\u0026#39; and you are out.\u0026quot;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ELee continued to perform well on written exams, but describes her first attempts at flying as \u0026#39;counter-intuitive.\u0026#39; On one critical test - a formation flight rendez vous- she was unnerved by the requirement that she fly very close to another prop jet. Her head kept jerking back as she approached the other jet, causing her instructor to fail her. She was given the opportunity to try again three days later.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026quot;So that\u0026#39;s when one of my classmates, \u003Cstrong\u003EThomas Cameron\u003C\/strong\u003E, stepped in. He took me to the simulation lab that weekend and we practiced that maneuver at least 50 times,\u0026quot; she said. \u0026quot;He was not going to let me fail.\u0026quot;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EStill feeling wobbly, she called a cousin back home the night before the exam. He wasn\u0026#39;t having it:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026quot;I told him I didn\u0026#39;t think I could do it, that I was going to fail,\u0026quot; she said. \u0026quot;He listened to me but then he told me something that changed me. He said\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003E I\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E was having the experience of\u003Cstrong\u003E \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003Ehis\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E lifetime, that he never had the \u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003Echance\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E to even \u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003Etry\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E to succeed at something like this but \u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003Ewould\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E -\u0026nbsp; if he had the chance - try, and try \u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003Ehard\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E. He said he knew if he tried, he\u0026#39;d do it.\u0026quot;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn an instant, his excitement became hers. His words re-ignited her passion -- for hard work, for ambition, for giving it her all. She passed the test, of course, but it\u0026#39;s the memory of her triumph over fear that continues to shape her as she begins her studies at Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026quot;Since coming to Tech, I joined the Yellow Jackets Flying Club where I met a ROTC student who wants to go to flight school. So I\u0026#39;m going to connect with her,\u0026quot; she said. \u0026quot;It\u0026#39;s really full circle, for me: I\u0026#39;ve learned so much in the Coast Guard and in school, but, again, at the end of the day, the most important thing is to work your hardest to help another person.\u0026quot;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The lieutenant commander will earn a master\u0027s degree in aerospace engineering before returning to the Coast Guard"}],"uid":"27836","created_gmt":"2020-09-02 17:21:38","changed_gmt":"2020-09-02 18:04:46","author":"Kathleen Moore","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2020-09-02T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2020-09-02T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"638704":{"id":"638704","type":"image","title":"U.S. Coast Guard Lt. 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Smith\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E has been selected as the technical director of the Vertical Flight Society (VFS) for a two-year term beginning July 1.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EReplacing Smith in her now vacated role as VFS Southern Region director is her Daniel Guggenheim School colleague, Prof. \u003Cstrong\u003EJ.V.R. Prasad\u003C\/strong\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESmith is the current director of a seven-university Vertical Lift Research Center of Excellence housed at Georgia Tech and competitively funded through an Army-Navy-NASA collaboration. In addition, she is a board member of the Vertical Lift Consortium, an industry-academic organization that collaborates with the US Government to accelerate development of technology for Future Vertical Lift (FVL) platforms.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\u0026quot;Professor Smith has been a tireless advocate for vertical flight and a significant contributor to the field,\u0026quot; said William R. T. Oakes Professor and School \u003Cstrong\u003EChair Mark F. Costello.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u0026quot; I have no doubt she will serve with distinction in this important leadership position in the Vertical Flight Society.\u0026quot;\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Vertical Flight Society is the world\u0026#39;s only international technical society to focus on the advancement of vertical flight technology, encompassing rotorcraft, unmanned aerial systems (UAS), urban air mobility (UAM), and electric VTOL (eVTOL). Smith is globally recognized for her contributions and leadership in her field as a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), Technical Fellow of VFS, and Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society (RAeS). Her research on aeromechanics and unsteady aerodynamics has garnered numerous technical awards from NASA and VFS, as well as recognition from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). She heads up the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.msmith.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ENonlinear Computational Aeroelasticity Lab \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003Ewithin the Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026quot;My primary focus will be to expand educational opportunities in Vertical Lift to fill the large number of engineers needed for this exciting era, building on our efforts diversity and inclusion, \u0026quot; Smith explained. \u0026quot;In addition, VFS will continue to advocate investment in innovation and development in both military and civilian vertical lift technologies.\u0026quot;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESmith recently spoke at length about her vision during the\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ae.gatech.edu\/news\/2020\/05\/prof-marilyn-smith-advocates-greater-investment-vertical-lift-education\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003E Agility Prime conference.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESmith has served in multiple technical global leadership roles at VFS, including Aerodynamics Technical Chair, the annual Technology Forum Chair, and deputy technical director for Aeromechanics, as well as serving on the VFS Board of Directors. 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She was telling me she\u0026#39;d made the team, that she was going to France. She was the 23rd pick for the team.\u0026quot;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESidelined for two years with what turned out to be adductor injuries, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ussoccer.com\/players\/b\/morgan-brian\u0022\u003EMorgan Brian\u003C\/a\u003E, the fiercely competitive midfielder for the 2015 World Cup-winning U.S. Women\u0026#39;s National Soccer Team, had rehabbed herself back onto the roster for the much-anticipated \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.fifa.com\/womensworldcup\/\u0022\u003E2019 FIFA Women\u0026#39;s World Cup\u003C\/a\u003E, currently underway in France.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMorgan Brian started in the USA-Chile game on June 16, and will continue to sub during the upcoming series, as needed. The next game will be Monday, June 24, against Spain.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EVickie Brian last saw her daughter compete on the world stage \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.news.gatech.edu\/2015\/07\/02\/georgia-techs-connection-soccer-phenom\u0022\u003Eat the 2015 World Cup in Canada\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ae.gatech.edu\/aes-soccer-mom-vickie-brian\u0022\u003ERead more from the School of Aerospace Engineering.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EVickie Brian is once again watching her daughter compete on the world stage in the 2019 FIFA Women\u0026#39;s World Cup.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Vickie Brian is once again watching her daughter compete on the world stage in the 2019 FIFA Women\u0027s World Cup."}],"uid":"27469","created_gmt":"2019-06-24 11:34:10","changed_gmt":"2019-06-24 12:49:40","author":"Kristen Bailey","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2019-06-24T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2019-06-24T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"622708":{"id":"622708","type":"image","title":"Steve, Morgan, and Vickie Brian","body":null,"created":"1561375617","gmt_created":"2019-06-24 11:26:57","changed":"1561375617","gmt_changed":"2019-06-24 11:26:57","alt":"Steve, Morgan, and Vickie Brian","file":{"fid":"237162","name":"steve_morgan_and_vickie_brian-s.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/steve_morgan_and_vickie_brian-s.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/steve_morgan_and_vickie_brian-s.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":216731,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/steve_morgan_and_vickie_brian-s.jpg?itok=baS-_su9"}}},"media_ids":["622708"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/ae.gatech.edu\/aes-soccer-mom-vickie-brian","title":"Read the Full Story"},{"url":"https:\/\/www.ussoccer.com\/stories\/2019\/06\/23-stories-morgan-brian","title":"23 Stories: Morgan Brian"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"},{"id":"1239","name":"School of Aerospace Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"167723","name":"soccer"},{"id":"9851","name":"world cup"},{"id":"181571","name":"women\u0027s national soccer team"},{"id":"2082","name":"aerospace engineering"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"71871","name":"Campus and Community"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:kathleen.moore@ae.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EKathleen Moore\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAerospace Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"622345":{"#nid":"622345","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Featured in New Google Ad ","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech is flying high in Google\u0026rsquo;s latest advertising campaign.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe video, \u0026ldquo;Here to help: Take on the world,\u0026rdquo; begins with an adult asking a young girl what she wants to be when she grows up. Her response? \u0026ldquo;I\u0026rsquo;m going to be an astronaut,\u0026rdquo; followed by Google searches on how to become an astronaut, \u0026ldquo;make your own spacesuit,\u0026rdquo; \u0026ldquo;famous female astronauts,\u0026rdquo; and \u0026ldquo;colleges for aerospace engineering.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThat\u0026rsquo;s where Tech comes in. The Georgia Institute of Technology appears as the top search result for best aerospace engineering schools, and the user clicks on it.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAnd with good reason: Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ae.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EDaniel Guggenheim\u0026nbsp;School of Aerospace Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E is currently ranked second in the nation by\u003Cem\u003E U.S. News \u0026amp; World Report\u003C\/em\u003E for its undergraduate programs. What\u0026rsquo;s more, 14 Tech graduates have launched into orbit, including three women \u0026ndash; Jan Davis, Susan Still Kilrain, and Sandra H. Magnus. Georgia Tech is also the nation\u0026rsquo;s top producer of female engineers.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;It is an exciting time to be in the field of aerospace engineering,\u0026rdquo; says school chair Mark Costello. 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Now, he\u0026#39;s serving his last semester as president of the organization.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHe didn\u0026#39;t even know that would be an option when he got to Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026quot;I wanted to go to the best aerospace school to study and learn flight, but I didn\u0026#39;t even know they had a flying club here until I got here,\u0026quot; he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAerospace engineer Loren Isakson has flying in his blood.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Aerospace engineer Loren Isakson has flying in his blood."}],"uid":"27469","created_gmt":"2019-05-02 18:50:46","changed_gmt":"2019-05-08 20:40:54","author":"Kristen Bailey","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2019-05-02T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2019-05-02T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"621280":{"id":"621280","type":"image","title":"Loren Isakson","body":null,"created":"1556827721","gmt_created":"2019-05-02 20:08:41","changed":"1556827721","gmt_changed":"2019-05-02 20:08:41","alt":"Loren Isakson","file":{"fid":"236653","name":"loren-tn.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/loren-tn.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/loren-tn.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":271174,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/loren-tn.jpg?itok=Vqqz5RkM"}}},"media_ids":["621280"],"groups":[{"id":"1239","name":"School of Aerospace Engineering"},{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"629","name":"graduation"},{"id":"174346","name":"profiles"},{"id":"627","name":"commencement"},{"id":"2082","name":"aerospace engineering"},{"id":"166847","name":"students"},{"id":"28971","name":"yellow jacket flying club"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"71871","name":"Campus and Community"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:evan.atkinson@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EEvan Atkinson\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EInstitute Communications\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"621267":{"#nid":"621267","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Turning Their Tassels: Caroline Jones","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECaroline Jones of Madison, Georgia, is Georgia Tech through and through. Her parents met as undergraduates here, and her sister graduated four years ahead of her. Caroline\u0026#39;s younger brother is also a current Yellow Jacket. Not only did Caroline don the white and gold as a cheerleader for Tech, but she\u0026#39;s also now a rocket scientist \u0026mdash; having earned her degree in aerospace engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;That\u0026rsquo;s one of the things I love most about Georgia Tech \u0026ndash; you can do it all. Georgia Tech really does enable you with the ability to chase your dreams.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECaroline Jones of Madison, Georgia, followed in her mother\u0026#39;s footsteps in becoming a Georgia Tech engineer.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Caroline Jones of Madison, Georgia, followed in her mother\u0027s footsteps in becoming a Georgia Tech engineer."}],"uid":"27469","created_gmt":"2019-05-02 18:57:19","changed_gmt":"2019-05-02 20:10:15","author":"Kristen Bailey","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2019-05-02T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2019-05-02T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"621281":{"id":"621281","type":"image","title":"Caroline Jones","body":null,"created":"1556827762","gmt_created":"2019-05-02 20:09:22","changed":"1556827762","gmt_changed":"2019-05-02 20:09:22","alt":"Caroline Jones","file":{"fid":"236654","name":"caroline-tn.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/caroline-tn.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/caroline-tn.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":273696,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/caroline-tn.jpg?itok=Y0PFZPfB"}}},"media_ids":["621281"],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"},{"id":"1239","name":"School of Aerospace Engineering"},{"id":"200921","name":"GT Athletics"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"166847","name":"students"},{"id":"174346","name":"profiles"},{"id":"629","name":"graduation"},{"id":"627","name":"commencement"},{"id":"2082","name":"aerospace engineering"},{"id":"108641","name":"cheerleading"},{"id":"1625","name":"athletics"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"71871","name":"Campus and Community"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:evan.atkinson@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EEvan Atkinson\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EInstitute Communications\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"607212":{"#nid":"607212","#data":{"type":"news","title":" New Rank, Same Dedication for AE Alumnus Michael S. Warner, Ph.D. AE \u002796","body":[{"value":"\u003Cdiv\u003EIn March of this year,\u003Cstrong\u003E Michael S. Warner,\u003C\/strong\u003E Ph.D AE \u0026#39;96, was promoted to the rank of Colonel in the U.S. Air Force, a move that recognizes his lifelong achievements - most recently\u0026nbsp; in the Air Force Research Lab\u0026#39;s Materials and Manufacturing Directorate.\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003EBut for this career Air Force officer, the new title is only as important as the work it performs - something he discussed with us by phone from his current assignment at the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio.\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\u0026quot;I have oversight of the AFRL\u0026#39;s energy research portfolio and colleagues whom I refer to as our \u0026#39;CSI\u0026#39; agents - the pros who figure out what went wrong with material or electronics when there is an aircraft accident,\u0026quot; he said.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026quot;Others of our quick reaction teams specialize in coatings, corrosion, erosion, and specialty materials.\u0026nbsp; We have four Tech grads among the 130 of us - all PhD\u0026rsquo;s. Not bad for the middle of Ohio.\u0026quot;\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003EIf he sounds a bit like a proud parent when he mentions his alma mater, it\u0026#39;s intentional. As he reflects back on a Air Force career that has sent him on multiple assignments all over the world, Col. Warner gives a lot of credit to Georgia Tech (and to his mentor\u0026nbsp;Professor \u003Cstrong\u003EDewey Hodges\u003C\/strong\u003E), for expanding his ambitions.\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\u0026quot;You may not think of Georgia Tech as prepping you for a career in the Air Force, but my education at Tech gave me entry into a lot of assignments where I was able to solve problems because I could translate the geekiest thing, and make educated recommendations,\u0026quot; he said. \u0026quot;Researchers and program officers here are best led by people who have technical backgrounds.\u0026quot;\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003EAs the chief of AFRL\u0026#39;s $45 million Systems Support Division, Warner directs structural and electrical failure analysis for aircraft accident and safety investigations, production, and fleet sustainment. He is responsible for corrosion, erosion, composites, adhesives, elastomers, non-destructive inspection, and coatings technology application programs. The work takes many forms, he explains.\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\u0026quot;When an airplane crashes because a propellor keeps breaking, and they don\u0026#39;t know why, our team goes into the wreckage to investigate,like a team of crime scene investigators. Was the damage done by hitting the ground or did the problem arise while it was it was in the air? We give\u0026nbsp; them an unbiased analysis of what\u0026#39;s going on -- is it overheating and cracking? Is it a fuel problem? - because we are not associated with any manufacturer or program office.\u0026quot;\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003EWarner\u0026#39;s team is also called upon to give advice on how to repair and substitute materials on the Air Force\u0026#39;s existing aircraft inventory - a task that requires them to remain current in material development. Others are looking at developing next generation (\u0026#39;nextgen\u0026#39;) aircraft using new materials.\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003EAnd example: the adhesives and composites team has created tools that allow maintainers to remove elastomeric coatings, sealants, gap fillers, adhesive residue, and other materials quickly and without damaging aircraft surfaces.\u0026nbsp; Made from Torlon (polyamide-imide polymer), the tools and related accessories are now used for a wide variety of applications -- not just by the Air Force, but by commercial entities as well.\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\u0026quot;Sometimes, we refer to my phone as the Bat Phone [the land-line used by the fictional super-hero Batman to receive super-critical assignments] because they only call us when no one else can find a solution. And we find it,\u0026quot; he quips. \u0026quot;My job is to lead those experts, the engineers, who are doing that investigation.\u0026quot;\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003EThat\u0026#39;s his job now, but it wasn\u0026#39;t always. In the 20+ years since he was commissioned, Warner has taught college-level aerospace engineering classes at the Air Force Academy, served as the military deputy to the director of engineering at the F-35 Joint Program Office, worked as deputy director for Space and Sensor Systems at the Pentagon, and was appointed as a staff officer to the Defense Science Board.\u0026nbsp; Among other things.. He\u0026#39;s been deployed to Jerusalem to oversee the development of building security on the West Bank.\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\u0026quot;Every two or three years, the Air Force sends you on a new assignment - something that develops in you a little bit of restlessness, wondering what the next challenge will be,\u0026quot; he said. \u0026quot;And I\u0026#39;ve never been disappointed.\u0026quot;\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"AE alum promoted to Colonel in the U.S. Air Force"}],"uid":"27836","created_gmt":"2018-06-20 18:57:29","changed_gmt":"2018-06-21 14:49:03","author":"Kathleen Moore","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2018-06-20T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2018-06-20T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"607234":{"id":"607234","type":"image","title":"Col Michael S. 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As a member and now outgoing president of Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GTgleeclub\/\u0022\u003EGlee Club\u003C\/a\u003E, Ingersoll has sung the national anthem, the alma mater, and of course the Ramblin\u0026rsquo; Wreck at previous ceremonies.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ENow he will be singing at his own graduation on May 5, where he will also pick up his diploma, shake President Peterson\u0026rsquo;s hand, and celebrate a milestone. And he can\u0026rsquo;t imagine a better way to mark the occasion.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Georgia Tech has always been my dream school,\u0026rdquo; says the Caledonia, New York, native. Ingersoll graduated from a small high school and was one of only three in his class to go to college out of state. \u0026ldquo;I knew that I wanted to do aerospace engineering since my first year of high school, and Tech had a highly ranked undergraduate program.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EEven as he pursued his academic dreams, Ingersoll was able to follow another of his loves: singing. Since first joining a choir in fourth grade, he has been \u0026ldquo;singing my whole life.\u0026rdquo; He made the New York All-State choir in his senior year and was named All-County for seven years in a row, and was also active in musical theater.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAt Tech, he was immediately inspired to join the Glee Club after seeing them perform at New Student Convocation. \u0026ldquo;They seemed like a great group of guys who enjoyed singing and had a great time doing it,\u0026rdquo; he recalls. \u0026ldquo;I decided to show up to the first rehearsal on my first day of class.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIngersoll never looked back. As a member of the Glee Club, which was founded in 1906 (two years before the Yellow Jacket Marching Band, he notes), he has traveled across the country, proudly representing Georgia Tech. Ingersoll says it \u0026ldquo;thoroughly enriched my undergraduate experience.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBetween his studies and his singing, Ingersoll made the most of the opportunities that Georgia Tech has to offer. He traveled everywhere from the historic Callaway family home in LaGrange, Georgia, to the nation\u0026rsquo;s capital and Yankee Stadium. And he spent one summer studying in Ireland, and two summers working at General Electric in Cincinnati, where he helped design a new jet engine. \u0026ldquo;Coming to Tech, I had no idea what was in store for me,\u0026rdquo; he says.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHe has a better idea of what\u0026rsquo;s in store after graduation. He will be returning in the fall to begin a master\u0026rsquo;s degree in aerospace engineering. Ingersoll is already looking forward to experiencing another Yellow Jacket football season and continuing to do meaningful research in the lab. 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They oohed in awe as the booster rockets separated, then roared when the pair landed in synchronicity.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAnd they howled with laughter when they saw a car in space.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;It was awesome! 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The next Heavy rocket will be stuffed with satellites. One of them is scheduled to be Prox-1, a 154-pound, rectangular-shaped metal box that was built and tested by Jun, Pujari and other Georgia Tech students. It\u0026rsquo;s the first spacecraft built on campus that will fly in space.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;This is the part of the space industry that we live for,\u0026rdquo; said Professor Glenn Lightsey, who watched the launch with the students. \u0026ldquo;Ultimately, there is a day when you find out if the thing you\u0026rsquo;ve thought about and planned for actually works or not. Today (Tuesday) it happened for SpaceX. 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From there it will be shipped to Florida and await an official launch date from SpaceX.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nAlthough they enjoyed the experience together for Tuesday\u0026rsquo;s launch, don\u0026rsquo;t expect many of the same students to gather on campus to watch Prox-1 blast into space. \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Oh, I will be in Florida for sure!\u0026rdquo; said Pujari.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Next Falcon Heavy mission expected to include satellite built on campus"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech students gathered to watch SpaceX launch its Falcon Heavy rocket on Tuesday. 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Election to the NAE is among the highest professional distinctions accorded to an engineer. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EProfessors Timothy Lieuwen and Jianjun (Jan) Shi are two of this year\u0026rsquo;s 83 new NAE members. They\u0026rsquo;re joined by adjunct faculty member and former College of Engineering Dean\u0026nbsp;Gary S. 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Their induction is a testament to the quality of our faculty members and their contributions to the engineering profession.\u0026quot;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.energy.gatech.edu\/lieuwen-elected-national-academy-engineering\u0022\u003ELieuwen\u003C\/a\u003E is the executive director of Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.energy.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EStrategic Energy Institute\u003C\/a\u003E and professor and David S. Lewis Jr. Chair in the Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering. 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It\u0026rsquo;s almost literally the driver\u0026rsquo;s seat.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EStaab is working at \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.jpl.nasa.gov\/\u0022\u003ENASA\u0026#39;s Jet Propulsion Laboratory\u003C\/a\u003E (JPL) in California while pursuing his \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ae.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003Eaerospace engineering\u003C\/a\u003E doctoral degree in the distance learning program. He\u0026rsquo;s a Cassini Spacecraft Flight Controller, which means he\u0026rsquo;s one of only three people authorized to tell the machine what to do and where to go as it orbits Saturn.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe job is almost finished. Just before 8 a.m. (Atlanta time) on Friday, Staab will hear Cassini\u0026rsquo;s signal for the final time before it dives into the planet\u0026rsquo;s atmosphere, becoming a part of Saturn.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EStaab has controlled the bus-sized spacecraft since January of 2016, when he was given the keys to the NASA\u0026rsquo;s flagship Saturn mission. He\u0026rsquo;s logged more than 1,200 hours at the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/saturn.jpl.nasa.gov\/news\/23\/space-ace\/\u0022\u003ECassini flight console\u003C\/a\u003E. His commands have directed the spacecraft around Saturn 62 times, hurled it through the planet\u0026rsquo;s rings and soared Cassini around Saturn\u0026rsquo;s moons. Although Cassini will technically dive into the planet because of a gravitational nudge by Saturn\u0026rsquo;s moon Titan, Staab was the one who sent the background sequence code that will send it on its fateful plunge. He uploaded the command a few weeks ago.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EStaab earned his master\u0026rsquo;s degree in aerospace engineering in 2015. He came to campus earlier this month to talk to students about the mission and what NASA is calling \u0026ldquo;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/saturn.jpl.nasa.gov\/\u0022\u003EThe Grand Finale\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWe asked him a few questions about his job, starting with the obvious: \u003Cstrong\u003EHow did you get such a cool gig? \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EI fell into this job from a combination of luck and having the right background. I actually had no intention of applying to JPL when I stopped by JPL\u0026rsquo;s booth at Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s fall career fair. I chatted with one of their reps and, after some persuasion, was convinced to leave a copy of my resume. I received an offer to be a Cassini flight controller a few weeks later. It was the right job and one that I always wanted.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPrior to attending Georgia Tech, I was a flight test engineering intern at NASA\u0026rsquo;s Armstrong Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base in California and, later, a test requirements and analysis engineer for Boeing in St. Louis. I had a lot of control room and operations experience, which is exactly what JPL was looking for.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe duty of a flight controller at JPL is fairly straight-forward; we possess absolute command and control authority of the spacecraft when tracking it through the Deep-Space Network. We are the only people in the world who can tell the spacecraft what to do. We\u0026rsquo;re the first to respond to anomalies with either the ground or flight system, and we have the authority to make any real-time decisions to protect the flight system without prior approval. It\u0026rsquo;s an immense responsibility that only very few people in the world ever get to do. I am still greatly humbled to be given such responsibility by the Cassini flight team so early in my career.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhy are you destroying the spacecraft and ending the mission? \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe mission is ending for two reasons. The first, and most obvious, is that the spacecraft is out of fuel. We primarily use its moon, Titan, to navigate around Saturn \u0026ndash; stealing more than 100 km\/s of delta-v from gravitational assists. But we need fuel to maneuver the spacecraft to very precise locations near Titan. Without it, we can\u0026rsquo;t navigate the planet. Essentially, we\u0026rsquo;d be flying blind.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe second, and more important reason, is because we need to protect Titan and Enceladus from the potential organisms on Cassini. 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And it\u0026rsquo;s still very, very interesting.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOefelein\u0026rsquo;s enduring fascination with combustion modeling and simulation led him to a very engaging career at Sandia, where he has pursued interdisciplinary research focusing heavily on the theory, numerical modeling, and analysis of complex fluid flows where turbulence, combustion, high-pressure phenomena, and multiphase flows play a controlling role.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWorking on long-term projects for the DOE, DOD, NASA, and industry, he employed numerical methods for partial differential equations, with emphasis on computational fluid dynamics (CFD), applied numerical analysis, and massively-parallel high-performance computing. He also applied the large-eddy-simulation (LES) technique to both fundamental flows and device-scale components such as internal-combustion engines, gas turbines and liquid-rockets.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;One of the things I was able to do at the National Lab was to spend 16 years demonstrating the unique capabilities of a massively-parallel LES code framework \u0026ndash; a tool that is, now, mature,\u0026rdquo; he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Now I will use that not just to get results, but as a learning tool for students, distributed across different projects, which is a great opportunity to for both teaching and expanding the impact of our research.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHe might also get a chance to cross off the last six items on the list he gave his grad school advisor \u0026ndash; now the chair of the Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering \u0026ndash; Dr. \u003Cstrong\u003EVigor Yang.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;It is I who will be the student now,\u0026rdquo; said Yang of his former prot\u0026eacute;g\u0026eacute;. \u0026ldquo;Dr. Oefelein has gone deep into an area that will complement our work at Georgia Tech. I look forward to working with him \u0026ndash; as will his colleagues and students.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOefelein is excited about this new chapter in his career \u0026ndash; one where he will work with students and colleagues to establish new perspectives in the field. Ultimately, he wants to merge expertise in model development validation with the analysis of massively complex data sets. \u0026ldquo;Equally important is to forge collaborations with my colleagues so that our computational work complements the impressive set of experimental research being performed.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The development of high-performance computers has brought a lot of promise to our work, but it also poses many additional and interesting challenges. Modeling and simulation of turbulent combustion \u0026ndash; and the related physics \u0026ndash; are still in many ways in their infancy. 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The complicated logistics were plotted out weeks ahead of time by Georgia Tech staffers\u003Cstrong\u003E Alysia Watson\u003C\/strong\u003E and \u003Cstrong\u003EMike Roberts\u003C\/strong\u003E. Funded by NASA\u0026#39;s Georgia Space Grant Consortium, the packages were mailed to schools and other educational venues where they will help make the solar eclipse as safe as it is cool.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAnd it will be cool. \u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EVery cool.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFor a brief period of time in the afternoon of Aug. 21, the moon will be aligned directly between the sun and the earth, causing a temporary nightfall here on earth.\u0026nbsp; Birds will roost. Cattle will settle down for the night. And the temperature difference will cause winds to pick up. At Georgia Tech, where the coverage will be 97 percent complete, several solar eclipse activities have been planned for the campus, which will be in the middle of its first day of classes. (\u003Cem\u003ENice planning, Mother Nature!\u003C\/em\u003E)\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFind out more about Tech\u0026#39;s celebrations at\u003Cstrong\u003E \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cos.gatech.edu\/eclipse\u0022\u003EEclipse 2017 @ Georgia Tech\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFor AE professor \u003Cstrong\u003EStephen Ruffin\u003C\/strong\u003E, the eclipse will be an opportunity to spread the word about the importance of space exploration to thousands of would-be scientists. As the executive director of NASA\u0026#39;s Georgia Space Grant Consortium, he knows that that a solar eclipse will heighten the public\u0026#39;s interest in science, engineering, and the importance of committing resources to space exploration. As the associate chair of the School of Aerospace Engineering, he is grateful that he was able to nudge a few of his colleagues to help out with Thursday\u0026#39;s mailroom extravaganza.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026quot;We are grateful to NASA\u0026#39;s Space Grant Consortium for making these kits available, and for making space education a priority,\u0026quot; he said. \u0026quot;But getting them into the mail? 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Saleh and Walker tackled some persistent spacecraft propulsion and reliability questions that had previously given chemical propulsion (CP) the undisputed edge.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The work that I do - on reliability, with an epidemiological twist \u0026ndash; and the work that Dr. Walker is nationally known for \u0026ndash; electric propulsion \u0026ndash; both touch on these questions. Our collaboration enabled us to address them and provide robust answers,\u0026rdquo; said Saleh, the author of \u003Cem\u003ESpacecraft Reliability and Multi-State Failures: A Statistical Approach (Wiley, 2012)\u003C\/em\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The insights we gained that will, ultimately, benefit the industry, we found at the intersection of our work.\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EUsing 18 years worth of satellite data, Saleh and Walker conducted what amounted to an epidemiological study of the on-orbit anomalies and failures of electric propulsion (EP). They produced a comparative analysis of EP and (CP) reliability in spacecraft and examined data by orbit type, technology, severity of the anomalies experienced, and launch date. They also looked at the average time it took for anomalies to occur, the relationship of the time to event, and the anomaly rates.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAmong the many results, their study revealed that, post-2005, EP technologies (Hall Thrusters and gridded ion engines) have consistently out-performed chemical propulsion in terms of reliability. This, alone, gives EP a clear advantage when it comes to space travel and transport, where reliability is paramount.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;With so much at stake, the space industry has been historically risk-averse,\u0026rdquo; said Saleh.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;You can\u0026rsquo;t go fix a satellite the way you can a car. No one wants to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to launch a satellite if there\u0026rsquo;s no guarantee of its reliability or that of its subsystems.\u0026quot;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETheir analysis also revealed that Hall thrusters exhibit minor anomalies very early (\u0026ldquo;infant anomalies\u0026rdquo;), a problem that they suggested could be addressed through improved ground testing and acceptance procedures. Gridded ion thrusters, on the other hand, exhibited both infant anomalies and wear-out failures \u0026ndash; conditions that would benefit from a reliability growth program. The team found strong evidence that EP anomalies (onset and likelihood) and orbit type are dependent \u0026ndash; a condition that is likely mediated by either the space environment or differences in thrusters\u0026rsquo; duty cycles.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHistorically, its reliability and superior thrust capabilities made CP the go-to technology for the space industry and other stakeholders. Electric propulsion was restricted to tasks that required little acceleration, such as small in-orbit maneuvers, station-keeping, and (with a chemical assist) some orbit raising.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAn uptick in EP utilization over the past 20 years gave Saleh and Walker the raw data they needed to question that conclusion. Their findings make EP more competitive with CP for future satellites.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWith less fuel to transport, an EP-propelled satellite starts out lighter than its chemically propelled counterpart.\u0026nbsp;That means a typical EP satellite can carry more payload (e.g. communications transponders, scientific equipment, etc.) than the same-mass CP satellite. The cost savings in manufacture time, insurance, and materials cannot be overlooked.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026ldquo;The bottom line is that we\u0026rsquo;ve developed a more detailed picture of EP satellite technology, one that enables satellite operators to make better reliability- and risk-informed decisions regarding the propulsion choice for their spacecraft,\u0026rdquo; said Walker. \u0026ldquo;This choice could also extend the lifetime of the spacecraft, and [consequently] the long-term value it produces.\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESaleh echoed his colleague, adding:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;It is thought-provoking to consider that perhaps the bell has begun to toll for spacecraft chemical propulsion. 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Biltgen, now the director of analytics at the Virginia-based Vencore, Inc., was an ASF scholar while attending the Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Dr. Biltgen represents the best qualities of our Astronaut Scholars - not only achieving professional excellence but for his commitment to mentor students and young engineers,\u0026rdquo; said Curt Brown, ASF Chairman of the Board.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;He was selected from an impressive pool of candidates and we are gratified to see Patrick, and so many of our former scholars, continuing the passion for exploration and scientific excellence.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn his current position at Vencore, Biltgen has developed innovative data integration methods that have established activity-based intelligence (ABI) for the military and intelligence communities. 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He is frustrated - and a little inspired - when he fails to convey both.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022When I perceive that students are not understanding, I think about how to fix it the next time I teach it,\u0022 he said. \u0022But at that moment, I try to come up with new ways of explaining, and try different examples or angles.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAnd it\u0027s okay, he tells his students, if they don\u0027t understand everything in class.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022In the classroom, you get the big picture and, hopefully, you get a good set of notes to help you study. But at the end of the day, there\u0027s no way around studying.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch3\u003EReaching Students\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERimoli is excited by the exchange of energy in his classes - whether he\u0027s teaching undergraduates or doctoral students.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The moment I walk into the classroom, I get energy. 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We are very excited to have Bobby join the CU Boulder leadership team.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe founder and former director of Georgia Tech\u0027s interdisciplinary Center for Space Technology And Research (C-STAR), Braun, an NAE member, started his career at NASA Langley where he worked for 16 years. Since joining the Georgia Tech campus 13 years ago, he has played a significant role in the growth of the School\u0027s space-oriented research and educational endeavors.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENews of his CU appointment was met with bittersweet regard by his Georgia Tech colleagues - chief among them School Chair \u003Cstrong\u003EVigor Yang\u003C\/strong\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe will truly miss our friend and colleague, Bobby Braun,\u0022 said Yang.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Bobby\u2019s intellectual and career triumphs are points of pride for our community. He has been an outstanding faculty member in every measure. We have benefited from his vision, energy, and passionate dedication for more than 13 years.\u0026nbsp; We wish him the best as he moves on to this exciting new challenge.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn acknowledging the impending move, Braun was quick to praise Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cGeorgia Tech will always have a special place in my heart. The School has provided me a remarkable opportunity to grow and contribute as a professional \u2013 building a new aerospace curriculum, pioneering research in space technology, mentoring faculty, and broadening the School\u2019s collaborations within the Institute,\u201d he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI particularly appreciate the support, friendship, guidance and collaborative spirit of my Georgia Tech colleagues as we worked towards the betterment of the Institute and the nation. I will bring this spirit of innovation and dedication with me to Colorado.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBraun\u2019s appointment concludes a national search carried out by a CU search committee that attracted a large pool of candidates, said Moore.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Braun ends 13 year tenure at AE to become dean"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAfter a nation-wide search, the University of Colorado Boulder had selected Prof. Robert Braun as its new dean of Engineering and Applied Science.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Prof. Braun will begin his duties as dean in January 2017"}],"uid":"27836","created_gmt":"2016-07-24 14:10:49","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:22:08","author":"Kathleen Moore","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-07-24T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2016-07-24T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"554871":{"id":"554871","type":"image","title":"Prof. Robert Braun Accepts Dean Post at Colorado University","body":null,"created":"1469383640","gmt_created":"2016-07-24 18:07:20","changed":"1475895353","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:55:53","alt":"Prof. Robert Braun Accepts Dean Post at Colorado University","file":{"fid":"206577","name":"braun_in_lab-16-9_0.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/braun_in_lab-16-9_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/braun_in_lab-16-9_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":300961,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/braun_in_lab-16-9_0.jpg?itok=Y3RGwMyS"}}},"media_ids":["554871"],"groups":[{"id":"1239","name":"School of Aerospace Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"30211","name":"Bobby Braun"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"555311":{"#nid":"555311","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Dr. Vigor Yang Recognized by AIAA and Academia Sinica","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDaniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering Chair\u003Cstrong\u003E Vigor Yang\u003C\/strong\u003E has been thrust into the spotlight this summer by two exceptional recognitions from his academic peers.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFirst, the longtime researcher was selected by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) to give the 2016 von K\u00e1rm\u00e1n Lectureship in Astronautics. This year\u0027s talk will focus on the theme:\u0026nbsp;\u0022Rethinking Space Propulsion:\u0026nbsp;Enabling the Future of Space Transportation and Exploration.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EYang was also recently elected to membership in the Academia Sinica (AS), the highest honor bestowed on scholars of Chinese origin.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe von K\u00e1rm\u00e1n Lectureship in Astronautics is presented to recognize an individual who has performed notably in the field. It is named in honor of Theodore von K\u00e1rm\u00e1n, world famous authority on aerospace sciences. \u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E The lecture will be given during the AIAA\u0026nbsp;Space and Astronautics Forum and Exposition (SPACE2016) Forum which will take place on Tuesday, September 13 at the Long Beach Convention Center in California. An engraved medal and certificate of citation will be presented after the lecture.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMembership in Academia Sinica is a crowning achievement for Yang, placing him in the company of Nobel Laureates, Wolk\u0026nbsp; Prize winners, and at least four distinguished Georgia Tech faculty:\u003Cstrong\u003E Jeff Wu \u003C\/strong\u003E(ISyE), \u003Cstrong\u003EB. H. 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The CAMM focuses on creating highly specialized and application-specific technologies to improve the mobility of new and existing platforms.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Professor Costello has earned an outstanding international reputation for his creative research -- at the intersection of design, dynamics, and control system engineering,\u0022\u0026nbsp; said Yang, also an ASME Fellow. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0022He has created and implemented innovative technologies for flight vehicles such as rotorcraft, smart projectiles, and autonomous airdrop systems that improve the machine\u2019s dynamic behavior and automatic control. This has included creation of new physical control mechanisms, specialized autonomous control algorithms and software, and unique sensor arrays. Many of these technologies have been commercialized and\u0026nbsp;transferred to practice through collaborations with industry and government partners.\u0022\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECostello earned his master\u0027s and doctoral degrees in aerospace engineering at the Daniel Guggenheim School. His research focuses on dynamics, control, and design. He has earned national recognition for a substantial research program in the development of innovative flight mechanics and controls technologies for a variety of flight vehicles, including rotorcraft, projectiles, parafoils, and unmanned air vehicles.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPrior to his appointment at Georgia Tech, Costello was on the faculty of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Oregon State University and the United States Military Academy at West Point. He also worked as a research engineer in the Helicopter Division of the Boeing Company and at the Georgia Tech Research Institute.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Longtime ASME member joins elite group of scholars and innovators"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EProf. Mark Costello, who holds a joint appointment in Georgia Tech\u0027s schools of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, has been recognized for his many contributions to the field of mechanical engineering with election as an ASME Fellow.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Prof. Costello has been elected to ASME Fellow"}],"uid":"27836","created_gmt":"2016-07-25 19:16:05","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:22:08","author":"Kathleen Moore","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-07-25T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2016-07-25T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"555551":{"id":"555551","type":"image","title":"Dr. Mark F. 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Their technique \u2013 which uses advanced algorithms, onboard computing, and specially installed sensing devices \u2013 is garnering some serious attention, too.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELast month, it was presented at the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). In the days that followed, it was celebrated in a number of online \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.popsci.com\/georgia-tech-builds-an-aggro-autonomous-rally-car\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003Emedia outlets\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, all of them eager to showcase the next big technological breakthrough in driverless vehicles. \u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003E(\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1AR2-OHCxsQ\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThis You-Tube video\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cem\u003E received more than 80K views.) \u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ctable width=\u0022160\u0022 border=\u00220\u0022 cellspacing=\u00221\u0022 cellpadding=\u00225\u0022 align=\u0022right\u0022\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cAn autonomous vehicle should be able to handle any condition, not just drive on the highway under normal conditions,\u201d said Tsiotras, an expert on the mathematics behind rally-car racing control. \u003Cbr \/\u003E \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cOne of our principal goals is to infuse some of the expert techniques of human drivers into the brains of these autonomous vehicles.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETraditional robotic-vehicle techniques use the same control approach whether a vehicle is driving normally or at the edge of roadway adhesion, Tsiotras explained. The Georgia Tech method \u2013 known as model predictive path integral control (MPPI) \u2013 was developed specifically to address the non-linear dynamics involved in controlling a vehicle near its friction limits.\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EUtilizing Advanced Concepts\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u201cAggressive driving in a robotic vehicle \u2013 maneuvering at the edge \u2013 is a unique control problem involving a highly complex system,\u201d said Evangelos Theodorou, an AE assistant professor who is leading the project. \u201cHowever, by merging statistical physics with control theory, and utilizing leading-edge computation, we can create a new perspective, a new framework, for control of autonomous systems.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech researchers used a stochastic trajectory-optimization capability, based on a path-integral approach, to create their MPPI control algorithm, Theodorou explained. Using statistical methods, the team integrated large amounts of handling-related information, together with data on the dynamics of the vehicular system, to compute the most stable trajectories from myriad possibilities.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EProcessed by the high-power graphics processing unit (GPU) that the vehicle carries, the MPPI control algorithm continuously samples data coming from global positioning system (GPS) hardware, inertial motion sensors, and other sensors. The onboard hardware-software system performs real-time analysis of a vast number of possible trajectories and relays optimal handling decisions to the vehicle moment by moment.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn essence, the MPPI approach combines both the planning and execution of optimized handling decisions into a single highly efficient phase. It\u2019s regarded as the first technology to carry out this computationally demanding task; in the past, optimal- control data inputs could not be processed in real time.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E Fully Autonomous Vehicles\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E The researchers\u2019 two auto-rally vehicles \u2013 custom built by the team \u2013 utilize special electric motors to achieve the right balance between weight and power. The cars carry a motherboard with a quad-core processor, a potent GPU, and a battery.\u003Cbr \/\u003E Each vehicle also has two forward-facing cameras, an inertial measurement unit, and a GPS receiver, along with sophisticated wheel-speed sensors. The power, navigation, and computation equipment is housed in a rugged aluminum enclosure able to withstand violent rollovers. Each vehicle weighs about 48 pounds and is about three feet long.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThese rolling robots are able to test the team\u2019s control algorithms without any need for off-vehicle devices or computation, except for a nearby GPS receiver. The onboard GPU lets the MPPI algorithm sample more than 2,500, 2.5-second-long trajectories in under 1\/60 of a second.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAn important aspect in the team\u2019s autonomous-control approach centers on the concept of \u201ccosts\u201d \u2013 key elements of system functionality. Several cost components must be carefully matched to achieve optimal performance.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn the case of the Georgia Tech vehicles, the costs consist of three main areas: the cost for staying on the track, the cost for achieving a desired velocity, and the cost of the control system.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA sideslip-angle cost was also added to improve vehicle stability.\u003Cbr \/\u003E The cost approach is important to enabling a robotic vehicle to maximize speed while staying under control, explained James Rehg, a professor in the Georgia Tech School of Interactive Computing who is collaborating with Theodorou and Tsiotras.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIt\u2019s a complex balancing act, Rehg said. 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Joining him were members of his research team, colleagues from Georgia Tech,\u0026nbsp; Delta Air Lines, and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Society honored Clarke for his work as the principal investigator on a research team that developed the RIIVR Optimized Profile Descent (OPD) Arrival procedure at Los Angeles International Airport. Implemented in 2007, the procedure has reduced the fuel consumed by arrivals at LAX by an estimated 2 million gallons annually.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIn addition to reducing the amount of fuel consumed, CO2 and NOx emissions are also reduced \u2013 environmental considerations that are hindering the growth of aviation,\u201d said Clarke.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe OPD procedure, pioneered by Clarke, minimizes noise, gaseous emissions, fuel consumption, and flight time while simultaneously maintaining or in some cases increasing landing efficiency via the accurate modeling of the vehicle\u2019s performance when there are uncertainties with respect to aircraft weight, pilot performance, and turbulence.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cInstead of allowing aircraft to begin their descent and then periodically stopping their descent so that air traffic controllers can correct for the effects of uncertainties, we model the effects of these uncertainties ahead of time and compensate for them in a strategic manner through optimal spacing prior to the start of the descent, thereby allowing the aircraft descend continuously at or near idle thrust,\u201d said Clarke.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHonored alongside Clarke were\u003Cstrong\u003E Grady Boyce\u003C\/strong\u003E (technical pilot at Delta Air Lines); \u003Cstrong\u003ESandy Liu\u003C\/strong\u003E (engineer in the FAA Office of Environment and Energy); \u003Cstrong\u003EWalter White\u003C\/strong\u003E (formerly the airspace manager in the FAA Southern California TRACON and now the CEO of PBN4ATC, Inc.); \u003Cstrong\u003EJim Brooks \u003C\/strong\u003E(senior research scientist in the ATL); \u003Cstrong\u003EGaurav Nagle\u003C\/strong\u003E (formerly a graduate student at ATL and now a systems engineer at Lockheed Martin); \u003Cstrong\u003ELiling Ren\u003C\/strong\u003E (formerly a research engineer in the ATL and now a principal scientist at the GE Global Research Center); and \u003Cstrong\u003EAnnalisa Scacchioli\u003C\/strong\u003E (formerly a post-doc in the ATL and now an assistant professor at the Stevens Institute of Technology).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to LAX, the OPD procedure has been adopted at several other busy airports, including Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL), Anchorage International Airport (ANC), and Honolulu International Airport (HNL).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe FAA estimates this has shaved $21.7 million off the annual fuel costs for these four airports, and, says Clarke,\u0026nbsp; \u201cif you extrapolate those figures to the top 35 airports, we could see a savings of $112 million per year in fuel costs.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ae.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/img\/05-11-16-JPClarke-Abstract.pdf\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003ERead more \u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cem\u003Eabout this research.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Receives the 2016 Environmental Excellence in Transportation Award"}],"field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Clarke received the award for his role as the PI for the RIIVR optimized Profile Descent Arrival Procedure"}],"uid":"27836","created_gmt":"2016-07-11 15:58:33","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:22:04","author":"Kathleen Moore","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-05-11T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2016-05-11T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"552011":{"id":"552011","type":"image","title":"Clarke J.P.","body":null,"created":"1468267200","gmt_created":"2016-07-11 20:00:00","changed":"1475895348","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:55:48","alt":"Clarke J.P.","file":{"fid":"93898","name":"clarke-j-p.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/clarke-j-p.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/clarke-j-p.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":236684,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/clarke-j-p.jpg?itok=eJSeKAa-"}}},"media_ids":["552011"],"groups":[{"id":"1239","name":"School of Aerospace Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"136","name":"Aerospace"}],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"506671":{"#nid":"506671","#data":{"type":"news","title":"ASDL Grad Student Named Student of the Year","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAerospace engineering grad student\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EEvan Harrison\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;has been selected as the 2016 Department of Transportation Student of the Year for the FAA Centers of Excellence.The 25-year-old Washington, GA native traveled to Washington, DC in January to formally receive the honor from the Department of Transportation.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHarrison, a doctoral student, is one of several students working with ASDL director Dr.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EDimitri Mavris\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;and research engineer Dr.\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;Hernando Jimenez\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;on the Partnership to Enhance General Aviation Safety Accessibility and Sustainability (PEGASAS), FAA\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECenter of Excellence for General Aviation. Harrison\u2019s project,\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESafety Analysis for General Aviation\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E, aims at enhancing the safety of general aviation operations through the improved use of flight data.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cUltimately, we want to identify unsafe states, so we can better predict problems and trends in general aviation, and formulate effective safety enhancements\u201d said Harrison.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHarrison and his fellow researchers are comparing data collected with on-board recorders with aircraft performance models developed by the team that seek to predict aircraft behavior and response under different conditions. While commercial airplanes already record many flight parameters, and some carriers share anonymized data for safety analysis, this practice is voluntary and not widely adopted in general aviation.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EModels describing the aircraft\u2019s behavior must capture extreme conditions, common in safety-critical events, with great accuracy. These models are helping Harrison\u2019s team to understand the energy state of aircraft at any given time, and to use energy-based metrics as a method for identifying unsafe states.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIf you look at time-stamped recordings of the aircraft\u2019s flight \u2013 and use our models to estimate key parameters that are not recorded, like lift, drag, weight, and thrust \u2013 you can describe its performance more completely. Retrospectively, then, we can analyze when an aircraft has flown too close to the boundary of its performance envelope.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHarrison has developed a detailed internal combustion cycle engine model that uses engine characteristics to predict the power output over a wide range of conditions. His efforts to develop, test, and validate the model against little published data available presented numerous difficulties.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cHe tackled them with creativity and a sound technical foundation,\u201d said Jimenez.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cEvan also collaborated with other graduate students working in this project to integrate, test, and validate aerodynamic and propulsion models against aircraft performance data. He even made some important refinements to his\u0026nbsp;model to better use the data to infer the propulsive characteristics.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Aerospace engineering grad student Evan Harrison has been selected as the 2016 Department of Transportation Student of the Year for the FAA Centers of Excellence."}],"uid":"30502","created_gmt":"2016-02-26 12:30:58","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:20:53","author":"Sapna Mistry","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-02-23T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2016-02-23T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"506661":{"id":"506661","type":"image","title":"Evan Harrison","body":null,"created":"1456765200","gmt_created":"2016-02-29 17:00:00","changed":"1475895268","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:54:28","alt":"Evan Harrison","file":{"fid":"204860","name":"-1-28peagasas_-evanharrison_git_coe_ga_w_nmineta.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/-1-28peagasas_-evanharrison_git_coe_ga_w_nmineta_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/-1-28peagasas_-evanharrison_git_coe_ga_w_nmineta_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1028904,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/-1-28peagasas_-evanharrison_git_coe_ga_w_nmineta_0.jpg?itok=HSalnEhz"}}},"media_ids":["506661"],"groups":[{"id":"1239","name":"School of Aerospace Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"136","name":"Aerospace"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"169973","name":"Evan Harrison"},{"id":"171770","name":"FAA Centers of Excellence"},{"id":"126111","name":"GT-AE"},{"id":"130281","name":"Hernando Jimenez"},{"id":"171771","name":"Student of the Year"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":["kathleen.moore@ae.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"502861":{"#nid":"502861","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Prof. Brian Gunter: Hitching a Ride with Google Skybox","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWhen the opportunity to launch is offered, you have to be ready to act. Just ask GT-AE professor\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;Brian Gunter.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EJust a few months ago, in May, his Ranging And Nanosatellite Guidance Experiment (RANGE) cubesat proposal was approved\u0026nbsp; through the Skybox University Cubesat Partnership. Now, it\u0027s in the design stages.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The current schedule requires that the RANGE satellites be flight-ready by 2016,\u0022 said Gunter.\u0026nbsp; \u0022That means we\u0027ll have just one year to go from concept to launch.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECan it be done?\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Yes, but it will no doubt be challenging,\u0022 says Gunter.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We are already deep into the design phase, and we will start assembly and testing in the spring. We have a talented group of students working hard to make sure we meet our deadlines.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe RANGE mission will consist of two cubesats, measuring 10x10x15 cm, that will fly in a leader-follower formation. The on-board instrumentation will include state-of-the-art global positioning system (GPS) receivers, linked to miniaturized atomic clocks, for precise orbit determination. The relative positions of the satellites will be measured using a compact inter-satellite laser ranging system that will also double as a laser communications system. Corner cube reflectors will allow the absolute and relative position estimates to be verified using ground-based satellite laser ranging (SLR) measurements provided by the International Laser Ranging Service (ILRS).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Our goal is to have at least one set of coincident ground-based satellite laser ranging, high-rate GPS, and inter-satellite laser ranging measurements,\u0022 said Gunter.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022If we can achieve that, even if this happens within the first week of operations, then we will consider the mission a success.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe mission seeks to validate technology that, among other things, has the potential to both track cubesat orbits down to mere centimeters, and to measure the relative distance between the satellites down to millimeters, Gunter said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We believe the results from this mission will push the limits of positioning accuracy for cubesats, and has to potential to enable a host of new mission concepts that can change how we gather information from space, to include imagery, topography, time-variable gravity, and much more,\u0022 Gunter pointed out.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022In the future, we could deploy tens or hundreds of these satellites around Earth or other planets to create orbiting sensor networks that could gather near real-time global observations, and have the satellites be able to communicate with each other.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGunter intends for the RANGE mission to serve primarily as a demonstration of new technologies, and he is already eying follow-up research projects after RANGE\u0027s launch.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We\u2019re grateful for getting a launch slot, since these are hard to get, and it\u2019s exciting to think that what we\u2019re developing will soon fly in space.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to a team of 23 undergraduate and graduate researchers, Gunter will collaborate with GT-AE professors Robert Braun and Glenn Lightsey, as well as GTRI\u0027s\u0026nbsp; Grady Tuell and his research group.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"When the opportunity to launch is offered, you have to be ready to act. 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These programs are carried out predominantly by NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), with supporting and complementary contributions from the National Science Foundation, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), and the U.S. departments of Energy (DoE) and Defense (DoD). This committee will work for 18-24 months.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/sites.nationalacademies.org\/SSB\/CurrentProjects\/SSB_166359\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EFind out more\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u0026nbsp;about this committee.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003ECommittee on the Future of Center-Based Multidisciplinary Engineering Research\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;will develop a vision and make high-level, strategic recommendations for the future of NSF-supported center-scale, multidisciplinary engineering research. The study will focus on the forces that are likely to shape engineering research, education, and technological innovation in the future, as well as the associated challenges and opportunities.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA member of the NAE\u0026nbsp;since 2013, Braun already serves as vice chair of NAE\u0027s Space Studies Board and as chair of NAE\u0027s U.S. Frontiers of Engineering Program. 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The honor recognizes his many contributions to the ASB during a three-year appointment to the Board which will officially conclude in June, 2016.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe director of the GT-AE\u2019s\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EAir Transportation Laboratory,\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;Clarke has frequently been called upon to give expert advice to government and industry groups during his 10-year tenure at Georgia Tech. The Army Science Board is a Congressionally-chartered body that advises the secretary of the Army, the chief of staff of the Army, the assistant secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics and Technology (ASA-ALT), the Army staff, and major Army commanders on scientific and technological matters. Its members are appointed by the Secretary of Defense.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDuring his three-year appointment, Clarke helped produce three reports on the optimization of American military forces.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn the first report, \u201c\u003Cstrong\u003EEvaluation of the Army Use of Predictive Data for High Risk Behavior\u003C\/strong\u003E,\u201d Clarke and the other members of his ASB study team examined and evaluated the data, models and algorithms used for predictive analysis and the related potential human and ethical dimensions. For example, the report provided a predictive analytic framework to evaluate the likelihood of suicidal ideation and action among individual troops. Specifically, publicly available sources, such as social media, police records, financial records, and criminal judgments are utilized to create a framework in which high-risk individuals may be monitored and proactively helped. 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Currently they are missing in combustion kinetic mechanisms.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EUltimately, Sun points out, his research will give engine designers a new arsenal of tools to produce hypersonically propelled aircraft- vehicles able to travel at speeds in excess of five times the speed of sound.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Right now, the engine conditions at hypersonic speeds are too harsh to allow combustion at those speeds. The air flow is too rapid to burn the fuel. It\u0027s there for just milliseconds. And if the fuel doesn\u0027t burn, we cannot get the thrust we need.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhy go so fast?\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Well, I guess you could use this technology to pick a peach off the tree in Georgia and send it to California in a few minutes,\u0022 Sun quipped.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022But that would be a very expensive peach. The Air Force is interested in this because it will allow them to reach any place on earth in two hours or less. There are lots of reasons why that is an important goal, worth the expense.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to supporting research that has long-interested Sun, the AFOSR grant shines some much-deserved attention on the field of combustion.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022This is a classic field, one that has been studied for years and years, so a lot of people think that combustion research cannot yield new findings,\u0022 he said. \u0022But I think with this research we are showing that is not true. 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But her colleagues were not about to let her leave so anonymously. The standing-room only crowd at her tribute included two former Space Grant directors, several former students, and countless friends -- all of whom had something to say.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The Georgia Space Grant Consortium would not be nearly as successful if Wanda had not been here, behind the scenes, making things happen,\u0022 said Professor Stephen Ruffin, the current GSGC director. \u0022It\u0027s hard to imagine our work without her. She will be sorely missed.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EJoining Ruffin were\u0026nbsp; former Space Grant directors Dr.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EDavid Peters\u003C\/strong\u003E, and Dr.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EErian Armanios\u003C\/strong\u003E, both of whom flew to Atlanta solely to wish Pierson well.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We had narrowed it down to two candidates when Wanda walked in for her interview,\u0022 said Peters, now the McDonnell Douglas Professor of Engineering at Washington University. \u0022But the minute I saw Wanda, I knew we had the right person.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThose sentiments were echoed by Dr.\u003Cstrong\u003ECarmen Sidbury\u003C\/strong\u003E, Spelman College\u0027s associate provost for research, who met Pierson when she was a student at Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022She was there for students in ways that counted,\u0022\u0026nbsp;Sidbury remarked.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022She was committed to helping us get over the rough spots so we would succeed. Now, the best way for us to thank her is to do the same.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPierson remained composed but was clearly moved by the presence of so many admirers. Dabbing tears away from the corners of her eyes, she greeted each person as though they were the most important person in the room.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022I can\u0027t believe you are here,\u0022 she said to\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003ERoland Barnes\u003C\/strong\u003E, a former Space Grant student who graduated from Georgia Tech and is now an engineering manager at Pratt \u0026amp; Whitney. \u0022It is sooo good to see you.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENASA\u0027s Space Grant Consortium seeks to expand opportunities for up and coming students to understand\u0026nbsp; and participate in NASA\u0027s aeronautics and space projects by supporting and enhancing science and engineering education, research and public outreach efforts.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOfficially established in 1990, the Georgia chapter of NASA\u0027s National Space Grant consortium originally consisted of just four other colleges\/universities. 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It made its first passenger flights in 1976.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe 7,000-pound engineering masterpiece was made available to Georgia Tech by the Rolls Royce Heritage Trust-Allison Branch. It will remain on display indefinitely.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIn all of our activities with George Tech throughout the years, Rolls-Royce continues to be impressed by the professionalism and knowledge of the students, graduates, researchers, and of course, the faculty,\u201d said\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EMark Rhodes,\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;vice president of engineering, Rolls-Royce North America.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThrough this exhibit, we hope to inspire the next generation of brilliant minds who will lead the future in gas turbine technology and design.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERhodes estimated that over the last five years alone, Rolls Royce has hired as many as 40 GT-AE grads to work on various engineering projects.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We have a place in our family for Georgia Tech grads, certainly.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGreeting Rhodes and other Rolls Royce officials at the standing-room-only ceremony were GT-AE chair Dr.\u003Cstrong\u003EVigor Yang\u003C\/strong\u003E, ASDL director Dr.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EDimitri Mavris\u003C\/strong\u003E, GT vice provost for international education Dr.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EYves Berthelot\u003C\/strong\u003E, and associate dean of engineering Dr.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EJohn Leonard\u003C\/strong\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The Concorde took its first flight about the time I\u0026nbsp;received my undergraduate degree,\u0022 said Yang.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022It is a piece of history. It is educational. But more than that, it is inspirational.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EYang\u0027s thoughts were echoed by Berthelot:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022I\u0026nbsp;grew up in France, and believe me, the Concorde made us dream. This is what we need for our students today. Having it here, at Georgia Tech, will make them dream, too.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMarbled throughout the crowd were dozens of Georgia Tech engineering students, eager to observe the legendary Olympus engine and speak to its sponsors. The conversations were fast-paced and excited, but the room grew quiet when retired Rolls Royce engineer\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EDavid Eames\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;took to the podium to talk about his father,\u003Cstrong\u003EJohn Eames\u003C\/strong\u003E, who piloted the iconic aircraft.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe younger Eames told the crowd of a time when his father discovered a slight difference between the Concorde and its slower-flying cousins: the extreme speeds traveled by the Concorde cause a temperature fluctuation that in turn causes the aircraft to expand by as much as six inches during midflight. 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ASDL\u0026nbsp;director Mavris commended the Rolls Royce team for choosing his lab as the exhibition site.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The Aerospace Systems Design Lab and the Daniel Guggenheim School are honored to share this stunning piece of history with the next generation of engineers -- the architects of the future,\u0022 said Mavris.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The engine reminds us, daily, that there are no limits on what ambition and hard work can accomplish. In our classrooms, research, and labs, we are inspired by the genius the Olympus represents.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout Rolls-Royce North America\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cem\u003ERolls-Royce has been present in North America for more than 100 years and today it employs more than 8,000 people across the North America region in 26 US states and six Canadian provinces. 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Earlier this winter, he received the Commander\u2019s Award for Public Service from the Army Science Board (ASB).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA noted expert in rotorcraft research, Professor Smith was recently named a Technical Fellow by the American Helicopter Society. Her research includes, but is not limited to advanced numerical methods and engineering analysis associated with unsteady fluid mechanics, applied to the interdisciplinary problems involving aeroelasticity or fluid-structure interaction.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) has named two GT-AE faculty, Dr. John-Paul Clarke and Dr. Marilyn J. 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I stopped going out with friends on Friday night and started getting up really early to get flying time.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHow early?\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u00224 a.m. \u0022 she says with a shrug of the shoulders.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022If the weather was good I could get in a couple hours of flying before I\u0026nbsp;had to be in school. If it was bad, I\u0026nbsp;went to school and studied until my first class.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGross\u0027s determination paid off . Not only did the Ohio native earn her pilot\u0027s license before graduating high school, she was invited to help build a\u0026nbsp;Rans Coyote plane by one of her flying mentors, and recently breezed through her pilot\u0027s license renewal. 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Lots of details.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022You have to calculate a cross-country flight [a flight of more than 50 miles], using dead reckoning - no GPS or iPads -\u0026nbsp; to navigate,\u0022 she said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022You have to figure in the weather, the altitude, the headwinds, the tailwinds...and then, just to see if you know how to plan, they throw in a diversion [an unplanned destination].\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGross doesn\u0027t remember much of that 1.5-hour flight\u0026nbsp; -- too nervous - but\u0026nbsp; she does remember how it ended.\u0026nbsp; \u0022The instructor said \u0027Congratulations. You are now a licensed pilot.\u0027\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA few weeks later, she turned 18.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe perks of having a pilot\u0027s license were not lost on Gross, by then a senior in high school. One of her pals at the airport - retired engineer and pilot Jim McDermott-\u0026nbsp; had given her full access to his Cesna, as long as she paid the insurance, performed the maintenance, and filled up the tank.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA sweeter deal than most teens get with the family car.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022So I remember once I flew to one of my away [softball]\u0026nbsp; games because it was so far away.\u0026nbsp; And another time, my mother wanted to go to New Jersey to see her father for Father\u0027s Day, but she was leaning against it because it would take 8 hours of driving each way.\u0026nbsp; I flew her there in 3 hours.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWith her license out of the way, Gross was freed up to dive into another project that had her spending even more time at the airport:\u0026nbsp;building an experimental plane with her mentor, Dave Rigotti.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe 700-pound, fabric-wrapped, tail wheel plane was completed right around the time she graduated.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022There was a lot of building, then taking things apart to re-drill a hole or realign a part. 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Check out the great work that GT-AE faculty\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EDr. Eric Johnson, Dr. Daniel\u0026nbsp;Cooksey, and Dr. Dimitri Mavris\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;are doing in concert with their colleagues throughout the Institute.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.rh.gatech.edu\/features\/their-own\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003Eread more\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"In the Fall issue of Georgia Tech\u0027s Research Horizons magazine, writer Rick Robinson talks with several GT faculty and students about research on autonomous technology that is opening up new possibilities in air, marine and ground robotic vehicles"}],"uid":"30502","created_gmt":"2016-02-18 12:04:15","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:20:49","author":"Sapna Mistry","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-12-01T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2015-12-01T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1239","name":"School of Aerospace Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"136","name":"Aerospace"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"171742","name":"Autonomous Machines"},{"id":"126111","name":"GT-AE"},{"id":"9153","name":"Research Horizons"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":["kathleen.moore@ae.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"502781":{"#nid":"502781","#data":{"type":"news","title":"C-STAR Designated as an Interdisciplinary Research Center","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Center for Science, Technology, And Research (C-STAR) is one of seven newly created Interdisciplinary Research Centers (IRCs) recently named by the Executive Vice President for Research.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELike the larger, more established Interdisciplinary Research Institutes (IRIs), the IRCs will bring together researchers from different disciplines to address topics of strategic importance to Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EC-STAR was designated as a Type II IRC.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEstablished in 2013 under the direction of GT-AE professor\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003ERobert Braun\u003C\/strong\u003E, C-STAR has focused faculty from several disciplines on space-related research and the growth of Georgia\u0027s space industry. The Center is actively engaged in partnerships with NASA\u0027s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the Georgia Department of Economic Development Center of Innovation for Aerospace, and the Georgia Space Grant Consortium.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe IRI\u0027s will continue to articulate Georgia Tech\u0027s strategic research priorities, addressing broad societal challenges. 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Later, I joined\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EDave Spencer \u0027s\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;team, where I did guidance navigation and served as the project manager for Prox 1. For the last six months, I\u0027ve been working as an attitude determination and control engineer on the LightSail B project, designing the algorithms that control it and writing the flight software. With the support of the NASA\u0026nbsp;Space Technology Research Fellow (NSTRF) program, I also did two summer research internships at NASA\u0026nbsp;Marshall as a graduate student. Last summer I worked at Ball Aerospace in Colorado.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMost looking forward to...\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere are two ways to go in my field - concept development and implementation. My biggest interest at this point is in implementation. I want to build the hardware on a spacecraft and see it fly. And that\u0027s what I\u0027ll be able to do.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EHow did your educational experience at GT-AE help?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe coursework at GT-AE\u0026nbsp;is very good, very rigorous. I mean you might complain as an undergraduate - I did - but you are getting the fundamentals that will allow you to be more effective in the long run. The other thing about AE is that you have access to a lot of hands-on research projects, like Prox 1, where you put your knowledge to the test. It\u0027s trial by fire, because sometimes you\u0027re off. But when you are applying for jobs, industry likes to see that you know how to bring your ideas to execution.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAdvice\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI would say that working on hands-on projects or applications -- either through research or through an extra curricular activity - is the way to go. It helps you to specialize, to figure out what you are really interested in doing and what you don\u0027t like. And having that experience, I\u0026nbsp;believe, helped me get above the competition when I\u0026nbsp;was applying for jobs.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAlejandro E. Trujillo\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E, BSAE \u002715\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ENext Adventure:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;After I\u0026nbsp;graduate, I have two internships lined up before I enter graduate school next fall. The first one is at NASA\u0026nbsp;Huntsville, where I will work as a propulsion technology development engineer. The second is in LA, where I will be working as a build reliability engineer at SpaceX. These are the perfect fit for me, because I plan to follow a space track - either propulsion or mission operations - when I go to grad school.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPrevious co-op, internship, or research experience in this area?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI\u0026nbsp;have worked a lot with\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EDr. Gunter\u003C\/strong\u003E. First, I\u0026nbsp;worked with him on a team that put together a six-rotored drone that was equipped with Lidar imaging to produce 3D imaging. The second one is the RANGE\u0026nbsp;project, a cubesat that his team is building. I\u0027ve worked on the mission design team. I also did an internship at the Draper Lab in Houston, where they were adding higher fidelity aerodynamics to one of the navigation tools.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMost looking forward to..\u003C\/strong\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003EI am definitely ready to get a feel for how all of the rigorous coursework and demanding research plays out in industry. These internships will introduce me to how it all gets incorporated on the job. With graduate school, I\u0027m excited about taking my education to the next level, where I will be building things.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EHow did your educational experience at GT-AE help?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI think a lot of students talk about how hard it is here -- the workload, the demands. I feel like that\u0027s the most important part. I\u0026nbsp;won\u0027t have three exams in one day after I leave here, but I think those exams served their purpose. The work is hard so we are well-trained. The professors are doing it so we\u0027ll be prepared - not to torture us.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAdvice\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cem\u003EGet involved.\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;I mean freshman year or as soon as possible. Even if you ask a professor to do research and they turn you down because you don\u0027t have the experience yet. You\u0027ll get experience asking. I know one thing: you won\u0027t get as far if you are just doing the homework.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMatthew J. LeVine, Ph.D\u0026nbsp;AE \u002715\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ENext Adventure:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;I\u0026nbsp;will be teaching aerospace engineering at Georgia Tech\u0027s Lorraine campus in France. I\u0027m applying for post-doc positions now so that I\u0026nbsp;can get some more teaching experience before I\u0026nbsp;pursue other teaching jobs.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPrevious co-op, internship, or research experience in this area?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003EMy doctoral research at ASDL was with the Federal Aviation Administration\u0027s Office of Environment and Energy. I\u0026nbsp;looked at the environmental impact of aviation on the fleet level, focusing on the noise contours around airports. There are lots of new engineering technologies and novel engine configurations that can impact the noise, emissions, and fuel burn. I\u0026nbsp;worked with Dr. Kirby, the chief of the civil aviation division at ASDL, and the FAA. I also got involved with the [Georgia Tech] Center for Teaching \u0026amp;\u0026nbsp;Learning (CETL) which is how the opportunity to teach in France became real.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMost looking forward to...\u003Cbr \/\u003EI\u0027m very excited to go to France. It will be like the study-abroad semester that I didn\u0027t take as an undergraduate\u003Cstrong\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003Ewith the only difference being: I think I\u0027ll appreciate it more now. I\u0027m also looking forward to teaching the smaller classes at the GT-Lorraine campus. Beyond that, I am excited about exploring new problems as a post-doc.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EHow did your educational experience at GT-AE help?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI earned a duel undergraduate degree in aerospace engineering and music from Georgia Tech and Emory. I went on to get my masters and doctorate here. Having said that, some of the best teachers I\u0027ve ever had are the ones I\u0027ve had at GT-AE. I\u0027ve adopted some of their teaching methods and strategies. They put a lot of expectations on you - no one\u0027s rolling out the red carpet for you. But they also give you opportunities.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EDr. Mavris\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003Egave me some great opportunities, and it was up to me to pursue them.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAdvice\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDon\u0027t be afraid to fail. That\u0027s one big problem in academia sometimes: students care too much about failing. What I\u0027ve found is: you don\u0027t know what you\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003Edon\u0027t\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003Eknow until you\u0027ve failed trying. So speak up in class, go to office hours, put yourself out there. Because if you worry too much about how smart you appear, you\u0027ll never know what you\u0027re missing.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMatthew Owczarski, BSAE \u002715\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ENext Adventure\u003C\/strong\u003E: Quality Engineer at Lockheed Martin\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPrevious co-op, internship, or research experience?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI interned at Bell Helicopter for a semester.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMost looking forward to\u003C\/strong\u003E?\u003Cbr \/\u003EI\u0026nbsp;am excited about being able to work up close with the C-130. I\u0026nbsp;will be analyzing possible defects, minimizing their likelihood, reworking the parts and assemblies. Eventually, I\u0027d like to move into their Engineering Leadership Development program, because I am really interested in trying different jobs.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EHow did your educational experience at GT-AE help?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt\u0027s great to be a student at Georgia Tech because all of the biggest, most impressive companies come to our career fairs and reach out to our students with opportunities. I gained experience with interviewing before I\u0026nbsp;had to ace an interview.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAdvice\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhat they say about Georgia Tech is actually true. Sleep, work on your grades, or have a social life: you can only choose two. I chose grades and a social life. The sleep can happen later.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESarah E. Dailey, BSAE \u002715\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ENext Adventure:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;Systems Engineer at Lockheed Martin, Sunnyvale, CA\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPrevious co-op, internship, or research experience?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI came in as a transfer from the University of North Georgia, so the time I\u0026nbsp;could devote to outside internships was limited. Still, I interned at Lockheed Martin in Marietta through their structural engineering program and\u0026nbsp; I worked on the C-130. I\u0026nbsp;also worked with Dr. Spencer doing day-in-the-life testing for Prox 1.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMost looking forward to...\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETo\u0026nbsp; be honest, I cannot wait to move to California. I\u0027m already planning trips to the national parks. I\u0027m also looking forward to working with Lockheed again, because my experience as an intern was so great. The company culture is supportive. My colleagues didn\u0027t look for shortcomings; they are always working for answers.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EHow did your educational experience at GT-AE help?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;I like to think of myself as an organized person, but Tech forced me to take it up a notch. I\u0026nbsp;got involved in extra extracurriculars - the Georgia Tech Dance Company and Tau Beta Pi - which helped me, as a transfer student, to find people to hang out with and to study with. But they also forced me to keep organized.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAdvice\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt\u0027s easy to get overwhelmed with all of the work and all of the things they want you to learn at Tech. Sometimes, you think \u0022how can I learn all of that?\u0022 But you have to take a breath, think about the big picture and schedule yourself. What do you need to get done today?\u0026nbsp;What project needs your attention now? Finals will come when finals come.\u0026nbsp;Do your best today.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAlain \u0022Paul\u0022 Nyamsi, BSAE \u002715\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ENext Adventure:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003EIn February, I\u0026nbsp;will begin a full-time rotation as a senior management trainee at XBO Logistics in Chicago. That will allow me to work with different parts of the company, ultimately allowing me to join management. Right now, I\u0027m working with them as a solutions engineer.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPrevious co-op, internship, or research experience in this area?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI worked with Prof. Prasad the CMAPSS 40K airplane engine. We are focusing on the high pressure turbine section. If you vary select parameters in the controller, you can extend the life of the engine.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMost looking forward to\u003C\/strong\u003E...\u003Cbr \/\u003EI am very excited about the variety of experiences I will have as a manager trainee at XBO. I will have rotations in very different parts of the company - finances, operations, engineering. And all of them will allow me to apply the critical thinking skills that I\u0027ve developed as an engineer.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EHow did your educational experience at GT-AE help?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGeorgia Tech is very challenging, and that\u0027s why I came here. I had offers at other schools, but I\u0026nbsp;knew that the only way you will improve, intellectually, is if you challenge yourself. And I knew Georgia Tech was the most challenging -- and that aerospace was very hard. I have worked at FedX while I\u0027ve been at Georgia Tech. Sometimes, I get off the 2 a.m. - 9 a.m. shift and come straight to school, where I must train myself to focus on new material. It has made me stronger. I\u0027ve learned to be more structured in my approach to problem-solving and to be better at managing my time. Every challenge has made me more marketable.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAdvice\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe most important thing is:\u0026nbsp;know what you want to accomplish and put yourself in a position to achieve it. That\u0027s why I came to Georgia Tech: I wanted to put myself in the position to be successful. My father [Alain P. Nyamsi] has always told me that [life\u0027s] not about making excuses; it\u0027s about getting things done. Nothing great will be easy. Every time you are challenged, you will improve, so never shy away from challenges. I\u0026nbsp;have found all of this to be true during my time at Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EFranklin \u0022Drew\u0022\u0026nbsp;Turbeville, BSAE \u002715\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ENext Adventure:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;In January, I will go to Purdue University to begin work on my masters in aerospace engineering. I will be focusing on aerodynamics.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPrevious co-op, internship, or research experience in this area?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI had five co-op rotations at HEICO Aerospace\u0026nbsp; where I\u0026nbsp;focused on new product development. I also did an internship at Gulfstream, working as a structural test engineer. And I did research with\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EDr. Hodges\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;[structures],\u003Cstrong\u003EDr. Sankar\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;[aerodynamics],\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EDr. Komerath\u003C\/strong\u003E[aerodynamics] and\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EDr. Smith\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;[aeroelasticity].\u0026nbsp;Each time I did research, I learned something new. Sometimes, it was that I didn\u0027t want to pursue that area of engineering. It just wasn\u0027t for me. When I did experimental research with Dr. Komerath, focusing on slung loads, I\u0026nbsp;really liked it, so I continued. I\u0026nbsp;also liked working on modeling the aerodynamics of hypersonic missiles with Dr. Smith.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMost looking forward to...\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFirst and foremost, I have to say that my girlfriend, Amy Pierce, who is also a Tech grad\u003Cbr \/\u003E[BME \u002714] is already living in Indiana, so that makes the move a lot more attractive. I\u0027m also excited because I\u0027ll be working on a Mach 6 wind tunnel. It\u0027ll be a unique experience.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHow did your educational experience at GT-AE help?\u003Cbr \/\u003EI think Tech challenges you to get out of your comfort zone. I came to Tech so focused on co-ops and I had no interest in research.\u0026nbsp; I was of the opinion, after high school, that I\u0027d complete my undergraduate degree and that would be it. But once I started doing research, it led me in different directions. It led me to what I\u0026nbsp;am doing now. And it\u0027s pretty exciting.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAdvice\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEspecially for freshmen: don\u0027t be afraid to bite off more than you think you can chew. Get involved in building a rocket or designing a spacecraft. With a lot of the extra-curriculars, you can always back off if it doesn\u0027t fit, but you can\u0027t beat the experience.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAngelica M. Baker, BSAE \u002715\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ENext adventure:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;Mechanical Experimental Equipment Test Engineer, NASA\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDid you have any previous co-op, internship, or research experience in this area?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EI\u0026nbsp;was accepted into NASA\u0027s Pathway Internship program, so I did four semesters of co-ops at NASA\u0026nbsp;Stennis.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMost looking forward to...\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe fact that I will get to work on the test stand for adjusting the rockets for the SLS\u0026nbsp;(Space Launch System). I will be in the control room.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EHow did your educational experience at GT-AE help you achieve your goal?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMy jet propulsion and thermodynamics classes -- they were tough, but they gave me a lot of good knowledge that I\u0026nbsp;brought to my internships, and, now, my job. Also, senior design was excellent, because you have to learn how to present your ideas before people who can ask some tough questions.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAdvice\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EObviously, study hard. Also: apply for everything. That\u0027s what I did. NASA\u0026nbsp;was my dream since I\u0026nbsp;was in kindergarten, so I applied to every NASA\u0026nbsp;internship I\u0026nbsp;could find.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBenjamin L. Grisel\u003C\/strong\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EBSAE \u002715\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ENext Adventure\u003C\/strong\u003E:\u0026nbsp;In December and January, I will travel through Europe. I plan to make a special visit to Norway, too. It\u0027s a place that has always interested me.\u0026nbsp; In October, I will begin the U.S. Army\u0027s Basic Officer Leadership Course in Fort Rucker Alabama. After that, the plan is to go to flight school where I will be training on CH 47 (Chinook) helicopters. I\u0026nbsp;can\u0027t wait.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPrevious co-op, internship, or research experience in this area?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI participated in extra training that is sponsored by the Army. I did a parachute training class at Fort Benning and an air assault class, which is the Army\u0027s way of teaching you about helicopters. I\u0026nbsp;got to repel out of a Black Hawk helicopter. That was cool. We also had a 12-mile ruck march...\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMost looking forward to...\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI\u0027m looking forward to the first time I am able to fly by myself. I\u0027ve been wanting to fly since I\u0026nbsp;was a kid. I\u0026nbsp;can\u0027t wait to take the controls.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EHow did your educational experience at GT-AE help?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen I applied to the National Guard in Nebraska - which is where I\u0027ll be stationed - it took them two weeks to get back to me. [laughs] When they did, they said they were trying to figure out what was wrong with me. They don\u0027t unusually get candidates coming from such a prestigious school. It pretty much blew away the competition. Everything I learned here at Georgia Tech will give me the ability to deal with complications that come up when we\u0027re actually flying. For instance, in a helicopter, when you pull the cyclic left, you bank left. They\u0027ll tell everyone that in training, but I know why. So if something messes up, I\u0027ll know more about what we need to do.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAdvice\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cem\u003EBalance\u003C\/em\u003E. You gotta have it. When I first got to Tech, I studied day-in, day-out. After awhile, I noticed my performance was slipping, because I wasn\u0027t motivated. I wasn\u0027t mountain biking or doing any of the physical activities that I\u0026nbsp;love. That\u0027s when I decided I would plan to have a certain amount of free time each week. I\u0026nbsp;would figure out how much time it took to get the work done for my classes, and then I\u0026nbsp;would allot myself some time for fun. It was a little trial-and-error, of course, but it worked out great.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERyan A. Quinn\u003C\/strong\u003E,\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;BSAE \u002715\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ENext Adventure:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003EA\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003Esix-month internship at SpaceX in Hawthorne, CA, followed up by a doctoral program in space systems design. At SpaceX, I will be working as a vehicle engineer for payload fairing - that\u0027s the protective shell that goes over the spacecraft during its launch.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPrevious co-op, internship, or research experience?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI came to Georgia Tech because I\u0026nbsp;wanted the co-op and research experiences. My first internship was with Silicon Creations, a Suwanee-based semi-conductor company where I did software electronics testing. I\u0026nbsp;did another internship as a structural engineer consultant at ATA\u0026nbsp;Engineering in San Diego. There, I got to experience engineering from the perspectives of analysis, design, and testing. It was perfect. Last summer, I was a mechanical design engineer working on the robotics breaking and mobility systems of the Mars 2020 mission at JPL.\u0026nbsp; And, coming up, I\u0027ll be working at\u0026nbsp;SpaceX. My research experience has also been spread out across very different projects. For instance, working with\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EDr. Rimoli\u003C\/strong\u003E, I\u0026nbsp;published a conference paper in structural engineering. Working with a design team outside of AE, I helped redesign a refreshable Braille display that won an award. All of it, taken together, has given me a good grasp on systems engineering and confirms my decision to pursue space systems design in graduate school.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMost looking forward to...\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI\u0027ve always been interested in launch vehicles so getting experience [at SpaceX] designing a launch vehicle will be great. I\u0027ll be working for a company that is fast-paced and expects me to contribute.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs far as graduate school, I\u0026nbsp;am looking forward to joining a team that will be building a small spacecraft. My senior design class introduced me to that, and I\u0026nbsp;found it very exciting. 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I\u0026nbsp;can\u0027t wait.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAdvice\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMy experience is not unique. I pursued research and co-op opportunities that started out small, but became significant building blocks over time. So I would advise new students to jump in and start doing research and co-opping right away. Your experiences will grow more sophisticated and more influential over time.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMark Mote, BSAE \u002715\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ENext Adventure\u003C\/strong\u003E: MS degree at GT-AE\u003Cbr \/\u003EGraduate Research Assistantship with\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EDr. Eric Feron.\u003C\/strong\u003EUnder the auspices of an NSF grant, we will be building a fully networked robotics lab here at Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPrevious co-op, internship, or research experience?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI\u0027ve done research with\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EDr. Prasad\u003C\/strong\u003E, and also with\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;Dr. Feron\u003C\/strong\u003E. I also did an internship at ISAE Ensma in France last summer.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMost looking forward to\u003C\/strong\u003E?\u003Cbr \/\u003EI\u0027m excited about doing something that\u0027s never been done before, and about being able to really exercise creativity in my research. As an undergraduate, you are judged by the quantity of the information you take in. In graduate school, it\u0027s the quality of the ideas you produce. In my graduate program, I\u0027ll be able to see the full depth of the subjects that interest me.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EHow did your educational experience at GT-AE help?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt was all about being surrounded by the right people. The students, the internship, the research -- they all gave me an opportunity to push myself.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAdvice\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EStart looking for research opportunities early, and don\u0027t do it just because you think it will look good on your resume. Find that subject that you are really interested in and then find someone who is just as passionate about pursuing it as well.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ENikolaus\u0026nbsp;L. Thorell, MSAE \u002715\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ENext Adventure\u003C\/strong\u003E: I\u0027ve enrolled in language school in the Swiss Alps so that I can become fully bilingual. After I finish, I will return to the United States to work in systems engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPrevious co-op, internship, or research experience in this area?\u003Cbr \/\u003EMy graduate research has been with\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EDr. Komerath\u003C\/strong\u003E. I\u0026nbsp;have assisted him with work on the reverse flow of the retreating rotor blades and also on slung loads and divergent speeds. My own research has focused on vortex flow over a highly swept delta wing. I\u0026nbsp;completed a summer co-op at NASA\u0026nbsp;Ames, too.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMost looking forward to...\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI am excited about pursuing French, which I\u0026nbsp;learned in high school but have not pursued since then. I think becoming bilingual will give me a more wide-ranging perspective on lots of things, including how I tackle engineering problems. It\u0027s not just learning a language, but, also, learning another way to think and speak about the world. I\u0026nbsp;am also really look forward to doing systems engineering because you can apply it to solve any problem. I\u0026nbsp;won\u0027t be pigeon-holed by it.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EHow did your educational experience at GT-AE help?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen I was looking for graduate programs, I did a search for the top schools in fluid mechanics and refined my search for experimental work. Georgia Tech was the top of the list. It was a great choice. Georgia Tech has given me a better sense of the big picture. In experimental work, which I\u0027ve done here, you get to design, refine, run, and analyze your own tests, which means you really have to understand how everything works.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAdvice\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003EI would say that the most important advice is to know what your priorities are at any given time. Then, if something comes along that you would otherwise miss, you\u0027ll take advantage of it. You never know if you\u0027ll get another chance. I\u0026nbsp;took advantage of doing a co-op at NASA\u0026nbsp;Ames. I am glad I did experimental work at Georgia Tech. And, right now, I am glad that there\u0027s an opening in my life so that I\u0026nbsp;can study another language and culture before I go into the workforce.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETanish Himani, BSAE \u002715\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ENext Adventure\u003C\/strong\u003E: Joining the lab of\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EDr. E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGlenn Lightsey\u003C\/strong\u003Eas a graduate student.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPrevious co-op, internship, or research experience?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI interned at the Jacobs ESSA Group in Huntsville, where I\u0026nbsp;did data reviews of hot-fire RS-25 rocket engines.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMost looking forward to\u003C\/strong\u003E...\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt will be great to work with someone with as much experience as\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EDr. Lightsey\u003C\/strong\u003E, working on real satellites - from concept to execution. Satellites can do a lot of good science without requiring a super-huge budget.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EHow did your educational experience at GT-AE help?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe coursework is really challenging. If you can handle the coursework here, you can handle anything they throw at you in the real world. Also, I got so much out of my orbital mechanics class, with\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EProfessor Spencer\u003C\/strong\u003E. He has a ton of experience -- with NASA\u0026nbsp;and JPL - so when he explained something, he could tell you how the theory goes and how it actually works.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAdvice\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFind out what you are passionate about and work it from every angle. Don\u0027t stop at what you learn in class. Find other problems, create new code, or find other applications that will help you understand the concept. You can sleep after you graduate.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMichael\u0026nbsp;Staab, MSAE\u002715\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ENext Adventure\u003C\/strong\u003E: Spacecraft Operations Engineer for Cassini Mission, Jet Propulsion Laboratory\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPrevious co-op, internship, or research experience?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI\u0026nbsp;did work with\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EDr. Mavris\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003Efocusing on manufacturing influences on the cost of producing launch vehicles. A lot of the materials that will be used in future launch vehicles are new, lighter, composites that haven\u0027t been used\u0026nbsp; before. We looked at manufacturing data to make some cost predictions.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMost looking forward to...\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI\u0027ll be working in the spacecraft operations center for Cassini, which will be really neat because not many people get to do that. In fact, I\u0027ll be one of just four people in the world who will be capable of flying the Cassini spacecraft. That project will be finished in 2017, when Cassini is scheduled to burn up. Then I\u0027m looking at Mars 2020 or the Europa Mission to Jupiter...all of this will put me in the right place if I ever get the opportunity to be an astronaut.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EHow did your educational experience at GT-AE help?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI had an awesome undergraduate experience in Kansas, but I can truly say that when I came to graduate school at Georgia Tech it was a completely different atmosphere. It was far more rigorous. I\u0026nbsp;learned how to manage multiple projects. They pushed me to see how much I was really capable of doing without imploding. (Laughs). I think most people don\u0027t get a chance to get pushed that hard in life.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAdvice\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAcademics are good, but you have got to get out and do extracurriculars, get involved. I\u0026nbsp;was one of the founding members of the K-17 [rocket] project, a member of the Triathlon Club, a Graduate Senator, and a member of AIAA. It all shaped me. Academics can only take you so far -- and the academics do push you at Tech -- but if you want to succeed, you have to get your hands dirty. You have to get out there and design things.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERyan Gibbons, BSAE\u002715\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ENext Adventure\u003C\/strong\u003E: In February, I\u0026nbsp;will report to the Naval Air Station at Pensacola, Florida to begin flight school. That will give me broad training on flying military jets. After 2 years, I will be sent to squadron where I will get trained on a specific vehicle. In my case, that\u0027s an FA-18.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPrevious co-op, internship, or research experience?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBecause I knew I wanted to pursue flight school, I\u0026nbsp;attended summer programs sponsored by the Navy.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMost looking forward to...\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat\u0027s easy: I\u0027ve been dying to fly jets since I\u0026nbsp;was a little guy. 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I\u0026nbsp;started out taking everything at face value, and no further. I did the homework, learned the equations, and memorized what was in front of me. But over time, I\u0026nbsp;started questioning what I saw. I\u0026nbsp;wanted to try different numbers, test different equations, and to use what I\u0027d learned to come up with new solutions. I\u0026nbsp;started thinking like an engineer. That\u0027s the best way to put it. And it didn\u0027t come over night.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"They have studied theories that would have given Einstein a headache and they\u0027ve pored over homework problems that took all night to decipher. Now - on December 11 and 12 - the final contingent of the Class of 2015 will graduate from GT-AE."}],"uid":"30502","created_gmt":"2016-02-18 12:12:18","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:20:49","author":"Sapna Mistry","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-12-08T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2015-12-08T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"502801":{"id":"502801","type":"image","title":"What\u0027s next","body":null,"created":"1456167600","gmt_created":"2016-02-22 19:00:00","changed":"1475895263","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:54:23","alt":"What\u0027s next","file":{"fid":"204762","name":"whats_next.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/whats_next_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/whats_next_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":185240,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/whats_next_0.jpg?itok=EyM6v3Fo"}}},"media_ids":["502801"],"groups":[{"id":"1239","name":"School of Aerospace Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"136","name":"Aerospace"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"171743","name":"Graduation plans"},{"id":"126111","name":"GT-AE"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":["kathleen.moore@ae.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"502841":{"#nid":"502841","#data":{"type":"news","title":"GT-AE Joachim Hodara Brings Research to NASA","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWhen\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EJoachim Hodara\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003Edefends his doctoral dissertation in February, it won\u0027t be the first time he\u0027s been grilled on the subject.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOn Dec. 8, Hodara was recruited to present his work,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nas.nasa.gov\/publications\/ams\/2015\/12-08-15.html\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0022\u003Cem\u003ETurbulence Closure for Static and Dynamic Stall in the Transitional Regime\u0022\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003Ebefore scientists at NASA Ames Research Center as a part of the regular Advance Modeling and Simulation seminar series.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022It was great practice for my doctoral defense,\u0022 said Hodara, whose research under\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EDr. Marilyn Smith\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;has focused on transition and turbulence modeling for rotorcraft applications.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022But more than that, it was a fantastic opportunity to meet so many of the people whose research papers I\u0027ve read over and over again. Really, these are the people who\u0027ve been framing the field.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHodara\u0027s work ultimately seeks to improve rotorcraft speed and efficiency by better defining the performance conditions that prevent it from traveling effectively at higher speeds.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We need simple models to\u0026nbsp;predict\u0026nbsp;rotorcraft performance at high speed, but, first, we need to understand exactly what is going on,\u0022 he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEmploying high-fidelity numerical simulations, Hodara hopes to develop such an accurate understanding of the problem that he will be able to develop simpler, less costly models to resolve it. He has teamed up with researchers at the University of Maryland who are conducting the experimental work, thus allowing Hodara to focus on the CFD analysis.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022This research holds a lot of promise. If we can get helicopters to fly faster, we will be able to respond more quickly and successfully in rescues and other situations,\u0022 he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EJoachim Hodara is a Ph.D. candidate and graduate research assistant. Before coming to Georgia Tech, he received two M.S. degrees from Cranfield University and Ecole Centrale de Lille. His honors and awards include a Best Paper Award (aerodynamics) at the 71st AHS Forum (2015), two Vertical Flight Foundation scholarships (2013 and 2014), the Southern Regional Lichten Award (2014) and the Director\u2019s prize for best performance in the M.S. at Cranfield University (2012).\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EFind out more about\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ae.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/img\/HODARA%20-Turbulence%20Closure%20for%20Static%20and%20Dynamic%20Stall%20in%20the%20Transitional%20Regime.pdf\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EHodara\u0027s research\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cem\u003E.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"When Joachim Hodara defends his doctoral dissertation in February, it won\u0027t be the first time he\u0027s been grilled on the subject."}],"uid":"30502","created_gmt":"2016-02-18 12:28:45","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:20:49","author":"Sapna Mistry","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-12-11T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2015-12-11T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"502831":{"id":"502831","type":"image","title":"Joachim Hodara","body":null,"created":"1456167600","gmt_created":"2016-02-22 19:00:00","changed":"1475895263","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:54:23","alt":"Joachim Hodara","file":{"fid":"204763","name":"hodara-joachim.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/hodara-joachim_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/hodara-joachim_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":55903,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/hodara-joachim_0.jpg?itok=2AYoQ1Kr"}}},"media_ids":["502831"],"groups":[{"id":"1239","name":"School of Aerospace Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"136","name":"Aerospace"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"3366","name":"dissertation"},{"id":"126111","name":"GT-AE"},{"id":"132721","name":"Joachim Hodara"},{"id":"408","name":"NASA"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":["kathleen.moore@ae.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"501661":{"#nid":"501661","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Five Things You Should Know: A Conversation With Philip A. Fawcett, PhDAE \u002793","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EPhilip A. Fawcett packed a lot into his time at Georgia Tech \u2013 earning a bachelors, masters, and doctoral degree in just seven years while also garnering the much-coveted Sigma Xi Outstanding Dissertation Award before he left in 1992.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENow a principal engineer within the Aerospace Corporation\u2019s National Systems Group, Fawcett is quick to point out that his meteoric success at Tech was fueled by one simple thing.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI just kept going, putting in a lot of hours to get that PhD, because there was more to learn about airplane design and I wanted to learn it,\u201d he said during a March 27 visit to campus.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cUnfortunately, when I graduated, the bottom had temporarily fallen out of that industry, so I didn\u2019t get a job designing airplanes. And I\u2019ve never worked with airplanes since.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBut don\u2019t look to Fawcett for regrets. Turning this early career obstacle into a launching pad for success is just one of the five lessons he shared with us.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch3\u003E1. Don\u2019t assume your current career plan is the only path to enjoyment. Keep your focus flexible.\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWhen I couldn\u2019t get a job doing airplane design [with a PhD] it was very frustrating at first. This was my passion. I\u2019d planned it since high school. I was set on working in each of the subsystem areas so that I could eventually become the chief engineer of a major design effort.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe original plans didn\u2019t work out. But reality worked out even better.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI decided to not get too wrapped up with what I wasn\u2019t doing,\u201d he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI took a job at Aerospace doing work on launch vehicles and was dubbed the proverbial \u2018rocket scientist.\u2019 I began to see it as an adventure. Yeah, I\u2019d studied the aerodynamic design of low-speed vehicles and they wanted me to work on high speed ones, but it was still a real job, and it was still engineering.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAccepting that adventure has allowed Fawcett, a Florida native, to put down roots in Los Angeles , Colorado Springs, and Chantilly, Virginia (just outside Washington, D.C.) It has also given him a chance to work on some of the most exciting aerospace projects of our time, including the Titan IV program, where he provided critical aerodynamic analysis.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI\u2019ve been able to work on launch systems from concept to design, doing cost analysis, risk assessments, testing,\u201d he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cNone of it involved airplane design, and I couldn\u2019t be happier.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch3\u003E2. Look for a workplace that\u2019s as flexible as you are.\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAmbitious by nature, Fawcett has always kept his focus sharp by looking for new professional opportunities. He found those opportunities in the Aerospace Corporation, where he has held nine different job titles in the past 23 years.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI\u2019m not saying that if you come to work at Aerospace Corporation you have to be ready to change jobs all of the time, or even that you would have that opportunity,\u201d he noted.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cBut if you bring a good fundamental education to your work [there], and you are driven, there\u2019s so much you can do. Some of my colleagues have remained in their departments for decades because it\u2019s what they love. And that\u2019s great. But for me, the ability to take on new challenges has been great.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch3\u003E3. A doctorate can open a lot of doors.\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIf you have the curiosity and the drive, earning a PhD is worth it,\u201d he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cAll employers have check-lists of qualities that they want to see in their top players. At a highly technical company like Aerospace, having a Ph.D. provides an extra edge to help put you at the top of their consideration for the loftier jobs. Colleagues don\u2019t\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003Eask you to prove yourself when you have a doctorate because they know that you\u2019ve already gone the distance, tackling the hard problems that took you years to solve. Your depth has been tested. If you don\u2019t have a Ph.D., and you are looking to move up, I would expect to see evidence of your tenacity and accomplishment somewhere in your work.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENone of this suggests that a PhD should rest on his laurels, he notes.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI may not be doing all of the grinding calculations now, but I\u2019ve got to be knowledgeable enough to know when those calculations need to be done and savvy enough to analyze them when they are completed. It\u2019s a different level of challenge now, but the same values of hard work and attention to detail are what count.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch3\u003E4. If you have a professional goal that\u2019s a little outside the box, put yourself in the position to pursue it. Then: work hard and\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003Eplan harder.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhile at Georgia Tech, Fawcett took almost enough courses to earn a minor in international affairs. His interest in the subject never entirely disappeared, even as he was climbing the corporate ladder at Aerospace.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESo when he heard that his company offered a seldom-utilized Brookings Institute Congressional Fellowship, Fawcett was intrigued.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI researched it, like any good engineer -- got the names of the three previous employees who\u2019d done the fellowship, and asked them to tell me about it,\u201d he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cBecause I had just been made manager of a new department that I\u2019d created, I figured out the best time for me to do the fellowship so that my department would have minimal disruption. And, then, I walked into the vice president\u2019s office with a plan.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe result? An Aerospace Corporation-funded, year-long Brookings Institute fellowship in the office of Ohio Congressman Tim Ryan, where the erstwhile airplane designer was responsible for tracking issues, developing recommendations, and pursuing legislation in the areas of housing, the environment, manufacturing, and Chinese currency manipulation.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIf I\u2019d walked into another VP\u2019s office, I might have gotten another answer. I know that. But I did my homework, and I was able to convince my employer that this would help the company in our dealings with the federal government. It has. And it\u2019s also been one of the most exciting opportunities of my career.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch3\u003E5. Strong communication skills \u2013 oral and written \u2013 are a must\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt is amazing how often I see extremely talented engineers who cannot communicate - whether it is a technical paper, a point paper, an email, or a briefing. The ones who truly shine are the ones who can speak or write about a complex issue in very simple terms or with very common analogies. Senior leaders and decision makers don\u0027t have technical backgrounds that span every field, and in many cases don\u2019t have a technical background at all. So when an engineer only uses specific technical jargon, he will have only limited success. The ones who describe complex issues using simple language are the ones who find themselves in front of those senior leaders time and time again.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EDr. Fawcett shared his thoughts with us during a March 27 SAESAC Career Seminar. 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Sloan Foundation.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDoctoral students Hisham Ali and Brett Hiller received Sloan Fellowships, which afford recipients an annual $10K stipend to complete their graduate studies, plus another $10K to cover professional development expenses, including books, journals, professional travel and research costs.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Hisham has outstanding scholarly potential and is an\u0026nbsp;outstanding candidate for this award,\u0022 said Dr. Robert Braun, Ali\u0027s faculty advisor.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEugina Mendez Ramo received the Georgia Tech University Center of Exemplary Mentoring (GT-UCEM) scholarship, which will provide her with a $10,000 stipend to pay for professional development expenses.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHiller\u0027s and Ramos\u0027s advisor, Regents Professor Dimitri Mavris, was proud but not surprised by the recognition received by his proteges.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Brett and Eugina are both hard-working, very dedicated students who show a good deal of initiative and creativity in their work,\u0022 said Mavris. \u0022It\u0027s great to see them rewarded with something that will\u0026nbsp; help them go even further.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Sloan Foundation Scholarship seeks to increase the number of outstanding engineering Ph.D. graduates from under-represented populations. 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Just ask Prof.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EMitchell Walker.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs the chair of the \u201cGovernment Investments Enabling Advancement of In-space Propulsion\u201d panel at AIAA\u2019s recent Propulsion and Energy Forum 360 (July 27-29), Walker brought together several industry and government experts for a robust discussion of the future.\u0026nbsp; All seemed to agree: market pressures must be incorporated into any innovation strategy.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cCompetition in the global space-propulsion market continues to increase as industry continues to invest in technology and strategy and agencies are using technology programs to push the boundaries,\u201d Walker said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt is very important to align the focus of government-funded technology with the needs, requirements, and commercial opportunities of industry. This will support the critical commercial infusion and eventual sustainability of in-space propulsion technology developed with government funding.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EJoining Walker in the AIAA panel were Google + Skybox Imaging\u2019s chief engineer\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EJonny Dyer\u003C\/strong\u003E; the Institute for Defense Analyses\u2019 director of science and technology policy Dr.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EMark Lewis\u003C\/strong\u003E; Space Systems Loral\u2019s advanced solar electric propulsion programs manager\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;Peter Lord\u003C\/strong\u003E; Aerojet Rocketdyne\u2019s executive director for advanced in-space systems\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003ERoger Myers\u003C\/strong\u003E; and NASA\u2019s senior technical officer for the Space Technology Directorate Dr.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EJeffrey Sheehy\u003C\/strong\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAlthough early investments in space-propulsion systems have bolstered national defense and space-exploration programs, the emergence of public-private partnerships has made the market more complicated, according Myers.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOne thing thwarting advances in propulsion technology? The need for the investment to take into account both the cost and the risk of the new technology.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIf it can\u2019t do that,\u201d Myers said, \u201cThe system will most likely be rejected.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMyers pointed out that time-tested technology holds the edge for approvals while the potential benefits of new technology are overshadowed by system uncertainty. Myers said electric propulsion systems and solar electric power systems receive the majority of investment dollars.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EInvestment in this area is also impeded by the size of the market and the time it takes to bring a new idea to market. The longer the development period, the more likely it is to fail.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDyer pointed out that the delays inevitably make it harder to market up and coming innovations:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe are flying 50-year-old technology exclusively, with thrusters going back to Apollo. Imagine if I tried to sell you a 50-year-old telephone. Nobody is going to buy a 50-year-old telephone.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.aiaa-propulsionenergy.org\/GovtInvestments_PE2015\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003EView\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cem\u003Ethe entire panel discussion.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"It takes more than a great idea to make an impact in today\u2019s space technology market. 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And the game wasn\u0027t one of pure number analysis either. They wanted to see a plane that could compete in today\u0027s market, with components that are available now to manufacture it.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAt an estimated production cost of around $547,500, the Vapor was competitive with the Cirrus SR-22, one of the most popular single-engine gas-powered planes on the market. Not only did it meet the distance and payload demands, Neuman\u0027s plane was also shown to be 16 decibels quieter and to consume 3.8 times less fuel than the SR-22.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We may not have hydrogen refueling stations everywhere yet, but there are economically feasible ways to develop hydrogen on site. 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Krone\u003C\/strong\u003E, AE \u002778, has enabled the Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering to significantly increase its commitment to faculty support and exceed its11-year, $25 million Campaign goal.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Helen B. and Roger A. Krone Faculty Endowment Fund will give School Chair\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EVigor Yang\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;the flexibility to meet needs as they arise - including (but not limited to) the creation of director\u2019s chairs, faculty chairs, professorships, and early career professorships.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u201cAs I have found success in my personal and professional life, I am better able to put my time at Tech in perspective,\u201d Krone explained. \u201cThe four years in Aerospace Engineering helped me to realize my dream. It is our hope that this gift will help other students realize their dreams.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EYang left little doubt but that this gift will inspire great things.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe generosity of Roger and Helen Krone has long been an inspiration to the Guggenheim School,\u201d he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cTheir latest act of philanthropy is truly transformative. Not only does it enable us to exceed our ambitious Campaign goal, but it will allow the School to recruit and cultivate the best minds for our future faculty. We are humbled by the faith they have placed in our educational mission. And we are committed to making them proud of that support.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor the Krones, the key to a world-class aerospace engineering program at Georgia Tech is the faculty, which is also one of the Guggenheim School\u2019s top fundraising priorities.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cTo be the best, Tech needs to continue to attract the best. Competition for faculty is high. Having another endowed faculty position gives the School a place to attract and retain another outstanding faculty member,\u201d he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EKrone is the CEO of Leidos, a leader in science and technology solutions in the areas of national security, health, and engineering. Prior to joining Leidos, he served as president of Network and Space\u0026nbsp; Systems for The Boeing Company. He was vice president and treasurer of McDonnell Douglas at the time of its 1997 merger with Boeing. He joined McDonnell Douglas in 1992 as director of financial planning after a 14-year career at General Dynamics.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003EHelen Krone is secretary, treasurer, and financial manager for the Krone Foundation. She serves on the board of trustees for the Mountain Retreat Association, which manages the Montreat Conference Center, a national Presbyterian conference center in North Carolina. She holds a bachelor\u2019s degree from the University of Texas, Austin.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERoger Krone currently serves on the board of the Georgia Tech Foundation, and he has been a member and chair of the Georgia Tech Advisory Board. He also served as an ex-officio member of the Campaign Steering Committee.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETo inquire about making a gift in support of the Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering, contact Farah A. 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He will be based out of the Georgia Tech Research Institute in Rosslyn, Virginia but will also maintain offices at the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts here in Atlanta.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAnnouncement of the appointment came just days after the much-decorated Winnefeld officially retired from his most recent military assignment as the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWinnefeld will also serve as a senior fellow in the School\u2019s Center for International Strategy, Technology and Policy, which focuses on policy research.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe have already benefited greatly from Admiral Winnefeld\u2019s expertise and experience in his role on the Georgia Tech Advisory Board, and are looking forward to his expanded role with the Institute,\u201d said Georgia Tech President G.P. \u201cBud\u201d Peterson.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe richness of his leadership experience and his global perspective will be invaluable to our students, faculty and staff, along with the Atlanta community. We enthusiastically welcome him home to his alma mater.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWinnefeld graduated from Georgia Tech in 1978 with a degree in aerospace engineering. He retired from his position as the nation\u2019s second highest-ranking military officer on July 31.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI am very pleased to join the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs and CISTP,\u201d said Winnefeld.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI\u0027ve long been an admirer of Senator Nunn\u0027s, and look forward to working with \u0026shy;\u2013 and continuing to learn from \u2013 him. I\u2019m also excited to lend my energy and experience to a very talented group of faculty and students. It\u2019s especially gratifying to be able to do so at an institution that gave so much to me as an undergraduate.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPrior to his role at the Joint Chiefs of Staff, he served as the commander of United States Northern Command and the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD). He also commanded the United States Sixth Fleet and NATO Allied Joint Command, Lisbon. His new title, distinguished professor, is the same as Nunn\u0027s, the former U.S. Senator for whom the Institute\u2019s School of International Affairs is named.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cAdmiral Winnefeld is one of our nation\u0027s most distinguished and valuable military leaders, and is now returning to his home base at Georgia Tech,\u201d said Nunn.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis is great news for the Nunn School and the Institute. 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Achieving large goals is precisely what the nation expects from its space program. A great way to build U.S. scientific and technological competence is by aiming large.\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhy can\u2019t we go there now?\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBraun:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003EWe could choose to start sending humans to Mars in the next decade if we put our minds to it. The pace of our journey is driven by the pace of our investment in the technologies and capabilities needed for exploration.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESpencer:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003EThere\u2019s a fundamental difference between the way the Apollo missions were undertaken versus the current way the Mars exploration program is conceived. Apollo had a very clear set of goals to launch humans into space within a decade. Now, the mindset is that we\u2019re operating under a fixed budget, we must live within it, and only build as we can. That\u2019s a very slow process.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBraun:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003EIn the Apollo days, the NASA budget was 10 times what it is today. It was roughly 4 percent of the gross domestic product. Now it\u2019s about .4 percent. Imagine if revenues for a university or a computer company were one-tenth what they were 50 years ago.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch3\u003EWhy is it so different?\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBraun:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003EApollo wasn\u2019t really about sending people to the moon within a decade. It was about proving the technological superiority of the United States in a race with the Soviet Union. That\u2019s why funding poured into NASA. It\u2019s a different world now. People who are waiting for the next Kennedy moment are going to wait a long time. I think we\u2019re going to have to figure this out within the general federal funding guidelines that have been in place since the Nixon administration: NASA has to take its rightful place in the federal budget among the other priorities the United States invests in.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESpencer:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;So that means an international collaboration is essential for something as complex and expensive as going to Mars.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBraun:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;Yes. And more significant partnerships with the U.S. commercial space sector.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch3\u003EWhat are some of the biggest technological challenges?\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESpencer:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;A round trip is a minimum of two years: at least six months to get there, one year on Mars, and about six months to get back. 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There are about six capabilities needed for a human Mars mission. Right now we\u2019re probably investing in three of them, and at a very low level. I\u2019ll know we are serious about sending people to Mars when I see this country and others invest in the needed capabilities in a significant way. Once we do, we\u2019ll land eight years later.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESpencer:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;You\u2019re more optimistic than I am.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch3\u003EHow much money will it take?\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBraun:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003EA lot for the space program, but not very much for the world.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESpencer:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;At least $100 billion spread over 10 years. That\u2019s not that much. You can spend a billion dollars easily on a relatively common infrastructure project. 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But we will.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBraun:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003EOne hundred years from now, our space program will be even more significant and more ubiquitous to life on Earth. We\u2019ll have journeyed to the ocean worlds in the outer solar system, where many believe there may be life waiting to be discovered. We\u2019ll have learned about other earths around distant stars. We\u2019ll have imaged them and seen blue oceans and white clouds. In 100-150 years, we will have settled Mars at some level, as well as answered other fundamental societal questions such as: Are we alone and where did we come from?\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003EAmanda Stockton\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u0026nbsp;is an assistant professor in the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry. Her research focuses on the origin of biomolecules and the emergence of life on Mars and throughout the galaxy. 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You\u2019ve got to identify yours and then work it.\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cAt Tech, you needed to be motivated, because it was hard. I think it was easier to get in to Tech back then \u2013 and easier to get [kicked] out. For me, the motivation came from wanting to be an officer in the military. I applied to Tech because it had a good track record of supporting the military. But graduating from Tech wasn\u2019t guaranteed.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor me, I was on a ROTC scholarship, so I knew from the beginning that I had to maintain a certain GPA and I had to graduate in four years. No room for failure or excuses. Those are the conditions of the scholarship. And without that scholarship, I knew there was no money for me to go to school. I kept those things in mind, and then, like anything worth doing in life, I persevered.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003E2. Hard work can take you a lot of places.\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWhen I played intramural basketball at Georgia Tech, I was by no means the tallest or the fastest guy on the court. But you wouldn\u2019t want me to guard you because I would wear you out.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThat\u2019s because I worked it hard. I left it all on the court. When the game was over \u2013 whether it was football or basketball or soccer \u2013 I was completely done.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThere\u2019s a sense of calm you get when you\u2019ve given it your best shot. That\u2019s how I tackled some of the toughest classes I had to take at Tech. That\u2019s how I\u2019ve learned to be a better leader.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAt the same time, it\u2019s important to balance yourself. You can\u2019t work hard all the time. I knew that I couldn\u2019t do everything at the same level of intensity at Tech. The science and engineering courses were too demanding. I chose electives that were a little easier so I could pace myself.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003E3. Find people who are doing what you want to do. Then: do what they did to get there.\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022I learned early on, through sports, to watch the best players \u2013 how they blocked, jumped, tackled and rebounded. That\u2019s how you get better.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESo when I got to Tech I immediately checked out the juniors and seniors who were doing well. I watched them \u2013 how they studied, what they did. Then I asked them questions \u2013 about what courses to take, what courses to avoid, when to punch out and when to stick with it. I joined as many study groups as I could. And then I worked as hard as I could.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EI also watched some of my classmates join [groups] that partied a lot. Those were the students who dropped out. Now, I went to my share of parties, and I had a lot of fun at Tech. But I did not join those groups. 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Engineers need to be able to manage and understand people, because, in the end, it\u2019s attracting and managing good people that will make your team successful.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAlso, friendships are important. I\u2019ve seen this at every stage of my career, maintaining good relationships with people from high school and college to the Air Force and other companies. All of these experiences matter and will make you a more competent leader.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"how hard you should push yourself in the coming year(s). We thought it was a good time to introduce you to an alumnus, Christopher Jones, whose success illustrates something every Yellow Jacket needs to know."}],"uid":"30502","created_gmt":"2016-02-17 13:27:52","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:20:46","author":"Sapna Mistry","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-08-14T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2015-08-14T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"501931":{"id":"501931","type":"image","title":"Christopher Jones","body":null,"created":"1455904800","gmt_created":"2016-02-19 18:00:00","changed":"1475895261","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:54:21","alt":"Christopher Jones","file":{"fid":"204733","name":"headshot_2.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/headshot_2_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/headshot_2_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":95621,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/headshot_2_0.jpg?itok=QmvHOlIs"}}},"media_ids":["501931"],"groups":[{"id":"1239","name":"School of Aerospace Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"136","name":"Aerospace"},{"id":"130","name":"Alumni"}],"keywords":[{"id":"506","name":"alumni"},{"id":"59931","name":"Christopher Jones"},{"id":"126111","name":"GT-AE"},{"id":"8886","name":"Northrop Grumman"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":["kathleen.moore@ae.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"502491":{"#nid":"502491","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Sean Bedford, BSAE\u002710: Rocket Scientist, Athlete, Lawyer, Jackets Aficionado","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThis fall marks a different kind of homecoming for\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003ESean Bedford,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003EBSAE \u201810. The strapping\u0026nbsp; 6\u20191\u201d former Yellow Jackets offensive lineman will\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003Estill\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003Ebe rooting for his alma mater, heart and soul.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EThat will\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003Enever\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;change\u003C\/em\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBut, as the new color commentator for the IMG Radio Network, he\u2019ll have to trade\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003Esome\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;of his enthusiasm for a little cool-headed analysis.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThat shouldn\u2019t be a problem for Bedford, now a practicing patent attorney with Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett \u0026amp; Dunbar, LLC in Atlanta. He gets paid to stick to the facts.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAnd, since he has spent the last two years moonlighting as the commentator on the Jackets pre-game show, he also knows how to keep the gridiron banter crisp.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt was a lot of fun,\u201d he said after the season opener, Sept. 5, versus Alcorn State\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E(66-6).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI had a lot of highlights to call and that makes it more enjoyable. My only concern was, \u2018Am I going to run out of positive adjectives to use?\u2019 You can only use \u2018fabulous,\u2019 \u2018phenomenal,\u2019 \u2018tremendous\u2019 and \u2018great\u2019 so many times.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThose same words have often been used to describe Bedford, who started his football career at Tech as a walk-on defensive lineman freshman year (2006). Hard work, dedication, and talent led the Gainesville, FL native to earn a scholarship from head coach Paul Johnson and, then, a spot as the team\u2019s starting center. By the time he graduated, Bedford had become a two-time All ACC player; had won the inaugural Burlsworth Trophy, (given to the top college player to begin his career as a walk-on); and was one of just three college players named to Sporting News\u2019 20 Smartest Athletes list.\u0026nbsp; In 2013 CBS Sports named him to their all-walk-on team, as one of the previous decade\u2019s most surprising successes.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBorn and bred a Gators fan, Bedford\u2019s love of football made his transition to the Yellow Jackets seamless. His bigger ambitions went beyond the playing field.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI have wanted to be an aerospace engineer from the time that I knew what that was,\u201d he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe whole idea of aviation and space flight has always held a special place in my\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003Eheart. The feeling of adventure that is so often absent from modern life was just so clearly present there that I just felt myself drawn to it.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBedford maintained this perspective when he chose law school after graduating from Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI got into the work I\u2019m doing now because I found a way to blend my two passions, engineering and law. I love having the opportunities to help inventors protect their inventions, to observe and help to develop new technology at the forefront of innovation. And I love being in a competitive environment.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBedford said he uses what he learned at Tech every day.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cProbably the two most useful tools I learned in the AE program were learning how to prepare and learning how to apply a knowledge base to new environments and challenges,\u201d he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cOne of the hallmarks of a great attorney is approaching each problem from the mindset that you know everything you possibly can so that you\u2019re prepared for every situation. When you\u2019re studying AE at Tech, you don\u2019t really have much of an option but to adopt that approach.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn AE, he says, professors always pushed him to prepare, prepare, and then:\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003Eprepare some more.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u201cOne time, after a weekend game, Sean came in looking a little tired on Monday,\u201d said Dr. Lakshmi Sankar, one of his GT-AE professors.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cSo I asked him if the reason was that he played really hard.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENo, that wasn\u2019t the reason\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cSo I said, \u201cWell maybe you had a little too much fun after the game?\u2019\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBedford shook his head.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201c\u2018No, it wasn\u2019t the game or the party. It was your homework\u2026It was really hard. I was up late doing it.\u2019\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESankar laughs at this now. No complaints or apologies: Bedford was just stating the facts.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022He was a very good student,\u0022 Sankar added.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBedford\u2019s dogged attention to detail was just as helpful to him in football. When he was on the Yellow Jackets scout team, he watched video of the other teams so he could imitate them during practice to help the varsity squad prepare for a game. Now, as a color commentator, he studies the other teams so he can be familiar with their plays and players when he\u2019s calling a game.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPrepare, prepare, and then:\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003Eprepare some more\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIt never changes.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAnd Bedford doesn\u2019t want it to. It\u2019s a formula that has bred success in every aspect of his life. 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This spring, the former GT ROTC student was inducted into the GT College of Engineering Academy of Distinguished Engineering Alumni and named an Associate Fellow of the AIAA.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EJones will formally receive his latest award at the 30th Black Engineer of the Year Award (BEYA) ceremony, a part of the 3-day BEYA Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) Conference, to be held in February 2016.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EReflecting on the honor, Jones generously acknowledged his alma mater.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022My experience at Georgia Tech, where I obtained my degree in aerospace engineering, was critical to my personal development,\u0022 he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Through the years I have remained focused on achieving technical excellence.\u0026nbsp; Additionally, at every stage of my career, maintaining good relationships with people from high school and college to the Air Force and other companies, have been important.\u0026nbsp; All of these experiences matter and make you a more competent leader.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAerospace engineering school chair\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EDr. Vigor Yang\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;echoed the pride that rippled across campus at the announcement.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We applaud and admire the impressive career that Dr. Jones has carved out since leaving Georgia Tech,\u0022 said Yang.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022There\u0027s no better way to inspire success among the next generation of engineers\u0026nbsp; than to demonstrate it with accomplishments like those of Dr. Jones. With each new accolade, he is pointing the way toward a bright future for all engineers.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAnnouncement of the award came October 12 from Tyrone Taborn the CEO of Career Communications Group, publisher of\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EBlack Engineer\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003Emagazine.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETaborn praised Jones for being a role model to young people seeking to find their way to the STEM pipeline. As the 2016 recipient of the BEYA, Jones joins some of the most recognized luminaries in the engineering field.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022You know some of the great names,\u0022 Taborn added. \u0022Mark Dean, co-inventor of the personal computer at technology and consulting corporation IBM; Shirley Ann Jackson, an American physicist, and the eighteenth president of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and Walt Braithwaite,\u0022 he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESince its launch 30 years ago, the BEYA has bestowed this honor to just 29 of the more than 10,000 nomination packages submitted.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EJones \u0022is what we want our children to aspire to,\u0022 said WHO IS THIS Hrabowski. \u0022To believe in this concept of STEM for all Americans.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGiving credit to his parents, the U.S. military, and his employer, Northrop Grumman Corporation, Jones expressed his pride in being \u0022the product of what\u0027s good about the United States.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EJones joined Northrop Grumman in 2004 as director of product support for the Airborne Early Warning Program. In addition to program execution, he provided technical leadership during aircraft design, development, production and fielding, and was a key member of the business strategy development and capture teams. Earlier, Jones worked for Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation, where he led analysis, flight tests and research on innovative rotorcraft technologies. He also was the company\u0027s technology lead on the RAH-66 Comanche helicopter program and served as chief systems engineer for the Naval Hawk program. In addition to his civilian career, Jones was an active duty Air Force officer and worked as a systems analyst at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, where he performed analysis on foreign ballistic missile and space systems.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EJones was also a member of the Connecticut Air National Guard for 14 years, serving as the chief of maintenance for the 103rd Air Control Squadron. 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I was wondering who\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003Ewoul\u003C\/em\u003Ed win.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThat might explain why Johnson briefly lost his balance when his name was called over the loud speakers. It also explains why he was busy studying for a test the next day.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Test doesn\u0027t care what title I\u0026nbsp;got on Saturday,\u0022 he said, with a smile.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAnd there it is: Johnson is a guy whose eyes are always on the prize. 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Three years later, I\u0027m doing it because Jacob opened the door for me. And the thing is, I\u0027m holding that door open.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThat, in a nutshell, describes the spirit\u0026nbsp; that drives Henderson Johnson. Articulate, friendly, and very ambitious, he would rather leverage an opportunity than wait for one to appear. Friends, like fellow AE senior\u003Cstrong\u003EElizabeth Balga\u003C\/strong\u003E, commend him for finding ways to make things work -- for himself, and for everyone around him.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022I\u0027ve traveled in lots of circles at Georgia Tech and I\u0027m comfortable in them all,\u0022\u0026nbsp;he says. \u0022As Mr. Georgia Tech, I\u0026nbsp;think I\u0026nbsp;can tell a story that every student can relate to.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELike many engineers, Johnson has a story that starts with a pinch of science fiction.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022In ninth grade, after I\u0026nbsp;saw the first\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EIron Man\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;movie, with its big weapons, I was hooked. I\u0026nbsp;started asking around what I\u0027d need to study to do that,\u0022 he says.\u0026nbsp; \u0022The answer,\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003Eper Google\u003C\/em\u003E, was aerospace.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESeven years later, Johnson doesn\u0027t need Google to explain how his celluloid fantasies gradually morphed into a real-world career.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022What\u0027s engineering?\u0026nbsp;It\u0027s literally taking something imaginary and applying a body of knowledge to it to make something happen. I\u0026nbsp;love that. Like flight -- how did that happen? Someone had to imagine it, and, then, it had to be engineered. I love being an engineer.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EJohnson seems to apply this same principle to his life, where he\u0026nbsp; systematically turns his dreams into reality by working hard, asking a lot of questions, and looking for opportunities.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAnd that formula has worked.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe has twice landed a prestigious internship with the Boeing Company; he is a member of the National Society of Black Engineers, Sigma Gamma Tau, and Omicron Delta Kappa; and he\u0027s a\u0026nbsp;Bill \u0026amp;\u0026nbsp;Melinda Gates Millennium Scholar. For the past year and a half, he\u0027s conducted research on turbulent flames with Prof.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003ETim Lieuwen.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022I\u0027ve been measuring consumption speed and other relevant characteristics because the better we understand turbulent flames, the better we can build combustors. We can make them cleaner, more efficient, and safer.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELately, Johnson has begun to\u0026nbsp; focus on his next venture: graduate school.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022I know it costs a lot to pursue a doctorate and a law degree,\u0022 he said. \u0022But my mantra is: if I have to pay for it, then I\u0027ve done something wrong. There are ways to make it affordable. And I will find them.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIf that sounds like bluster, it\u0027s not. Henderson Johnson has always loved a good challenge.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022When I was accepted to Tech, I was also considering Tuskegee, because they offered me a full ride,\u0022\u0026nbsp;he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022So\u0026nbsp; I called my aunt, who graduated from Tech, and asked her what it was like. She said a lot of things, but she ended with:\u0026nbsp;\u0027It\u0027s really,\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003Ereally\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003Ehard.\u0027\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EJohnson\u0027s face lights up at those words.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022That\u0027s what convinced me. I\u0026nbsp;wanted something really, really hard. I wanted to be challenged.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe got what he was looking for at GT-AE.\u0026nbsp; And then some.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022In high school, I\u0026nbsp;could read something once and get it,\u0022 he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022But at Tech, I\u0026nbsp;realized new concepts were not going to come to me as quickly and as easily as they used to. Sometimes I\u0026nbsp;had to read something 2, 3, 4, 5 times to really get it. And that\u0027s what I\u0026nbsp;did. 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Or drop him a note at\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto: fred.rascoe@library.gatech.edu\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003Ef\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003Ered.rascoe@library.gatech.edu\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMeanwhile, Rascoe pulled together ten things to remember when you visit the GT\u0026nbsp;Library this fall:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E1. The Library buildings are getting a make-over.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003EConstruction on Crosland Tower (East Building) will begin next year. Price Gilbert (West Building) will continue to operate 24\/7.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E2. New services are coming.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;In the works are:\u0026nbsp;a Visualization Lab, Digital Media and Scholarship Commons (including high powered workstations), a Graduate Student Study Space, a Faculty Research Zone.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E3. The number of study seats is doubling\u003C\/strong\u003E. Check out the other changes:\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/renewal.library.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003Ehttp:\/\/renewal.library.gatech.edu\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E4. There will be a new\u0026nbsp; online catalog (alma\/primo)\u003C\/strong\u003E. This will include Emory\u0027s materials so our students, staff and faculty will soon have access to a much larger collection of materials.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E5. Most books will be moved to a climate-controlled storage space.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003EGeorgia Tech is sharing this new space with Emory. Books will still be available to borrow, and titles still searchable through the library catalog. While you won\u0027t be able to grab a book directly off the shelf, the Library anticipates that it will take 24 hours or less to get the book from cold storage, once you have identified the title.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E6. Librarians will still teach classes\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;on patent searching, designing posters, multimedia software,database research skills, and a lot more.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E7. All of our electronic subscriptions will be largely unaffected\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;by our physical space transformation. We will still have access to all the scholarly journals and ebooks as before.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E8. Several service projects\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003Eare being piloted\u003C\/strong\u003E.\u0026nbsp;For instance, at the retroTech center (1st floor, west side),\u0026nbsp; you can find a computer that can read that 15 year-old 3.5\u201d floppy you found in your desk. And there\u0027s the\u0026nbsp; Expert Consultation Center (1st floor, near Clough entrance), where librarian experts can help you find whatever it is that you need.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E9. Library staff can help you prepare for that conference.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;Need to print a poster? Need to edit some audio or video files? The Library Multimedia Studio is available with staff to show you how it\u2019s done.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E10. Librarians will still be available to help you. With everything.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;The Library staff is there to assist with your success -- in doing research, in finding materials you need, in preserving your work, and in getting acces\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Whether you are new to GT-AE or a proverbial rocket scientist, there are some changes happening at the Georgia Tech Library that may surpise you."}],"uid":"30502","created_gmt":"2016-02-17 13:58:03","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:20:46","author":"Sapna Mistry","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-08-24T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2015-08-24T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1239","name":"School of Aerospace Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"171728","name":"Fred Rascoe"},{"id":"8661","name":"GT Library"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":["kathleen.moore@ae.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"501551":{"#nid":"501551","#data":{"type":"news","title":"GT-AE Team Takes Home a Top Honor at RASC-AL Competition","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA team of eight\u0026nbsp; graduate and undergraduate researchers from GT-AE\u2019s Aerospace Systems Design Lab (ASDL) has taken home a top honor in the NASA-NIA Revolutionary Aerospace Concepts Academic Linkage (\u201cRASC-AL\u201d) competition, held June 14-17 in Cocoa Beach, FL.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECoordinated by ASDL research engineer\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EStephen Edwards\u003C\/strong\u003E, ASDL\u2019s Team SCHEMA took home first place in RASC-AL\u2019s graduate division for its submission in the Earth Independent Mars Pioneering Architecture (EIMPA) category.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EASDL director Dimitri Mavris was not surprised by his team\u0027s success.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022These are among the most dedicated students at Georgia Tech,\u0022 he said. \u0022I am very proud of them.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe team\u2019s\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ae.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/img\/SCHEMA-powerpoint2.pdf\u0022\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESelf-sustaining Colony for Human Exploration of Mars\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/a\u003E(SCHEMA) proposed a development plan for establishing a colony of 24 people on the surface of Mars that would achieve complete self-sufficiency by the year 2054.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe team did an outstanding job of putting together a colonization plan, and generated meaningful modeling and simulation results that proved their design\u2019s ability to fully satisfied a list of very difficult budgetary and schedule constraints,\u201d\u0026nbsp; said Edwards, the faculty supervisor.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EJoining Edwards in the presentation of SCHEMA were graduate students\u003Cstrong\u003ENishant Prasadh\u003C\/strong\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003ERobert Moss, Christopher Jenista, Yann Charront, Michael Steffens\u003C\/strong\u003E, and undergraduates\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003ENicole Davis, Akshay Prasad,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003Eand\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;Akshay Bakane.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOther teams competing in this division were the University of Illinois, the University of Maryland, Drexel University, The University of Texas, and Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe EIMPA category was one of four that RASC-AL organizers designed as a way to get tomorrow\u2019s engineers thinking strategically about how to further space exploration. RASC-AL organizers said they have set their sights far beyond the Earth\u2019s orbit, where the challenges are much more complex:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cDeep space missions like the journey to Mars will require humans to travel for long periods of time and to live and work independently from Earth, without the frequent resupply shipments. That means understanding the impact of utilizing resources both from the moon and Mars, and figuring out if their use is viable will be critically important to sustainable human exploration.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe other categories included in the RASC-AL competition were Earth Independent Lunar Pioneering Architecture, Mars Moons Prospector Mission, and Large-scale Mars Entry, Descent, and Landing (EDL) Pathfinder Mission.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe concept proposed by the SCHEMA team employs a whole suite of in-situ resource utilization (ISRU) technologies designed to extract water, oxygenand other necessary resources from the Martian soil and atmosphere.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe proposed colony structure is composed of 15 cylindrical modules, each divided into workshops, farms, and living quarters. Power for the colony is provided by a molten salt Thorium Nuclear Reactor, as Thorium is also a resource that is available on Mars.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe colony is also equipped with a number of staffed and robotic rovers which provide surface mobility to serve construction, mining, and science needs.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERASC-AL Aerospace Concepts is a prestigious university-level design competition sponsored by NASA and managed by the National Institute of Aerospace (NIA). University teams from around the country submitted abstract proposals that described possible solutions to one of four challenge themes. 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He also gave students an idea of how they can survive that six-second siege.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022You should all update your resume at least 30 times between now and the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.calendar.gatech.edu\/event\/432661\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech Career Fair\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0022 said Clark, a Georgia Tech grad who was on campus to recruit masters and doctoral students for his company\u0027s\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.northropgrumman.com\/Careers\/ftl\/Pages\/default.aspx\u0022\u003EFuture Technical Leaders\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;program.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022And think outside the box. Don\u0027t just tell me what classes you took. If I\u0027m an employer, I want to know what you can do for me.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThat was just one of the pearls of wisdom that Clark passed on to the capacity crowd who joined him in Guggenheim 442 for an hour of straight talk about career goals. 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I want to interview someone who is the closest to what I\u0026nbsp;need.\u0022\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EOvert skills are only half the battle. Intangible skills are just as important.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0022I want you to have the hard skills, but there are other skills I\u0027ll be looking for - things like project leadership and critical thinking. Those skills will change over the course of your career, but as a new college grad they\u0027re pretty straight-forward. If a job requisition says that you\u0027ll be working with a team of senior engineers, then the candidate who says he or she has experience working with leaders, taking directions, and working well in that scenario will be the one I\u0026nbsp;call.\u0022\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EHave several versions of your resume available.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003EBecause each company will issue job descriptions that emphasize different skills and goals, savvy job hunters will create different resumes, each with different emphases. Clark told the group that his personal\u0026nbsp; \u0022resume file\u0022 is about 50 pages long.\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDon\u0027t be vague. Tailor your resume to the job requisition.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf a recruiter is looking for someone with experience in a particular area, highlight examples in your classwork, research, extra-curricular activites or co-ops.\u0026nbsp; \u0022If your resume is vague, then I\u0027m going to think, maybe, you are not willing to put the time and energy into presenting yourself. I may think you don\u0027t understand enough about your field to extract information to tell me. Or, even, that you are lying.\u0022\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EYour resume might end up being more important to you than your dissertation.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;On this point, Clark, a GT doctoral graduate, winked. \u0022If you think about it, there\u0027s a good chance that no more than five people are going to read your dissertation. 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The competitive spirit runs seamlessly through her.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMany saw Sunday\u0027s game as a rematch of the 2011 Women\u0027s World Cup final, where the American side lost in a penalty shootout. But for athletes like Brian, that was old news. Team USA was looking to make history -- not re-write it. And they did.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETwenty minutes after hitting the field Sunday night,\u0026nbsp; the US\u0026nbsp;Team had already scored 4 goals. Japan never really recovered.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMorgan Brian had already been in the spotlight this World Cup, after knocking heads with a player from Germany in the semifinals. Both players were laid out on the field for several minutes, and it gave viewers the chance to see FIFA\u0027s new concussion protocols in action.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAfter getting an all-clear from the team doctor, Brian was back on the field to finish out that match.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022She\u0027s fine,\u0022 her mother said the next morning. \u0022She is already thinking about Sunday.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBorn on St. Simons Island, Georgia, Morgan has been a soccer fanatic and phenom for as long as her mother can remember. 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Their contributions were substantial.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cDistributed Logistics in an Urban Setting Using Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles\u201d was the title of the 2015 AHS challenge, which tasked students to design a small, distributed logistics delivery vehicle and describe its role in a large logistics system concept. The Boeing Company provided $10,000 in prize money plus $2,000 in travel stipends.In the Undergraduate Division, AirBuzz, a quad tilt-rotor UAV, and HARETC (High Aspect Ratio Electric Tandem Concept)\u0026nbsp; took home first and third place respectively. Working on Airbuzz were Georgia Tech undergraduates David Andersen, Caitlin Berrigan, Mitchell Coleman, Chelsea Fuller, Thaddeus Johnson, Ohutoyan Shodiya, Jared Smith, Sean Sweeny and Sean Zimmett, as well as METU student Ali Karakaya. The GT students who worked on HARETC were Yuan Yao, Ben\u0026nbsp;Grisel, James L. DeMaria, Norquata D. Allen,\u0026nbsp;Charles Michael Ndonga, Asim Rahman, Tsu-way\u0026nbsp;Tseng and Meet J. Patel. The METU students on this project were Ali\u0026nbsp;Tevfik Buyukkocak,\u0026nbsp;Emre Aksoy, and Ozgur Serin.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe design for the GTStork finished second place overall in the Graduate Division, earning a $1,250 prize and bragging rights for METU student Feyez Guner and GT graduate students Matthew Brown, Stephen Marone, Etienne Demers Bouchard, Akshay Pendharkar, Christopher Duffy, Benjamin England, Clifford Sircar, Atipat Wattanuntachai, Chong Zhou, and Zhihang Liu. It also won top honors in the optional Hardware Validation competition.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe AHS Student Design Competition challenges students to design a vertical lift aircraft that meets specified requirements. Each of the winning teams is awarded a cash stipend, while two members of each of the first-place winning teams are invited to AHS International\u2019s 72nd Annual Forum and Technology Display \u2013 to be held May 17-19, 2016 in West Palm Beach, Florida.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We are lucky to have someone like Dan Schrage putting Georgia Tech\u0027s aerospace engineering school in the forefront of rotorcraft R\u0026amp;D and student development,\u0022 said Dr. Marilyn Smith, another faculty advisor to the design teams.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESmith also had praise for the following faculty and staff who worked with the Georgia Tech and METU teams: Lakshmi Sankar, J.V.R. 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Developed by The Planetary Society, the satellite is testing a new method of propelling future space travel.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech has been responsible for LightSail-A\u0027s mission design, spacecraft tracking, and mission operations.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn 2016 the\u0026nbsp; LightSail-B mission will\u0026nbsp; demonstrate active control of the solar sail. At that time, the Georgia Tech Prox-1 spacecraft will deploy LightSail-B into orbit, and provide on-orbit inspection as LightSail-B deploys its solar sail.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor now, however, it\u0027s all about LightSail-A, which is giving scientists an opportunity to test the solar sail concept.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor a few days after LightSail-A\u0027s solar panels were deployed\u0026nbsp; last week, a radio silence ensued -- the result of a minor glitch in the satellite\u0027s batteries. But the system was able to boot up and deploy its solar sail this week.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMission manager Dr. Dave Spencer explained the signficance of the LightSail-A mission, which will end when the now-deployed sail falls out of orbit\u0026nbsp; (within a day or two):\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022By harnessing the momentum of the Sun\u2019s photons, a solar sail can impart a tiny but continuous thrust to the host spacecraft. 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Dozens of internship, co-op, and employment recruiters are on campus, looking for the right stuff.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThat\u0027s what GT-AE specializes in.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThat\u0027s why we have put together a\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.ae.gatech.edu\/node\/1850\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECareer Week 2015 website\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E:\u0026nbsp; to help GT-AE students see what\u0027s available each day. We recommend that you visit it periodically during the week, as we will update it as more opportunities become available.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPlease also check out the great resources available at the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.career.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGeorgia Tech Career Discovery \u0026amp;\u0026nbsp;Development\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003Ewebsite. And, if you haven\u0027t registered with\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.career.gatech.edu\/plugins\/content\/index.php?id=241\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECareer Buzz\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, do it now. It\u0027s a great resource.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ENOTE:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EThe\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EAE Career Week 2015 website\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003Edoes\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003Enot include\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;private consultations, or individual interviews that employers may have already arranged on campus. Some clubs and student organizations have also arranged private events solely for their members. We did not list those. Please also note that some other GT science or engineering schools (ECE, ME, MSE, for instance) may be offering career info sessions that are open to AE students. 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Richoux,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003EBAE\u002789, is now officially a Brigadier General in the United States Air Force, following a June 5 promotion and ceremonial pinning ceremony at the Pentagon on July 2.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA career Air Force officer, Richoux was commissioned following his graduation from Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELieutenant General\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003ESam Cox\u003C\/strong\u003E, US Air Force deputy chief of staff for Manpower, Personnel, and Services officiated at the pinning ceremony, which was widely attended by family, colleagues, and a few of Richoux\u0027s GT-AE friends. 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I even want to fly some aerobatics.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThe American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics is the leading aerospace publisher of aerospace books and journals and houses the largest source of aerospace industry archives. AIAA\u0027s mission is to inspire and advance the future of aerospace for the benefit of humanity.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThe American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics is the leading aerospace publisher of aerospace books and journals and houses the largest source of aerospace industry archives. 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Harursampath is an esteemed professor at the\u0026nbsp; Indian Institute of\u0026nbsp;Science, and a former doctoral protege of\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EDr. Dewey Hodges.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMultifun designed aircraft wings that were covered with a finely engineered composite \u0022skin\u0022\u0026nbsp; that harvests energy from natural vibrations generated by the movement of the plane. That energy is collected by piezoelectric fibers and stored in battery panels that are a part of the fuselage. The energy is used to power auxiliary in-flight systems, such as lighting and entertainment systems.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022This reduces the energy footprint of aircraft during flight and could even replace the entire power source for ground operations,\u0022 Airbus said in a press release issued after the decision was announced.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA total of 518 multi-disciplinary teams representing 3,700 students from 104 countries submitted projects for the 2015 competition.Of that number, there were just five teams chosen for the final round, held in Hamburg, Germany.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EAirbus Fly Your Ideas is a biennial global competition, organized in partnership with UNESCO, which challenges students to innovate for the future of aviation. 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The runner-up will receive 15,000 Euros.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGupta is the only student from the United States represented in the final stage of this world-wide competition, which attracted more than 100 teams. He collaborated with his team-mates -- from the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and India -- using Google Drive, Google Hang-out, and email.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022I have never met any of them, but we have worked well together. Because of the time differences, there was always someone working on the project,\u0022\u0026nbsp;he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022And this is the way the industry is doing collaboration because they want to take advantage of\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003Eexpertise around the world. So it was good practice.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETheir project involves the harvest of energy that is generated naturally by aircraft wing vibration. Rather than letting it dissipate, the team proposes the use of a piezoelectric material to collect the energy and store it in battery fibers.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThough spread out across the globe, members of Team Multifun are united in their relationship with Indian Institute of Science\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EProfessor Dineshkumar Harursampath\u003C\/strong\u003E, GT-AE PhDAE \u002799, a former doctoral student of\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EDr. Dewey\u0026nbsp;Hodges\u003C\/strong\u003E.\u0026nbsp;It is Harursampath\u0027s concept that Multifun has been finessing for the Airbus competition.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Professor Harursampath was my mentor, as an undergraduate,\u0022\u0026nbsp;says Gupta, who now works in Dr. Hodges\u0027 lab.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022They are both so smart. 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Its current impact factor - an indication of its relative importance in the field - is 5.078, which places it fifth among all multidisiciplinary science primary rsearch jouranls.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe\u003Cem\u003E\u0026nbsp;Scientific Reports\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;editorial board is comprised of experts from all of the major fields\u0026nbsp; represented across the scope of the journal. 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Favaro anticipates defending her doctoral thesis in March of 2016.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Before\u0026nbsp;I finish up, I\u0026nbsp;hope to publish a textbook, with Dr. Saleh. I have published seven journal papers that will give me a good foundation,\u0022 she said. \u0022After that, I am not sure whether I want to go into industry or continue in academia.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHer research on accident causation and system safety principles makes Favaro a very attractive candidate for either career path.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor the last three years, Francesca Favaro has been developing a formal framework for using control theory as a method for investigating risk assessment. 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The final of these presentations will be co-chaired by GT-AE assistant professor\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EMitchell Walker,\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;himself, a 2014 FOE invitee.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022All of these areas are fascinating to me,\u0022 said German, whose research focuses on multidisciplinary design, multi-objective optimization, and decision methods applied to air vehicle design and systems engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022I\u0027m particularly intrigued by the cyber-security component, because it intersects with my work, looking at electrically powered aircraft and automated systems. If you have a system whose architecture is electrically based, and there are computers running different systems, you have to protect against the possibility that it will be hacked.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAn invitation to the USFOE symposium is considered a true honor by rising talents in the profession. 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It will demonstrate the feasibility of the tissue-thin sail, however.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe entire concept will receive more rigorous testing in September of 2016, when Lightsail-B is launched via the GT-AE-built Prox-1 spacecraft, itself a payload of the SpaceX Falcon Heavy Rocket.\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EFind out more about\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.ae.gatech.edu\/node\/1444\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003Ethe Prox-1.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The scheduled May 20 launch of the Atlas V AFSPC-5 Rocket at Cape Canaveral in Florida is causing ripples of excitement to spread across the School of Aerospace Engineering."}],"uid":"30502","created_gmt":"2016-02-10 16:23:05","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:20:42","author":"Sapna Mistry","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-05-13T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2015-05-13T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"498751":{"id":"498751","type":"image","title":"David Spencer","body":null,"created":"1455145200","gmt_created":"2016-02-10 23:00:00","changed":"1475895258","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:54:18","alt":"David Spencer","file":{"fid":"204656","name":"spencer-david1.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/spencer-david1.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/spencer-david1.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":43191,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/spencer-david1.jpg?itok=AGivhA4J"}}},"media_ids":["498751"],"groups":[{"id":"1239","name":"School of Aerospace Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"136","name":"Aerospace"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"}],"keywords":[{"id":"1325","name":"aerospace"},{"id":"98181","name":"David Spencer"},{"id":"126111","name":"GT-AE"},{"id":"171694","name":"Lightsail"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":["kathleen.moore@ae.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"498801":{"#nid":"498801","#data":{"type":"news","title":"ASDL \u0022eMEALS\u0022 Project is in Tight Competition for Air Bus Challenge","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThey are familiar nuisances to anyone who has ever traveled on a commercial airline: the intrusive tray table and its noisy cousin, the food cart.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA team of graduate students from AE\u0027s Aerospace Systems Design Lab is devising an alternative meal delivery system that could sideline those space-hoggng scourges forever: a user-controlled food requisition system that automatically delivers your meal whenever you choose to order it.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The idea is, you don\u0027t have to eat just because they tell you it\u0027s time to eat, and you don\u0027t have get trapped in your seat when they are delivering everyone else\u0027s food,\u0022 says AE grad student Mathilde Deveraux, a France native and frequent flier.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The food is delivered to your seat from an overhead rail, not a person.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDeveraux and her four ASDL colleagues put together their proposal, \u0022eMeals Enhanced Meal Experience with Airborne Light Systems\u0022 for Airbus\u0027s 2015\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.airbus-fyi.com\/\u0022\u003EFly Your Ideas\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;competition.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETheir pitch made it through the first round of the competition, where almost 400 teams were sent away. Now, they must compete with 100 other teams to make it to the final round, in May, where just five teams will present their ideas to Airbus officials.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe winners will take home a $30,000 prize -- and bragging rights.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022It would be nice to have Airbus know who I am,\u0022 said Deveraux, who graduates in May. \u0022I would like them to know what I can do.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFrom now until the end of March, the ASDL team will be working with an Airbus engineer, Colin Hodges, and their ASDL mentor, Dr. Dimitri Mavris, to finesse the details of their concept. Located in Toulouse, Hodges consults with them almost daily via email, and weekly via Skype.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETheir plan starts with a touch-screen, where passengers can order food and drinks as they choose. It then employs an overhead rail that runs between the two rows of overhead bins and conveys meals and beverages to each row. Beverages can be stored in large containers and served on tap in the galleys, thus reducing waste by replacing bottles and cans.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to clearing the aisles of those bulky (and heavy!) carts, the system frees up space that can be used in the galleys or for more leg room. The team estimates that removing trolleys could save as much as $7.5 billion in annual fuel costs.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAnd the flight attendants? Will they still be needed?\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022You will always need flight attendants. This will give them more time to spend with passengers,\u0022 said Christopher Frank, a doctoral student on the team.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Passengers want to have humans there. 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Through collaboration among multiple campus departments, insights from this project will directly impact energy planning and consumption on campus in many ways, with the hope of making Tech\u2019s energy utility systems more efficient.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt is extremely exciting to know that our team is supporting some of the most brilliant complex-system designers in the world,\u201d said Mark Demyanek, assistant vice president of Operations and Maintenance within Facilities Management.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cUsing our built environment as a living laboratory is a concept that is growing in higher ed, and I believe we at Georgia Tech are leading that growth in a thoughtful and responsible way.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAlready, the Smart Energy Campus Program has created software for the Facilities Management Energy Conservation team to use when analyzing utility consumption trends and identifying potential energy efficiency projects. This project is designed to save labor hours, resources, and money by quickly identifying buildings that have unusually high energy usage, and then notifying teams to remedy the problem.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe Smart Energy Campus Program is trying to take advantage of new modeling tools and large amounts of data to gain deeper insight and predict what can happen in terms of energy utilization on campus,\u201d said Scott Duncan, research engineer in the ASDL.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Facilities Management team consists of five people who meet with the research team several times per month. 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Building a predictive model of campus energy is no easy feat.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe keep finding things to do and smaller side projects to work on,\u201d said Duncan.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThrough thermal network and electric grid modeling of campus, researchers will have greater agility and insight to see where energy is not being used efficiently, as well as analyze the effects of energy system technology upgrades.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThrough the research effort, areas of improvement will be more visible and enable Facilities to channel resources toward areas of need. 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Sigma Xi recognized the research presented in his GT-AE dissertation, entitled, \u0022\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ae.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/img\/Filipe%20abstract.pdf\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ENonlinear Pose Control and Estimation for Space Proximity Operations: An Approach Based on Dual\u0026nbsp; Quaternions\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFilipe is now employed as navigation engineer for the Guidance and Control Analysis Group of the NASA\/Caltech Jet Propulsion Laboratory.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis is the fourth time that a former student of Dr. Komerath has received the Sigma Xi Outstanding PhD Thesis honor. Previous awardees included\u0026nbsp;Dr. Phillip A. 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But it was\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003Ea lot\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003Eof fun.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThat\u0027s how most would describe the final design project for Professor Stephen Ruffin\u0027s AE1601B -- Introduction to Aerospace Engineering: design, build and launch a balsa wood glider from the running deck of the CRC.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe glider that flew the furthest distance over the vacated basketball court below won. They each got three tries.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The winning team got 5 percent extra credit points for this assignment,\u0022 said Ruffin, the official launcher of all 13 vehicles.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022What I\u0027m really interested in is the report that they write, -- which is worth 70 percent -- because that will incorporate what happened today -- how their glider fared.\u0022 The rest of the activity\u0027s grade -- 30 percent -- will be determined by how well the vehicle was constructed and how well it performed.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe official report will follow the same AIAA guidelines that \u0027real\u0027 airplane designers must follow for technical reports.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022So, no matter how their plane did, every team will learn how to write up a professional report,\u0022 Ruffin said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAll 13 teams were given the same materials to work with -- a sheet of balsa wood, a balsa rod, one small sheet of very fine sandpaper, six thumb tacks, three rubber bands, and some wood glue.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThere were no restrictions on the wood glue, which turned out to be a good thing. 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Without a little glue, their flying careers would have ended right there.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022After the first round, I didn\u0027t think I\u0027d see some of them back, but they all kept coming back,\u0022\u0026nbsp;said Ruffin. \u0022And the thing is, they did better.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe most important thing, he stressed, was that the students developed a better grasp of the center of gravity and the aerodynamic center -- concepts that they studied in class.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Basically, if your center of gravity is behind the aerodynamic center, your glider will have an uneasy flight, a lot of up and down,\u0022 he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022But if your center of gravity is too far ahead of the aerodynamic center, you\u0027ll have a stable flight, but it won\u0027t go very far.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022They had to choose a name that had significance to the field,\u0022 said Ruffin.However low their individual scores might have been, all of the teams had some pretty highfalutin\u0027 names for their gliders: Glenn (as in John), Wright (as in Wilbur) and Bolden (as in NASA), among others.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe winner in all three trials was the\u0026nbsp; USA 5 airfoil R. 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Now the director of the Air Force Office of Scientific Research,\u0026nbsp;Christian earned his undergraduate, masters and doctorate from GTAE.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn his current position, Christian is responsible for managing the basic research investment for the entire United States Air Force, overseeing a $510 million annual investment portfolio.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EChristian\u0027s visit kicked off at the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) with a briefing on various research initiatives in a meeting led by Dr. Stephen Cross, Georgia Tech Executive Vice President for Research and GTRI Director.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe are proud of our alumnus, Dr. Thomas Christian, for the many important civilian leadership positions he has held in the United States Air Force, including since November 2014 as the director of the Air Force Office of Scientific Research,\u0022 said Cross.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cTom\u0027s infectious enthusiasm for high quality scientific and technological pursuit coupled with innovative exploration to translate research results into use is inspirational. 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Once you\u2019ve got them, leading them involves holding them to the highest possible standards while you also take care of them and allow them to reach their full potential. Then have fun with them.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EI saw this in play the first time I had a command. I was the commander of a fighter squadron, and there was one other CO [commanding officer] - a good friend of mine - who thought like I did. We competed for the best people. Every now and then our superiors would tell us that we had to spread the best talent around, but we wouldn\u2019t take \u2018no\u2019 for an answer. I remember fighting very hard for a particular department head. I got him, and it was worth it. To this day, when we bring senior staff onto the Joint Chiefs staff, we work very hard to get the best people. And when they get here, we give them room to be creative, to make mistakes fast so they can learn to be empowered.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E5. Manage your time.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022If you are going to lead an organization powerfully, you need to manage your time. By this I mean: eliminate the unnecessary so the necessary can emerge and dominate. And this particularly applies to meetings: have an agenda and stick to it. Manage the time by switching the lines of conversation and recording the actions when they have run their useful course.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMaybe it\u2019s just my metabolism: I cannot stand to be non-productive. It makes me restless. Like many people in other lines of work, I find that if I could clone myself, there\u2019d still be too much work to do. So I have to push out the things that don\u2019t matter.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPart of managing your time means varying your activity. I get 30 days of vacation a year and I force myself to take a week every quarter. I dread it when it\u2019s coming because I figure I\u2019ll be swamped when I return. 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Her first day was April 27.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBrian comes to Georgia Tech with a wealth of experience in policy development, project management, personnel management, and budgeting.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHer previous positions span the spectrum of public and private enterprises, from serving as the executive director of a retirement community to managing a medical practice and serving as the bursar for the College of Coastal Georgia.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIf there\u0027s a theme there, Brian says it\u0027s that she looks for opportunities to serve.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0022I see any job as being an opportunity for service,\u0022 she said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022I am there to serve the customer, which, in this case is both the students we educate and the employees who make the educational experience a good one.\u0022\u003Cbr \/\u003EBrian replaces Susan Jackson, who retired from GT-AE this spring after serving for many years.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn her first week on the job, Brian has been meeting with the many administrative assistants and other employees with whom she will be working most closely. Her conversations with new colleagues have focused on familiarizing herself with the many procedures, policies, and practices that make GT-AE run. She is listening closely to the perspective each person brings.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The front-line people have the most insight on how to solve challenges,\u0022 she said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBrian said her professional philosophy is based on a combination of analytical thinking, thoughtful organizational practices, and a commitment to team-building. She believes in establishing transparent processes so that all employees can understand and follow. This, she said, will help them succeed.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022For me to succeed, I need to make sure the team succeeds,\u0022 she said. \u0022So I\u0027m always going to look for ways to strengthen and develop the employees who are part of the team.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The Georgia Tech School of Aerospace Engineering is happy to announce that Ms. Vickie Brian has joined the administrative leadership team in the position of assistant director for operations. 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Bolden Bid GT-AE Seniors Well","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u0022I see future entrepreneurs, inventors, and astronauts,\u0022 NASA Administrator Charles F. Bolden told the GT-AE Class of 2015 during the Senior Banquet, April 1.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022I see CEOs, engineers, and perhaps-- this would give me endless delight -- a future administrator of NASA.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBolden\u0027s speech before the graduating seniors Wednesday night seemed to give each of the hard-working undergraduates a little boost of energy, right when they need it most: the month before they finish their studies.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022I\u0027ve been a fan of NASA and you since I was a little girl,\u0022 one student said, barely concealing her nerves.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022I\u0027m going to come work for you,\u0022 said another, when he stepped forward to shake hands. \u0022I can\u0027t wait.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Remember to help someone who\u0027s coming after you,\u0022 he said.In addition to lauding the School for its rigorous training of tomorrow\u0027s aerospace engineers, Bolden took a moment to remind the world-wearied seniors to help their younger classmates, whenever possible.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Now that you are getting ready to graduate, think about helping out a freshman or sophomore who maybe is thinking they can\u0027t make it or it\u0027s too hard. You might make the difference.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBolden told students he was dogged by those same doubts his first year at the U.S. Naval Academy. Every time he brought those doubts to his father -- hoping for a reprieve-- he was cleverly rebuffed.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022I told him I\u0027d made a mistake, that I wanted to come home. He told me to hang in there another week,\u0022 said the retired Marine Corps General and former astronaut.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022He said that for 52 weeks. And that\u0027s how I got through my freshman year.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs much as their graduation from Georgia Tech represents the fulfillment of a dream, Bolden urged the graduating seniors to think even bigger.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAfter Bolden\u0027s speech,\u0026nbsp;Michael Fifield, the president of the Georgia Tech Chapter of Sigma Gamma Tau, the national honor society for aerospace engineers, announced that Dr. Lakshmi Sankar had been voted as the Outstanding Faculty of the Year, and that graduating senior, Shahezad Virani had been named Outstanding Student of the Year.\u0022When I was in school, it never occurred to me that I could someday be a pilot and especially not an astronaut...I definitely did not think I\u0027d someday be here speaking to you as the head of NASA. So as much as possible, I like to encourage students to look at the skies and beyond when they think about their future career.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOf Sankar he said \u0022his door is always open to students in need.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOf Virani, he quipped \u0022We think he lives in the Loewy Library.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2 class=\u0022rtecenter\u0022\u003ESee\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/117948618@N08\/sets\/72157651724208385\/\u0022\u003Ephotos\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;from the entire event now\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to lauding the School for its rigorous training of tomorrow\u0027s aerospace engineers, Bolden took a moment to remind the world-wearied seniors to help their younger classmates, whenever possible.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Charles Bolden gave a speech before the the graduating GT-AE seniors Wednesday night."}],"uid":"30502","created_gmt":"2016-02-09 13:11:15","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:20:38","author":"Sapna Mistry","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-04-03T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2015-04-03T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1239","name":"School of Aerospace Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"136","name":"Aerospace"},{"id":"133","name":"Special Events and Guest Speakers"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"}],"keywords":[{"id":"2082","name":"aerospace engineering"},{"id":"171661","name":"Charles Bolden"},{"id":"126111","name":"GT-AE"},{"id":"408","name":"NASA"},{"id":"167359","name":"seniors"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":["kathleen.moore@ae.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"498421":{"#nid":"498421","#data":{"type":"news","title":"ASDL Presents its Work Before External Advisory Board","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe 2015 External Advisory Board (EAB) meeting for AE\u0027s Aerospace System Design Lab (ASDL) drew a standing-room-only crowd of experts from industry, government and academia to the Weber Building April 28 and 29.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOrganized as a review of ASDL\u0027s research and academic mission, the meeting felt more like an aerospace symposium as nearly 120 students and faculty presented more than 50 academic and sponsored research projects.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESubjects ranged from airline schedule optimizations to astroid capture \u0026amp; mitigation and unmanned naval vehicles.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022For me, it was an opportunity to see how much more breadth and depth ASDL has acquired. It was great to see some of the projects have branched out into planetary exploration,\u0022 said William Kimmel, co-chair of the\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E60\u003Cstrong\u003E-\u003C\/strong\u003Emember advisory board and the chief technologist at NASA Langley Research Center\u0027s Systems Analysis and Concepts Directorate.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022This meeting always gives me a chance to think about the future and to connect with other possible research partners. This year, I spoke with people from [NASA\u0027s] Marshall Research Center -- people I normally would not see -- and we began collaborating about a possible Marshall-Langley-ASDL research project.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELast week\u0027s EAB was the 23rd time that ASDL\u0027s many sponsors and supporters have gathered at the School of Aerospace Engineering to review the lab\u0027s many accomplishments, which, this year included:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EStrategic software alliances with industry giants like Dassault Systemes, Phoenix Integration, Pace, and SAS;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EAn average of $14 million in research expenditures from nearly 50 industry and governmental entities, covering every sector of the aeronautical and astronautical fields;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ESix recognized Centers of Excellence;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E200 graduate and 100 undergraduate researchers;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E40+ research faculty and post-docs.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe first day of the meeting featured Grand Challenge presentations by ASDL graduate students. Inspired by the needs of industry and governemnt, these open-ended explorations are the bedrock of many students\u0027 graduate programs-- integrating key principles from mulitiple disciplines with research, teamwork, communication, and other \u201csoft skills\u201d needed for success in the field. The results are often used as a basis for further, sponsored research.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The hardest part about critiquing these presentations was finding something new to say about how well they were researched and executed,\u0022 said one industry attendee during the reception that capped off the first day.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022I had to repeat what every other firm was saying: \u0027Your work is great. Come work for us.\u0027\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe second day of the meeting featured closed-door\u0026nbsp;reports on the outcomes and projected next steps of currently sponsored research projects in a wide variety of applications, including civil aviation, propulsion and energy, defense and space, advanced systems engineering, and advanced concepts.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022I\u0026nbsp;think a lot of our board members walked away impressed by the level of analysis that ASDL research teams brought to their projects,\u0022\u0026nbsp;said Mavris.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022And we received feedback that confirmed our approach to the research.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"More than 100 faculty and students attended the ASDL\u0027 s External Advisory Board Meeting where they made presentations on current and future research projects. 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Balga received a $1,000 scholarship funded through the B\/E Aerospace Corporation. Balga and Thakur were unavailable for the group photo this week because they were away at a professional conference (AIAA)\u0026nbsp; and aerospace competition (NASA) respectively.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022This does not surprise us one bit,\u0022 said Associate Chair Dr. Lakshmi Sankar.Thakur\u0026nbsp; received a $1,000 scholarship funded by Kimberly Clark Corporation. Balga received a $1,000 scholarship funded through the B\/E Aerospace Corporation. Balga and Thakur were unavailable for the group photo this week because they were away at a professional conference (AIAA)\u0026nbsp; and aerospace competition (NASA) respectively.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022They are among the most committed students in our school.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESarah Dailey, 21, received a $2,000 scholarship from Lockheed Martin. The Canton, Georgia native -- daughter of GT-AE alums Brad and Kathleen (Bansavage) Dailey --\u0026nbsp; will be completing an internship this summer at Lockheed Martin, where she will be working\u0026nbsp; on the C-130J.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe United Technologies Corporation funded three $1,500 scholarships which went to Sabrina Herman, 20, of Tuscon, AZ, Katherine Squire, 22, of Sarasota, FL, and Brittni Walters, 20, of Pittsburgh, PA.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHerman said she will be completing an internship at the Ratheon Corporation this summer where she will be working on the EKV for a Boeing missile system.The United Technologies Corporation funded three $1,500 scholarships which went to Sabrina Herman, 20, of Tuscon, AZ, Katherine Squire, 22, of Sarasota, FL, and Brittni Walters, 20, of Pittsburgh, PA.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESquire is currently doing a flight test engineering internship at Lockheed, where she plans to continue working this summer.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWalters is heading up to Connecticut this summer, where she will be involved in an airplane engine internship at Pratt \u0026amp;\u0026nbsp;Whitney.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022That\u0027s pretty much what I want to do for a career,\u0022 she said.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESonia Thakur, Elizabeth Balga, Sarah Dailey, Sabrina Herman, Katherine Squire, and Brittni Walters\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;received sponsored scholarships through the group during its March 31 Awards Banquet.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Six GT-AE undergraduates were recognized for their academic excellence late last month when Georgia Tech\u0027s Women in Engineering group selected them to receive more than $8,000 in scohlarships."}],"uid":"30502","created_gmt":"2016-02-09 13:29:25","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:20:38","author":"Sapna Mistry","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-04-10T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2015-04-10T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"497381":{"id":"497381","type":"image","title":"Six GT-AE Students Receive Women in Engineering Scholarships","body":null,"created":"1455120000","gmt_created":"2016-02-10 16:00:00","changed":"1475895253","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:54:13","alt":"Six GT-AE Students Receive Women in Engineering Scholarships","file":{"fid":"204570","name":"group_shot.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/group_shot_0.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/group_shot_0.png","mime":"image\/png","size":319802,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/group_shot_0.png?itok=WwC1QjsW"}}},"media_ids":["497381"],"groups":[{"id":"1239","name":"School of Aerospace Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"136","name":"Aerospace"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"}],"keywords":[{"id":"2082","name":"aerospace engineering"},{"id":"135091","name":"Brittni Walters"},{"id":"135041","name":"Elizabeth Balga"},{"id":"126111","name":"GT-AE"},{"id":"171662","name":"Katherine Squire"},{"id":"171663","name":"Sabrina Herman"},{"id":"171664","name":"Sarah Dailey"},{"id":"167132","name":"Scholarships"},{"id":"171665","name":"Sonia Thakur"},{"id":"10626","name":"WIE"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":["kathleen.moore@ae.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"498481":{"#nid":"498481","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Two GT-AE Stars Recognized by the National Space Club","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe National Space Club this spring recognized two School of Aerospace Engineering stars during the 58th Annual Robert H. 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Singer is a longtime member of AE\u0027s advisory board (AESAC).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EStaab collaborated with Singer\u0027s NASA-based team this past year on a project entitled, \u0022\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ae.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/img\/Michael%20Staab%20Research%20Summary.pdf\u0022\u003ELaunch Vehicle Manufacture-influenced Design.\u003C\/a\u003E\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThat project is seeking to come up with cost estimates for building and deploying composite-manufactured components for NASA\u0027s space launch system (SLS).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Typically, we\u0027d look at historical regressions to estimate the cost of a vheicle, but, in the case of composites, they have not been used historically, so we don\u0027t have anything to go by.\u0022 said Staab.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe NASA-funded project tasked Staab\u0027s team to simulate the manufacturing environment as a means of estimating the true costs of using composites.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EStaab says that the project thoroughly engaged him, but that he has many other research interests.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022I\u2019m really interested in conducting system-of-systems level analysis related to human space exploration mission architectures using commercial and government launch assets and conceptual design studies for dedicated launchers for small satellite and cubesat payloads,\u0022 he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EChristopher Singer has been deeply involved in the nation\u0027s space program for more than 30 years. He is NASA Marshall\u0027s primary technical authority, and has contributed his expertise to a number of high-profile projects, including\u0026nbsp; the Space Shuttle; External Tank Redesign; the Space Launch System; the Dream Chaser spacecraft (Sierra Nevada); Space X; Loral; Orbital Sciences; Mighty Eagle lander; and the Orion programs.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThe National Space Club is a non-profit organization devoted to fostering excellence in space activity through interaction between industry and government, and through a continuing program of educational support. Awards are offered to recognize significant achievements in space science and enterprise. 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It\u2019s all possible, but you need to think outside the box if you want to advance the state of the art,\u201d he said recently.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe can\u2019t keep pushing the same legacy sensors \u2013 sensors we developed 30 or 40 years ago \u2013 and expect to realize new benefits. We need sensors that are built for the information they transmit.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERuzzene\u2019s IVHM research is doing just that.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOver the last six years, his research team has developed three next-generation ultra-sonic sensors, each engineered to monitor the health and\/or usage of modern aerospace, civil and mechanical systems.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOne of his designs, the Frequency-Steered Acoustic Transducer (FSAT) has a patent pending. Two others - the Acoustic Wave Rosette (AWR) and the Impact Directionality Revealer (IDR) - were the subject of an award-winning paper, written by Ruzzene\u2019s doctoral student Matteo Carrera (see box).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ctable width=\u0022200\u0022 border=\u00221\u0022 cellspacing=\u00221\u0022 cellpadding=\u002220\u0022 align=\u0022right\u0022\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDr. Ruzzene\u0027s doctoral student,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.prism.gatech.edu\/~mcarrara3\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMatteo Carrara\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;has worked alongside his mentor to explore the next generation transducers. Carrara\u0027s recently authored paper on the subject, \u0022Frequency-wavenumber Design of Spiral Macro Fiber Composite Directional Actuators\u0022 was selected for the 2015 Best Student Presentation Award at the SPIE 22nd International Symposium on Smart Structures and Materials and Nondestructive Evaluation and Health.\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ae.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/img\/Matteo%20Carrara.pdf\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EFind out more\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003Eabout Carrara\u0027s award-winning work.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Ch2\u003EThe Fourier Framework\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhat sets these transducers apart from their predecessors is their design, which is dictated by the Fourier Transform, a mathematical framework that gives an excellent representation of things that are periodically in time and space.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe Fourier Transform allows us to specify the design in the \u2018Fourier-Space\u2019 and directly obtain the resulting shape of the transducer through a simple mathematical process,\u201d he noted.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFabricated from piezoelectric materials (PZT or PVDF), these transducers adopt a complex surface pattern that is, itself, determined by the Fourier Framework. The unique shape allows it to more efficiently and accurately convert sound waves into signals that will pinpoint areas of concern or risk. From a practical standpoint, it requires just two electrical wires (to receive and elicit signals) - not the myriad wires used in legacy sensors.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe importance of reducing wires cannot be underestimated,\u201d Ruzzene points out.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u201cIf an aircraft manufacturer distributes legacy sensors throughout the airframe to monitor health and damage, they are bound to find that the added weight of the wires and hardware will negate many if not all of the advantages of the lighter weight composites they are using to build the structure.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOnce it is adhered to the surface, the new generation of transducers is ready to receive an acoustic wave that will begin the diagnostic. The unique deformation that results from this acoustic charge sends out elastic waves in different directions - each determined by the frequency of the original signal. All of the waves traveling through the material elicit an echo or return wave which is picked up by the sensor and can be analyzed. When an anomalous wave signal returns to the sensor, it is evidence of a defect of some type.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIf this sounds like ultrasound technology of old, it is.\u0026nbsp;With a twist: it works much better and requires much simpler hardware.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe can create an image of the defect and know exactly where it is by directing waves in different directions,\u201d notes Ruzzene. \u201cBut we are not bound to all of the wires and hardware that adds weight to legacy sensors.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEventually, Ruzzene thinks these sensors will be able to replace phased array technology - a system in which multiple sources send acoustic waves through the material at different points in time. The location of any anomalous results is determined by analyzing the constructive and destructive interference.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis still works, but it has its weaknesses,\u201d Ruzzene notes. \u201cThe wires themselves are not so robust, so they have to be maintained or replaced on a regular basis. And the diagnostic equipment is heavy, expensive, and not-transportable. You cannot take it onto the plane to conduct the assessment while you are in flight, for instance.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003EThe next generation begins: FSAT, AWR, IDR\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;The first of these, the\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EFrequency Steered Acoustic Transducer\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;(FSAT) takes acoustic information and transforms it into elastic waves that can be steered in different directions to detect defects.The three Fourier-designed sensors that Ruzzene\u2019s team has already developed make a strong case for changing the way diagnostics are done. More models are bound to be developed, but the first three have shown promise in effectively monitoring hot spots or damage \u2013 an improvement which could significantly reduce maintenance, inspection, and, over the long-term, structure replacement costs.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EAcoustic Wave Rosette\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;(AWR) takes the Fourier design a step further to house multi-component strain sensing capabilities in one device. When the underlying structure is in some way deformed, the AWR\u2019s multi-band spatial filter detects it by monitoring peaks shift in the wavenumber domain. The resulting data can tell\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe military has shown a lot of interest in the third Fourier-designed sensor, the\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EImpact Directionality Revealer\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;(IDR), which can deliver useful information on the location and source of damage caused by external objects (everything from space debris to bullets).engineers about its normal and shear strain components.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhere prior designs might require three sensors to determine the location of the impact and resulting damage, it takes just a single IDR device to produce data about the location, size, and directional origin of impact damage. It does this by using a combination of wave frequency and amplitude data.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIf you are trying to determine where the location where a bullet impacted the structure, and you have several bullet impacts, you can determine the direction of each one by measuring the frequencies of the waves that each impact creates,\u201d Ruzzene said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003ERuzzene predicts that time, money, and accuracy will be the big winners when the next generation of sensing technology is fully integrated into industry. Safety will remain constant.\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Ch2\u003EIs zero down-time maintenance\u0026nbsp; attainable?\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cPeople talk about zero down-time maintenance, and that may be possible, but wherever we are headed, it\u2019s widely understood that the current schedule of structural maintenance stops is overly conservative,\u201d he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECurrent best practices call for multi-day maintenance stops scheduled around the number of take-off-and landing-cycles a plane has completed. This approximates a certain number of flight hours, and assumes a certain amount of structural stress due to the repeated pressurizing and depressurizing of the cabin. It\u2019s all averaged out into a profile.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAnd it\u2019s all very expensive.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMaintenance stops mean everything comes to a halt. Flights are put on hold, and parts of the aircraft are taken apart for direct inspection. Expensive machines and trained engineers are brought out to run tests.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt catches 9 out of 10 issues, sure, but it\u2019s a little like going to the doctor every month instead of once a year when you are healthy. It\u2019s worth asking if the cost of that visit \u2013 in terms of lost work time, inconvenience, dollars spent \u2013 could be better incurred by something that would improve your health instead of monitoring it,\u201d he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWhat we\u2019re doing now is working, and that\u2019s good. People are generally safe and planes are flying. But we can do better. By retiring the legacy sensors for this new design, we can establish a fundamentally better system that does not imply any additional complications right from the start. As engineers, that\u2019s the kind of challenge we want to take on.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EProfessor Massimo Ruzzene is the director of the\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.ruzzene.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u0026nbsp;Vibration and Wave Propagation Laboratory\u003C\/a\u003E, which conducts research in metamaterials, structural health monitoring, structural dynamics, and vibroacoustics.\u0026nbsp; Currently serving a two-year appointment as a program manager for the National Science Foundation, he has participated in projects funded by the US Air Force, US Army, US Navy, DARPA, NASA, NSF, and by Boeing, Raytheon and TRW. M. Ruzzene is the recipient of the 2002 Young Investigator Award from ONR and of group achievement awards from NASA. 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All of them in their own way have made their mark in their respective fields, be it academia, government or industry,\u0022 he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022As living examples of the Georgia Tech ethos, these honorees have something else in common: an unmatched technological education, along with the ability to think critically and address complex challenges, and the determination to have a positive impact on our world.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch3\u003ECollege of Engineering Hall of Fame\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp\u003EInducted into the College of Engineering Hall of Fame are individuals who have\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003Emade meritorious engineering and\/or managerial contributions over the course of very distinguished and often completed professional careers. This year\u0027s inductees included Kenneth G. Byers (EE), Jr., Charles W. Moorman, (CE), John E. Nobles, (ChE), Dennis V. Vohs, (IE), and AE\u0027s own James A. 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After squadron command, he graduated first in his class at the Navy\u2019s nuclear propulsion training program and commanded USS Cleveland (LPD-7) and USS Enterprise (CVN-65) during the nation\u2019s initial response to the terrorist attacks of 9\/11.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003ERead more about Admiral Winnefeld\u0027s thoughts on\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ae.gatech.edu\/node\/1740\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003Eleadership\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch3\u003EAcademy of Distinguished Engineering Alumni\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIt is no wonder why\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EDr. Christopher T. Jones\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;was inducted into the Academy. Each year, this group recruits alumni who have provided distinguished contributions to the Institute, profession, field, or society at large. Candidates are highly placed executives and are actively involved in engineering, management, industry, academia, or government.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA native of Maryland, Jones currently serves as corporate vice president\u0026nbsp; and president of Northrop Grumman\u0027s Technical Service division. In addition to earning two masters degrees and a doctorate, Jones was an active duty Air Force officer, retiring at the rank of lieutenant colonel. He was a member of the Connecticut National Guard for 14 years and participated in military deployments including Operation Noble Eagle and Operation Enduring Freedom. He serves on the boards of the National Action Council for Minorities and the Air Force Association, as well as the Georgia Tech Advisory Board.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EJoining him in this year\u0027s Academy Induction were William Hand Allen, (EE),\u0026nbsp; R. Keith Chambless, (ME), John T. 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We asked them about that.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022rtecenter\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDIMITRI\u0026nbsp;MAVRIS\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022rtecenter\u0022\u003ERecently appointed to the position of Langley Distinguished Professor in Advanced Aerospace Systems Architecture,\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EDimitri Mavris\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp; was named a Regents Professor last year.\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022rtecenter\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhat does Prof. Mavris miss most?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Nothing,\u0022 said the head of AE\u0027s Aerospace Systems Design Lab.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022With every year that goes by, Georgia Tech is getting better and better. The place has grown by leaps and bounds -- academically, in stature, and in size. 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It made its first passenger flights in 1976.\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe 7,000-pound engineering masterpiece was made available to Georgia Tech by the Rolls Royce Heritage Trust-Allison Branch. It will remain on display indefinitely.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u201cIn all of our activities with George Tech throughout the years, Rolls-Royce continues to be impressed by the professionalism and knowledge of the students, graduates, researchers, and of course, the faculty,\u201d said Mark Rhodes, vice president of engineering, Rolls-Royce North America.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u201cThrough this exhibit, we hope to inspire the next generation of brilliant minds who will lead the future in gas turbine technology and design.\u201d\u003Cbr \/\u003ERhodes estimated that over the last five years alone, Rolls Royce has hired as many as 40 GT-AE grads to work on various engineering projects.\u003Cbr \/\u003EA Family Affair. Concorde Captain John Eames, left, looks over his shoulder at his son David when the two shared a flight in the Concorde between Texas and England in the late 70s.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0022We have a place in our family for Georgia Tech grads, certainly.\u0022\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0022The Concorde took its first flight about the time I received my undergraduate degree,\u0022 said Yang.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0022It is a piece of history. It is educational. But more than that, it is inspirational.\u0022\u003Cbr \/\u003EYang\u0027s thoughts were echoed by Berthelot:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0022I grew up in France, and believe me, the Concorde made us dream. This is what we need for our students today. Having it here, at Georgia Tech, will make them dream, too.\u0022\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnother Interesting Aerospace Project. Lee Akridge, BSAE \u002762, and his wife Toby joined Dr. Vigor Yang at the Olympus ceremony. An engineer on the Apollo, Akridge was fascinated by the legendary Olympus engine. A model of the Concorde is seen behind them.\u003Cbr \/\u003EMarbled throughout the crowd were dozens of Georgia Tech engineering students, eager to observe the legendary Olympus engine and speak to its sponsors. The conversations were fast-paced and excited, but the room grew quiet when retired Rolls Royce engineer David Eames took to the podium to talk about his father, John Eames, who piloted the iconic aircraft.\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe younger Eames told the crowd of a time when his father discovered a slight difference between the Concorde and its slower-flying cousins: the extreme speeds traveled by the Concorde cause a temperature fluctuation that in turn causes the aircraft to expand by as much as six inches during midflight. 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ASDL director Mavris commended the Rolls Royce team for choosing his lab as the exhibition site.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0022The Aerospace Systems Design Lab and the Daniel Guggenheim School are honored to share this stunning piece of history with the next generation of engineers -- the architects of the future,\u0022 said Mavris.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0022The engine reminds us, daily, that there are no limits on what ambition and hard work can accomplish. In our classrooms, research, and labs, we are inspired by the genius the Olympus represents.\u0022\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout Rolls-Royce North America\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERolls-Royce has been present in North America for more than 100 years and today it employs more than 8,000 people across the North America region in 26 US states and six Canadian provinces. 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This effort in 1994 was a precursor to the CFD-CSD (computational structural dynamics) aeroelastic analysis performed routinely today, and it was one of the first successful (along with Ahmad and Bauchau) CFDCSD coupled simulations.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhile working at McDonnell-Douglas Helicopter Company, Smith participated in the\u003Cbr \/\u003E NR2 program on noise reduction and worked on the design, computational analysis, and wind tunnel testing of research vehicles.\u0026nbsp; While at GTRI, she worked on the MH53J tail pylon structural flight test and modification program and produced some of the first Navier-Stokes CFD simulations of tilt-rotors in hover, modeling the well known fountain effect.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Technical Fellow award is reserved for AHS members whose careers have improved the technical capabilities of the vertical flight industry.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Dr. Smith has been chosen to receive the AHS Technical Fellow Award, and will be presented to Smith on May 6 during the 71st AHS Annual Forum \u0026 Technology Display."}],"uid":"30502","created_gmt":"2016-02-08 16:18:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:20:38","author":"Sapna Mistry","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-03-11T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2015-03-11T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"496721":{"id":"496721","type":"image","title":"Marilyn Smith","body":null,"created":"1455120000","gmt_created":"2016-02-10 16:00:00","changed":"1475895256","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:54:16","alt":"Marilyn Smith","file":{"fid":"204602","name":"smith-marilyn-preferred.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/smith-marilyn-preferred_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/smith-marilyn-preferred_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":116625,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/smith-marilyn-preferred_0.jpg?itok=jIUgUcNX"}}},"media_ids":["496721"],"groups":[{"id":"1239","name":"School of Aerospace Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"136","name":"Aerospace"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"}],"keywords":[{"id":"129781","name":"AHS"},{"id":"169897","name":"American Helicopter Society"},{"id":"126111","name":"GT-AE"},{"id":"129861","name":"Marilyn Smith"},{"id":"171639","name":"Technical Fellow"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":["kathleen.moore@ae.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"497571":{"#nid":"497571","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Department of Defense Taps GT-AE Grad Student Timothy Murphy for NDSEG","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe United States Department of Defense last month announced that second-year\u0026nbsp;GT-AE graduate student\u003Cstrong\u003ETimothy Murphy\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003Ehas been chosen to receive a\u0026nbsp;three-year\u0026nbsp;National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) scholarship.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe highly competitive grant will enable Murphy to continue his doctoral studies at Georgia Tech without seeking additional sponsorship. Not only does the NDSEG cover his tuition and fees, it provides $102,000 in living expenses\u0026nbsp; for the next three years. A DoD spokesperson confirmed that the 2015 NDSEG scholarships were awarded to just 180 of the more than 3,500 top-tier graduate students who applied.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMurphy,\u0026nbsp;24, of Drexel Hill, PA,\u0026nbsp;is currently working with his advisor,\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003ED\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003Er. Marcus Holzinger\u003C\/strong\u003E, on research that focuses on space situational awareness (SSA)\u0026nbsp; -- the monitoring and analysis of debris that poses a potential threat to spacecraft and satellites. Murphy spent last summer doing SSA research at the Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) in New Mexico, where he will return this summer.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022I\u0027ve been working on specific image processing algorithms to detect small, easily missed objects,\u0022 he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Mainly, I\u0027m using optical systems to locate them and then developing ways to predict how fast they are going and what their trajectories might be. If you can predict their path, you can avoid a collision.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETraveling at an average rate of seven kilometers per-second, space debris the size of a pea could cause serious damage to any number of\u0026nbsp;deployed assets in earth\u0027s orbit and beyond.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMurphy earned his undergraduate degree at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. He believes his current association with the Air Force may lead to work in the military after he graduates, but is also open to a career in academia.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Second-year grad student Timothy Murphy has received a National Defense Science  \u0026 Engineering Graduate scholarship that will fund the remainder of his studies at Georgia Tech."}],"uid":"30502","created_gmt":"2016-02-09 16:20:09","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:20:38","author":"Sapna Mistry","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-04-21T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2015-04-21T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"497581":{"id":"497581","type":"image","title":"Department of Defense Taps GT-AE Grad Student Timothy Murphy for NDSEG","body":null,"created":"1455120000","gmt_created":"2016-02-10 16:00:00","changed":"1475895256","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:54:16","alt":"Department of Defense Taps GT-AE Grad Student Timothy Murphy for NDSEG","file":{"fid":"204637","name":"murphy-tim-ndseg.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/murphy-tim-ndseg_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/murphy-tim-ndseg_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":47553,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/murphy-tim-ndseg_0.jpg?itok=8AJ-AMVh"}}},"media_ids":["497581"],"groups":[{"id":"1239","name":"School of Aerospace Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"136","name":"Aerospace"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"}],"keywords":[{"id":"2082","name":"aerospace engineering"},{"id":"8246","name":"Department of Defense"},{"id":"126111","name":"GT-AE"},{"id":"130401","name":"Marcus Holzinger"},{"id":"171675","name":"NDSEG"},{"id":"169903","name":"Timothy Murphy"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":["kathleen.moore@ae.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"496741":{"#nid":"496741","#data":{"type":"news","title":"GT-AE Athlete Jonathan Gardner Breaks Triple-Jump Record","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAerospace engineering senior Jonathan Gardner broke the Georgia Tech school record for the triple jump at the ACC Indoor Championships late last month. Overall, the Georgia Tech men\u2019s team placed 14th with 20 points, and the women\u2019s team placed 14th with 10 points.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe had some outstanding individual performances, including Jonathan,\u201d head men\u2019s track coach Grover Hinsdale said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe had some young people really come through and compete well. We need to regroup and get ready for the outdoor season, and the ACC outdoor championships to have a different outcome.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EJonathan Gardner broke the school record and earned All-ACC first team honors in the triple jump. Gardner placed third with a distance of 16.45m (53\u201911.75\u2019) to not only break his PR of 16.15m (53\u20190\u201d), but crush the old record of 16.26m (53\u20194.25\u201d) set by Alphonso Jordan in 2010.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EBreaking the school record, Gardner earned All-ACC first team honors in the triple jump, placing third with a distance of 16.45m.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"AE Senior, Jonathan Gardner broke the Georgia Tech school record for the triple jump at the ACC Indoor Championships."}],"uid":"30502","created_gmt":"2016-02-08 16:32:06","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:20:38","author":"Sapna Mistry","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-03-11T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2015-03-11T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"496761":{"id":"496761","type":"image","title":"Jonathan Gardner","body":null,"created":"1455120000","gmt_created":"2016-02-10 16:00:00","changed":"1475895256","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:54:16","alt":"Jonathan Gardner","file":{"fid":"204603","name":"gardner.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/gardner_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/gardner_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":36947,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/gardner_0.jpg?itok=gj9eWZKG"}}},"media_ids":["496761"],"groups":[{"id":"1239","name":"School of Aerospace Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"136","name":"Aerospace"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"171640","name":"ACC Indoor Championships"},{"id":"126111","name":"GT-AE"},{"id":"132911","name":"Jonathan Gardner"},{"id":"171641","name":"record"},{"id":"171642","name":"triple-jump"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":["kathleen.moore@ae.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"497591":{"#nid":"497591","#data":{"type":"news","title":"GT-AE Student Selected for SGT Outstanding Student Award","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESigma Gamma Tau, the national honor society for aerospace engineering, announced this week that it has named GT-AE senior\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EShelby Bottoms\u003C\/strong\u003Eas the 2015 recipient of its Outstanding Undergraduate Award for the Southeast Region.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis is the second time in as many years that SGT has selected a GT-AE senior to receive this honor, which includes a $250 stipend. Last year,\u003Cstrong\u003EAmanda Grubb\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;received the 2014 Outstanding Undergraduate Award. She is currently pursuing her doctorate in aerospace engineering at Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA native of Overland Park, KS, Bottoms was recently accepted into a graduate program focusing on bio-astronautic engineering for human spaceflight at the University of Colorado. Over the summer, she plans to work on a NASA rocket in Houston, TX, where she has accepted a job with Boeing.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Eventually, yes, I would like to be an astronaut, so I am doing everything to make that possible -- applying to the astronaut corps and taking the right career steps,\u0022 she said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022If that doesn\u0027t work out, I will still be doing something that I\u0027m interested in.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDuring the last two years Bottoms has conducted research with GT-AE\u0027s Dr. Robert Braun - first, on the supersonic inflatable decelerator, and, more recently, on the thermal analysis of small re-entry devices that record break-up data.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Sigma Gamma Tau, the national honor society for aerospace engineering, announced this week that it has named GT-AE senior Shelby Bottoms as the 2015 recipient of its Outstanding Undergraduate Award for the Southeast Region."}],"uid":"30502","created_gmt":"2016-02-09 16:27:57","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:20:38","author":"Sapna Mistry","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-04-24T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2015-04-24T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"497601":{"id":"497601","type":"image","title":"Shelby Bottoms","body":null,"created":"1455120000","gmt_created":"2016-02-10 16:00:00","changed":"1475895256","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:54:16","alt":"Shelby Bottoms","file":{"fid":"204638","name":"bottoms-shelby-sgt-southern_region.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/bottoms-shelby-sgt-southern_region_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/bottoms-shelby-sgt-southern_region_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":86262,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/bottoms-shelby-sgt-southern_region_0.jpg?itok=EMzW3Tlx"}}},"media_ids":["497601"],"groups":[{"id":"1239","name":"School of Aerospace Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"136","name":"Aerospace"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"}],"keywords":[{"id":"2082","name":"aerospace engineering"},{"id":"126111","name":"GT-AE"},{"id":"171676","name":"Outstanding Undergraduate Award"},{"id":"2575","name":"Robert Braun"},{"id":"169904","name":"SGT"},{"id":"169905","name":"Shelby Bottoms"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":["kathleen.moore@ae.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"496781":{"#nid":"496781","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Prof. Lakshmi Sankar Recognized by Women in Engineering","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech\u0027s Women in Engineering has chosen GT-AE Professor\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ae.gatech.edu\/community\/staff\/bio\/sankar-l\u0022\u003ELakshmi Sankar\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to receive one of two WIE Teaching Excellence Awards for 2015.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESankar and Dr. Dima Nazzal, the director of Student Services in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial Systems Engineering, will officially receive their honor at the Women in Engineering Banquet, March 31.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA Regents Professor and associate chair for the School of Aerospace Engineering, Sankar is a well-known presence in the academic lives of undergraduates, where his calm voice and wry sense of humor have helped many a panicked student get back on track.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We are all assigned students as advisees, but I always tell the undergraduates they don\u0027t have to wait to get an advisor, my door\u0027s open,\u0022 he said. \u0022If I\u0027m busy when they come by, I tell them to come back.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EClearly, a lot of them have.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn his Montgomery\u0026nbsp;Knight office, which is jammed with books, journals, and all manner of paperwork, he makes sure that a side table is always cleared off, ready for a student\u0027s notebook or computer.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThat same attitude is likely\u0026nbsp; what prompted Sankar to receive themost votes for the WIE\u0026nbsp;Teaching Excellence Award. He has worked closely with the group to recruit high school students to the field of engineering. And, once they are at Georgia Tech, he makes a strong case for aerospace engineering.\u0022They can see that there\u0027s a place for them,\u0022 said Sankar.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOne of his more successful recruits somes to mind.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022I remember when [Associate Professor]\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ae.gatech.edu\/community\/staff\/bio\/feigh-k\u0022\u003EKaren Feigh\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;was visiting Georgia Tech with her father [a career Air Force officer] and he wanted to know why his daughter should come to Georgia Tech,\u0022 Sankar says, with a smile.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022You could tell, even then, that she had this gleam in her eyes, that she was bound to be successful, so her father wanted to make sure she went somewhere that would be worthwhile. He was right about that.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDr. Sankar\u0027s belief that there are other bright young women, like Feigh, who are looking for a place to launch their success, motivates him to keep that door open.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA Regents Professor and associate chair for the School of Aerospace Engineering, Sankar is a well-known presence in the academic lives of undergraduates.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Georgia Tech\u0027s Women in Engineering has chosen GT-AE Professor Lakshmi Sankar to receive one of two WIE Teaching Excellence Awards for 2015."}],"uid":"30502","created_gmt":"2016-02-08 16:41:53","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:20:38","author":"Sapna Mistry","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-03-13T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2015-03-13T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"496791":{"id":"496791","type":"image","title":"Lakshmi Sankar","body":null,"created":"1455120000","gmt_created":"2016-02-10 16:00:00","changed":"1475895256","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:54:16","alt":"Lakshmi Sankar","file":{"fid":"204605","name":"sankar-lakshmi1.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/sankar-lakshmi1_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/sankar-lakshmi1_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":4420,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/sankar-lakshmi1_0.jpg?itok=CyRy-jm6"}}},"media_ids":["496791"],"groups":[{"id":"1239","name":"School of Aerospace Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"136","name":"Aerospace"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"}],"keywords":[{"id":"126111","name":"GT-AE"},{"id":"129771","name":"Lakshmi Sankar"},{"id":"171643","name":"WIE Teaching Excellence Awards"},{"id":"1235","name":"women in engineering"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":["kathleen.moore@ae.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"497611":{"#nid":"497611","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Betty BEAR \u0022roars\u0022 at Capstone Expo","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Betty Back-country Emergency Air Responder (\u0022Betty BEAR\u0022) was selected as the top aerospace engineering project at the April 23 Capstone Expo, held at McCamish Pavilion.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAltogether almost 200 teams from 11 of Georgia Tech\u0027s schools participated in the 2015 Capstone Expo, which showcased the final projects of seniors in a variety of disciplines.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETaking home the top Capstone prize was\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/expo.gatech.edu\/projectdetails\/submission058\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EShunt Doubles\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, a project of the School of Biomedical Engineering which devised a non-invasive method for assessing the effectiveness of shunts.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESponsored by Boeing\u0027s AerosPACE program, Betty BEAR was the result of a year-long project that brought together top engineering talents from GT-AE, Embry Riddle, and Brigham Young University. Using high-tech methods to consult on their research, students from the three schools collaborated to design, build and fly an unmanned rescue vehicle capable of locating victims in remote locales.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Boeing had wanted to help out first-responders, so they talked to a bunch of them to find out what they would want,\u0022 said\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;Nathan Prestridge,\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;one of the four GT-AE Betty BEAR team members.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022So, then, we were tasked with building a hand-launched UAV that would use thermal imaging to identify the location of victims. The way it would work, a park ranger could program it to check a known trail, launch it, and then go back to his station to watch the video feed. The UAV would return to him on its own. 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The projects were underwritten by grants from Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Rolls Royce and UTC.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022It had to fit into a tube that was six inches wide, which is very small. We made it harder by deciding that our tube would be just six inches long.\u0022\u0022The Micro Class challenge was really challenging,\u0022 said GT-AE sophomore .Matt Warren.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAfter competing among themselves for the best design concept, the GT-AE team decided on Warren\u0027s design, a 1.3-pound Rogallo wing hand glider. 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Just ask Prof.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EMitchell Walker.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs the chair of the \u201cGovernment Investments Enabling Advancement of In-space Propulsion\u201d panel at AIAA\u2019s recent Propulsion and Energy Forum 360 (July 27-29), Walker brought together several industry and government experts for a robust discussion of the future.\u0026nbsp; All seemed to agree: market pressures must be incorporated into any innovation strategy.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cCompetition in the global space-propulsion market continues to increase as industry continues to invest in technology and strategy and agencies are using technology programs to push the boundaries,\u201d Walker said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt is very important to align the focus of government-funded technology with the needs, requirements, and commercial opportunities of industry. This will support the critical commercial infusion and eventual sustainability of in-space propulsion technology developed with government funding.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EJoining Walker in the AIAA panel were Google + Skybox Imaging\u2019s chief engineer\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EJonny Dyer\u003C\/strong\u003E; the Institute for Defense Analyses\u2019 director of science and technology policy Dr.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EMark Lewis\u003C\/strong\u003E; Space Systems Loral\u2019s advanced solar electric propulsion programs manager\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;Peter Lord\u003C\/strong\u003E; Aerojet Rocketdyne\u2019s executive director for advanced in-space systems\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003ERoger Myers\u003C\/strong\u003E; and NASA\u2019s senior technical officer for the Space Technology Directorate Dr.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EJeffrey Sheehy\u003C\/strong\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAlthough early investments in space-propulsion systems have bolstered national defense and space-exploration programs, the emergence of public-private partnerships has made the market more complicated, according Myers.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOne thing thwarting advances in propulsion technology? The need for the investment to take into account both the cost and the risk of the new technology.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIf it can\u2019t do that,\u201d Myers said, \u201cThe system will most likely be rejected.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMyers pointed out that time-tested technology holds the edge for approvals while the potential benefits of new technology are overshadowed by system uncertainty. Myers said electric propulsion systems and solar electric power systems receive the majority of investment dollars.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EInvestment in this area is also impeded by the size of the market and the time it takes to bring a new idea to market. The longer the development period, the more likely it is to fail.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDyer pointed out that the delays inevitably make it harder to market up and coming innovations:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe are flying 50-year-old technology exclusively, with thrusters going back to Apollo. 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And the game wasn\u0027t one of pure number analysis either. They wanted to see a plane that could compete in today\u0027s market, with components that are available now to manufacture it.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAt an estimated production cost of around $547,500, the Vapor was competitive with the Cirrus SR-22, one of the most popular single-engine gas-powered planes on the market. Not only did it meet the distance and payload demands, Neuman\u0027s plane was also shown to be 16 decibels quieter and to consume 3.8 times less fuel than the SR-22.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We may not have hydrogen refueling stations everywhere yet, but there are economically feasible ways to develop hydrogen on site. It can be derived from natural gas, or biomass,\u0022 he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022And its only emission is water vapor.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPerhaps the most challenging aspect of the design process the development of a validation tool that would benchmark the Vapor\u0027s performance. Up until a few years ago, most electric or fuel-cell-powered planes were too small and too slow to meet the NASA specs.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022I had to analyze large electric powered planes because that\u0027s what I\u0027m designing,\u0022 he said. \u0022Now there are a few larger electric airplanes in production that I can use to validate Vapor. 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And the game wasn\u0027t one of pure number analysis either. They wanted to see a plane that could compete in today\u0027s market, with components that are available now to manufacture it.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAt an estimated production cost of around $547,500, the Vapor was competitive with the Cirrus SR-22, one of the most popular single-engine gas-powered planes on the market. Not only did it meet the distance and payload demands, Neuman\u0027s plane was also shown to be 16 decibels quieter and to consume 3.8 times less fuel than the SR-22.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We may not have hydrogen refueling stations everywhere yet, but there are economically feasible ways to develop hydrogen on site. It can be derived from natural gas, or biomass,\u0022 he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022And its only emission is water vapor.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPerhaps the most challenging aspect of the design process the development of a validation tool that would benchmark the Vapor\u0027s performance. Up until a few years ago, most electric or fuel-cell-powered planes were too small and too slow to meet the NASA specs.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022I had to analyze large electric powered planes because that\u0027s what I\u0027m designing,\u0022 he said. \u0022Now there are a few larger electric airplanes in production that I can use to validate Vapor. 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The problem is, you can\u2019t burn as hot as you want because it degrades the mechanical properties of your components. You can protect critical parts with thermal barrier coatings but the problem is, mechanically, they tend to crack and wear off. Ideally, we would like to have materials that are great both thermally and mechanically.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn his NSF proposal, \u201c\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/awardsearch\/showAward?AWD_ID=1454104\u0022\u003EModeling Materials across the Length Scales to Achieve Enhanced Thermomechanical Properties\u003C\/a\u003E\u201d Rimoli proposes a process for tackling that problem.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe 5-year, $500,000 grant will allow him to create models and computational capabilities for next-generation materials that have improved thermomechanical performance \u2013 a critical component in everything from aircraft turbines to space capsules.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cSometimes this isn\u2019t necessarily about something failing, but about making sure a material lasts, so that you can reduce the cost of maintenance and the cost of interruptions,\u201d he noted.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIt is not a new subject for the Goizuetta Professor, who joined the GT-AE faculty after finishing his post-doctoral work at MIT in\u0026nbsp; 2011.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor the past couple of years, Rimoli and his GT-AE colleague, Dr. Mitchell Walker, have been collaborating on the problem of plasma-materials interaction. Rimoli\u2019s focus on this project has been the thermomechanical stresses that erode the channel walls of Hall Effect thrusters, a component of many small plasma-powered satellites.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWhen you send a satellite into space, generally, you\u2019re not going to see it again, so you want the components to last as long as possible,\u201d he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ctable width=\u0022175\u0022 border=\u00222\u0022 cellspacing=\u00221\u0022 cellpadding=\u002222\u0022 align=\u0022right\u0022\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003Ch2\u003E\u003Cem\u003EAbout the\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ENSF\u0026nbsp;CAREER award\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThe CAREER award is the National Science Foundation\u0027s most prestigious award in support of junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through outstanding research, excellent education and the integration of education and research within the context of the mission of their organizations. Grantees receive up to five years of funding to pursue research.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003EIn addition to Dr. Rimoli, four other Georgia Tech faculty were chosen to receive CAREER awards -- all of them from the Stewart School of Industrial \u0026amp; Systems Engineering: Dr. Turgay Ayer, Dr. David Goldberg, Dr. Sebastian Pokutta,\u0026nbsp; and Dr. Enlu Zhou. Find out\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/coe.gatech.edu\/news\/five-gt-engineers-receive-nsf-career-awards\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003Emore.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cSo if we could design the microstructure of the material on those components in such a way as to extend their lifetime, we could extend the operation of those satellites\u2014and anything else that is subject to the same kind of stresses.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe promise of having such a huge impact on the discipline is motivating to Rimoli, but he doesn\u2019t like getting ahead of himself.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt\u2019s a big leap to extrapolate what I\u2019m doing to the actual application,\u201d he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cEventually, the idea is to grade the microstructure of thermal barrier coatings to decrease their thermal stresses, thus making them less prone to failure. We have to do the basic science, first, to understand the best way to do it.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003EWhat is the basic science?\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA lot is already known about how a material\u2019s microstructure can affect its thermal and mechanical properties \u2013 its ability to conduct heat, bear stresses, etc. For instance, as the characteristic length-scale of a material\u2019s microstructure is decreased or increased, its yield stress and thermal conductivity will also change.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETo take it a step further: the thermal and mechanical problems are not decoupled, meaning that one problem affects the other. That is, as the size of the microstructure within a material is changed, its thermomechanical response will change as well.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cSo I\u2019m studying how the length-scale not only affects the material\u2019s mechanical and thermal properties, but how you can modify the microstructure in such a way that when you subject the material to certain thermal and mechanical boundary conditions, you can also vary the temperature and stress distribution inside the material, making it less prone to failure.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPut it another way: the thermal and mechanical properties are coupled. If a material whose substructures have varying length-scales is heated, it will try to expand in different ways, and that will cause different stresses internally.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis back-and-forth is important to study so we can find a way to predict when and where cracks will form, the effect that length-scale and thermal cracks have on macroscopic material strength, thermal conductivity, and thermal expansion.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMuch of Rimoli\u2019s research is done on computers, where he is developing algorithms for computing the thermomechanical properties of different materials at the macro and micro scales.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe physics, the equations that explain things are different at different scales, and that creates some challenges,\u201d he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIf we want to do real-life applications, we need to do our calculations at the macroscopic scale, but if you want to predict how a material really behaves, you need to look at it on a microscopic scale. We propose a way to link those two scales in such a way that we can predict material behavior for practical problems.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe results will lay a rich foundation for sustained research.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cUltimately, we should begin to be able to answer some important questions,\u201d he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThings like: How does grain size and grain size distribution affect the formation of thermal cracks for the steady state and dynamic thermomechanical problem? In the latter case, how is the nucleation of thermal cracks affected by applied temperature rates and length scale?\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAnd many more.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003EFocusing on \u0027next-gen\u0027 aerospace engineers\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Ctable width=\u0022250\u0022 border=\u00220\u0022 cellspacing=\u00221\u0022 cellpadding=\u00225\u0022 align=\u0022right\u0022\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003Cem\u003ERimoli and graduate student Jean-Baptiste Bouquet\u003C\/em\u003E.\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERimoli expects to be exploring these questions for some years to come. Under the auspices of his NSF\u0026nbsp;proposal, others will follow in his footsteps.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe educational focus of Rimoli\u0027s NSF\u0026nbsp;grant focuses on encouraging Latinos to successfully pursue science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) careers. To do this, Rimoli will establish an educational summer camp for Latinos in K-12 where they will be introduced to engineering and mechanics through an interactive, hands-on approach to learning.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIf we want diverse students to pursue this field, we need to diversify the methods we use to teach them,\u201d he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECentral to his effort will be the use of\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003ETruss Me!\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003Ean educational app that Rimoli created in 2013 to help his college-level students to gain an intuitive grasp of truss behavior. Since its release in early 2014, however,\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003ETruss Me!\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;has gained wide popularity with would-be engineers of all ages, from grade to graduate school, all around the world.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAfter designing a structure, students in the camp will have access to a 3D printer, where their idea will take physical shape and undergo testing.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cSo it basically has the whole engineering cycle: the design, the calculations, the manufacturing, and the testing,\u201d he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis is an introduction to engineering that they will not forget. And I believe many will want to continue.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs he utters these words, Rimoli becomes pensive. The projects he\u2019s described are not just pieces of a successful grant application; collectively, they are the things that motivate him as an academic, a researcher, and an educator.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI\u2019ve always been interested in rich microstructures and how they can influence the engineering performance of materials, and this is all about those things,\u201d he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cBut it\u2019s also a problem that\u2019s coupled \u2013 not just thermo, not just mechanical \u2013 and it needs to be studied on different scales \u2013 microscopic to macroscopic. The fact that I will be able to work in this kind of problems is tremendously important. And the fact that I will be able to bring some of this to students who may not have ever considered engineering before \u2013 that, makes it\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003Eperfect.\u003C\/em\u003E\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EFind out more about\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/rimoli.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003EDr. Julian Rimoli\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ctable width=\u0022500\u0022 border=\u00220\u0022 cellspacing=\u00221\u0022 cellpadding=\u00225\u0022\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003Cem\u003EDr. Rimoli has been involved in STEM\u0026nbsp;outreach to under-represented groups for as long as he has been on the GT-AE faculty. He is seen here talking with parents at an outreach fair held last year at an Atlanta-area middle school. Under the auspices of his NSF grant, he will work with Georgia Tech\u0027s Center for Education Integrating Science, Mathematics, and Computing (CEISMC) and GO-STEM to establish a STEM summer camp for Latinos, K-12.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\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":"At the root of Dr. Julian Rimoli\u2019s recently awarded NSF CAREER grant is a fundamental engineering conundrum known to car mechanics and rocket scientists alike."}],"uid":"27456","created_gmt":"2015-07-22 10:53:08","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:19:15","author":"Britanny Grace","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-02-10T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2015-02-10T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1239","name":"School of Aerospace Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"2082","name":"aerospace engineering"},{"id":"130061","name":"Julian Rimoli"},{"id":"7842","name":"NSF CAREER Award"}],"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":""}},"427531":{"#nid":"427531","#data":{"type":"news","title":"ASDL \u0022eMEALS\u0022 project is in tight competition for Air Bus Challenge","body":[{"value":"\u003Ctable width=\u0022500\u0022 border=\u00220\u0022 cellspacing=\u00221\u0022 cellpadding=\u00221\u0022\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EUPDATE:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThe eMEALS\u0026nbsp;team is officially in the semi-finals for the Fly Your Ideas video competition. Help them win by going to\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.airbus-fyi.com\/medias\/best-videos\u0022 rel=\u0022nofollow\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.airbus-fyi.com\/medias\/best-videos\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003Eand voting for Video # 2. (04\/30\/15)\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ENOTE (May 1, 2015):\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003EAfter beating out hundreds of teams in this semester-long \u0022Fly Your Ideas\u0022 competition, the Aerospace Systems Design Lab \u0022eMEALS\u0022 team is now running a close second in the\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;semi-final round for the video competition.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EYou can make a difference.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EFrom now until May 17,\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;the team needs online voters to put their project over the top.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003EYou can help by visiting the Air Bus\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.airbus-fyi.com\/medias\/best-videos\u0022\u003EFly Your Ideas video site\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/a\u003Eand voting for\u0026nbsp;Video #2.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThe story below will tell you more about the project itself.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThey are familiar nuisances to anyone who has ever traveled on a commercial airline: the intrusive tray table and its noisy cousin, the food cart.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA team of graduate students from AE\u0027s Aerospace Systems Design Lab is devising an alternative meal delivery system that could sideline those space-hoggng scourges forever: a user-controlled food requisition system that automatically delivers your meal whenever you choose to order it.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The idea is, you don\u0027t have to eat just because they tell you it\u0027s time to eat, and you don\u0027t have get trapped in your seat when they are delivering everyone else\u0027s food,\u0022 says AE grad student Mathilde Deveraux, a France native and frequent flier.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The food is delivered to your seat from an overhead rail, not a person.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDeveraux and her four ASDL colleagues put together their proposal, \u0022eMeals Enhanced Meal Experience with Airborne Light Systems\u0022 for Airbus\u0027s 2015\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.airbus-fyi.com\/\u0022\u003EFly Your Ideas\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;competition.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETheir pitch made it through the first round of the competition, where almost 400 teams were sent away. Now, they must compete with 100 other teams to make it to the final round, in May, where just five teams will present their ideas to Airbus officials.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe winners will take home a $30,000 prize -- and bragging rights.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022It would be nice to have Airbus know who I am,\u0022 said Deveraux, who graduates in May. \u0022I would like them to know what I can do.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFrom now until the end of March, the ASDL team will be working with an Airbus engineer, Colin Hodges, and their ASDL mentor, Dr. Dimitri Mavris, to finesse the details of their concept. Located in Toulouse, Hodges consults with them almost daily via email, and weekly via Skype.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETheir plan starts with a touch-screen, where passengers can order food and drinks as they choose. It then employs an overhead rail that runs between the two rows of overhead bins and conveys meals and beverages to each row. 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I look forward to moving that process along.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe National Institute of Aerospace is a non-profit research and graduate institute, located near NASA\u0027s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. It was created to support Langley\u0027s mission to do cutting-edge aerospace and atmospheric research, develop new technologies and help train the next generation of scientists and engineers. NASA Langley also helps contribute to the funding for the Langley professorships.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022I am very excited that someone of Dr. Mavris\u2019 stature and vision will be joining the NIA to perform transformational aerospace research,\u0022 said Dr. Douglas O. Stanley, president and executive director of the NIA.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022I look forward to working closely with him as we create ASDL@NIA to lead the development of innovative aerospace concepts and design methods.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ctable width=\u0022200\u0022 border=\u00220\u0022 cellspacing=\u00221\u0022 cellpadding=\u00225\u0022 align=\u0022right\u0022\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd class=\u0022rtecenter\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EDr. Brian German will join Dr. Mavris as the new Langley Associate Professor\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMavris will split his time between Atlanta and Hampton, where he will be the principal Georgia Tech faculty member resident at NIA. He will lead NIA\u0027s research program in the field of systems analysis, with primary emphasis on developing life-cycle systems analysis and risk methodologies for advanced aerospace system architectures.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EJoining Mavris will be GT-AE\u0027s Dr. Brian German as the new Langley Associate Professor and Dr. Daniel P. Schrage returning as the Georgia Tech Liaison Professor.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMavris earned his undergraduate, masters, and doctoral degrees in aerospace engineering from Georgia Tech. His research has focused on the formulation, development and implementation of comprehensive approaches to the design of affordable high-quality complex systems using visual analytics. Under Mavris\u0027 direction, the ASDL has served as a hub of multi-disciplinary system design and analysis work for a number of government and industry sponsors.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOver the last 10 years, the lab has done $125 million worth of research in new methods and tools and employed more than 200 research faculty, masters, and doctoral students.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ctable width=\u0022200\u0022 border=\u00220\u0022 cellspacing=\u00221\u0022 cellpadding=\u00225\u0022 align=\u0022right\u0022\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd class=\u0022rtecenter\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EDr. Daniel Schrage will continue in his position as the Georgia Tech Liaison Professor\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMavris now joins five other Langley Professors, each of whom holds a teaching and research faculty appointment at one of six NIA founding member universities. They will work as an integrated team with the NIA and NASA Langley research community, and the NIA liaison professors at the six NIA founding universities.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENIA was formed by a consortium of universities and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Foundation. The roster of major research universities includes consortium members: Georgia Tech in Atlanta; Hampton University in Hampton; North Carolina A\u0026amp;T State University, Greensboro; North Carolina State University in Raleigh; University of Maryland, College Park; University of Virginia in Charlottesville; Virginia Tech in Blacksburg; and affiliate members Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, and the College of William \u0026amp; Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EFind out more about\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/langley\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ENASA\u0026nbsp;Langley\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EFind out more about\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.nianet.org\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003Ethe NIA.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The National Institute of Aerospace (NIA) has named GT-AE\u0027s Dr. Dimitri Mavris as the new Langley Distinguished Professor in Advanced Aerospace Systems Architecture for the Georgia Institute of Technology."}],"uid":"27456","created_gmt":"2015-07-22 11:02:13","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:19:15","author":"Britanny Grace","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-02-20T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2015-02-20T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1239","name":"School of Aerospace Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"2082","name":"aerospace engineering"},{"id":"100921","name":"ASDL"},{"id":"129851","name":"Dimitri Mavris"},{"id":"130271","name":"NIA"}],"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":""}},"427571":{"#nid":"427571","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Ruffin and Pierson honored for STEM outreach","body":[{"value":"\u003Ctable width=\u0022200\u0022 border=\u00220\u0022 cellspacing=\u00221\u0022 cellpadding=\u00225\u0022 align=\u0022right\u0022\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003Cem\u003EAccepting the CDEP Service Award was\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EDr.\u0026nbsp;Stephen Ruffin\u003C\/strong\u003E, seen here with FVSU President Ivelaw Lloyd Griffith, left, and FVSC Associate Vice President Dr. Isaac J. Crumbly\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETheir longstanding commitment to STEM outreach has earned Prof. Stephen Ruffin and program manager Wanda G. Pierson special recognition from the Cooperative Developmental Energy Program (CDEP) of Fort Valley State University.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERuffin, the chair of NASA\u0027s National Council of Space Grant Directors, and Pierson, the program manager for the GT-based Georgia Space Grant Consortium (GSGC), each were recognized with the CDEP Service Award during the organization\u0027s 16th Annual Industry Awards Banquet, Feb. 22.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThrough their involvement in the GSGC, Ruffin and Pierson have spearheaded the Institute\u0027s efforts to promote STEM education and careers among underrepresented\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ctable width=\u0022200\u0022 border=\u00220\u0022 cellspacing=\u00221\u0022 cellpadding=\u00225\u0022 align=\u0022right\u0022\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd class=\u0022rtecenter\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003EWanda Pierson\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cem\u003EGeorgia Space Grant Consortium Program Manager\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cem\u003ERecipient of the CDEP Service Award\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cp\u003Egroups. Pierson manages a statewide consortium of 17 universities, two non-profit organizations, and two industrial affiliates, all of whom contribute to GSGC\u0027s goal of increasing the diversity of students and professionals in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics-related fields.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022For me, the payback has been when students visit [Georgia Tech] campus for tours and to meet our faculty,\u0022 said Pierson.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022It\u0027s great to see them exploring what might be their futures.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to serving the Space Grant Consortium on a state and national level, Ruffin is the founder and director of GT\u0027s University Center of Exemplary Mentoring which promotes aggressive recruitment, academic enrichment, fellowship, and development funding for doctoral students. He is also on the board of the NSF-funded FACES program, which seeks to increase the diversity of engineering, science and computing students at Morehouse, Spelman, Emory, and Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022As an HBCU, Fort Valley is already well-aligned with the Space Grant Consortium\u0027s goals,\u0022 said Ruffin.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We\u0027ve been supporting their Math Science and Engineering Academy and hosting their students on tours of Georgia Tech. It\u0027s a great relationship.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFunded by the U.S. Department of Energy, Fort Valley\u0027s CDEP program focuses on increasing the number of minorities and women working in the private and governmental sectors of the energy industry. Its Service Award recognizes individuals who have dedicated five or more years to the success of this goal.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Their longstanding commitment to STEM outreach has earned Prof. Stephen Ruffin and program manager Wanda G. 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Zinn is one of three AE\u0026nbsp;faculty honored by AIAA\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThree School of Aerospace Engineering faculty members were recently honored by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) with selection to the 2015 Class of AIAA Fellows and Honorary Fellows.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBenn T. Zinn, Regents\u0027 Professor and David S. Lewis, Jr. Chair, was given the status of AIAA Honorary Fellow, while Timothy Lieuwen, and E. Glenn Lightsey, were conferred with the Fellow distinction.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHonorary Fellow is the highest distinction conferred by AIAA, and recognizes preeminent individuals who have had long and highly contributory careers in aerospace and who embody the highest possible standards in aeronautics and astronautics. Zinn was one of four selected for this honor.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAIAA confers the distinction of Fellow upon individuals in recognition of their notable and valuable contributions to the arts, sciences or technology of aeronautics and astronautics.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We couldn\u0027t be happier, but we are not surprised by this honor,\u0022 said GT-AE Chair Dr. Vigor Yang.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022All three of these faculty bring rigor and insight to their work in our School, and the results continue to strengthen our legacy.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ctable width=\u0022200\u0022 border=\u00220\u0022 cellspacing=\u00221\u0022 cellpadding=\u00225\u0022 align=\u0022right\u0022\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003Cem\u003EDr, Timothy Lieuwen was named AIAA\u0026nbsp;Fellow.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) Ben Zinn joined the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1965 and attained the rank of Regents\u0027 Professor in 1973. His fields of research include: control of combustion processes, combustion instabilities in rocket motors, ramjets, jet engine and gas turbines, oscillatory flame phenomena, reacting flows, acoustics and pulse combustion. He has published 117 refereed papers and 213 reports and unrefereed papers, edited two AIAA Progress Series books on combustion diagnostics, wrote the section on \u0022Pulsating Combustion\u0022 for a book entitled Advanced Combustion Methods, which was published by Academic Press, and he has given 354 seminars\/lectures at various universities and conferences throughout the world. He is also a co-holder of seven patents.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EProfessor Timothy Lieuwen is active in both instruction and research programs. His interests lie in the areas of acoustics, fluid mechanics, combustion, and signal processing. He is responsible for teaching several courses in the areas of fluid mechanics, aeroacoustics and combustion. His research activities involve both theoretical and experimental work in combustion, flame-acoustic wave interactions, combustion noise, and development of ultrasonic diagnostic techniques.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ctable width=\u0022200\u0022 border=\u00220\u0022 cellspacing=\u00221\u0022 cellpadding=\u00225\u0022 align=\u0022right\u0022\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003Cem\u003EProfessor E. Glenn Lightsey was bestowed the distinction of AIAA \u0026nbsp;Fellow.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cp\u003EProfessor E. Glenn Lightsey came to Tech just this month from the University of Texas-Austin where is was the founder and director of the Texas Spacecraft Lab. His research focuses on the technology of satellites, including: guidance, navigation, and control systems; attitude determination and control; proximity operations and spacecraft rendezvous; cooperative control; space based Global Positioning System receivers; radionavigation; visual navigation; propulsion; satellite operations; formation flying, satellite swarms and satellite networks; and space systems engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022This year, as in every year, each of the nominees for AIAA Fellow stands at the top of our aerospace community in terms of their contributions to our profession, and that makes our selection process a particularly difficult one,\u201d said George Muellner, chair of the AIAA Fellows Selection Committee.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIn the end, we picked 22 individuals whose work has been truly outstanding. We congratulate our Class of 2015 AIAA Fellows and we look forward to their continued roles in shaping the future of aerospace.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAIAA is the largest aerospace professional society in the world, serving a diverse range of more than 30,000 individual members from 88 countries, and 95 corporate members.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Three School of Aerospace Engineering faculty members were recently honored by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) with selection to the 2015 Class of AIAA Fellows and Honorary Fellows."}],"uid":"27456","created_gmt":"2015-07-22 10:20:01","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:19:15","author":"Britanny Grace","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-01-20T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2015-01-20T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1239","name":"School of Aerospace Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"2082","name":"aerospace engineering"},{"id":"2576","name":"AIAA"},{"id":"2135","name":"Ben Zinn"},{"id":"136281","name":"Glenn Lightsey"},{"id":"36441","name":"Tim Lieuwen"}],"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":""}},"427431":{"#nid":"427431","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Five things that every engineer should know","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ENOTE:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThe following is part of an ongoing GT-AE\u0026nbsp;series called \u0022\u003Cstrong\u003EFive Things You Should Know\u0022\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003Ewhich extracts pearls of wisdom from friends and alumni of GT-AE who are working the multifaceted field of aerospace engineering. This installment was culled from a Jan. 23 visit by three very generous Lockheed Martin engineers:\u0026nbsp;Dan O\u0027Rourke, Julie Whitehead, and Jeff Baldino. The trio came to Georgia Tech as a part of the School of Aerospace Engineering\u0027s Student Advisory Council (SAESAC) Career Night.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ctable width=\u0022200\u0022 border=\u00220\u0022 cellspacing=\u00221\u0022 cellpadding=\u00225\u0022 align=\u0022right\u0022\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd class=\u0022rtecenter\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EJulie Whitehead\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDirector of Air Vehicle Systems\u003Cbr \/\u003ELockheed Martin\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Ch3\u003E1.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EBuild up your \u0022work equity.\u0022\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022If a colleague comes to you and asks you to do something extra, say \u0027yes.\u0027 It matters. A lot,\u0022\u0026nbsp;said Whitehead, Lockheed\u0027s director of Air Vehicle Systems. \u0022Every assignment that I was asked to take on, I said \u0027yes\u0027 to. And it built my reputation for having a good work ethic. At Lockheed, they notice who\u0027s coming in on the weekends to do extra work. They remember the people who are willing to go above and beyond. Those are the go-to people, and they move ahead.\u0022\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThey also remember the ones who don\u0027t.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Someone actually said they couldn\u0027t stay late to work on a project because they had a kickball tournament,\u0022 she added. \u0022\u003Cem\u003EA kickball tournament.\u003C\/em\u003E\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E2. Hone your basic engineering skills.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022With my background in mechanical systems, I was working as an air vehicle deputy, but when they had a hole for the C-5 avionics director, they called on me to fill it\u0026nbsp; eventhough I\u0026nbsp;had no background in electronics,\u0022\u0026nbsp; said O\u0027Rourke, GT \u002782, who is now the chief engineer for the C-5.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022They had seen how I\u0026nbsp;approached problem-solving on other tasks, and knew I\u0026nbsp;had a solid foundation as an engineer, so when they were behind schedule and over\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ctable width=\u0022200\u0022 border=\u00220\u0022 cellspacing=\u00221\u0022 cellpadding=\u00221\u0022 align=\u0022right\u0022\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd class=\u0022rtecenter\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EDan M. O\u0027Rourke, GT \u002782\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EChief Engineer, C-5 Program\u003Cbr \/\u003ELockheed Martin\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cp\u003Ebudget, they figured I could handle it.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch3\u003E3.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EKnow what you don\u0027t know.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EThen find someone who does.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022This relates to that last point,\u0022\u0026nbsp;said O\u0027Rourke. \u0022When I\u0026nbsp;started working as the avionics director, I knew what I didn\u0027t know and I was ready to find people who could fill in the holes. This is critical at Lockheed, because we have to work as a team. You have to be able to identify the resources you need and then be ready to activate them.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch3\u003E4.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003ETime. Management.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022When I decided that I wanted to go back to graduate school, I\u0026nbsp;had a full-time engineering job at Lockheed,\u0022 said Baldino,\u0026nbsp;BSAE \u002710 MSAE \u002713, an engineer on the C-5.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022I knew there would be\u0026nbsp; times when I\u0027d have to work late and no one was going to care if I had a test the next day or a lecture to attend. If I wanted to go to school, I\u0026nbsp;had to make it work around my job.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ctable width=\u0022200\u0022 border=\u00220\u0022 cellspacing=\u00221\u0022 cellpadding=\u00221\u0022 align=\u0022right\u0022\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022rtecenter\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EJeff Baldino BSAE \u002710, MSAE \u002713\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EC-5 Engineer\u003Cbr \/\u003ELockheed Martin\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBaldino forged ahead in his GT-AE graduate program by switching between on-campus classes and distance learning.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022If I really wanted to take a class, but it only met at noon, I found a way to take it online so that I could watch it when I got home from work,\u0022 he said. \u0022I\u0027m not going to tell you it was easy, because it wasn\u0027t, but I learned how to manage my time really well. Now that I\u0027m finished with my masters, I have more time than I know what to do with sometimes.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAnother perk:\u0026nbsp;Lockheed helped him pay for his schooling.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E5. Did we mention the part about always saying \u0027yes\u0027?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Building up work equity really builds your credibility,\u0022 said Whitehead. \u0022I can\u0027t emphasize enough how important it is to take new assignments and, then, to learn new skillsets. You will be learning throughout your career, and you want your colleagues to see how well you learn.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ctable width=\u0022450\u0022 border=\u00221\u0022 cellspacing=\u00221\u0022 cellpadding=\u00221\u0022 align=\u0022center\u0022\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003EThe man underneath the screen images is Dan O\u0027Rourke, GT \u002782. After addressing students for an hour during the Jan. 23 Career Night event, he spent almost an additional hour answering questions from GT-AE\u0026nbsp;students.\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":"Five things that every engineer should know."}],"uid":"27456","created_gmt":"2015-07-22 10:23:39","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:19:15","author":"Britanny Grace","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-01-23T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2015-01-23T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1239","name":"School of Aerospace Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"130","name":"Alumni"}],"keywords":[{"id":"2082","name":"aerospace engineering"},{"id":"136301","name":"Dan O\u0027Rourke"},{"id":"136311","name":"Jeff Baldino"},{"id":"136291","name":"Julie Whitehead"},{"id":"2558","name":"Lockheed Martin"},{"id":"169942","name":"SAESAC"}],"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":""}},"427451":{"#nid":"427451","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Dr. Brian Gunter receives JPL Summer Fellowship","body":[{"value":"\u003Ctable width=\u0022200\u0022 border=\u00220\u0022 cellspacing=\u00221\u0022 cellpadding=\u00225\u0022 align=\u0022right\u0022\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003Cem\u003EDr. Brian Gunter will return to the JPL this summer to do research on spacecraft payload requirements and standards.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAerospace engineering professor Brian Gunter is one of five Georgia Tech faculty chosen to do targeted research this summer through Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) Fellowships program.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGunter\u0027s research proposal, \u0022Requirements and Standards Development for a Future Interplanetary Hosted Payload System\u0022 outlines his plans to investigate existing hosted payload systems, identify common elements, and adapt them to a set of requirements and standards that would be applicable for interplanetary missions.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe JPL\u0026nbsp;Fellowship is a joint project between the Georgia Tech Center for Space Technology and Research (CSTAR) and the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The long-term goal of the project is to develop a plug-and-play style hosted payload system with deployer capability, that can be easily accommodated on any future NASA mission,\u0022 he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022This would greatly improve the ability for small hosted payloads and\/or cubesat missions to complement NASA\u2019s flagship planetary missions, and hopefully kickstart a new era in planetary cubesat exploration.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis is the second JPL Summer Fellowship for Gunter. Last summer his proposal, \u0022Utilizing Nano-satellite Technology for Improved Monitoring of Earth\u2019s Time-variable Gravity\u0022 gave Gunter a\u0026nbsp; valuable opportunity to dive into a mission concept involving a constellation of nano-satellites to measure the Earth\u0027s time-variable gravity. He worked alongside JPL\u0027s Dr. Mike Watkins and Dr. David Wiese, both of whom are heavily involved with the current GRACE and upcoming GRACE Follow-On missions.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis year, Gunter will shift his focus to an investigation of the way in which\u0026nbsp; small and nanosat systems are used on space missions and focus on the manner in which they interface with the primary missions\u2019 subsystems.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ctable width=\u0022200\u0022 border=\u00220\u0022 cellspacing=\u00221\u0022 cellpadding=\u00221\u0022 align=\u0022right\u0022\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd class=\u0022rtecenter\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EDr. Gunter is seen here during his 2014 JPL\u0026nbsp;Fellowship, when he researched the use of nano-satellites to improve the monitoring of time-sensitive gravity.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Examples of such interaction include the use of the primary satellites\u2019 power and communications\u0026nbsp; systems to maintain stable thermal conditions and forward housekeeping data of the hosted payload or\u0026nbsp; rideshare,\u0022 he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis process could be greatly simplified by employing a standardized set of software and hardware connections, he added.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022This would allow the selection and integration of the hosted payload to be decoupled from the primary mission.\u0022\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Aerospace engineering professor Brian Gunter is one of five Georgia Tech faculty chosen to do targeted research this summer through Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) Fellowships program."}],"uid":"27456","created_gmt":"2015-07-22 10:29:39","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:19:15","author":"Britanny Grace","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-01-27T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2015-01-27T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1239","name":"School of Aerospace Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"136","name":"Aerospace"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"2082","name":"aerospace engineering"},{"id":"133281","name":"Brian Gunter"},{"id":"6316","name":"JPL"},{"id":"136331","name":"JPL Fellowships program"}],"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":""}},"427461":{"#nid":"427461","#data":{"type":"news","title":"RECONSO gets a launch slot","body":[{"value":"\u003Ctable width=\u0022500\u0022 border=\u00220\u0022 cellspacing=\u00221\u0022 cellpadding=\u00225\u0022\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003ESeen here are Dr. Marcus Holzinger\u0026nbsp;(RECONSO\u0026nbsp;PI)\u0026nbsp;and seven members of Team RECONSO who traveled to New Mexico the weekend of January 19 to compete for $110,000 in Phase B funding from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; Not pictured:\u0026nbsp;RECONSO Co-PI, Professor David Spence\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003Er\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003Eand the rest of the student researchers who have worked on this satellite for much of the past 2 years.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003ECheck out\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/117948618@N08\/sets\/72157650147016437\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003Ethis slideshow\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u0026nbsp;to see the whole team. Check out\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/youtu.be\/Ck9vVGIFmF8\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003Ethese video-taped interviews\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u0026nbsp;with the faculty and 2 of the grad students who worked on RECONSO.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor the second time in as many years, a GT-designed satellite has been scrutinized, funded, and approved for launch by the University Nanosatellite Program (UNP-8) of the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ctable width=\u0022250\u0022 border=\u00220\u0022 cellspacing=\u00221\u0022 cellpadding=\u00223\u0022 align=\u0022right\u0022\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003Cem\u003EGraduate student Adam Snow, left, and undergraduate Michael Lucchi, right, had just 20 minutes to make their case for Phase B from the AFOSR. Their reviewers didn\u0027t pull any punches.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAnnouncement of the $110,000 Phase B funding for the RECONnaissance of Space Objects (RECONSO) was made Jan.19 by AFOSR after a panel of aerospace industry and government judges grilled the GT-AE student-led design team.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022They wanted to make sure we\u0027d tested the feasibility of everything, like whether we could actually process everything on our on-board computer,\u0022 said Johnny Worthy, one of three GT-AE grad students who presented the concept at the Albuquerque, New Mexico competition.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022And the thing is, they really knew their stuff. They knew what components would work, and which ones wouldn\u0027t.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ctable width=\u0022300\u0022 border=\u00220\u0022 cellspacing=\u00221\u0022 cellpadding=\u00223\u0022 align=\u0022right\u0022\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThe night before their all-important review, members of Team RECONSO\u0026nbsp;made some last-minute tweaks to their satellite\u003C\/em\u003E.\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERECONSO now joins another nanosatellite, Prox 1, as the first two Georgia Tech-built vehicles scheduled for launch into space. Led by GT-AE\u0027s Professor David Spencer, Prox 1 is scheduled to lift off aboard SpaceX\u0027s Falcon Heavy rocket sometime in 2016.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022It was a huge milestone,\u0022 said Dr. Marcus Holzinger, the RECONSO PI who coordinated, coached, and led a team of more than 40 student engineers (from several Georgia Tech schools) during the two years that led up to the Jan. 19 competition.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022They had already put together around 1,500 pages of documentation, so the pressure was on to show core mission functionality in a live hardware-in-the-loop demonstration. They had to prove that\u0026nbsp; all of their systems work together and all of their hardware actually talks to each other. And they nailed it.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ctable width=\u0022200\u0022 border=\u00220\u0022 cellspacing=\u00221\u0022 cellpadding=\u00225\u0022 align=\u0022right\u0022\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003Cem\u003EGraduate student Johnny Worthy is seen here with the RECONSO\u0026nbsp;satellite, left, and a screen that projected video footage depicting actual space objects into RECONSO\u0027s sensors. This set-up allowed students to demonstrate how RECONSO processes visual data. To further prove their point, however, the RECONSO\u0026nbsp;Team gave their reviewers laser pointers that were directed into RECONSO\u0027s sightline. As expected, RECONSO detected and cataloged the new \u0022objects.\u0022\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThere were a lot of high-fives and shouts of jubilation immediately after the judges delivered their decision, but the RECONSO team is under no illusions: getting their satellite ready for a real-world launch will be every bit as challenging as designing it for demonstration.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We already know we need to develop code that will give better inertial bearing (location) accuracy,\u0022\u0026nbsp;said Worthy, just days after the announcement. \u0022We\u0027re on it.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch3\u003EWhat is a RECONSO?\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMeasuring just 20x30x10 centimeters and weighing about 21 pounds, RECONSO is is part of a growing class of small satellites (nanosatellites) that have taken advantage of the miniaturization of modern technology to make space launches less costly and space missions more versatile.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETheir size makes these nanosatellites perfect passengers for more traditionally-sized launch vehicles, which require a huge amount of fuel to lift off. Like celestial barnacles, nanosatellites cling to their weighty host until they have arrived in space. That\u2019s when their own flights begin.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERECONSO runs on less power than the average laptop and could easily be mistaken for a cast-off piece of electronics were it not carefully handled and guarded in the Space Systems Design Lab\u0027s ultra-hygienic \u0022clean room.\u0022 Those who work on it must suit-up like surgeons:\u0026nbsp;disposable gloves, a face mask, a hair net, a sterile smock, and a sticky mat to remove dust from shoes.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe RECONSO cubesat is designed to put a low-cost optical payload in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) where it will be able to detect and track new and existing space objects \u2013 data that will contribute to the expansion and maintenance of the Space Object Catalog maintained by the Space Surveillance Network (SSN).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ctable width=\u0022200\u0022 border=\u00220\u0022 cellspacing=\u00221\u0022 cellpadding=\u00225\u0022 align=\u0022right\u0022\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003Cem\u003EWeighing just 21 pounds, RECONSO will take much less fuel to put into space than traditional-sized vehicles.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWith a dramatically larger field of vision and a virtually uninterrupted operational schedule, RECONSO\u0026nbsp;will be capable of collecting unprecedented amounts of valuable information for Earth-bound aerospace engineers, like Holzinger, who are studying space situational awareness (SSA).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Right now, SSN has radar sites as well as space- andbased telescopes set up to gather data, but they are limited -- by their locations, by the weather, by lots of things,\u0022 he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022With RECONSO we can pull in data continuously, every one to two seconds, every day, for six months. And it will all be processed on-board and sent to Earth, where we\u0027ll be able to use it to validate models we\u0027ve developed to track objects in space.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch3\u003EWhy do we need to catalog space junk?\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAccording to data collected by the RECONSO team, there are more than 22,000 pieces of space debris in earth\u0027s orbit - each one a threat to current space assets such as military, communications, and weather satellites. In 2014, alone, more than 100 collision-avoidance maneuvers were executed to avoid such catastrophes.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe RECONSO\u0026nbsp;mission seeks to remove some of that risk by cataloging the location of debris as small as 10 centimeters in diameter --\u0026nbsp; a size that is big enough to do serious damage. Information collected about the location and size of these objects will be transmitted to Earth where it can be used to predict the orbital paths.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022That\u0027s information that is becoming increasingly important to industry, government and the military. Projects like RECONSO are revolutionizing our capabilities when it comes to space situational awareness,\u0022 said Adam Snow, the graduate student who served as the RECONSO project manager.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Instead of spending millions of dollars launching a single, very capable satellite to explore space, we can now send a constellation of much smaller satellites that are capable of mimicking larger spacecrafts but are also more redundant.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ctable width=\u0022500\u0022 border=\u00220\u0022 cellspacing=\u00225\u0022 cellpadding=\u00225\u0022\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd colspan=\u00222\u0022\u003E\u003Ch1 class=\u0022rtecenter\u0022\u003EAn update on the Prox-1 Satellite\u003C\/h1\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003Ctable width=\u0022200\u0022 border=\u00220\u0022 cellspacing=\u00221\u0022 cellpadding=\u00222\u0022 align=\u0022right\u0022\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd class=\u0022rtecenter\u0022\u003EProx-1 PI (and RECONSO\u0026nbsp;Co-PI) Professor David Spencer\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EIn July, we reported on another GT-AE satellite-in-waiting,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.ae.gatech.edu\/node\/1444\u0022\u003Ethe Prox 1.\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;The following is an update on its progress toward a May 2016 launch.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe\u0026nbsp; Prox 1 flight team is currently performing an initial integration of the spacecraft in preparation for \u0022Day in the Life\u0022 testing, according to\u0026nbsp; PI\u0026nbsp; Professor David Spencer.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022That\u0027s where the spacecraft exercises all of the key functions in the laboratory that will be needed in flight,\u0022 he explained.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAfter that the team will finalize the spacecraft configuration and complete the flight software prior to shipment to the Air Force Research Laboratory in Albuquerque, New Mexico for environmental testing and launch preparation.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Once on orbit, Prox-1 will deploy a smaller spacecraft, the\u0026nbsp;LightSail-B CubeSat, developed by the Planetary Society. \u0026nbsp;Prox-1\u0026nbsp; will\u0026nbsp; demonstrate automated trajectory control relative to LightSail-B using infrared imaging to identify LightSail-B against the background of space,\u0022 he said.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u0026nbsp;Prox-1 is funded through the Air Force Office of Scientific Research\/Air Force Research Laboratory University Nanosatellite Program. \u0026nbsp;There are currently 35 undergraduate and graduate students supporting the Prox-1 project.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"For the second time in as many years, a GT-designed satellite has been scrutinized, funded, and approved for launch by the University Nanosatellite Program (UNP-8) of the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)."}],"uid":"27456","created_gmt":"2015-07-22 10:37:31","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:19:15","author":"Britanny Grace","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-01-28T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2015-01-28T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1239","name":"School of Aerospace Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"136","name":"Aerospace"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"136091","name":"aerospac engineering"},{"id":"98181","name":"David Spencer"},{"id":"136351","name":"Johnny Worthy"},{"id":"130401","name":"Marcus Holzinger"},{"id":"136341","name":"RECONSO"}],"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":""}},"427471":{"#nid":"427471","#data":{"type":"news","title":"GT-AE\u0027s Kevin Jacobson receives Lichten Award for Southern Region","body":[{"value":"\u003Ctable width=\u0022200\u0022 border=\u00220\u0022 cellspacing=\u00221\u0022 cellpadding=\u00225\u0022 align=\u0022right\u0022\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd class=\u0022rtecenter\u0022\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EKevin Jacobson\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cem\u003EWinner of the AHS 2015 Robert Lichten Award - Southern Region\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAerospace engineering doctoral student Kevin Jacobson has been chosen as the winner of the American Helicopter Society\u0027s (AHS) 2015 Robert Lichten Award for the Southern Region.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe win means that Jacobson, 23, is invited to submit his paper, \u0022\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ae.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/img\/Jacobson-abstract.pdf\u0022\u003EAdvanced Hybrid-CFD Techniques with Non-Contiguous Grids\u003C\/a\u003E\u0022 for consideration in the national Lichten competition, where he will be up against nine other student scholars. The winner of that competition will be invited to present at the AHS 71st Forum and Technology Display in Virginia this May.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EJoining Jacobson on the medal stand was fellow AE grad student Etienne Demers Bouchard, whose presentation, \u0022\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ae.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/img\/bouchard-abstract.pdf\u0022\u003EDesign Space Exploration of a Reconfigurable Rotor Helicopter Concept\u0022\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;was given the rare distinction of \u0022runner-up\u0022 in the Southern Region competition.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ctable width=\u0022200\u0022 border=\u00220\u0022 cellspacing=\u00221\u0022 cellpadding=\u00225\u0022 align=\u0022right\u0022\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd class=\u0022rtecenter\u0022\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EEtienne Demers Bouchard\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERunner-up for the 2015 Lichten Award\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; -Southern\u0026nbsp;Region\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cp\u003EShould Jacobson not submit a paper for the national competition, Bouchard will be invited to submit his work.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The competition was fierce,\u0022 said Professor Marilyn Smith, who witnessed the presentations. \u0022The judges had a hard time making their decisions because of the high quality of the research and presentations.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EJacobson said his work focuses on the development of a simpler, less costly way of testing new rotor designs.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022To model a rotor, you typically have to model all of the area around it,\u0022 he said. \u0022And that involves big CFD (computational fluid dynamics) simulations that can take a long time.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022With non-contiguous grids, we are making the area of testing a lot tighter. We\u0027re measuring the area around the blades, but not the wake.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe tighter focus allows researchers to capture the complex wave features of the blades without bogging them down in time-consuming analyses of extraneous area.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We expected to lose some accuracy, but, really, we didn\u0027t,\u0022\u0026nbsp;said Jacobson.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBouchard\u0027s presentation looks at the feasibility of using multiple, vertical lift-off and landing aircraft to hoist a tethered payload that, itself, holds the electrical source of power.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Electric propulsion allows us to explore new design opportunities,\u0022 said Bouchard. \u0022In practice, it would be very helpful lifting payloads over locations where you cannot land a traditional aircraft.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Aerospace engineering doctoral student Kevin Jacobson has been chosen as the winner of the American Helicopter Society\u0027s (AHS) 2015 Robert Lichten Award for the Southern Region."}],"uid":"27456","created_gmt":"2015-07-22 10:42:04","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:19:15","author":"Britanny Grace","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-01-30T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2015-01-30T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1239","name":"School of Aerospace Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"2082","name":"aerospace engineering"},{"id":"129781","name":"AHS"},{"id":"136371","name":"AHS 2015 Robert Lichten Award"},{"id":"136361","name":"Kevin Jacobson"}],"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":""}},"427481":{"#nid":"427481","#data":{"type":"news","title":"AE Chair Vigor Yang elected to National Academy of Engineering","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe National Academy of Engineering (NAE) today announced that it has elected AE School Chair and W. R. T. Oakes Professor\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ae.gatech.edu\/community\/staff\/bio\/yang-v\u0022\u003EDr.\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;Vigor Yang\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003Eas a member of the exclusive organization.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn announcing Yang\u0027s election, the NAE commended his \u201ccontributions to combustion physics in propulsion systems and to aerospace engineering education.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EJoining Yang in this honor were two other Georgia Tech faculty,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/faculty-staff\/fac_profiles\/bio.php?id=133\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDeepak Divan\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(ECE) and\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/bme.gatech.edu\/bme\/faculty\/Ajit-Yoganathan\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAjit P. Yoganathan\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(BME). All three will be formally inducted in ceremonies to be held in Washington, D.C., this October.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe typically low-key Yang was reticent about commenting on the career-defining honor, but his colleagues were not.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Vigor is a world-class scholar and a gifted teacher,\u0022 said associate chair Dr. Lakshmi Sankar, a Regents Professor.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022He has raised a generation of student researchers who have gone on to be highly successful in industry and academia. His innovations are in wide use within industries and government labs. This is a well-deserved, long overdue recognition of all he has done for our nation and our field. I am thrilled.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EElection to NAE is among the highest professional distinctions accorded to an engineer. Academy membership honors those who have made outstanding contributions to \u0022engineering research, practice, or education, including, where appropriate, significant contributions to the engineering literature,\u0022 and to the \u0022pioneering of new and developing fields of technology, making major advancements in traditional fields of engineering, or developing\/implementing innovative approaches to engineering education.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cDeepak, Vigor and Ajit have made exceptional contributions to their fields and to Georgia Tech,\u201d said\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EGary S. May\u003C\/strong\u003E, dean of the College of Engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis is a tremendous honor for these outstanding and deserving researchers. We are honored to have them as part of our engineering faculty.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EYang received his Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology in 1984. Following a year as research fellow in jet propulsion at Caltech, he joined the Pennsylvania State University in 1985, becoming the John L. and Genevieve H. Chair in Engineering in 2006. He joined Georgia Tech as the aerospace engineering school chair in January 2009.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.yang.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EYang\u2019s research\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;encompasses a wide spectrum of topics, including combustion instabilities in propulsion systems, chemically reacting flows in air-breathing and rocket engines, combustion of energetic materials, high-pressure transport phenomena and combustion, active control of gas-turbine combustion dynamics, and nanotechnologies for propulsion and energetic applications. He has established, as the principal or co-principal investigator, more than 68 research projects dealing with fluid dynamics and combustion in aerospace propulsion and power systems.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ctable width=\u0022500\u0022 border=\u00220\u0022 cellspacing=\u00221\u0022 cellpadding=\u00225\u0022\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003EMinutes after the NAE announcement was made, Yang was surrounded by faculty and other colleagues who wanted to congratulate him. Seen here are Dr. Julian Rimoli, left, and Dr. Graeme Kennedy. Dr. Yang met their congratulations by saying \u0022You\u0027re next.\u0022\u003Cbr \/\u003EOther GT-AE\u0026nbsp;faculty who have been elected to the NAE\u0026nbsp;include:\u0026nbsp;Dr. Ben T. Zinn, Dr. Robert Braun, Dr. Robert Loewy and\u0026nbsp; Dr. Don P. Giddens.\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) today announced that it has elected AE School Chair and W. R. T. Oakes Professor Dr. Vigor Yang as a member of the exclusive organization."}],"uid":"27456","created_gmt":"2015-07-22 10:47:04","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:19:15","author":"Britanny Grace","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-02-05T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2015-02-05T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1239","name":"School of Aerospace Engineering"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"2082","name":"aerospace engineering"},{"id":"1972","name":"NAE"},{"id":"1741","name":"Vigor Yang"}],"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":""}},"427051":{"#nid":"427051","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Inspired by Orion: Zu Puayen Tan","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWhen NASA launched the Orion spacecraft on Friday, AE graduate student Zu Puayen Tan did more than look up in wonder.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe turned to art.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe mixed media result, \u0022Dawn of a New Age of Exploration\u0022 expresses the Milaysia native\u0027s awe for the future of his chosen field. In it, a phantasmal maiden dressed in flowing gowns floats above the Orion capsule, gazing into unknown gallaxies that the viewer is inspired to imagine.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022It hints at the birth of a new vehicle, a new era of exploration,\u0022 he says.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETan is excited about the progress that the United States\u0027 space program has made toward landing on distant planets, but he thinks it\u0027s important to temper that enthusiasm with a calmer look at the implications of space exploration.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Typically, we hear people talk about space exploration as being \u0027cool\u0027 or \u0027really badass,\u0027\u0022 he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022But there\u0027s something beyond that -- the freedom, the serenity that it inspires -- that I was trying to capture.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe illustration is a combination of acrylic paint, photography, and graphic art software programs -- a mixture that has fueled his artistic talents for years. He turned out the piece in a matter of hours after Orion landed.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022I was excited about the flight, and I had been spending way too much time in the lab, so getting out to do some art made a lot of sense,\u0022 he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe 25-year-old doctoral student completed his undergraduate and masters work in aerospace engineering at Georgia Tech and is currently doing research in the Combustion Lab under the direction of that lab\u0027s namesake, Dr. Ben Zinn.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHis research examines how fuel responds to injection at high pressure temperatures, a process that holds much promise for next generation combustion.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We don\u0027t know enough about how fuel behaves, so it\u0027s an important area. And the [Zinn] Combustion lab is equipped to achieve a combination of temperature and pressure that not a whole lot of labs can attain,\u0022 he said. \u0022It\u0027s exciting work.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDoes it compete with his lifelong interest in visual art?\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022No. The first things I ever drew were airplanes, and I\u0027ve pretty much always wanted to work with them,\u0022 he said. \u0022This is just something that keeps me balanced.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ctable width=\u0022500\u0022 border=\u00220\u0022 cellspacing=\u00221\u0022 cellpadding=\u00221\u0022\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd class=\u0022rtecenter\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EOrion:\u0026nbsp;Dawn of a\u0026nbsp; New Era of Exploration,\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;a mixed-media piece by GT-AE doctoral student Zu Puayen\u0026nbsp;Tan, was inspired by\u0026nbsp; the Dec. 5\u0026nbsp; Orion Exploration Flight Test 1 (EFT-1)\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"When NASA launched the Orion spacecraft on Friday, AE graduate student Zu Puayen Tan did more than look up in wonder.  He turned to art."}],"uid":"27456","created_gmt":"2015-07-21 15:31:07","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:19:12","author":"Britanny Grace","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-12-08T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2014-12-08T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1239","name":"School of Aerospace Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"2082","name":"aerospace engineering"},{"id":"408","name":"NASA"},{"id":"136221","name":"Zu Puayen Tan"}],"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":""}},"426201":{"#nid":"426201","#data":{"type":"news","title":"AE student Joshua Carnes selected for NASA Aeronautics Scholarship","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe National Aeronautics \u0026amp; Space Administration (NASA) has announced that GT-AE junior Joshua Carnes will receive one of its much-coveted 2014 Aeronautics Scholarships.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Florida native is one of just 20 undergraduates, nationwide, who were chosen for the scholarship, which will provide as much as $40,000 in educational and training assistance over the next two years.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs a part of that assistance, Carnes, 20, will take part in a summer internship at one of NASA\u0027s campuses.The GT-AE honors student hopes to land a slot in the Langley, VA facility next summer, but said he was thrilled to have any contact at all\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003Ewith NASA.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022I\u0027ve always been fascinated with space and with NASA, having grown up in Florida, where we were able to watch some of the shuttle launches,\u0022 he said. \u0022This is really an honor.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENow in its seventh year, the NASA Aeronautics Scholarship is designed to assist undergraduate and graduate students enrolled in fields of study related to aeronautics. Scholarship recipients like Carnes will have the opportunity to intern with NASA researchers and work on developing technologies to increase efficiency in air traffic management, reduce aircraft noise, fuel consumption and emissions, and improve air safety.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECarnes said that, while he is personally more interested in studying spacecraft, he is prepared to focus on aeronautics when he interns with NASA.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022I mean it\u0027s NASA,\u0022 he said. \u0022Maybe they\u0027ll convince me to change directions.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECurrently Carnes is working with\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ae.gatech.edu\/community\/staff\/bio\/johnson-e\u0022\u003EDr. Eric Johnson\u003C\/a\u003E, studying design optimization for UAVs.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We are designing a program to optimize part selection so that the vehicle you build will be able to meet all mission requirements, like having a certain amount of thrust or attaining a certain speed,\u0022 he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Right now, it\u0027s a bit of guesswork, sometimes.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EJaiwon Shin, associate administrator for NASA\u0027s Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate in Washington had high praise for Carnes and his fellow aeronautics scholars.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022These students represent the future in aeronautics research. Besides receiving NASA assistance to pay college costs, they will work side-by-side with NASA scientists and engineers to help solve today\u0027s most demanding air transportation system problems.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The National Aeronautics \u0026 Space Administration (NASA) has announced that GT-AE junior Joshua Carnes will receive one of its much-coveted 2014 Aeronautics Scholarships."}],"uid":"27456","created_gmt":"2015-07-16 15:25:29","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:19:12","author":"Britanny Grace","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-09-29T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-09-29T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1239","name":"School of Aerospace Engineering"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"2082","name":"aerospace engineering"},{"id":"134261","name":"Joshua Carnes"},{"id":"408","name":"NASA"}],"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":""}},"427061":{"#nid":"427061","#data":{"type":"news","title":"AE salutes Prof. Alan Wilhite","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWhile students sweated through their finals Thursday afternoon, the faculty and staff of the School of Aerospace Engineering gave a spirited send-off to Dr. Alan Wilhite who officially retired from his positions at Georgia Tech and NASA.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENamed to the Langley Distinguished Professorship of Aerospace Engineering in 2004, Wilhite carried out his Georgia Tech teaching duties at the National Institute of Aerospace (NIA) in Hampton, Virginia, where he also conducted research in systems engineering, space exploration systems, robust design, aerodynamics, propulsion, multidisciplinary optimization, operations, cost, and risk.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDespite his absence from the day-to-day happenings at the Atlanta campus, Wilhite exerted a positive influence on his GT-AE colleagues and students, several of whom spoke at Thursday\u0027s event.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ctable width=\u0022200\u0022 border=\u00220\u0022 cellspacing=\u00221\u0022 cellpadding=\u00225\u0022 align=\u0022right\u0022\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003Cem\u003EWilhite is joined by former GT-AE\u0026nbsp;Professor John Olds and a former student\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We\u0027ve always been able to count on you to bring the relevance and rigor of your NASA training to benefit our students,\u0022 said Yang. \u0022You have made us stronger as a school.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Coming down here (Atlanta) on a regular basis and being a part of our campus, you showed enormous professionalism,\u0022 said Associate Chair Jeff Jagoda.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022I just traveled up to Langley a few weeks ago, and I gotta tell you: that\u0027s no fun. But we\u0027d never know that when you showed up on campus, and for that, we thank you.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EProfessor Robert \u0022Bobby\u0022 Braun first met Wilihite when the two worked at NASA\u0027s Langley Center. He credited his longtime colleague with changing the course of his career.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022I\u0027d probably only been working there about a year and a half when Alan said to me \u0027You gotta get out of here. Go to Stanford. Get your Ph.D.\u0027,\u0022 said Braun.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ctable width=\u0022200\u0022 border=\u00220\u0022 cellspacing=\u00221\u0022 cellpadding=\u00225\u0022 align=\u0022right\u0022\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003Cem\u003EAE Professor Robert \u0022Bobby\u0022\u0026nbsp;Braun credited Wilhite with convincing the then-graduate student to pursue a doctorate when the two were working at NASA\u0026nbsp;Langley.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022At the time NASA was paying for school, but I hadn\u0027t really thought about it. Alan pushed me, and it really turned out to be a gift. I owe him for that one.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EProfessor David Spencer lauded Wilhite\u0027s ability to successfully straddle three different organizational cultures -- NASA, NIA, and Georgia Tech -- without letting any of them slip.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We all know how to take something easy and make it look hard,\u0022 he added. \u0022But Alan has a unique ability to take something difficult and make it look easy.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAssociate Professor Mitchell Walker said he counted on Wilhite\u0027s wisdom.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Whenever he was on campus, I could count on him coming over to visit,\u0022 said Walker.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022And he\u0027d always have helpful advice to share. He knew what work would have impact and value, and he was always willing to share that with me.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Of course, now that he\u0027s retired, he\u0027ll have more time to discuss car racing,\u0022 Walker added.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWilhite quickily confirmed Walker\u0027s hunch.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022I just got back from Daytona where I was racing all last weekend. Probably the only time I\u0027ve passed someone going 160 miles-per-hour, \u0022 he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022I\u0027m in this high-performance driver education where there are five levels of certification. I\u0027m at a 3, and when I get to a 5, I will be able to call myself a professional driver. I figure I\u0027ll get there when I\u0027m around 90.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ctable width=\u0022200\u0022 border=\u00220\u0022 cellspacing=\u00221\u0022 cellpadding=\u00225\u0022 align=\u0022right\u0022\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003EAssociate Professor Mitchell Walker praised Wilhite for freely sharing helpful advice\u0026nbsp; with his colleagues.\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn the meantime, the longtime racing fanatic said retirement means he can pull out his toolbox and start working on the 2002 Porsche 911 whose engine blew up a while back.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAnd when it\u0027s ready, he\u0027ll take it out on the Virginia International Raceway, a 3.2-mile, 17-turn track near his home.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022It\u0027s a lot more challenging than Daytona, because its not banked,\u0022 he said. \u0022You can\u0027t just sit there and drive. You have to maneuver.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWilhite said he will miss the energy and excitement that he felt every time he walked onto the Georgia Tech campus. In particular, he praised AE Chair Vigor Yang for recruiting a wealth of talented young professors who will ensure the School\u0027s future is as bright as its past.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022I\u0027m so impressed when I come onto campus and see the world-class talent we\u0027ve attracted to our classrooms,\u0022 he said. \u0022It\u0027s always been exciting for me to be associated with Georgia Tech.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EAlan Wilhite earned his bachelors in aerospace engineering from North Carolina State University, his masters from Washington University, and his doctorate from North Carolina State. In addition to teaching, he served as the co-director of the Georgia Tech Center for Aerospace Systems Engineering (CASE). He has numerous published articles and several book chapters in these areas. He has served as a researcher, systems program manager, and senior executive involved in the design and development of NASA space and aeronautic systems. He is an AIAA Associate Fellow and has served on several AIAA technical committees such as Space Systems, Space Transportation and Computer Aided Design. He is also a member of the International Astronautical Federation on the Systems Engineering committee. He has served as NASA\u2019s external chair for systems engineering and conducts research supporting NASA\u2019s vision in space exploration.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ctable width=\u0022500\u0022 border=\u00220\u0022 cellspacing=\u00221\u0022 cellpadding=\u00221\u0022\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003Cem\u003EFaculty, staff and former colleagues converged on the GT Library for Professor Alan Wilhite\u0027s retirement party, Dec. 11.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The faculty and staff of the School of Aerospace Engineering gave a spirited send-off to Dr. Alan Wilhite who officially retired from his positions at Georgia Tech and NASA."}],"uid":"27456","created_gmt":"2015-07-21 15:33:47","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:19:12","author":"Britanny Grace","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-12-11T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2014-12-11T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1239","name":"School of Aerospace Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"2082","name":"aerospace engineering"},{"id":"136231","name":"Alan Wilhite"},{"id":"408","name":"NASA"}],"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":""}},"426211":{"#nid":"426211","#data":{"type":"news","title":"JPL is the right place for this AE Ph.D. \u002713 grad","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFor AE students who are itching for hands-on experience in the field, JPL mechanical engineer (and AE Ph.D. \u201913) Christopher Tanner has some good news.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI\u2019ve only been out for about two years, and I\u2019ve already done some exciting work,\u201d Tanner told a group of AE students on Thursday morning.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cAnd I\u2019ve had to use a lot of stuff I learned here in class, like high-speed aerodynamics. So, thing is: pay attention.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETanner and his JPL colleagues will return to campus on October 23 and 24 to interview select AE students for positions at the storied Pasadena, CA laboratory.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003EBut only those who uploaded their resumes onto\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/gatech-csm.symplicity.com\/students\/\u0022\u003ECareerBuzz\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;by October 4 were eligible.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn a brief presentation before Prof. Lakshmi Sankar\u2019s High-speed Aerodynamics Class, Tanner regaled students with accounts of his work on the Low Density Supersonic Decelerator project which deployed a full-scale supersonic test flight in June.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022This was a test-as-you-fly experiment where we tested three advanced decelerator technologies in conditions that are similar to those experienced during a Mars landing,\u0022\u0026nbsp;he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ctable width=\u0022200\u0022 border=\u00220\u0022 cellspacing=\u00221\u0022 cellpadding=\u00223\u0022 align=\u0022right\u0022\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003ELDSD supersonic flight test pre-launch at dawn in Kauai, HI. For Christopher Tanner, this is what work looks like. Sometimes.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe can\u2019t test everything computationally or at at subscale sizes, so testing them at full-scale in an environment similar to Mars is how we get the absolute best data.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe results?\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETanner said two of the technologies \u2013 the Supersonic Inflatable Aerodynamic Decelerator (SIAD) and the Supersonic Ballute (half balloon, half parachute) \u2013 did amazingly well, performing just as the project had planned.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe third technology, a 100-foot diameter supersonic parachute, experienced an anomaly; it tore apart when deployed at Mach2.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe reasons behind the parachute\u2019s failure are complex, but the thing is, they are changing how we think about supersonic parachutes for Mars in general, which is incredible,\u201d he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cLooked at that way, the test as a whole was a resounding success. We learn so much from failures that we are constantly encouraged to dare to do mighty things.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEver the engineer, Tanner said he was excited about attacking those design flaws for a redeployment next summer. By that time, there might be some additional GT-AE grads working alongside him.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003ESeniors and graduate students who would like to be considered for a position at JPL should upload their resumes to CareerBuzz by Oct. 4\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9yRWhu0UGYw\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003ECheck out this JPL video of the LDSD test flight.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ctable width=\u0022200\u0022 border=\u00220\u0022 cellspacing=\u00221\u0022 cellpadding=\u00221\u0022 align=\u0022center\u0022\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003Cem\u003ELDSD rocket sled at 300 mph at the Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake\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":"For AE students who are itching for hands-on experience in the field, JPL mechanical engineer (and AE Ph.D. \u201913) Christopher Tanner has some good news."}],"uid":"27456","created_gmt":"2015-07-16 15:30:15","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:19:12","author":"Britanny Grace","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-10-02T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-10-02T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1239","name":"School of Aerospace Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"130","name":"Alumni"}],"keywords":[{"id":"2082","name":"aerospace engineering"},{"id":"135701","name":"Christopher Tanner"}],"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":""}},"427071":{"#nid":"427071","#data":{"type":"news","title":"AE faculty Julian Rimoli recognized by CETL","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAE faculty Dr. Julian Rimoli has been chosen to receive the Class of 1940 Course Survey Teaching Effectiveness Award by the Georgia Tech Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning (CETL).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAnnouncement of the award was made this week but will be formally celebrated in March when CETL holds its annual Celebrating Teaching Day.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Class of 1940 distinction is one of several awards made annually by CETL\u0026nbsp; to instructors of small and large classes. It is based on the Course Instructor Opinion Surveys (CIOS) that were administered in the Fall 2013 and Spring 2014 semesters. A high response rate\u0026nbsp; (85% or greater) and a near-perfect evaluation score are required for consideration. A maximum of 40 awards are made to Georgia Tech faculty annually.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022I take the mission of teaching very seriously, so this honor greatly humbles me,\u0022 he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn November, Rimoli\u0027s commitment to the teaching profession was center stage when he served as a keynote speaker for a national education summit, Project Lead-the-Way.\u0026nbsp;He currently holds the Goizueta Junior Faculty Professorship and was selected to receive the Lockheed Dean\u0027s Award for Teaching in February of this year.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA native or Argentina, Rimoli earned his doctorate at Caltech.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"AE faculty Dr. Julian Rimoli has been chosen to receive the Class of 1940 Course Survey Teaching Effectiveness Award by the Georgia Tech Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning (CETL)."}],"uid":"27456","created_gmt":"2015-07-21 15:35:29","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:19:12","author":"Britanny Grace","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-12-12T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2014-12-12T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1239","name":"School of Aerospace Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"2082","name":"aerospace engineering"},{"id":"1601","name":"CETL"},{"id":"130061","name":"Julian Rimoli"}],"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":""}},"426261":{"#nid":"426261","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Prof. Robert Braun tapped for Moore Distinguished Scholar Program at CalTech","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EProf. Robert \u0022Bobby\u0022 Braun has been selected by California Institute of Technology (\u0022\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.caltech.edu\/\u0022\u003ECalTech\u003C\/a\u003E) for its prestigious Moore Distinguished Scholar Program.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAn NAE\u0026nbsp;member and the GT-AE David and Andrew Lewis Professor of Space Technology, Braun will begin his residency at the Pasadena campus in January of 2015, returning to Georgia Tech in the fall.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEstablished in 2000, the Gordon and Betty Moore Distinguished Scholar program invites select technologists, scholars, and artists to pursue their research and other scholarly activities at CalTech for three to nine months. Relieved of teaching duties during his tenure at CalTech, Braun looks forward to diving more deeply into research and writing projects.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022I plan to pursue fundamental research in the areas of hypersonics and entry, descent and landing technology. I am looking forward to collaborating with a number of colleagues at Caltech in these areas,\u0022 he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022In addition, I have been working on a textbook on\u0026nbsp;these topics\u0026nbsp;for some time and hope to advance the maturity of this book considerably. I also plan to spend a day a week working with colleagues at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory on a number of future planetary exploration mission concepts.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhile he is gone, Braun will continue working with as many as 23 GT-AE undergraduate and graduate students, three or four of whom will be working on the final stages of their doctorates this spring.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022This is a great opportunity for me to focus and deepen the impact of my research group\u0027s contributions\u0026nbsp;to a number of important societal challenges,\u0022 said Braun.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Through the Moore Distinguished Scholar program, I hope to advance several\u0026nbsp; game-changing research and technology needs in hypersonics and planetary exploration. I also hope to learn about the Caltech culture of innovation and research excellence, bringing some of these ideas and strategies back to Georgia Tech when I return.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003ERobert Braun\u0027s research at Georgia Tech has focused on design of advanced flight systems and technologies for planetary exploration. His research integrates aspects of conceptual design and analysis, optimization theory, technology development, modeling and simulation, and experimental validation. He significantly advanced the areas of entry, descent, and landing technology and has contributed to the design, development, test, and operation of both robotic and human space-flight systems. He has also been active in the development of theory and methods for multidisciplinary design, systems engineering, and optimization.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Prof. Robert \u0022Bobby\u0022 Braun has been selected by California Institute of Technology (\u0022CalTech) for its prestigious Moore Distinguished Scholar Program."}],"uid":"27456","created_gmt":"2015-07-16 15:35:39","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:19:12","author":"Britanny Grace","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-10-06T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-10-06T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1239","name":"School of Aerospace Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"2082","name":"aerospace engineering"},{"id":"135711","name":"Moore Distinguished Scholar Program"},{"id":"2575","name":"Robert Braun"}],"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":""}},"427081":{"#nid":"427081","#data":{"type":"news","title":"GT-AE researchers earn patent for P\u0026W collaboration","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EResearch on real-time aircraft engine optimization conducted jointly by the School of Aerospace Engineering and Pratt \u0026amp; Whitney has resulted in a new patent.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EResearch coordinated by GT-AE Professor J. V. R. Prasad created a real-time linear model that is capable of assessing actual vehicle conditions to optimize performance during flight. The dynamic nature of the model provides greater accuracy in addressing the control needs of gas turbine aircraft, the backbone of commercial aviation.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cUp until now, the models have been offline, and their results, very approximate,\u201d said Prasad, who headed up the research with his former doctoral student Gi-Yun Chung and Pratt \u0026amp; Whitney colleagues Manuj Dhingra and Richard Meisner.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022This allows us to see what\u2019s happening at key stages of flight \u2013 typically take-off, cruising, and landing \u2013 where the demands on the aircraft, and its performance, can vary.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPrasad said widespread application of this real-time modeling in commercial air flight will inevitably result in greater fuel efficiency, more accurate engine maintenance, and increased air safety.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis allows us to look at the health of the engine while it is in use, so you can see if it\u2019s getting close to its temperature or engine surge limits. Ideally, you want to operate within certain margins, and this allows us to control the plane so it operates optimally, without violating those limits.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe patent represents the culmination of three years of dedicated research, supported by the Pratt \u0026amp; Whitney Center for Excellence. In June of last year, a paper describing the impact of that research, \u201cReal-time Linearization of Turbofan Engine Model\u201d was recognized with the 2013 Best Technical Paper award by the Controls Diagnostics \u0026amp; Instrumentation Committee of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) at its Dusseldorf, Germany conference.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/gasturbinespower.asmedigitalcollection.asme.org\/article.aspx?articleid=1734815\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003ERead more\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;about that research.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Research on real-time aircraft engine optimization conducted jointly by the School of Aerospace Engineering and Pratt \u0026 Whitney has resulted in a new patent."}],"uid":"27456","created_gmt":"2015-07-21 15:37:45","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:19:12","author":"Britanny Grace","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-01-05T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2015-01-05T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1239","name":"School of Aerospace Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"2082","name":"aerospace engineering"},{"id":"134471","name":"Gi-Yun Chung"},{"id":"129721","name":"JVR Prasad"},{"id":"54731","name":"Pratt \u0026 Whitney"}],"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":""}},"426291":{"#nid":"426291","#data":{"type":"news","title":"ASDL\u0027s AerosPACE collaboration with Boeing wins praise of educators","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA year-long collaboration between AE\u0027s Aerospace Systems Design Lab (ASDL), the Boeing Company, and three other universities was recognized recently by\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003EC\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003Ehief Learning Officer\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;magazine with a Learning In Practice award.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBoeing executives Michael Richey and Barry McPherson accepted a Gold Award on behalf of the Aerospace Partners for the Advancement of Collaborative Engineering\u0026nbsp;(AerosPACE), a program that\u0026nbsp; brought together students from Georgia Tech, Purdue, Embry Riddle and Brigham Young for a year-long design-build-fly modeling project.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe award recognized the Boeing Company\u0027s commitment to fostering collaboration among the engineering students, who worked remotely on many aspects of the project.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAt Georgia Tech, the foundation of the AerosPACE project was laid by ASDL\u0026nbsp;research engineers Neil Weston, Ph.D., and Carl Johnson, who jointly taught the Capstone Design Class that prepared students for the final fly-off in April.\u0026nbsp;Weston, Johnson, and ASDL\u0026nbsp;director Dimitri Mavris, Ph.D., were recognized by the Boeing AerosPACE team\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ctable width=\u0022200\u0022 border=\u00220\u0022 cellspacing=\u00221\u0022 cellpadding=\u00225\u0022 align=\u0022right\u0022\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003Cem\u003EASDL research engineer Carl Johnson took the lead in teaching the Capstone Design class that culminated in the AerosPACE project.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cp\u003Eas they accepted the award during the magazine\u0027s Learning in Practice Symposium, October 5.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis is the second major award bestowed on the AerosPACE\u0026nbsp;program. In July, the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) recognized the program with an Excellence in Engineering Education Collaboration Award.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELaunched in the fall of 2013, the AerosPACE\u0026nbsp;project tasked teams from each of the participating schools with designing, building, testing, and deploying a UAV that was capable of accurately monitoring agricultural crops and delivering useful information on irrigation, pesticide use, and vegetative health. Geographically disbursed, the teams learned creative ways to collaborate.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cEffective collaboration \u2013 across different engineering disciplines, different cultures even different time zones \u2013 is the biggest challenge in today\u2019s business world,\u201d said\u0026nbsp; Marcus Nance, one of several Boeing executives who oversaw the 2013-14 AerosPACE project.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ctable width=\u0022200\u0022 border=\u00220\u0022 cellspacing=\u00221\u0022 cellpadding=\u00225\u0022 align=\u0022right\u0022\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003Cem\u003EASDL\u0026nbsp;senior research engineer Neil Weston, Ph.D., worked alongside Johnson in the Capstone Design class.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cAt Boeing, we have a 24-hour workforce, with engineers collaborating on the same project all around the world. Today\u2019s students will need to have collaboration skills to succeed.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe 2014 Learning In Practice Awards were announced at a special awards ceremony during the Fall 2014 Chief Learning Officer Symposium in Carlsbad, California. That event attracted more than 300 top corporate learning executives from around the world to discuss long-term learning strategies for creating and sustaining high performance.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe symposium was sponsored by Human Capital Media,\u0026nbsp; which publishes\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003EChief Learning Officer\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003Emagazine.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe ASDL is participating in the AerosPACE\u0026nbsp;challenge for the 2014-15 school year, which will also include participation by student engineers from Tuskegee Univeristy.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"A year-long collaboration between AE\u0027s Aerospace Systems Design Lab (ASDL), the Boeing Company, and three other universities was recognized recently by Chief Learning Officer magazine with a Learning In Practice award."}],"uid":"27456","created_gmt":"2015-07-16 15:46:50","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:19:12","author":"Britanny Grace","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-10-09T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-10-09T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1239","name":"School of Aerospace Engineering"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"1325","name":"aerospace"},{"id":"2082","name":"aerospace engineering"},{"id":"100921","name":"ASDL"},{"id":"135131","name":"Carl Johnson"},{"id":"135731","name":"Neil Weston"}],"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":""}},"427091":{"#nid":"427091","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Dave Spencer elected to American Astronautical Society Board","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAE Professor David A. Spencer has been elected to a three-year term on the American Astronautical Society\u0027s (AAS) Board of Directors, effective immediately.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe appointment was made December 15 during the AAS\u0027s scheduled Board of Directors meeting.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Since membership is the lifeblood of the organization, my focus as a board member is to develop initiatives that can spur membership growth, especially with students and those at the beginning of their careers in aerospace,\u0022\u0026nbsp;said Spencer.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022I would also like to pursue the establishment of an AAS section in the Southeast, drawing upon the outstanding universities and aerospace companies in the region.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFounded in 1954, the AAS is recognized for the excellence of its technical meetings, symposia, publications and its impact on the U.S. space program. The organization has more than 1,400 members worldwide and produces one of the field\u0027s leading aerospace publications, the\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EJournal of Astronutical Sciences\u003C\/em\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to teaching and mentoring students at GT-AE, Spencer serves as the director of the Center for Space Systems, a multi-disciplinary education and research center dedicated to excellence in space system engineering. He is the principal investigator for the U.S. Air Forces\u0027 Prox-1 mission, a spacecraft that will perform proximity operations for space situational awareness in low-Earth orbit. He also leads the Small Probes for Orbital Return of Experiments (SPORE) investigation within the NASA Small Business Technology Transfer program. The SPORE flight system architecture will utilize a modular design approach to provide low-cost on-orbit operation and recovery of small payloads.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESpencer also leads mission operations for the Planetary Society\u0027s LightSail-1 project, which seeks to demonstrate the deployment and controlled acceleration of a solar sail in Earth orbit.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPrior to joining Georgia Tech\u0027s faculty, Spencer spent 17 years with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, serving as the deputy project manager for the Phoenix Mars Lander, the mission manager for the Deep Impact and Mars Odyssey projects, and the mission designer for Mars Pathfinder.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAt Georgia Tech, Spencer is conducting research on the application of collaborative observations for mapping chemical distributions in the coastal oceans. In this approach, aerial or orbital remote sensing observations provide an initial distribution that seeds an in situ survey by a network of instrumented underwater vehicles. In partnership with the NASA Langley Research Center and the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, such a system is being developed for the mapping of oxygen-depleted zones in coastal waters.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"AE Professor David A. Spencer has been elected to a three-year term on the American Astronautical Society\u0027s (AAS) Board of Directors, effective immediately."}],"uid":"27456","created_gmt":"2015-07-21 15:40:08","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:19:12","author":"Britanny Grace","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-01-06T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2015-01-06T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1239","name":"School of Aerospace Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"126771","name":"AAS"},{"id":"2082","name":"aerospace engineering"},{"id":"98181","name":"David Spencer"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"426301":{"#nid":"426301","#data":{"type":"news","title":"GT-AE hosts the Overset Grid Symposium","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMore than 80 scientists and engineers from around the globe converged on Georgia Tech this week for the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/2014.oversetgridsymposium.org\/index.php\u0022\u003E12th Symposium on Overset Composite Grids and Solution Technology.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHosted by AE Professor Marilyn Smith, the four-day event provided an open forum for communication among mathematicians, scientists, and engineers from academia, industry, and government.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESmith said the opportunity to host the conference was a major coup for the Institute. Past hosts have included the U.S. Air Force Research Lab and NASA. Speakers and workshops focused on a wide range of topics, all touching upon overset grid technologies, including unsteady and moving body problems, and emerging hybrid strategies.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022I\u0027ve already met with some researchers who are doing work in Naval laboratories and in the biomedical field,\u0022 said Smith, a noted expert in advanced numerical methods and engineering analysis associated with unsteady fluid mechanics, applied to the interdisciplinary problems involving aeroelasticity or fluid-structure interaction.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022It sounds very different, but the work they are doing is very complementary to mine. We\u0027re going to leverage each other\u0027s work and see where it takes us.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMembers of the GT chapter of the American Helicopter Society (AHS) helped to put on the symposium.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESee\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/117948618@N08\/sets\/72157648551930646\/\u0022\u003Eadditional photos\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;from the Symposium.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"More than 80 scientists and engineers from around the globe converged on Georgia Tech this week for the 12th Symposium on Overset Composite Grids and Solution Technology."}],"uid":"27456","created_gmt":"2015-07-16 15:51:29","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:19:12","author":"Britanny Grace","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-10-10T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-10-10T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1239","name":"School of Aerospace Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"135741","name":"12th Symposium on Overset Composite Grids and Solution Technology"},{"id":"2082","name":"aerospace engineering"},{"id":"2582","name":"Ajit Yoganathan"},{"id":"129861","name":"Marilyn Smith"}],"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":""}},"426311":{"#nid":"426311","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Designing a better car: ASDL\u0027s Youngchul Park","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EHyundai Motors this month singled out AE\u0026nbsp; graduate student Youngchul Park\u0026nbsp; for a top award\u0026nbsp; as a part of the company\u0027s 4th Annual Global Top Talent Forum.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPark, 35, was flown to Paris, France in early October to receive the award in the vehicle performance category for his presentation on improving current automotive technology. Park gave that presentation at a 3-day forum in San Francisco this past August.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to the all-expenses-paid trip to the Paris Auto Show, Park received a $3,000 prize and a job offer from Hyundai Motors for when he finishes his graduate studies, sometime in 2016.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPark\u0027s talk derived from his research at AE\u0027s Aerospace Systems Design Lab (ASDL), where he\u0026nbsp; has used a cellular automata model and a hierarchical design process to simplify the problem faced by automotive engineers when the use of lighter materials allows for greater fracture and fatigue damage in the finished vehicle. His research is based on work he completed with his mentors, Dr. Dimitri Mavris and Dr. Neil Weston in the Aerospace Systems Design Lab (ASDL).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe trio\u0027s work was summed up in \u0022\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ae.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/img\/10-29Youngchul%20Park.pdf\u0022\u003ESimulation of Distributed Co-Crack Propagation with Cellular Automata Model by Time Warp Synchronization.\u0022\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPark said that the research on automotive design was a natural outgrowth of his work in aerospace engineering, where light-weight, durable materials are critical to all vehicle designs. Applying those concepts to cars presented some intriguing challenges, however; cars experience unique stress and fracture behavior that has to be specifically addressed.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The lighter materials make the car more fuel efficient, but they also have problems because they develop multiple cracks,\u0022 he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Traditional damage tolerant design (DTD) analysis only looks at one crack in the system. I wanted to see what the cumulative impact was for multiple cracks, caused by amplitude stress over the entire life of\u0026nbsp; the vehicle.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHis research suggested that by simplifying the DTD problems at each step in the design, engineers can follow a hierarchical design process that will allow them to produce a safer, lighter, more fuel-efficient vehicle. Park said he will continue to work on this concept as a part of his dissertation.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPark earned a masters in mechanical engineering in his native Korea before starting a graduate program in aerospace engineering at Georgia Tech. He looks forward to perhaps joining industry one day, but admits that he would be very tempted to continue working with Mavris, his mentor, after earning his doctorate.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022I would not have received this award without his support and advice,\u0022 he said.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Hyundai Motors this month singled out AE  graduate student Youngchul Park  for a top award  as a part of the company\u0027s 4th Annual Global Top Talent Forum."}],"uid":"27456","created_gmt":"2015-07-16 15:57:07","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:19:12","author":"Britanny Grace","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-10-29T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-10-29T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1239","name":"School of Aerospace Engineering"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"2082","name":"aerospace engineering"},{"id":"100921","name":"ASDL"},{"id":"135751","name":"Youngchul Park"}],"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":""}},"427111":{"#nid":"427111","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Mavris and NASA colleagues recognized for atmospheric flight mechanics paper","body":"","field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Ctable width=\u0022200\u0022 border=\u00220\u0022 cellspacing=\u00221\u0022 cellpadding=\u00225\u0022 align=\u0022right\u0022\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003Cem\u003EDr. Dimitri Mavris, far right, is joined by co-authors Dr. Peter Suh (a former ASDL\u0026nbsp;PhD student), and Alexander Chin during the awards ceremony where their paper was named Best Atmospheric Flight Mechanics paper of 2014\u003C\/em\u003E.\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA technical paper co-authored by AE Regents Professor Dimitri Mavris, his former doctoral student, Peter Suh, and\u0026nbsp; NASA\u0026nbsp;researcher Alexander Chin has been chosen as the best Atmospheric Flight Mechanics Paper for 2014 by the AIAA Atmospheric Flight Mechanics Conference.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAnnouncement of the award came on January 6, during AIAA\u0027s SciTech 2015 Conference, held in Kissimee, Florida.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMavris and his co-authors, both researchers at NASA Dryden Flight Center, were recognized for their paper, \u201c\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/arc.aiaa.org\/doi\/abs\/10.2514\/6.2014-2053\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERobust Modal Filtering and Control of the X-56A Model with Simulated Fiber Optic Sensor Failures\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003E.\u0022\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022This is the second paper that has been generated by Dr. Suh\u0027s dissertation at Georgia Tech,\u0022\u0026nbsp;said Mavris of his co-author\u0027s work. \u0022The previous paper,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ae.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/img\/Best%20Paper%20AFM%202013.pdf\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0027Virtual Deformation Control of the X-56A Model with Simulated Fiber Optic Sensors\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u0027 received this same honor last year, so it\u0027s two for two.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe trio\u0027s most recent paper looks at their work to improve the stability of remotely piloted aircraft, in particular the X-56A, using an estimator that, in simulated scenarios, has rejected 230 worst-case fiber optic sensor failures.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022This paper addressed the question of feasibility of active control of wing shape and body freedom flutter using advanced distributed high spatial resolution fiber optic sensors - while accounting for sensor failures,\u0022 said Mavris during a break from the five-day conference.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022This paper provides an important computational simulation study of the practicality of using distributed strain sensing in an aeroservoelastic control system, which can support lighter more flexible aircraft, thereby enabling next generation aircraft weight savings and ultimately improved fuel efficiency. The methodology proposed was applied on NASA\u2019s X-56 simulation model with good success and the hope now is that it will be used directly in NASA\u2019s upcoming X-56A flexible motion control flights.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDimitri Mavris is the Boeing Professor of Advanced Aerospace Systems Analysisand the\u0026nbsp; the director of the GT-AE Aerospace Systems Design Laboratory (ASDL). His primary areas of research interest include: advanced design methods, aircraft conceptual and preliminary design, air-breathing propulsion design, multi-disciplinary analysis, design and optimization, system of systems, and non-deterministic design theory.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"A technical paper co-authored by AE Regents Professor Dimitri Mavris, his former doctoral student, Peter Suh, and  NASA researcher Alexander Chin has been chosen as the best Atmospheric Flight Mechanics Paper for 2014 by the AIAA"}],"uid":"27456","created_gmt":"2015-07-21 16:02:23","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:19:12","author":"Britanny Grace","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-01-07T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2015-01-07T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1239","name":"School of Aerospace Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"136","name":"Aerospace"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"129851","name":"Dimitri Mavris"},{"id":"408","name":"NASA"},{"id":"136241","name":"Peter Suh"}],"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":""}},"426321":{"#nid":"426321","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Prasad named to Associate Director of GT\u0027s Vertical Lift Research Center of Excellence","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ELongtime AE professor J.V.R. Prasad has been tapped to assume the associate director position for the Institute\u0027s\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.ae.gatech.edu\/rcoe\/\u0022\u003EVertical Lift Research Center of Excellence (VLRCOE).\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn his new role, Prasad will assist VLRCOE Director Daniel Schrage, who has been at the helm of the Center since 1986.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022It is a good fit for me, because I have been working with the Center since I was a Ph.D. student, in the 80\u0027s,\u0022 said Prasad of his new appointment.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The work the Center does is very important, and I look forward to working with all of the PI\u0027s (principal investigators) as we prepare for our three-year review next month.\u0022\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESponsored by the U.S. Army, the Center supports a multidisciplinary research partnership between different academic institutions -- currently, Georgia Tech, the University of Michigan and, Washington University. \u0026nbsp;Georgia Tech has been awarded seven 5-year contracts to run the VLRCOE since earning the first one, in 1982.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAll VLRCOE\u0026nbsp;partnering institutions focus their research on advancing vertical lift technology in close collaboration with the rotorcraft industry. Under the current 5-year contract, the Center is responsible for more than $7 million in research activities.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPrasad sees the Center as more than the sum of its research dollars, however.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Roto-wing aircraft occupy an important place in aviation history and in our country\u0027s national defense and security,\u0022 he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022These are the only vehicles that can perform specific strategic missions -- like taking off and landing in a warzone -- so furthering the technology is a very important mission.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPrasad said he is proud of the role that Georgia Tech\u0027s VLRCOE has played in the development of\u0026nbsp; vertical flight and automomous flight during its 32-year history as the lead institution. In particular, he pointed to the Center\u0027s role in a DARPA-sponsored project that brought together researchers from other universities to test their algorithms and other technologies on GT vehicles.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0022As the Vertical Lift Center\u0027s systems integrator, Georgia Tech played a critical role in making this happen,\u0022\u0026nbsp;he said. \u0022It really shaped how we now see automous flight.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThat emphasis on collaboration has not diminished, he said. Of the 11 initiatives currently funded by the Center, Prasad, himself, is collaborating with colleagues from two other universities on two projects: \u0022Finite State Inflow Modeling for Multi-Rotor and Compound Rotorcraft Configurations and Evaluating High Speed Rotor Performance in Army and Naval Operations\u0022 and \u0022 Reduced Order Linear time Invariant Models and Algorithms for Integrated Flight and Rotor Control.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPrasad acknowledged the complexity of these titles, but said the focus is always on developing a practical application.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022For all of these years, the Vertical Lift Center has never looked at simple projects, but that\u0027s because we are always focusing on the demands and the needs of our customers, mainly the [US] Army,\u0022\u0026nbsp;he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Those demands have grown in their complexity, but are, always aimed at\u0026nbsp; finding practical solutions.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Longtime AE professor J.V.R. Prasad has been tapped to assume the associate director position for the Institute\u0027s Vertical Lift Research Center of Excellence (VLRCOE)."}],"uid":"27456","created_gmt":"2015-07-16 16:00:07","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:19:12","author":"Britanny Grace","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-10-30T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-10-30T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1239","name":"School of Aerospace Engineering"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"2082","name":"aerospace engineering"},{"id":"132511","name":"Daniel Schrage"},{"id":"129721","name":"JVR Prasad"},{"id":"135761","name":"VLRCOE"}],"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":""}},"427121":{"#nid":"427121","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Former AE Chair Bob Loewy endows new lecture series","body":[{"value":"\u003Ctable width=\u0022200\u0022 border=\u00220\u0022 cellspacing=\u00221\u0022 cellpadding=\u00221\u0022 align=\u0022right\u0022\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003Cem\u003EDr. Robert G. Loewy and his wife Lila S. Loewy have established a lectureship in rotorcraft technology at the School of Aerospace Engineering. The couple are seen here in April of 2014 when the School unveiled the former GT-AE chair\u0027s formal portrait.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEven in retirement, Dr. Robert Loewy is making a huge impact on the School of Aerospace Engineering. In December, the former GT-AE chair and professor made a generous gift that established the Lila S. and Robert G. Loewy Ph.D. Lectureship in Rotorcraft Technology.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe series will enable GT-AE to bring the top thinkers, innovators, and industry stakeholders to the Atlanta campus to explore the future of rotorcraft technology in a public forum. The inaugural lecture will be held in March, 2015.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI\u2019ve been impressed for a long time with the utility of rotorcraft technology,\u201d said Loewy, a onetime president (and board chairman) of the American Helicopter Society (AHS) who also served as the GT-AE chair from 1993 until 2008.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIf you think about how rotorcraft are used \u2013 in the military, in emergency rescues, in transportation \u2013 you can see that they are very important to society. But at the same time, most young people are not aware of how complex the technology is.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECurrent AE Chair, W.R.T. Oakes Professor Vigor Yang applauded his predecessor\u2019s generosity and vision.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe foundation of our School\u2019s greatness derives in no small part from the commitment of great minds, like Bob Loewy,\u201d said Yang.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cHe was tireless in his leadership of our School when he was here, and he continues to guide our legacy to new heights now. We are humbled and very grateful for his generosity.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ctable width=\u0022200\u0022 border=\u00220\u0022 cellspacing=\u00221\u0022 cellpadding=\u00221\u0022 align=\u0022right\u0022\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThis photo of the Loewy\u0027s was taken in 2001 during Robert Loewy\u0027s tenure as AE school chair.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELoewy said the time was right for the establishment of an endowed rotorcraft lectureship. New generations of engineers need to identify and meet the challenge of this highly complex field, he said, but they won\u2019t do it if it\u2019s not promoted by a credible source, like Georgia Tech\u2019s School of Aerospace Engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cRotorcraft technology is often said to be 40 years behind that of fixed-wing, by experts in both fields, but that can change,\u201d he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cGeorgia Tech has had the first and largest and only continually funded Rotorcraft Center of Excellence in the country. It is continually rewarded with new contracts, because it has been aggressively pursuing cutting-edge research. I think there\u2019s a greater potential interest there than at any other U.S. university.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBut cut-and-dried practicality is not the only reason behind Loewy\u2019s generosity.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u201cGeorgia Tech and the School of Aerospace Engineering are close to my heart,\u201d he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI spent a lot of years working with the faculty and administration there, and I am convinced that it is the right place to make a commitment.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to the Loewy Lecture series, future faculty, students and staff will be reminded of the previous chair\u0027s commitment to AE via the Loewy Library, a popular study space that was established in 2011 largely through alumni gifts to the School.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EA member of the National Academy of Engineering, Dr. Robert G. Loewy earned his bachelor\u2019s degree at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, his masters at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and his doctorate at the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to joining the School of Aerospace Engineering at Georgia Tech, he established an extensive career in the aerospace industry with Lockheed-Martin, Calspan and Boeing Helicopters. At the University of Rochester, he served as professor, director of the Space Science Center, and dean of the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences. At Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, he was vice president for Academic Affairs and provost, then institute professor and the founder and director of their Rotorcraft Technology Center. He has served as a consultant to government and industry, as the chief scientist of the US Air Force, and, subsequently as chairman of the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board, NASA\u2019s Aeronautics Advisory Committee and the FAA Engineering Advisory Board. Among his many professional honors are the Lawrence Sperry Award and both the Guggenheim and Spirit of St. Louis medals.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EInterested in contributing to GT-AE?\u0026nbsp;Contact AE development director,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:farah.kashlan.@coe.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EFarah Kashlan\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Dr. Robert Loewy is making a huge impact on the School of Aerospace Engineering."}],"uid":"27456","created_gmt":"2015-07-21 16:22:48","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:19:12","author":"Britanny Grace","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-01-15T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2015-01-15T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1239","name":"School of Aerospace Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"136","name":"Aerospace"},{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"2082","name":"aerospace engineering"},{"id":"136251","name":"Lila Loewy"},{"id":"2788","name":"Robert Loewy"}],"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":""}},"426331":{"#nid":"426331","#data":{"type":"news","title":"AE\u0027s Veronica Foreman, Marilyn Smith are \u0022Women of Distinction\u0022","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETwo of the five honorees from Georgia Tech\u0027s 2014 Women\u0027s Leadership Conference have their roots firmly planted in the School of Aerospace Engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ctable width=\u0022150\u0022 border=\u00220\u0022 cellspacing=\u00221\u0022 cellpadding=\u00225\u0022 align=\u0022right\u0022\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd class=\u0022rtecenter\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EProf. Marilyn Smith\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAE Professor Marilyn Smith and graduating senior Veronica \u0022Ronnie\u0022 Foreman were each recognized with awards during the WLC\u0027s 2014 gala, held Oct. 25.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESmith, who earned her bachelor\u0027s, masters, and doctorate at Georgia Tech, was named the 2014 Alumna of Distinction. This is the second time she has been recognized by the Conference. In 1999, the WLC named her the Faculty Woman of Distinction.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EFind out more about the 2014\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ae.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/img\/WOmen%20Leadership.pdf\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EWomen\u0027s Leadership Conference.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor Foreman, winning the WLC\u0027s 2014 Undergraduate Woman of Distinction award came as a bittersweet reminder that her days at Georgia Tech are numbered. The 22-year-old Maryland native will be graduating this December and does not yet know if she will be returning to pursue her masters.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ctable width=\u0022125\u0022 border=\u00220\u0022 cellspacing=\u00221\u0022 cellpadding=\u00225\u0022 align=\u0022right\u0022\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd class=\u0022rtecenter\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EVeronica Foreman\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022This award is the perfect way to mark a time that has been full of adventure and opportunity,\u0022 said Foreman, president of the Alpha Omega Epsilon Engineering sorority and the winner of the 2014 Georgia Tech\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.ae.gatech.edu\/node\/1350\u0022\u003EOutstanding Undergraduate Researcher of the Year\u003C\/a\u003Eaward.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Ever since I arrived at Georgia Tech, I\u0027ve been given opportunities to take leadership, to shape my own future - in the classroom, in the lab, in my sorority. And when I\u0027ve taken those opportunities, I\u0027ve always had support.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EForeman made those comments just two days after competing for the title of Miss Georgia Tech, as the official nominee of Alpha Omega Epsilon.\u0026nbsp; One of just five finalists, she did not take home the crown. Neither, too, did she take home any regrets.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ctable width=\u0022200\u0022 border=\u00220\u0022 cellspacing=\u00221\u0022 cellpadding=\u00225\u0022 align=\u0022right\u0022\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003Cem\u003EDr. Marilyn Smith has mentored many aspiring undergraduates and graduate students during her tenure at Georgia Tech.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The competition is a great chance for the Institute to showcase and celebrate the people who represent it best,\u0022 she said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022I was thrilled to be a part of that group, and I can honestly say that not winning it took nothing away from that thrill. I got to walk out onto the field with my father at the Homecoming game, which is something I\u0027ll never forget.\u0026nbsp; And I also had time to study for a test I have on Wednesday.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECheck out\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/117948618@N08\/sets\/72157649123330585\/\u0022\u003E\u0026nbsp;these photos\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/a\u003Efrom Foreman\u0027s time at GT-AE.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEstablished in 1998, the Dean Gail DiSabitino Women of Distinction Awards annually honors students, staff, faculty and alumnae who show exemplary leadership skills in the Georgia Tech community. This year\u0027s event capped a series of day-long workshops all centered around the theme of women gaining momentum in business, personal branding, and the world.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAlso nominated for the Undergraduate Woman of Distinction award was Nana Obayashi, president of the School of Aerospace Engineering Student Advisory Council (SAESAC).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOthers taking home awards from the 2014 Women\u0027s Leadership Conference were Dr. Deidre Shoemaker (faculty), Assistant Director of Athletics Theresa Wenzel (staff), Andrea Welsh (graduate student), and Jasmine Burton (undergraduate student). All student recipients were given a $1,000 scholarship in addition to their formal award.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Two of the five honorees from Georgia Tech\u0027s 2014 Women\u0027s Leadership Conference have their roots firmly planted in the School of Aerospace Engineering."}],"uid":"27456","created_gmt":"2015-07-16 16:06:42","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:19:12","author":"Britanny Grace","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-11-03T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2014-11-03T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1239","name":"School of Aerospace Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"135771","name":"2014 Women of Distinction"},{"id":"129861","name":"Marilyn Smith"},{"id":"135781","name":"Nana Obayashi"},{"id":"134901","name":"Veronica Foreman"}],"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":""}},"427131":{"#nid":"427131","#data":{"type":"news","title":"FOCUS-ing on grad school at GT-AE","body":[{"value":"\u003Ctable width=\u0022500\u0022 border=\u00222\u0022 cellspacing=\u00221\u0022 cellpadding=\u002210\u0022\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003Cem\u003EUndergraduate students from as far away as Pennsylvania converged on Georgia Tech as a possible choice for graduate studies during a FOCUS-sponsored tour of campus on Jan. 16. Here, students who were particularly interested in the School of Aerospace Engineering are gathered with some of the faculty who gave them a tour on Jan. 16. Check out the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/117948618@N08\/sets\/72157649919345648\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EFOCUS\u0026nbsp;slideshow.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhat\u0027s it like to be a grad student at GT-AE?\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENearly 200 hopeful undergraduates got an answer when they took a tour of the Georgia Tech campus on Jan. 16.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ctable width=\u0022200\u0022 border=\u00220\u0022 cellspacing=\u00221\u0022 cellpadding=\u00221\u0022 align=\u0022right\u0022\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003Cem\u003EAE\u0026nbsp;Professor Stephen\u0026nbsp;Ruffin welcoming one of the prospective grad students during the FOCUS\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;Welcome Dinner, Jan. 15.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAbout a half-dozen of those students took a more intensive tour of the School of Aerospace Engineering, where they were introduced to the work of the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/controls.ae.gatech.edu\/wiki\/Main_Page\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EUAV\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.comblab.ae.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECombustion\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;, the Center for Advanced Machine Mobility (\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.camm.gatech.edu\/index.php?title=Center_for_Advanced_Machine_Mobility\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECAMM\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E), and the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/mwalker.gatech.edu\/hpepl\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EHigh Powered Electric Propulsion (HPEP)\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003Elabs.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022At Georgia Tech, our students are expected to do work that will change the way the world works,\u0022 said Professor J. P. Clarke, one of the faculty who escorted the students. \u0022It\u0027s an exciting place to explore what\u0027s possible.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EClarke gave students an insider\u0027s look at his work on Continuous Decent Arrival (CDA), an approach to flight navigation that has drastically reduced cost and environmental impact of air travel. Supported through both simulation and test flights, CDA flattens out the usually steep arrival trajectory of airplanes coming in for a landing. Because the planes hover at a higher altitude and use less thrust, they produce less noise and consume less fuel.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ctable width=\u0022200\u0022 border=\u00220\u0022 cellspacing=\u00221\u0022 cellpadding=\u00221\u0022 align=\u0022right\u0022\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EProspective GT-AE\u0026nbsp;grad students got an upclose look at the Center for Advanced Machine Mobility (CAMM)\u0026nbsp;Lab.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.camm.gatech.edu\/index.php?title=Center_for_Advanced_Machine_Mobility\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EFind out more.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe concept\u0026nbsp; has been widely praised and even received a Best Innovation award from the Airline Group of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies (AGIFORS). But Clarke did not spend any time boasting about accolades.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022What this all shows is that you can have a huge impact on the way air transportation operates,\u0022\u0026nbsp;he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022And air transportation is a critical component of the global economy. Really, it\u0027s the backbone:\u0026nbsp;if you have something to sell, you need to move it. Air cargo is a leading indicator of economic activity.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFind out\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ae.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/img\/CLARKE%20FOCUS.pptx_.pdf\u0022\u003Emore\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;about CDA.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe three-day visit to campus was fully-funded by FOCUS, a Georgia Tech outreach program that seeks to attract the best and brightest underrepresented minority students for graduate study. Several thousand undergraduate students applied for less than 200 FOCUS\u0026nbsp;tour openings.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"What\u0027s it like to be a grad student at GT-AE?  Nearly 200 hopeful undergraduates got an answer when they took a tour of the Georgia Tech campus on Jan. 16."}],"uid":"27456","created_gmt":"2015-07-21 16:25:12","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:19:12","author":"Britanny Grace","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-01-16T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2015-01-16T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1239","name":"School of Aerospace Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"2082","name":"aerospace engineering"},{"id":"2336","name":"FOCUS"}],"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":""}},"426341":{"#nid":"426341","#data":{"type":"news","title":"AE professor Julian Rimoli inspires educators and business leaders at PLTW Summit","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAerospace engineering professor Julian Rimoli shared a compelling perspective on the future of science education in early November, delivering one of the keynote addresses at\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.pltw.org\/\u0022\u003EProject Lead the Way\u0027s\u003C\/a\u003E(PLTW)\u0026nbsp; Summit, held in Indianapolis, Indiana.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022I believe that top-level education is not just the product of great universities like Georgia Tech, but the result of a continuum of educational excellence that begins at the K-12 level,\u0022 he told the standing-room only crowd.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022For Georgia Tech to continue its legacy as the educator of tomorrow\u0027s innovators, we must aggressively connect with the nascent brilliance that is coming up through our K-12 educational system. Partnering with Project Lead the Way -- arguably the nation\u0027s leading provider of science, technology, engineering, and math programs - makes huge sense.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERimoli, who holds the Goizueta Foundation Junior Faculty professorship, was one of several notable education and business experts to address the Summit, which brought together nearly 1,500 leaders from government, industry, academia and the non-profit sectors to review strategies for encouraging success in STEM disciplines.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAlso speaking at the four-day conference were Dr. William Bennett, former U.S. Secretary of Education, Jeff Charbonneau, the 2013 National Teacher of the Year, and Steve Forbes, chairman and editor-in-chief of Forbes Media.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn his PLTW\u0026nbsp;address, entitled \u0022Advanced Simulations and Mobile Gaming in the Classroom,\u0022 Rimoli took particular inspiration from Bennett\u0027s charge, given the first day of the four-day conference:\u0026nbsp;\u0022Ability is predicted by interest. Get them interested.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022For me, this spoke directly to my own experience, growing up in a small town in Argentina,\u0022 RImoli said. \u0022What did I want to do with computers? Play games, of course.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOne problem: there were no computer stores to buy the games.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022So I tracked down a magazine that had computer codes for games, written in BASIC, and I\u0026nbsp;went to work. That\u0027s what an interest will make you do,\u0022 he continued.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022By typing the games and debugging them -- there were always typos on those codes-- I learned to program the computer and later started making my own games.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThose games developed into a love of programming, math, and, in high school, physics and engineering.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022I\u0026nbsp;started developing physics-based games -- pseudo \u0027Angry Birds\u0027 -- and in college, I used simulation-based programs to understand concepts that I was struggling with. Through this process, I\u0026nbsp;discovered the field of computational physics, which led me to pursue a PhD that focused on computational mechanics.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The bottom line?\u0026nbsp;Computer gaming was probably the single most important driver in my becoming an aerospace engineering professor. It was an interest that kept rewarding me with more curiosity for the things I didn\u0027t yet know.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EProject Lead The Way (PLTW) is a non-profit that provides K-12 STEM programs to more than 6,500 elementary, middle and high schools across the U.S. The group\u0027s curriculum is based on an activity\/project\/problem-based model that Rimoli praised.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022I have seen, myself, how activity-based learning engages students more deeply in the underlying principles of engineering,\u0022 he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022It helps them form a more intuitive grasp of the material.\u0022 Rimoli\u0027s comments are based, in part, on his experience with\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.ae.gatech.edu\/node\/1312\u0022\u003ETruss Me!\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003Ea game application he developed last year to teach engineering students the basics of truss behavior. Originally intended as a novel addition to his own classroom teaching, the game as quickly adopted by K-12 teachers, university educators, and gamers when it was released on iTunes.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn May, the prestigious ETH Zurich formally adopted the educational app into its engineering curriculum.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Julian Rimoli shared a compelling perspective on the future of science education in early November, delivering one of the keynote addresses at Project Lead the Way\u0027s (PLTW)  Summit"}],"uid":"27456","created_gmt":"2015-07-16 16:12:03","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:19:12","author":"Britanny Grace","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-11-04T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2014-11-04T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1239","name":"School of Aerospace Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"2082","name":"aerospace engineering"},{"id":"130061","name":"Julian Rimoli"}],"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":""}},"427141":{"#nid":"427141","#data":{"type":"news","title":"GT-AE salutes Don P. Giddens, former director and college dean","body":[{"value":"\u003Ctable width=\u0022200\u0022 border=\u00220\u0022 cellspacing=\u00221\u0022 cellpadding=\u00222\u0022 align=\u0022right\u0022\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003Cem\u003EFrom left, GT-AE\u0026nbsp;Chair Dr. Vigor Yang, former GT\u0026nbsp;director Dr. Don P. Giddens, Nancy Giddens, CoE\u0026nbsp;Dean Dr. Gary May. Check out the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/117948618@N08\/sets\/72157648071034813\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003Eslideshow.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA standing-room-only crowd assembled in the Montgomery Knight conference room January 20 to celebrate one of GT-AE\u0027s most memorable leaders, Dr. Don P. Giddens.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe gathering served as an unveiling ceremony for GIddens\u0027 official portrait, rendered by Georgia artist Damon Carter, which now hangs alongside those of four former GT-AE directors:\u0026nbsp; Montgomery Knight, Donnell W. Dutton, Arnold Ducoffe, and Robert Loewy.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA graduate of GT-AE\u0027s undergraduate and graduate programs in aerospace engineering, Giddens served as the director of the School from 1988 until 1992 and established the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, a joint department between Georgia Tech and Emory University, in 1997.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ctable width=\u0022200\u0022 border=\u00220\u0022 cellspacing=\u00221\u0022 cellpadding=\u00221\u0022 align=\u0022right\u0022\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003Cem\u003EDon P. Giddens and his wife, Nancy in front of the official Giddens portrait, rendered by Georgia artist Damon Carter\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe also served as the dean of Georgia Tech\u0027s College of Engineering where he granted almost 13,000 undergraduate, 7,700 masters, and 2,500 doctoral degrees. Under his leadership, research dollars coming into the College more than doubled, from $77 million in 2002 to $204 million in 2010.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The portraits in this room recognize these individuals\u0027 unique contributions to our School,\u0022 said current CoE Dean Gary May, who was originally hired by then Dean Giddens to serve as the chair of ECE.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We could just as easily claim this portrait up in Tech Tower, too. He is one of the reasons our College is recognized as one of the top 5 engineering schools in the nation.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBut it wasn\u0027t his fund raising prowess or ground-breaking leadership that brought people out on Tuesday. People took to the podium Tuesday to talk about their\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003Efriend.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ctable width=\u0022200\u0022 border=\u00220\u0022 cellspacing=\u00221\u0022 cellpadding=\u00221\u0022 align=\u0022right\u0022\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EA family affair.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003EJoining Dr. Giddens for the official portrait unveiling were his daughter, Karen Kelly, and her husband Paul Kelly\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERegents Professor Ben T. Zinn recalled meeting Giddens when the Augusta, Georgia native was a promising young doctoral student, in 1965. A few years later, when Giddens joined the faculty, Zinn said they \u0022spent countless hour talking about technical problems and tennis...we were colleagues, confidants, and psychiatrists for each other.\u0022\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EProfessor Emeritus Ward O. Winer said the 46 years he\u0027d known Giddens had lots of twists and\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003Eturns.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022I remember him when he was a faculty and I was a chair,\u0022 he said. \u0022I also remember him as a chair when I was faculty.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EProfessor Suresh Menon was the last faculty hire that Giddens made as the GT-AE director.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022He interviewed me by phone and he convinced me to come here,\u0022 said Menon. \u0022But by the time I got here he was gone to Johns Hopkins [where Giddens served as the head of the engineering school].\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhen it was GIddens\u0027 turn to speak, he had nothing but praise for the leaders who\u0027d preceded and succeeded him.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022If you don\u0027t know your history, you can\u0027t chart your future,\u0022 he said, gesturing to the paintings of former GT-AE leaders that now surround his portrait.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ctable width=\u0022200\u0022 border=\u00220\u0022 cellspacing=\u00221\u0022 cellpadding=\u00221\u0022 align=\u0022right\u0022\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003Cem\u003ERegents Professor Ben T. Zinn was only too happy to praise his former colleague and student.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022I am humbled to be included among such leaders.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOne by one, he lauded his predecessors as visionaries, scholars, and innovators.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Success is inevitable when you hire good people and then get out of their way,\u0022 he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Now, I didn\u0027t hire Bob Loewy [his successor at GT-AE] but I will take credit for Vigor Yang. And he is a scholar and a leader.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EUltimately, AE\u0027s emphasis on hiring the best will help it withstand economic downturns and other whims, he predicted. Good faculty attract good students. And good students do great things.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Going forward, there\u0027s no limit on what the School can do,\u0022 he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We\u0027ve often had to swim upstream, against the feeling that aerospace engineers would always face cyclical unemployment. But every time, AE has defied this. 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They just need a few more engineers to propel them. Find out more at\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/vip.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003Evip.gatech.edu\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor students enrolled in VIP-USLI Rocket class, there is no AE, or ECE or ME. It\u0027s all about finding smart engineers to build a NASA-worthy rocket.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAnd next semester they are looking for a few more to join their ranks.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe multi-disciplinary elective, currently taught by AE\u0027s Eric Feron and ECE\u0027s Marilyn Wolf, tasks undergraduates from several majors to design, test, and build a rocket and launching system for entry into NASA\u0027s\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/offices\/education\/programs\/descriptions\/Student_Launch_Projects.html\u0022\u003E2015 Student Launch Competition\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp; During the Spring 2015 semester, new students will be eligible to join the effort.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ctable width=\u0022200\u0022 border=\u00220\u0022 cellspacing=\u00221\u0022 cellpadding=\u00221\u0022 align=\u0022right\u0022\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd class=\u0022rtecenter\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EAE undergraduate Victor Rodriguez\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022You learn so much because everything you do, it\u0027s got to be up to NASA\u0027s standards,\u0022 says AE student Victor S. Rodriguez, 20 who took the class this fall and will continue in the spring.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022So we\u0027ve spent this [fall] semester doing proposal reviews, preliminary design reviews, and critical design reviews -- things I would never do in class. Things you definitely need to know.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWith the design fairly complete, next semester\u0027s USLI students will be tasked with building the actual vehicle and launch system that will go to competition. Students wishing to sign up for the class should apply for a permit during registration.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Fall semester class has already named its entry into the 2015 competition: ARES (autonomous rocket equipment system) and established a\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/usli.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EUSLI web page\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to showcase their work. But the class hasn\u0027t yet raised the estimated $6,500 needed to build the vehicle. Thus far, a donation from the Georgia Space Grant Consortium is the group\u0027s only backing.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We haven\u0027t really approached any businesses yet,\u0022 said Rodriquez.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAccording to Rodriguez, the rocket must be able to carry a four-ounce payload to a height of 3,000 feet. The launching system must be able to automatically insert that payload and raise the rocket to an angle that is 5 percent off vertical.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022It\u0027s like the rocket that NASA is designing for Mars,\u0022 said Rodriguez.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe entire USLI effort is supported by Georgia\u0026nbsp;Tech\u0027s\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/vip.gatech.edu\/new\/\u0022\u003EVertically Integrated Projects (VIP)\u003C\/a\u003Eprogram, which unites undergraduate education and faculty research in a team-based context. Undergraduate VIP students earn academic credits, while faculty and graduate students benefit from the design\/discovery efforts of their teams.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ctable width=\u0022200\u0022 border=\u00220\u0022 cellspacing=\u00221\u0022 cellpadding=\u00221\u0022 align=\u0022center\u0022\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd class=\u0022rteleft\u0022\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0022They really know exactly what they need to do,\u0022 says Dr. Eric Feron of his VIP-USLI\u0026nbsp;students.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0022It\u0027s an exciting adventure.\u0022\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"For students enrolled in VIP-USLI Rocket class, there is no AE, or ECE or ME. 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Not Tom Cruise.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ctable width=\u0022200\u0022 border=\u00220\u0022 cellspacing=\u00221\u0022 cellpadding=\u00225\u0022 align=\u0022right\u0022\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003Cem\u003EAs a doctoral student under the mentorship of Prof. George Kardomateas,(left), Catherine Ferrie researched fracture mechanics. Since graduating in 1998, she has climbed the ladder at Bell Textron to become the Vice President of Engineering\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs a newly appointed member of the GT Aerospace Engineering School Advisory Council (AESAC), Ferrie is also using her leadership skills to shape the future of a school that shaped her.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI loved my time at Georgia Tech. And what I see now when I look at the heart of AE\u2019s leadership is a place that has a fabulous direction. Listening to [AE Chair] Dr. Yang I am convinced that the School needs only to focus on its immense technical talents -- the quality of its technical education -- to do incredible things.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFerrie made these comments Tuesday, when she visited GT-AE to give a talk, sponsored by the GT chapter of the American Helicopter Society (AHS). That talk, entitled, \u201cEngineering in the Global Marketplace,\u201d laid out some of the lessons she has learned during her 17 years at Bell Textron.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMany of those lessons center on the Leadership Development Program (LDP) that Bell offered her as a new employee.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFerrie said the program helped her transition from a meticulous engineer working on fracture mechanics to a respected business leader at Bell who oversees engineering operations around the world. The training helped her develop a solid leadership philosophy.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cYou can have 20 or 30 years of really solid technical experience, but it\u2019s a mistake to have that as your top criteria for selecting business leaders, especially in a technical career like this,\u201d she said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cYou need to look specifically at the business skills \u2013 forecasting, establishing goals, strategizing \u2013 and how they can be applied. Then, having a technical background will help you ask the right questions. You\u2019ll always be depending on engineers who know more about something than you do, too. You can\u2019t know everything.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhen she took to the podium Tuesday night, Ferrie encouraged GT-AE students to consider following in her footsteps, by joining Bell\u2019s Boot Camp program.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis is a program where we have a problem, real engineering problem that needs to be solved, and we bring you in for a week, usually during your break, to solve it,\u201d she said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cDuring that week, you learn to solve a problem and we make a connection with you. That connection can lead to an internship which can lead to another internship, and, eventually, we might invite you to join our team.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThat invitation could be the beginning of an all-consuming adventure.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cEngineering is an important part of our work at Bell. Nothing leaves the ground at Bell unless an engineer says it\u0027s safe, that it\u0027s ready to have passengers. And people get very very focused as they approach that point. It\u0027s an awesome responsibility,\u0022 she said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022As a result, you\u0027ll find, the respect we have for design, for building, and for testing is huge.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EFerrie\u0027s Bell\u0026nbsp;Textron colleagues (and fellow GT alums), Albert Brand, Ph.D. AE \u002789, and Randy Willnow, BS\u0026nbsp;ME \u002787, were also on hand this week for the GT\u0026nbsp;Career Fair, where they identified many prospects for Bell\u0027s Boot Camp and other opportunities.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ctable width=\u0022500\u0022 border=\u00220\u0022 cellspacing=\u00221\u0022 cellpadding=\u00221\u0022 align=\u0022center\u0022\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003Cem\u003EJoining Catherine Ferrie on her visit to Georgia Tech this week were two of her Bell colleagues who knew their way around campus almost as well as she. From left, Albert\u0026nbsp;Brand, Ph.D AE \u002789, Catherine Ferrie, Ph.D.\u0026nbsp;AE, \u002798, Randy Willnow, BSME, \u002787, Bell Helicopter executive Jill Morgan-Frost, and AE Professor Marilyn Smith.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"AE alumna Catherine Ferrie has parlayed her love of aerospace engineering and her passion for leadership into a career that combines both."}],"uid":"27456","created_gmt":"2015-07-16 15:03:08","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:19:12","author":"Britanny Grace","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-09-09T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-09-09T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1239","name":"School of Aerospace Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"130","name":"Alumni"}],"keywords":[{"id":"2082","name":"aerospace engineering"},{"id":"135341","name":"Catherine Ferrie"}],"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":""}},"426361":{"#nid":"426361","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Sigma Gamma Tau welcomes new members","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\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\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETwenty-three students were inducted into the Georgia Tech Chapter of Sigma Gamma Tau.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/sgt.gtorg.gatech.edu\/about.html\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EFind out more\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u0026nbsp;about SGT.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETwenty-three GT-AE students were inducted into Sigma Gamma Tau, the honor society for aerospace engineering, during ceremonies held at the Georgia Tech Hotel, Nov. 5.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe induction brings to 65 the number of SGT members in the GT-AE chapter, said Chapter President Michael Fifield.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETo qualify for induction, sophomores must be academically ranked at the top of their class (top 20 percent if sophomores, top 25 percent if juniors and seniors).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBut academic prowess is only half the story, Fifield said. The GT Chapter of SGT is actively involved in improving their community through service.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We have about a dozen members who have volunteered to tutor other students in aerospace engineering disciplines,\u0022 he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Now that we\u0027re getting into finals season, we are hoping that more students will take us up on the offer. We are flexible and we can go wherever the need is. We want to help out.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EStudents who are interested in getting free tutoring help from a SGT member should fill out a confidential form\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/goo.gl\/0AD9zL\u0022\u003E, located here\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAccording to SGT\u0026nbsp;faculty advisor Lakshmi Sankar, GT-AE\u0026nbsp;has one of the largest chapters of the honor society.\u0026nbsp;The numbers don\u0027t tell the whole story, however.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022With the caliber of students who are coming to our School and earning a place in SGT, we can look forward to a very bright future for aerospace engineering,\u0022 he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHere is a list of the new inductees into the Georgia Tech Chapter of the Sigma Gamma Tau Honor Society:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGregory Belgorod\u003Cbr \/\u003EAaron Blacker\u003Cbr \/\u003EJames Coppedge\u003Cbr \/\u003ETiffany\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; Davis\u003Cbr \/\u003ERohan Deshmukh\u003Cbr \/\u003EClarence Du\u003Cbr \/\u003EChelsea Fuller\u003Cbr \/\u003EAvani Gupta\u003Cbr \/\u003EMatthew Krumwiede\u003Cbr \/\u003EMadison Luther\u003Cbr \/\u003EJulia Macon\u003Cbr \/\u003EJohn Morrison\u003Cbr \/\u003EUlises Nunez\u003Cbr \/\u003EPetre Petkov\u003Cbr \/\u003EKijjakarn Praditukrit\u003Cbr \/\u003ESidharth Prem\u003Cbr \/\u003EJoshua Price\u003Cbr \/\u003ETeresa Prieto\u003Cbr \/\u003ESiddhant Shah\u003Cbr \/\u003EFranklin Turbeville\u003Cbr \/\u003EMartin Weismantel\u003Cbr \/\u003EMatthew Wilk\u003Cbr \/\u003ENick Zerbonia\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Twenty-three GT-AE students were inducted into Sigma Gamma Tau, the honor society for aerospace engineering, during ceremonies held at the Georgia Tech Hotel, Nov. 5."}],"uid":"27456","created_gmt":"2015-07-16 16:33:55","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:19:12","author":"Britanny Grace","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-11-07T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2014-11-07T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1239","name":"School of Aerospace Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"2082","name":"aerospace engineering"},{"id":"169882","name":"Sigma Gamma Tau"}],"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":""}},"426121":{"#nid":"426121","#data":{"type":"news","title":"AE Prof. Robert D. Braun appointed to chair for NAE Frontiers of Engineering program","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe National Academy of Engineering (NAE) announced this week that it has appointed AE Prof. Robert D. Braun to serve a two-year term as the new chair for the\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.naefrontiers.org\/symposia\/usfoe\/17105\/42230.aspx\u0022\u003E\u0026nbsp;U.S. Frontiers of Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(FOE) program.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEstablished by NAE in 1995, FOE annually brings together outstanding engineers (ages 30-45) across all engineering fields for a 2-1\/2 day meeting to learn about cutting-edge developments in different disciplines. One of the 100 engineers chosen to attend the 2014 FOE gathering is AE\u0027s Mitchell Walker.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EElected to the NAE earlier this year, Braun said he was excited to begin his term as FOE Chair in January 2015.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022I first became aware of the National Academy of Engineering as a participant in this (FOE) program, when I was a young engineer,\u0022 he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022I met a number of innovative colleagues at that symposium - including [GT engineering dean] Gary May -- and found the discussions to be both intellectually stimulating and wonderfully predictive of our world\u0027s technological future.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022I left that FOE meeting with new friends in a wide range of engineering fields and an appreciation for the tremendous national and societal impact of engineering. In organizing the FOE over these next two years, I hope to be able to provide similar experiences to today\u0027s up and coming engineers.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn his new position, Braun will organize the 2015 FOE symposium focusing on four interdisciplinary topics:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cp\u003Eengineering the search for Earth-like exoplanets\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cp\u003Ecybersecurity\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cp\u003Emetamaterials and compliant mechanisms\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cp\u003Eforecasting natural disasters\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAt Georgia Tech, Braun serves as the David and Andrew Lewis Professor and is the founding director of the Center for Space Technology and Research. His research focuses on systems aspects of planetary exploration and the advancement of entry, descent and landing technology. He has contributed to the design, development, test and operation of several robotic space flight systems and is co-founder of Terminal Velocity Aerospace, a small business providing atmospheric reentry services to enhance safety and promote the utilization of space.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBraun is an AIAA Fellow, and was recently appointed to serve as the editor of the Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets He is the principal author or co-author of more than 275 technical publications in the fields of atmospheric flight dynamics, planetary exploration, multidisciplinary design optimization, and systems engineering. He earned a B.S. in aerospace engineering from Pennsylvania State University, an M.S. in astronautics from George Washington University, and a Ph.D. in aeronautics and astronautics from Stanford University.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) announced this week that it has appointed AE Prof. Robert D. Braun to serve a two-year term as the new chair for the U.S. Frontiers of Engineering (FOE) program."}],"uid":"27456","created_gmt":"2015-07-16 15:05:10","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:19:12","author":"Britanny Grace","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-09-11T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-09-11T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1239","name":"School of Aerospace Engineering"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"2082","name":"aerospace engineering"},{"id":"1972","name":"NAE"},{"id":"2575","name":"Robert Braun"}],"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":""}},"426371":{"#nid":"426371","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Global Women\u0027s Initiative recognizes AE\u0027s Sara Miller","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGT-AE sophomore Sara Miller doesn\u2019t speak loudly, but her ambitions are decidedly\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003Ehigh-decibel\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to pursuing a degree in aerospace engineering at Georgia Tech, the soft-spoken 20-year-old continues to do cognitive psychology research with an NYU professor with whom she began working while in high school.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EShe is currently working with AE Prof. Joseph H. Saleh on a project mapping the craters on near-earth objects. And next semester she will do an internship focusing on 3D modeling at the Marshall Space Center in Huntsville.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI\u2019ve always had NASA\u2019s stars in my eyes,\u201d she said. \u201cThat\u2019s always been my dream.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech and NASA are not alone in recognizing Miller\u2019s drive. This fall, the Atlanta-based Womenetics organization chose Miller to receive one of just five 2014 Advancing Aspirations Global Scholarships. Miller and the other four awardees were flown to the group\u2019s Global Women\u2019s Initiative conference in Chicago on Nov. 12 to receive their $2,500 awards.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt wasn\u2019t a great time to get pulled away from my studies,\u201d she said of her mid-semester trip to Chicago.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cBut it was a great reason. Over the course of a little less than 48 hours, I got to know four different CEOs on a first name basis.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIt was Miller\u2019s essay,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ae.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/img\/Sara%20Miller-Essay-Edited%20.pdf\u0022\u003E\u201cConfidence and Risk,\u003C\/a\u003E\u201d that caught the judges\u2019 attention.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn it, Miller methodically reviewed literature that documents a persistent chasm between women\u2019s personal aspirations and their publicly acknowledged achievements.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe always talk about \u2018the father or modern medicine\u2019 or \u2018the father of modern chemistry\u2019 as thought women played no role at all,\u201d she said of her research. \u201cWe know that women played a role \u2013 100 years ago and today \u2013 but we don\u2019t hear about it.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENot regularly, anyway. In her essay, Miller points to GT-AE alumna Jenny Lentz Moore -- a Division 1 athlete, Navy Fighter Pilot, and mother -- as someone who should be recognized. Moore was profiled in a recent edition of the GT Alumni Magazine.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI\u2019m surprised it\u2019s taken me this long to hear about her,\u201d she said. \u201cShe\u2019s someone who has done it all. We need to know more about women like Jennie. She\u2019s not the only one.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMost who know Miller would say they expect to hear more about her \u2013 in the coming months, years, and decades. What\u2019s unclear is what direction she will pursue. Her collaboration with Stonybrook Professor Nancy Franklin on the effects of negative emotions on memory has already produced some preliminary results; the two are considering another, related vein of research.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMiller remains committed to her NASA dreams, but she isn\u2019t crossing anything off her career \u2018bucket list\u2019 just yet.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cEventually, I could see myself working on artificial intelligence, as a part of my work in space exploration,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd I hope it all includes a Ph.D. because I love doing the research.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWe hope so, too.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"GT-AE sophomore Sara Miller doesn\u2019t speak loudly, but her ambitions are decidedly high-decibel"}],"uid":"27456","created_gmt":"2015-07-16 16:38:23","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:19:12","author":"Britanny Grace","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-11-13T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2014-11-13T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1239","name":"School of Aerospace Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"2082","name":"aerospace engineering"},{"id":"171457","name":"Sara Miller"}],"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":""}},"426141":{"#nid":"426141","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Family Weekend 2014: Time for the parents to take note","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAs AE undergraduates Aaron Blacker and Kevin Okseniuk took to the podium, the air in Guggenheim 442 got very still.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThese students -- and their research mentors --\u0026nbsp; had lessons to give, and it was the parents who were all ears.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWelcome to\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ae.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/img\/FW14_ProgramFINAL.pdf\u0022\u003EFamily Weekend 2014\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe annual event gives parents of all Georgia Tech students a chance to visit campus, where they can see their sons and daughters at work.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMore than 100 parents signed up to visit AE, where they spoke informally with faculty before taking in formal presentations by researchers from the Aerospace Systems Design Lab (ASDL) and undergraduates Black and Okseniuk.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFirst up were\u0026nbsp; ASDL research engineer Carl Johnson and masters student Tom Neuman, who gave a talk about\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.asdl.gatech.edu\/News.html#ASDL_Georgia_Tech_Team_Shines_at_International_Airplane_Design_Competitions\u0022\u003Emicro air vehicle competitions which ASDL teams have dominated for the last four years.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EJohnson and Neuman have mentored undergraduates for 5 years in a row, helping AE competition teams to transition from paper designs to building micro air vehicles and flying them. Under their guidance, students have also developed associated ground stations, remote control techniques for keeping the vehicles in the air, and light aircraft fabrication technologies.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOkseniuk and Blacker took their charge every bit as seriously as the more senior mentors who proceeded them at the podium.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe two spoke confidently about cubesats they are building, the future of air-breathing engines, and other adventures they are pursuing as undergraduates in the School of Aerospace Engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ctable width=\u0022200\u0022 border=\u00220\u0022 cellspacing=\u00221\u0022 cellpadding=\u00228\u0022 align=\u0022right\u0022\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003Cem\u003EA\u0026nbsp;lot of pride, and a little bit of awe. Parents listening to Blacker and Okseniuk were attentive.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA beaming Kelly Blacker said she couldn\u0027t believe how well Aaron\u0027s experience has suited the New York sophomore, who is now president of the Ramblin Rockets Club.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We were nervous when we sent him so far away for school,\u0022 she said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022But he is so engaged, so involved, so challenged here. He loves it. And so do we.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFresh back from a summer research project at NASA\u0027s Jet Propulsion Lab, Okseniuk gave listeners a gripping description of the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ae.gatech.edu\/node\/1444\u0022\u003EProx-1 project\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;-- the first-ever Georgia Tech built space vehicle, which will be launched sometime in the next 18 months. Okseniuk, a junior, is working closely with the project\u0027s principal investigator (PI), Prof. David Spencer.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ctable width=\u0022200\u0022 border=\u00220\u0022 cellspacing=\u00221\u0022 cellpadding=\u00228\u0022 align=\u0022right\u0022\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003Cem\u003EWhen he took to the podium AE\u0026nbsp;sophomore Aaron Blacker explained his work like a seasoned professional.\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ae.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/img\/blacker.pdf\u0022\u003ECheck out his PowerPoint\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor a moment, Okseniuk had to humbly admit that some of what he was talking about had daunting implications. It\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003Ereally is\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;rocket science.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBut he regained his composure by quoting his roommate and fellow Georgia Tech student Nick Selby:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We\u0027re Georgia Tech. We can do that.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EHow true.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/117948618@N08\/sets\/72157647525481932\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003ECheck out this slideshow\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cem\u003Efrom the Family Weekend presentations.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"As AE undergraduates Aaron Blacker and Kevin Okseniuk took to the podium, the air in Guggenheim 442 got very still."}],"uid":"27456","created_gmt":"2015-07-16 15:08:41","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:19:12","author":"Britanny Grace","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-09-12T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-09-12T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1239","name":"School of Aerospace Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"135641","name":"Aaron Blacker"},{"id":"2082","name":"aerospace engineering"},{"id":"135661","name":"Family Weekend 2014"},{"id":"135651","name":"Kevin Okseniuk"}],"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":""}},"426901":{"#nid":"426901","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Look who\u0027s talking @GT-AE","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EYou don\u0027t have to be enrolled at GT-AE to be swept up by our mission.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn the two weeks leading up to Thanksgiving break, the School of Aerospace Engineering\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003Ehas hosted talks by no fewer than 12 experts, researchers, and leaders in the field of aerospace engineering.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ctable width=\u0022200\u0022 border=\u00220\u0022 cellspacing=\u00221\u0022 cellpadding=\u00225\u0022 align=\u0022right\u0022\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003Cem\u003EDr. Dewey H.\u0026nbsp;Hodges, the AHS\u0026nbsp;2014 Nikolsky Lecturer, will give his talk on Friday, Nov. 21 in Guggenheim 442. Light refreshments at noon. Lecture at 1 p.m.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWe often provide refreshments at these talks, but the real treat is the discussion these speakers spark.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECheck out the line-up below -- complete with links to the speakers\u0027 presentation notes and abstracts.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAnd if you haven\u0027t already attended one of these free, public\u0026nbsp; talks, make some time for the ones that remain.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOn\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EFriday, November 21\u003C\/strong\u003E, our very own Dr. Dewey H. 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Tyler Anderson will present \u0022The Development of a Low-Cost Platform for Reentry Measurement and Payload Recovery\u0022 and Matthew Miller will present \u0022EVA Decision Support for Astronauts.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOn Thursday morning,\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003ENovember 20\u003C\/strong\u003E, the School will host a presentation by ETH Zurich professor\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ae.gatech.edu\/node\/1554\u0022\u003EDr. Andres F. 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A 5:30 reception is also open to the public.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cp\u003Eupdate on the \u0022Army Aviation-led Joint Multi-Role Rotorcraft (JMR) Technology Demonstration Program and Future Vertical Lift (FVL) Program. That talk will begin at 6:30 p.m. in the Clary Theatre.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ENov. 10-14:\u0026nbsp;Guest speakers every day\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELast week, the line-up of speakers was no less impressive. If you missed the speakers, take a moment to check out the links to their presentations, below.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ENov. 11 Dr. Margaret Wooldridge\u003C\/strong\u003E, Arthur F. 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Nikolsky Lecture\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEndowed by the American Helicopter Society, the Nikolsky lecture is a much-coveted career honor -- one that Dewey Hodges shares with four other AE faculty: Charles Crawford, Robin Gray, Daniel Schrage, and Bob Loewy.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022I don\u0027t think that there are too many universities that have had this many Nikolsky lecturers,\u0022 said Hodges who has given the talk at nine locales -- including Beijing Chinia and Soeul, South Korea - since receiving the honor in May 2014.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022And, for me, it was one of the most memorable experiences of my [45-year] career.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHodges\u0027 talk looks at how to achieve accuracy comparable to that of 3D finite element analysis but with a significant savings in computational effort.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The vehicle for this approach is a mathematical technique called the variational asymptotic method (VAM). I\u0026nbsp;will summarize the modeling approach and presents some of the key equations of the resulting models.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EExamples illustrating the accuracy and efficiency of the approach will be presented.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhen his year-long Nikolsky lectureship ends, Hodges hopes to follow-up on relationships he built up with new colleagues in South Korea--- possibly leading to some collaborative research on the High Altitude Long Endurance (HALE) aircraft, an area he specializes in.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ctable width=\u0022500\u0022 border=\u00220\u0022 cellspacing=\u00221\u0022 cellpadding=\u00221\u0022\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u0026nbsp;Dr. Margaret Wooldridge is seen here with AE\u0026nbsp;Chair Dr. Vigor Yang and AE Prof. Ben Zinn after delivering her lecture, \u0022Flavor Matters:\u0026nbsp;The Compositional Effects of Fuels.\u0022 Check out this\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/117948618@N08\/sets\/72157647014734363\/\u0022\u003Eslideshow\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;of the other speakers from the week of\u0026nbsp;Nov. 10.\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":"The School of Aerospace Engineering has hosted talks by no fewer than 12 experts, researchers, and leaders in the field of aerospace engineering."}],"uid":"27456","created_gmt":"2015-07-21 13:33:56","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:19:12","author":"Britanny Grace","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-11-18T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2014-11-18T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1239","name":"School of Aerospace Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"2082","name":"aerospace engineering"},{"id":"136081","name":"Andres Arrieta"},{"id":"127101","name":"Dewey Hodges"},{"id":"136061","name":"James R. 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His story was pretty epic!\u0022 said Hodara. Hodara also spent some time talking with AAHF vice president,\u0026nbsp; Cliff Stern, who indicated his interest in doing presentations at Tech some time in the future.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EStern also said his organization would love to recruit volunteers from Tech to help them repair their helicopters.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022This would be a great experience for Tech students- really nice to leave the classroom for a bit and see actual helicopters and rotor systems,\u0022 said Hodara. \u0022Volunteers can even get free rides on the Cobra and Huey.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHodara said the chapter will reach out to AAHF to review the possibilities.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The Georgia Tech Chapter of the American Helicopter Society (AHS) was well-represented last weekend at a special celebration of Vietnam Veterans, organized by the Army Aviation Heritage Foundation at the Henry County Airport."}],"uid":"27456","created_gmt":"2015-07-21 13:35:57","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:19:12","author":"Britanny Grace","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-11-20T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2014-11-20T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1239","name":"School of Aerospace Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"136091","name":"aerospac engineering"},{"id":"129781","name":"AHS"},{"id":"132721","name":"Joachim Hodara"},{"id":"132741","name":"Michael Mayo"},{"id":"136111","name":"Philip Cross"},{"id":"171464","name":"Stephen Marone"}],"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":""}},"426171":{"#nid":"426171","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Keeping up with AE: undergraduate researcher Tiffany Davis","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFor AE undergraduate Tiffany Davis, the engineering bug bit early.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003EAnd hard.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWhen I was11 I asked for a circuit board for Christmas because I thought it was cool that this board could play such a huge role in how something works,\u201d says the 20-year-old Washington, DC native.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWhat can I say? I was just one of those engineering nerds. I still have that circuit board. It\u2019s still really cool.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMore than cool, Davis\u0027s unbridaled enthusiasm and intense work ethic have lately been garnering the attention of academic and industry leaders.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Boeing Company, for instance.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELast week, the\u0026nbsp;aeronautics giant announced it had chosen Davis for its highly competitive Engineering Accelerated Hiring Initiative (EAHI), an elite program that elevates the employment and internship options for 350 of the nation\u2019s best undergraduate engineers. In November, Davis and other EAHI\u0026nbsp;recruits will fly to Seattle, where Boeing\u0027s top hiring managers will compete for their attention.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ctable width=\u0022200\u0022 border=\u00220\u0022 cellspacing=\u00221\u0022 cellpadding=\u00225\u0022 align=\u0022right\u0022\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe get to interview them. It\u2019s beyond exciting,\u201d Davis said. \u201cI get to convey my interests to them and to see who might be the right fit for me. Right now, I\u2019m thinking that I might look for something in propulsion, but that could change. I am still considering my options.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhile she is mulling those plans, Davis will be busy in the ASDL, doing research for a year-long\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ae.gatech.edu\/node\/1460\u0022\u003ENASA research initiative, ACRUM\u003C\/a\u003E. For the rest of this academic year, Davis will be collecting ephemeris data for the project, which is mapping out plans to capture and redirect the orbit of an asteroid.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIt was a little different last year, when, as a sophomore, Davis was selected to serve as a structural analysis intern for Boeing at its Huntsville, Alabama location.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI was freaked out [happy] that I\u2019d gotten the internship, and freaked out because I didn\u2019t know what a structural analysis intern does,\u201d she said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cBut then I thought about it, and I knew that I could read the book, seek the help, find out what they needed, and bring them my best.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe \u201chelp\u201d that Davis sought was not just anyone.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022I ran into Dr. [Julian] Rimoli\u2019s office and I begged him to let me help with his research. I\u2019d do anything to learn more about structures,\u201d she said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIn our statics class, he\u2019d told us that his research was in advanced finite element analysis, which is a subset of structures, so, basically, I knew he could help me improve my base knowledge. I wanted to be ready to contribute when I showed up in Huntsville over the summer.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERimoli remembers Davis well.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cShe was always asking the best questions in class, and delivering the best explanations for the problems we had in class. So when she requested extra time to do advanced reading and research, I agreed. And, there again, her intelligence was only rivaled by her tenacity.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ctable width=\u0022200\u0022 border=\u00220\u0022 cellspacing=\u00221\u0022 cellpadding=\u00225\u0022 align=\u0022right\u0022\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003Cem\u003EAE professor Julian Rimoli and then-sophomore Tiffany Davis during one of their many non-credit tutoring sessions last spring. The knowledge she gained from these sessions gave Davis the edge in her summer internship at Boeing.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEvery week that semester, until Davis left for Huntsville, Rimoli met with his charge to give her extra readings and assign increasingly more challenging structural mechanics problems. In the end, he said, she was tackling work that he would normally have reserved for a graduate student.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDavis did not receive any academic credit for this challenging tutorial. Nor did she ask for it. The plan was to be well-prepared when she arrived at her Boeing internship.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe first day I arrived at Huntsville, one of my technical leads gave me a problem involving bearing stress on a part, and he said if I could have it to him by the next day, it would be fine. I had it done in an hour.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMission accomplished.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBoeing lead recruiter Mark Lyden was not surprised to hear this. When he interviewed Davis for the EAHI position, she exhibited what he called \u201ca brightness\u201d that made her stand out among even the best.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cTiffany Davis is the kind of student we come to Georgia Tech to find. And I\u2019d like to see her working with my group when she comes to Boeing because I think she could teach others,\u201d he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cShe has the good grades, the leadership skills and the communications skills that we expect, but she also has that \u2018X\u2019 factor that makes her an outstanding person to work with. She\u2019s smart but not prideful, curious but meticulous in her work.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"For AE undergraduate Tiffany Davis, the engineering bug bit early. And hard."}],"uid":"27456","created_gmt":"2015-07-16 15:13:12","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:19:12","author":"Britanny Grace","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-09-18T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-09-18T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1239","name":"School of Aerospace Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"136","name":"Aerospace"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"2082","name":"aerospace engineering"},{"id":"135681","name":"Tiffany Davis"}],"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":""}},"427031":{"#nid":"427031","#data":{"type":"news","title":"ASDL hosts FAA Consortium","body":[{"value":"\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\u003EASDL\u0026nbsp;research engineers, aerospace industry leaders and FAA\u0026nbsp;officials came together for three days at Georgia Tech to review new technologies for reducing aircraft noise, burn, and emissions. The CLEEN\u0026nbsp;Consortium Meeting was held Nov. 18, 19 and 20.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Ctable width=\u0022200\u0022 border=\u00220\u0022 cellspacing=\u00221\u0022 cellpadding=\u00225\u0022 align=\u0022right\u0022\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003Cem\u003EASDL\u0026nbsp;research engineers Dr. Jimmy Tai and Mr. Christopher Perullo have been modeling new technologies to determine their impact.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELeaders from throughout the aerospace industry converged on Georgia Tech Nov. 18-20 for the Fifth Annual FAA Continuous Lower Energy Emissions and Noise (CLEEN) Consortium meeting, hosted by the Aerospace Systems Design Lab (ASDL).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe three-day meeting allowed FAA officials to review the progress that industry partners have made on multi-year contracts to develop technologies to reduce aircraft noise, emissions, and fuel burn. In addition to hosting the meeting, ASDL has played a key role in the technology development by conducting systems-level analyses of each project.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELed by ASDL Director Dimitri Mavris, a team of GT-AE research engineers has reviewed the efforts of engineering teams from several industry giants, including Boeing, Rolls Royce, Honeywell, Pratt \u0026amp; Whitney, and GE.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe have been tasked by the FAA with modeling the new technologies to translate their impacts into quantifiable fuel burn, noise, and emissions benefits,\u201d said Christopher Perullo, who has worked alongside Mavris and senior researcher, Jimmy Tai.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWhat we\u2019ve seen, over the last five years, is that the FAA\u2019s goal of accelerating the development of new technologies is working.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Leaders from throughout the aerospace industry converged on Georgia Tech Nov. 18-20 for the Fifth Annual FAA Continuous Lower Energy Emissions and Noise (CLEEN) Consortium meeting, hosted by the Aerospace Systems Design Lab."}],"uid":"27456","created_gmt":"2015-07-21 15:14:09","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:19:12","author":"Britanny Grace","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-11-20T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2014-11-20T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1239","name":"School of Aerospace Engineering"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"136091","name":"aerospac engineering"},{"id":"100921","name":"ASDL"},{"id":"136211","name":"CLEEN"},{"id":"135151","name":"Dimitri Davis"},{"id":"4341","name":"FAA"}],"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":""}},"426181":{"#nid":"426181","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Five things you should know: a talk with Rajarama Shenoy, Ph.D. AE \u002779","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIt\u2019s been more than 40 years since Rajarama Shenoy began his doctoral studies GT-AE, but the Sikorsky engineering manager is still a familiar face \u2013\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003Eand welcome influence\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u2013 at his alma mater.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA member of the Aerospace Engineering School Advisory Council (AESAC), Dr. Shenoy has thought long and hard about the tremendous impact today\u2019s GT-AE grads can have on the future of aerospace engineering. He has also culled five timeless lessons that will help graduates achieve that success.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERecently, he shared them with us:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ELesson #1:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EToday\u2019s Aerospace engineers must hold ethics and professional integrity as their top priority since so many lives-- both those of the flying public and of our men and women in uniform-- depend on them. The future of the aerospace industry rides on the decisions made by today\u2019s aerospace engineers.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ctable width=\u0022200\u0022 border=\u00220\u0022 cellspacing=\u00221\u0022 cellpadding=\u00226\u0022 align=\u0022right\u0022\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003ERajarama Shenoy has gathered decades of valuable experience in aerospace engineering since earning his Ph.D. at GT-AE in the late 70s. He is seen here during his graduate school days.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cSo much is riding on what you do, as an aerospace engineer, that it goes beyond the legal considerations,\u201d he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt\u2019s a matter of conscience, of professional integrity, of ethics that you find someone who will listen to your concerns, and, if needed, sound an alarm if you detect a design flaw or a dubious consequence in a project.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EShenoy said most companies require new employees to take ethics courses that emphasize this point \u2013 he has taken several at Sikorsky -- but that, at the end of the day, it\u2019s a matter of execution. A competent engineer must be willing to take action.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn some circumstances, this could pit the engineer\u2019s best judgment against the business-focused agenda of a project manager - or a boss who doesn\u2019t see things quite the same way. In those circumstances, Shenoy stressed, a competent engineer will seek out an ombudsman within the company.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt\u2019s important that you not assume that giving only the \u2018good news\u2019 all the time would please the higher-ups, but make sure that you do not provide false information and do maintain professional integrity,\u201d he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ELesson #2:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETake freshman year at Georgia Tech seriously.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cOf course you want to have fun, but you don\u2019t want to fall behind your freshman year. You may never catch up,\u201d he said. \u201cMany of the courses you take as a sophomore, junior, and senior will take for granted that you have certain concepts down. If you don\u2019t, it will be easy to fall behind.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA corollary of this point: if you fall behind, find a way to catch up. Fast. You wouldn\u2019t be the first aerospace engineering student to take a summer course or get tutoring. The investment will pay off handsomely.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ELesson #3:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003ETake advantage of Internship and co-op opportunities.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cCompanies --- including my own \u2013 want to see more than your grades. They want to see what you are doing with your free time. They want to see your work ethics, your decision-making skills and the interest you take in the field you are seeking employment in. If you are working as an engineering intern during the summers or over breaks, they will see that you are serious, and that matters almost as much as your grades. In most instances you are likely to get job offers before you graduate.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ELesson #4: Don\u2019t believe everything you read. Question promising conclusions, replicate questionable results, and make provisions for unknown issues that may crop up.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENew engineers should avoid the trap of depending entirely on the outputs of computer-based models to validate results. Physics-based reasoning is superior, Shenoy said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022This is especially true if the model was developed by someone one else,\u0022 he added. \u0022You need to always ask if the results make sense. Perform sensititvity runs and verify the results and the trends with the test data. There is no substitute.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhen he embarked on his first job -- as a project engineer at a wind energy company -- Shenoy learned an equally important (and related) lesson:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Always have parallel paths ready when dealing with new technologies.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAt\u0026nbsp; the time, Shenoy\u0027s work team had ordered a differently engineered gearbox \u2013 one that had no teeth. Based on the brochures and literature that accompanied it, the gearbox looked very robust and promising.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt was bright, shiny and compact and well-engineered. But when we tested it on the bench, we found that it did not perform up to standards because we were using it as a step-up rather than a step-down transmission,\u0022 he said.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The new transmission concept did not behave well when driven from the low speed end. We fortunately had anticipated such an issue and had traditional gearbox as our baseline. We were glad we did.\u0022\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ELesson #5: Keep learning. Every day. Every decade.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ctable width=\u0022200\u0022 border=\u00220\u0022 cellspacing=\u00221\u0022 cellpadding=\u00226\u0022 align=\u0022right\u0022\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EOld friends. Rajarama Shenoy sweated through graduate school at GT-AE with Lakshmi Sankar, now a GT-AE Regents Professor.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cp\u003EShenoy learned a lot about the business of aerospace engineering by working hard, observing best practices, and analyzing outcomes. He used that knowlege to successfully manage Sikorsky\u2019s research and development efforts for more than a decade and continued to use it in his current position.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBut he always remained a firm believer that learning is a lifelong activity.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESo, almost 20 years after he earned his doctorate in aerospace engineering, he went back to school.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI earned an MS in management of technology while I was working full-time, because, after working with business people all of these years, I wanted to know exactly where they were coming from when it came to engineering,\u0022 he said.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022After the formal training in business studies, I was better able to frame our engineering requests and suggestions in a language that better appealed to the management teams that were business focused.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EAfter completing his doctoral studies in aerospace engineering at Georgia Tech in 1978, Rajarama Shenoy briefly worked in the wind energy turbine industry before diving into a successful career in the aerospace engineering field.He currently serves as the attributes manager for Naval Hawk Programs at the Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation .\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"It\u2019s been more than 40 years since Rajarama Shenoy began his doctoral studies GT-AE, but the Sikorsky engineering manager is still a familiar face \u2013 and welcome influence \u2013 at his alma mater."}],"uid":"27456","created_gmt":"2015-07-16 15:15:20","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:19:12","author":"Britanny Grace","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-09-24T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-09-24T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1239","name":"School of Aerospace Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"130","name":"Alumni"}],"keywords":[{"id":"2082","name":"aerospace engineering"},{"id":"129911","name":"AESAC"},{"id":"135691","name":"Rajarama Shenoy"}],"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":""}},"427041":{"#nid":"427041","#data":{"type":"news","title":"JPL Summer Fellowship deadline extended to Dec. 15","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech faculty looking for a unique opportunity to connect with NASA\u0027s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) are invited to submit proposals for the 2015 JPL Summer Fellowship. The deadline has been extended to December 15 at 5 p.m.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis is the second year that Georgia Tech\u0027s Center for Space Technology and Research (C-STAR)\u0026nbsp; has worked with JPL to provide the fellowships, which support collaborative research opportunities between the two institutions. C-STAR\u0026nbsp;anticipates awarding 3-5 fellowships for the summer semester.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELast year, three GT-AE faculty, Brian Gunter, Dave Spencer, and Panagiotis Tsiotras, used the fellowship to launch projects. All three returned with valuable perspective on their current and future research.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The intellectual environment at JPL is superb and there are many challenging and stimulating problems to work on.\u0022 said Tsiotras. \u0022I would love to return every year.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EApplicants for the 2015 Fellowships should outline a specific research project, including possible research partners. There is no stated stated monetary limit on the fellowships; the awards vary according to the demands of the specific project. Find out more about this opportunity\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ae.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/img\/12-3CSTAR%20CALL.pdf\u0022\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESubmissions should be sent to\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:cindy.pendley@aerospace.gatech.edu?subject=JPL%20Summer%20Fellowship\u0022\u003Ecindy.pendley@aerospace.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECheck out the experience of last year\u0027s JPL\u0026nbsp;Fellows:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ctable width=\u0022200\u0022 border=\u00220\u0022 cellspacing=\u00221\u0022 cellpadding=\u00225\u0022 align=\u0022right\u0022\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd class=\u0022rtecenter\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EProf. David Spencer\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Ch3\u003EProf. David Spencer\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAt Georgia Tech, Dave Spencer has been immersed in the launch of Prox-1, a Georgia Tech-designed spacecraft, and an attached CubeSat that are part of the multi-satellite payload being launched by the SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket project sometime in the next 15 months.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAt JPL, Spencer expanded on his research interests, working with Joe Parrish and Tom Komarek in the Mars Exploration Program formulation office\u0026nbsp; to develop two mission concepts for potential small satellite collaborations.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The first was a Mars telecommunications relay CubeSat constellation, The second was a low-Earth orbit demonstration of orbiting sample canister search and rendezvous, in support of Mars Sample Return,\u0022 he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022In addition, Brian Gunter and I spoke with Peter Kahn about developing a deep space CubeSat deployer capability involving JPL, Cal Poly and Georgia Tech. We proposed that Georgia Tech be responsible for system engineering and the electrical subsystem. Cal Poly would be responsible for the mechanical subsystem.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EKahn was impressed with the concept and is currently looking for funding sources.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch3\u003EProf. Brian Gunter\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ctable width=\u0022200\u0022 border=\u00220\u0022 cellspacing=\u00221\u0022 cellpadding=\u00225\u0022 align=\u0022right\u0022\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cp\u003EProf. Gunter\u0026nbsp; got a valuable opportunity to dive into a mission concept involving a constellation of nano-satellites to measure the Earth\u0027s time-variable gravity. He worked alongside JPL\u0027s Dr. Mike Watkins and Dr. David Wiese, both of whom are heavily involved with the current GRACE and upcoming GRACE Follow-On missions.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The feasibility of the approach had already been developed in previous studies, but these were mostly based on simulations,\u0022\u0026nbsp;he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGunter\u0027s collaborators were able to explore how their work might complement GRACE and the upcoming GRACE Follow-On mission.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We developed a list of high-priority systems to be investigated in the near future, including a compact ranging system, validation of precise positioning from a COTS GNSS receiver, and an assessment of the MEMS IMU. A number of numerical simulation studies were also identified to better quantify the scientific return that the constellations might provide.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe fellowship also sowed seeds for future collaborations.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022My time at JPL allowed me to get to know many other people working on related projects, such as planetary mission design and other cubesat missions. These contacts were extremely valuable and should lead to many new efforts going forward. Work on a joint paper is already underway. I hope to make a summer trip to Pasadena an annual event to build on these relationships and to set up internships and research projects for my students.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch3\u003EProf. Panagiotis Tsiotras\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ctable width=\u0022200\u0022 border=\u00220\u0022 cellspacing=\u00221\u0022 cellpadding=\u00225\u0022 align=\u0022right\u0022\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDr. Tsiotras spent four weeks working with Dr. Marco Quadrelli and others at JPL\u0027s\u0026nbsp; Robotics and Mobility Systems Section (Autonomous Systems Division).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We pursued a problem of common interest -- related to the coordinated path-planning of multiple ground vehicles in a crater and\/or cave while maintaining line-of-sight,\u0022\u0026nbsp;said Tsiotras.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The problem is of immediate interest to the Transformers for Extreme Environments concept, which has been promoted by several JPL\u0026nbsp;researchers, including\u0026nbsp; Adrian Stoica (PI) and Marco Quadrelli.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAccording to this concept, robotic systems can project the resources\/energy needed to induce a favorable microenvironment at the locale where exploration takes place and make exploration in extreme environments (below the surface of the planet or in areas that are permanently dark and cold) possible. The realization of the project depends on the availability of teams of mobile robots capable of (multi-hop) energy projection while maintaining communication with each other and operating far away from their base station.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETsiotras is excited about sustaining and enhancing his collaboration with colleagues at JPL.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022I realized that many aspects of my research were of interest to JPL. As a matter of fact,\u0026nbsp;during my stay at JPL I\u0026nbsp; met with several individuals who expressed an interest for possible collaboration. I was invited to give two seminars on my research.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Georgia Tech faculty looking for a unique opportunity to connect with NASA\u0027s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) are invited to submit proposals for the 2015 JPL Summer Fellowship. The deadline has been extended to December 15 at 5 p.m."}],"uid":"27456","created_gmt":"2015-07-21 15:17:06","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:19:12","author":"Britanny Grace","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-12-03T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2014-12-03T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1239","name":"School of Aerospace Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"2082","name":"aerospace engineering"},{"id":"116431","name":"CSTAR 2015 Summer Fellows@JPL"},{"id":"6316","name":"JPL"}],"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":""}},"426191":{"#nid":"426191","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Prof. Karen Feigh delivers seminar on support system design at Iowa State","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAssociate Professor of aerospace engineering Karen Feigh was invited by Iowa State University\u0027s School of Industrial \u0026amp; Manufacturing Systems Engineering this week to deliver a seminar that explored the impact that experience-based strategies have on decision-making when incomplete information is available.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Accuracy and Effort of Decision-making Strategies with Incomplete Information: Implications for Support System Design\u0022 was delivered by Feigh at the Ames Iowa campus on Sept. 24.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFeigh has long been interested in exploring models that will improve aeronautic safety and performance through a better understanding of human decision-making. As a faculty member in\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cognitiveengineering.gatech.edu\/dev7\/\u0022\u003EGT\u0027s Cognitive Engineering Center\u003C\/a\u003E, she has focused much of her research on the computational cognitive modeling and design of cognitive work support systems and technologies to improve the performance of socio-technical systems with particular emphasis on aerospace systems.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Decision-makers are often required to make decisions with incomplete information,\u0022 said Feigh.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022In order to design decision support systems utilizing restrictiveness and guidance to assist decision makers in these situations, it is essential to understand how certain decision making strategies are affected by incomplete information.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFeigh\u0027s talk presented the results of a simulation that measured the accuracy and effort involved in various decision-making strategies, each with varying amounts of information. She also spoke about the implications these findings have for the design of decision-support systems.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cognitiveengineering.gatech.edu\/dev7\/people\/dr-karen-feigh\u0022\u003EFind out more about Associate Professor Karen Feigh.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Karen Feigh was invited by Iowa State University\u0027s School of Industrial \u0026 Manufacturing Systems Engineering to deliver a seminar that explored the impact that experience-based strategies have on decision-makingwhen incomplete information is available."}],"uid":"27456","created_gmt":"2015-07-16 15:19:22","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:19:12","author":"Britanny Grace","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-09-25T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-09-25T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1239","name":"School of Aerospace Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"2082","name":"aerospace engineering"},{"id":"11039","name":"Karen Feigh"}],"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":""}},"425931":{"#nid":"425931","#data":{"type":"news","title":"AIAA names Prof. Robert Braun editor of the Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) announced that AE Professor Robert D. (Bobby) Braun has been chosen to serve as the next editor-in-chief of the\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003EJ\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/arc.aiaa.org\/toc\/jsr\/51\/3\u0022\u003Eournal of Spacecraft and Rockets\u003C\/a\u003E,\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;succeeding E. Vincent Zoby.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAn AIAA Fellow and member of the NAE, Braun is the director of AE\u2019s Space Systems Design Lab (\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.ssdl.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESSDL\u003C\/a\u003E) and the founding director of Georgia Tech\u2019s Center for Space Technology and Research (\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/cstar.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EC-STAR\u003C\/a\u003E). He co-founded and serves as chief technology officer for Terminal Velocity Aerospace LLC, a private company which provides atmospheric reentry services to increase the utilization and enhance the safety of spaceflight.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/arc.aiaa.org\/toc\/jsr\/51\/4\u0022\u003E\u003C\/a\u003EIn 2010 and 2011, Braun served as NASA\u2019s chief technologist. From 1989 to 2003, he served as a member of the technical staff of the NASA Langley Research Center. Braun has authored or co-authored more than 250 technical papers in the fields of atmospheric flight dynamics, planetary exploration, multidisciplinary design optimization, and systems engineering, including more than 50 papers in the JSR.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI am honored and proud to welcome Bobby as editor-in-chief of the JSR,\u201d said AE Chair Vigor Yang, who also serves as AIAA Vice President for Publications.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cBobby is eminently qualified for this position. He has extensive experience in our nation\u2019s space program, is a respected scholar and a wonderful author and is an advocate for his field. He consistently brings excellence to whatever he does and I know that the JSR will benefit greatly from his leadership. I look forward to seeing what the JSR will accomplish with Bobby at the helm.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003EJournal of Spacecraft and Rockets\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;is devoted to reporting advancements in the science and technology associated with spacecraft and tactical and strategic missile systems, including subsystems, applications, missions, environmental interactions, and space sciences. Braun\u2019s work in space systems includes serving on the Mars Pathfinder entry, descent and landing team from 1992 to 1997. He has also served on the Mars Microprobe, Mars Sample Return and Mars Surveyor 2001 flight projects.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022I am honored to be selected for this assignment,\u0022 said Braun, who has been reading JSR\u0026nbsp;since his undergraduate days at Penn\u0026nbsp;State. \u0022As editor-in-chief, I plan to focus on increasing the quality, relevance, reach, and impact of this seminal publication, ensuring that the JSR continues to document the rapid pace of innovation in the space sector. Space systems engineering remains an exciting field in which new theories, analytical and experimental breakthroughs, innovations, and discoveries are regularly achieved. The AIAA JSR is the place where these advancements are best described and shared.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESince 2005, Braun has advanced on wide variety of entry, descent and landing technologies, including guidance strategies, inflatable aerodynamic decelerators,, and supersonic retropropulsion. Braun\u2019s editorial contributions include serving as an associate editor for the JSR from 2009 to 2010, as well as serving as a peer reviewer for the JSR, the Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, and the AAS Journal of Astronautical Sciences.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBraun\u2019s previous AIAA service includes membership on AIAA\u2019s Space Systems Technical Committee, the Multidisciplinary Design Optimization Technical Committee and the Atmospheric Flight Mechanics Technical Committee. He is presently a member of the Executive Steering Committee for the AIAA Science and Technology Forum.Braun\u2019s past honors include the 2012 Alvin Seiff Memorial Award, the 1999 Lawrence Sperry Award and the 2011 von Karman Lectureship in Astronautics.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EAIAA is the largest aerospace professional society in the world, serving a diverse range of more than 35,000 individual members from 80 countries, and 100 corporate members. AIAA members help make the world safe, more connected, more accessible, and more prosperous.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) announced that AE Professor Robert D. (Bobby) Braun has been chosen to serve as the next editor-in-chief of the Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, succeeding E. 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The partnership\u0027s research focuses on the primary needs of the general aviation sector, including safety, structures and propulsion systems, human factors, weather and NextGen technology applications.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPEGASAS research has been headed up by core integration teams from Georgia Tech, Purdue and The Ohio State University. Their work has been backed up by core team members from the Florida Institute of Technology, Iowa State University, Texas A\u0026amp;M University.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAffiliate members include: Arizona State University, Florida A\u0026amp;M, Hampton University, Kent State University, North Carolina A\u0026amp;T State University, Oklahoma State University, Southern Illinois University (Carbondale), Tufts University, Western Michigan University and University of Minnesota, Duluth.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPEGASAS industry and organizational partners are GE Aviation; Battelle Memorial Institute; NetJets Inc.; Cessna; Gulfstream; Piper; Raytheon; Rockwell Collins; Cirrus; Flight Safety Foundation; Guardian Mobility; Harris Corporation; Jet Aviva; NextGen AeroSciences; Nelson Consulting; Rolls-Royce; The Spectrum Group; Take Flight Solutions; Woolpert; the Flight Deck Display Research Laboratory at NASA Ames; Columbus Regional, South Bend and Fort Wayne Airports; Florida, Georgia, Iowa and Indiana Departments of Transportation; the National Business Aviation Association; the National Intercollegiate Flying Association; and Ohio Aerospace Institute.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Aviation experts from industry, academia, and government will converge on Georgia Tech\u0027s School of Aerospace Engineering June 3-5 for the Second Annual Meeting of the Partnership to Enhance General Aviation Safety, Accessibility, and Sustainability."}],"uid":"27456","created_gmt":"2015-07-16 11:58:01","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:19:08","author":"Britanny Grace","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-05-30T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-05-30T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1239","name":"School of Aerospace Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"2082","name":"aerospace engineering"},{"id":"130841","name":"PEGASUS"}],"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":""}},"425951":{"#nid":"425951","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech names Dimitri Mavris Regents Professor","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech this week announced that it has selected Dimitri Mavris, a professor in the School of Aerospace Engineering, to become a Regents Professor.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMavris\u2019s nomination to this honor was formally approved by the University System of the Georgia Board of Regents earlier this month and is effective immediately. The Regents Professorship is reserved for outstanding, tenured full professors whose work is characterized by excellence in research and contributions to their professions and institutions.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe director of AE\u2019s\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.asdl.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EAerospace Systems Design Lab\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(ASDL), Mavris is known for emphasizing academic excellence among the many graduate students he advises. He regularly authors journal and conference papers with his students, and, over the last 10 years, has graduated more than 300 masters and doctoral students.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ctable width=\u0022200\u0022 border=\u00220\u0022 cellspacing=\u00221\u0022 cellpadding=\u00221\u0022 align=\u0022right\u0022\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003Cem\u003EProf. Dimitri Mavris in his office at the hub of the Aerospace System Design Lab (ASDL)\u0026nbsp;at Georgia Tech\u0027s School of Aerospace Engineering.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe greatest accomplishment, really, is the opportunity I\u2019ve been given to develop people,\u201d said Mavris who also holds the Boeing Professorship for Advanced Aerospace Systems Analysis.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cTo be able to support 600 or more students since I joined the ASDL [in 1998] is truly the biggest reward.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EUnder Mavris\u2019s direction, the ASDL has served as an unparalleled hub of multi-disciplinary system design and analysis work for a host of government and industry sponsors. Over the last 10 years alone, the lab has performed $125 million worth of research in new methods and tools and has anchored more than 200 research faculty, masters, and doctoral students.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGraduate and undergraduate students associated with ASDL have had the opportunity to work with a veritable \u201cwho\u2019s-who\u201d of industry giants, including Boeing, Lockheed, Rolls Royce, GE, NASA, and Pratt \u0026amp;\u0026nbsp;Whitney, to name a few.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt is hard to fully comprehend the wealth of resources and energy that Professor Mavris brings to his students and to the School of Aerospace Engineering,\u201d said AE Chair Dr. Vigor Yang.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cHe has generously provided his students with significant exposure to major research opportunities, reinforcing not only their technical finesse but their ability to manage real-world interactions.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ctable width=\u0022300\u0022 border=\u00220\u0022 cellspacing=\u00221\u0022 cellpadding=\u00221\u0022 align=\u0022right\u0022\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003Cem\u003EProf. Dimitri Mavris accepting an ASEE\u0026nbsp;award from\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cem\u003EBoeing Associate Technical Fellow Dr. Michael Richey for\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;ASDL\u0027s involvement in Boeing\u0027s\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ae.gatech.edu\/node\/1430\u0022\u003EAerosPace competition\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;this past April.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMavris earned his undergraduate, masters, and doctoral degrees in aerospace engineering from Georgia Tech. His research has focused on the formulation, development and implementation of comprehensive approaches to the design of affordable high-quality complex systems using visual analytics.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMavris\u2019s work as an educator and an engineering thought-leader has been widely recognized. He is a fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and the recipient of the National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Award. He is also a delegate to the United States Air Force Scientific Advisory Council. In addition to his membership on AIAA\u2019s Institute Development Committee, he was recently appointed to direct AIAA\u2019s Technical Aircraft and Atmospheric Systems Group.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Georgia Tech this week announced that it has selected Dimitri Mavris, a professor in the School of Aerospace Engineering, to become a Regents Professor."}],"uid":"27456","created_gmt":"2015-07-16 14:33:42","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:19:08","author":"Britanny Grace","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-08-21T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-08-21T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1239","name":"School of Aerospace Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"2082","name":"aerospace engineering"},{"id":"135151","name":"Dimitri Davis"},{"id":"103191","name":"regents professor"}],"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":""}},"425601":{"#nid":"425601","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Dr. Marilyn Smith\u0027s \u0022reduced order modeling\u0022 defines a more elegant solution","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAn article published in the June issue of AIAA\u0027s\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAerospace America\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;is drawing a lot attention to a new concept, reduced-order modeling, developed by Dr. Marilyn Smith\u0027s research group at Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe concept shows great promise in helping helicopter pilots better navigate and avoid problems when transporting so-called sling loads from a tethered gimbal. Whether in battlefield deployments or in alpine hiker rescues, the loads that dangle from helicopters typically encounter unique wind and movement conditions that could imperil the flight. Smith\u0027s team is addressing those issues.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We wrote the code to reverse engineer the computations that tell us the friction that is building in the gimbal,\u0022\u0026nbsp;said Smith, whose work has been supported by the Army, Navy, NASA, and AE\u0027s Vertical Lift Research Center of Excellence (VLRCOE).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022And now we are hearing from people from all over the world who want to work with us on it, to apply it to different areas.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESmith\u0027s colleague, Dr. Eric Johnson has been using reduced order modeling code to determine the best way to fly UAVs in turbulent conditions. Smith said the construction industry has also expressed interest in the concept as a way to control the huge payloads that dangle from cranes.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.aerospaceamerica.org\/Documents\/AerospaceAmerica%20PDFs%20-%202014\/June-2014\/EngineeringNotebookAAJune2014-5.pdf\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003ERead the article\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"An article published in the June issue of AIAA\u0027s Aerospace America is drawing a lot attention to a new concept, reduced-order modeling, developed by Dr. Marilyn Smith\u0027s research group at Georgia Tech."}],"uid":"27456","created_gmt":"2015-07-16 12:02:08","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:19:08","author":"Britanny Grace","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-06-03T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-06-03T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1239","name":"School of Aerospace Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"2082","name":"aerospace engineering"},{"id":"2576","name":"AIAA"},{"id":"129861","name":"Marilyn Smith"}],"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":""}},"425711":{"#nid":"425711","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Dr. Mitchell Walker selected for NAE Frontiers in Engineering","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe National Academies of Engineering (NAE) this week announced that AE faculty Dr. Mitchell Walker II has been selected to participate in the National Academy of Engineering\u0027s (NAE) 20th annual U.S. Frontiers of Engineering (USFOE) symposium.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWalker, an associate professor of aerospace engineering, does research in electric propulsion, plasma physics, and hypersonic aerodynamics\/ plasma interaction.\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/mwalker.gatech.edu\/hpepl\/\u0022\u003EFind out more\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;about his work.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENationwide, just 83 candidates were chosen for the honor, which recognizes exceptional engineering research and technical work among engineers ages 30 to 45. The participants -- from industry, academia, and government -- were nominated by fellow engineers or organizations.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022I\u0027m excited to be participating in the NAE symposium, an event that brings together some of engineering\u0027s best minds,\u0022 said Walker.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022I look forward to collaborating with colleagues from other disciplines, from industry, and from other parts of the country. It will benefit my work as a researcher and a teacher.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EJoining\u0026nbsp; Walker as USFOE participants are two other College of Engineering faculty, Dr. Laurie Garrow and Dr. Kimberly Kurtis, both from the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe 2014 USFOE will be held on September 11-13, at the National Academies\u0027 Beckman Center in Irvine, Calif., and will cover cutting-edge developments in four areas: next-generation robotics, frontiers in materials for batteries, shale gas and oil, and technologies for the heart.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe USFOE symposium is the perfect network for these talented, early-career engineers to develop those personal and professional relationships that will shape their work and ultimately impact our world,\u201d said NAE President C. D. Mote, Jr.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGarrow, an associate professor in civil and environmental engineering, does research in the area of advanced models of travel demand that integrate discrete choice, econometric, and market research methods to enhance understanding of travel behavior.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EKurtis is a professor in civil and environmental engineering. Her research is on the multi-scale structure and performance of cement-based materials.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ctable width=\u0022500\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\u003EDr. Mitchell walker, right, is seen here introducing high school students to the High Powered Electric Propulsion (HPEP) lab where he conducts his research.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Dr. Mitchell Walker II has been selected to participate in the National Academy of Engineering\u0027s (NAE) 20th annual U.S. Frontiers of Engineering (USFOE) symposium."}],"uid":"27456","created_gmt":"2015-07-16 13:03:09","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:19:08","author":"Britanny Grace","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-07-01T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-07-01T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1239","name":"School of Aerospace Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"2082","name":"aerospace engineering"},{"id":"2474","name":"Mitchell Walker"},{"id":"1972","name":"NAE"}],"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":""}},"425971":{"#nid":"425971","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Three AE graduate students named NASA Space Technology Research Fellows","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThree graduate students in the School of Aerospace Engineering have been named by NASA to the 2014 class of Space Technology Research Fellows (NSTRF).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDavid Blette, Sean Chait, and Adam Sidor are among the 54 student researchers culled from universities across to the country to receive NASA\u0026nbsp;support for their research projects.\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/content\/nasa-space-technology-research-fellows-2014-class\/#.U_UaeWOmXKM\u0022\u003EAnnouncement\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;of the honorees was made late last month by NASA.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe NSTRF program is a part of NASA\u0027s Space Technology Research Grants Program (STRGP) which seeks to accelerate the development of low TRL space technologies to support future space science and exploration needs of NASA, other government agencies, and the commercial space sector. STRGP engages the spectrum of academic researchers,\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ctable width=\u0022100\u0022 border=\u00220\u0022 cellspacing=\u00221\u0022 cellpadding=\u00221\u0022 align=\u0022right\u0022\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd class=\u0022rtecenter\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003ESean Chait\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cp\u003Efrom graduate students to senior faculty members.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBlette\u003C\/strong\u003E, of Janesville, Wisconsin received a stipend for his research,\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ae.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/img\/Blette-Abstract.pdf\u0022\u003E\u0022Vehicle Staging Analysis of the Transition to Supersonic Retropropulsion during Mars Entry, Descent, and Landing.\u0022\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;He is currently working with Prof. Bobby Braun in the Space Systems Design Lab toward a doctoral degree.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EChait\u003C\/strong\u003E, of Wallingford, Connecticut, received a stipend for his research, \u0022\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ae.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/img\/CHait-abstract.pdf\u0022\u003ESmall Satellite Proximity Operations Hardware-in-the-Loop Test Bed Development\u003C\/a\u003E\u0022 He is working with Prof. David Spencer toward a masters degree.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESidor\u003C\/strong\u003E, of Atlanta, received a stipend to support,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ae.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/img\/Georgia%20Institute%20of%20Technology.pdf\u0022\u003E\u0022Development of\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ctable width=\u0022100\u0022 border=\u00220\u0022 cellspacing=\u00221\u0022 cellpadding=\u00221\u0022 align=\u0022right\u0022\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ae.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/img\/Georgia%20Institute%20of%20Technology.pdf\u0022\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd class=\u0022rtecenter\u0022\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ae.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/img\/Georgia%20Institute%20of%20Technology.pdf\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003EAdam Sidor\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ae.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/img\/Georgia%20Institute%20of%20Technology.pdf\u0022\u003EConformal Ablative Thermal Protection Material and Fabrication Process\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0022 He is working with Prof. Bobby Braun toward a doctoral degree.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The great thing about these fellowships is that they give students a chance to do relevant research and, then, to work in one of NASA\u0027s centers where they can learn from experts in the field,\u0022 said Prof. Spencer.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022I\u0026nbsp;know that with Sean, the opportunity to work with NASA scientists will put him in a very competitive position when he finishes his masters. He will be in demand.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Three graduate students in the School of Aerospace Engineering have been named by NASA to the 2014 class of Space Technology Research Fellows (NSTRF)."}],"uid":"27456","created_gmt":"2015-07-16 14:36:48","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:19:08","author":"Britanny Grace","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-08-21T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-08-21T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1239","name":"School of Aerospace Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"135601","name":"Adam Sidor"},{"id":"2082","name":"aerospace engineering"},{"id":"135581","name":"David Blette"},{"id":"171461","name":"Sean Chait"}],"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":""}},"425621":{"#nid":"425621","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Federal Aviation Administration recognizes AE graduate researcher","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAerospace engineering graduate student Alek Gavrilovski has been recognized by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) with a PEGASAS Outstanding Student Researcher Award.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAnnouncement of the honor came on June 4, during the annual meeting of the PEGASAS Center of Excellence for General Aviation -- a national gathering of\u0026nbsp; industry, government, and academic partners in general aviation, held at Georgia Tech June 3-5. Find out\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ae.gatech.edu\/node\/1407\u0022\u003Emore\u003C\/a\u003Eabout this meeting.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe award recognizes the stature of Gavrilovski\u0027s overall scholarship, including his most recent project, Rotorcraft ASIAS (Aviation Safety Information Analysis and Sharing), which is seeking to improve the safety record of helicopters.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022While the overall safety record in aviation has improved a lot over time, the safety of rotorcraft vehicles is still order-of-magnitude much worse than with commercial aviation,\u0022 he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022So the idea [with ASIAS) was to use flight data monitoring (FDM), which is already used in commercial airlines, to improve the safety of rotorcraft flight.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGavrilovski plans to create a unified data-sharing network to enable directed safety studies of rotorcraft data. As a part of this work, he will identify the events, parameters, rates and exceedences that are currently recorded using existing equipment. Along with an exhaustive literature search, his goal is to create and continually improve a rotorcraft-specific FDM system.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ctable width=\u0022200\u0022 border=\u00220\u0022 cellspacing=\u00221\u0022 cellpadding=\u00225\u0022 align=\u0022right\u0022\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd class=\u0022rtecenter\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EDr. Dimitri Mavris and his student, Alek Gavrilovski during a reception for the PEGASAS\u0026nbsp;COE\u0026nbsp;meeting\u003C\/em\u003E.\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Because we will be looking at actual flight data -- information that could identify a particular pilot -- we had to run our entire plan though the Institutional Review Board (IRB), which was something new for me,\u0022 he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022But it looks like we are cleared to begin.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGavrilovski plans to pursue the Rotorcraft ASIAS project as a part of his doctoral work at Georgia Tech\u0027s\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.asdl.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EAerospace Systems Design Lab\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(ASDL) where he works under the mentorship of Dr. Dimitri Mavris and Dr. Hernando Jimenez. A native of Macedonia, Gavrilovski earned his undergraduate and masters degrees at Georgia Tech\u0027s School of Aerospace Engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ctable width=\u0022500\u0022 border=\u00220\u0022 cellspacing=\u00221\u0022 cellpadding=\u00221\u0022\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd class=\u0022rtecenter\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cem\u003EFrom left, Purdue Professor William Crossley, FAA\u0026nbsp;Manager of Aviation Research Dr. Eric Neiderman, GT-AE doctoral student Alek Gavrilovski, and Dr.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDennis Filler, Director of the FAA Technical Center\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Aerospace engineering graduate student Alek Gavrilovski has been recognized by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) with a PEGASAS Outstanding Student Researcher Award"}],"uid":"27456","created_gmt":"2015-07-16 12:05:14","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:19:08","author":"Britanny Grace","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-06-04T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-06-04T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1239","name":"School of Aerospace Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"2082","name":"aerospace engineering"},{"id":"135401","name":"Alek Gavrilovski"},{"id":"4341","name":"FAA"}],"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":""}},"425721":{"#nid":"425721","#data":{"type":"news","title":"$1.9M research grant aims to help military in austere environments","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA $1.9 million cooperative agreement with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) through the Army Research Office will enable researchers from Georgia Tech\u2019s School of Aerospace Engineering to launch a multi-tiered project ultimately aimed at supporting military operations in austere environments.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ctable width=\u0022150\u0022 border=\u00220\u0022 cellspacing=\u00221\u0022 cellpadding=\u00227\u0022 align=\u0022right\u0022\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd class=\u0022rtecenter\u0022\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDr. Daniel\u0026nbsp;Schrage\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDirector of IPLE\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBeginning today, scientists from Georgia Tech\u2019s Integrated Product Lifecycle Engineering (IPLE) lab and the Aerospace Systems Design Lab (ASDL) will run a two-year project dubbed CREATE (Collaborative Repository for Engineering and Technology Education).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe goal of the CREATE project is to enable students, hobbyists and military personnel to understand, diagnose, repair and adapt high technology electro-mechanical systems that are often used in isolated or challenging environments. The work is funded by the MENTOR2 program, run out of DARPA\u2019s Defense Sciences Office.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe CREATE team is in a unique position to develop and demonstrate innovative methods and tools,\u201d said Dr. Daniel P. Schrage, whose IPLE lab led Georgia Tech\u2019s work on the original MENTOR program and will also lead Georgia Tech\u2019s effort on MENTOR2.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe can build on and integrate key innovations from previous work and implement new innovations.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ctable width=\u0022150\u0022 border=\u00220\u0022 cellspacing=\u00221\u0022 cellpadding=\u00227\u0022 align=\u0022right\u0022\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd class=\u0022rtecenter\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDr. Dimitri Mavris\u003Cbr \/\u003EDirector of the ASDL\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech researchers will partner with the University of New Haven to evaluate the project demonstrations, which will use a combination of classroom teaching, camp practicums, unique simulation software, and distance learning to train users in all aspects of electromechanical system design, manufacturing, and support.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe are excited to have the opportunity to collaborate on this project,\u201d said ASDL director Dr. Dimitri Mavris. \u201cOur main focus will be on developing the curriculum through the development and use of an education project kit.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EImpetus for MENTOR2 comes from the experience of the U.S. military, where defense readiness is largely dependent on the ability to maintain and adapt high-tech equipment despite limited resources. Personnel require specialized training to ascend the learning curve for new technologies and deploy them under trying conditions.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECREATE seeks to tackle this problem, first by providing a learning environment that improves users\u2019 overall understanding of high technology systems, and then by providing ubiquitous access to educational\/design materials and tools that will support the employment of that knowledge in practical situations in austere environments.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhile other contractors will be responsible for developing simulation, design, and prototyping tools, CREATE will focus on the development of project kits and MOOCS (massively open online courses) for high school and college students. CREATE will evaluate the effectiveness of its approach during scheduled periodic demonstrations. Finally, Georgia Tech will serve as the overall MENTOR2 contractor for demonstrations and evaluation.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cGeorgia Tech\u2019s work under the CREATE project will deliver the sort of feedback that will improve the way we educate those who must repair and adapt electomechanical systems without access to the supply chain,\u201d said Schrage.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cOur emphasis on project-based learning and technical skill development will also attract support from educators, as well as from industry.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"A $1.9 million cooperative agreement with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) through the Army Research Office will enable researchers from Georgia Tech\u2019s School of Aerospace Engineering to launch a project aimed  at supporting military."}],"uid":"27456","created_gmt":"2015-07-16 13:08:40","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:19:08","author":"Britanny Grace","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-07-01T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-07-01T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1239","name":"School of Aerospace Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"136","name":"Aerospace"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"135471","name":"ADSL"},{"id":"2082","name":"aerospace engineering"},{"id":"86941","name":"create"},{"id":"135461","name":"IPLE"}],"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":""}},"425981":{"#nid":"425981","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Henry McDonald talks about epic failures in first Gebhardt Lecture","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe first Gebhardt Lecture of the 2014-15 academic year gave listeners valuable insight into some of the most dramatic aeronautic disasters of our time.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOn Aug. 21, Dr. Henry \u0022Harry\u0022 McDonald, a former director of NASA\u0027s Ames Research Center, spoke candidly about his experience as a forensic engineer investigating the 1991 Titan IV booster rocket explosion and the 2000 crash of a Marine Corps V-22 helicopter. McDonald also spoke about his work investigating the Challenger and Columbia crashes.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The investigation teams all came from science and engineering fields, so we knew about the systems involved in these vehicles. But none of us were compromised by having worked on these particular vehicles,\u0022 he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022All of us worked collegially because we wanted our findings to withstand future scrutiny.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ae.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/img\/McDonald-slides.pdf\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECheck out this Powerpoint from his Aug. 21 talk.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAn immediate analysis of the 1991 Titan explosion revealed an upper motor case breach and overpressure in the first segment solid rocket. McDonald was a part of a team of scientists and engineers that Lockheed Martin brought in to go beyond these findings to pinpoint the precise reason for failure.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAmong their findings:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EThe core pressure following ignition was underestimated in region of first-second segment joint;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EThe design computer code used to make core pressure estimate (BLIMP+) had been incorrectly run;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EThe propellant grain modulus of elasticity was borderline given initial material specs;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ELater specs had been tightened by designers but predictions had not been re-run;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EThe core collapsed at first and second segment joint.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFuture firings of the Titan incorporated the team\u0027s findings and were trouble-free.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMcDonald said the Department of Defense (DoD) was very interested in rehabilitating the engineering flaws that led to the deadly April 2000 crash of the V-22 Osprey.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The Marine Corps loved the specs of this vehicle. They thought it showed tremendous promise, so if we could make it do what it was supposed to do -- and do it safely -- they didn\u0027t care if it took some money. It was worth it,\u0022 McDonald said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ctable width=\u0022250\u0022 border=\u00220\u0022 cellspacing=\u00221\u0022 cellpadding=\u00221\u0022 align=\u0022right\u0022\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd class=\u0022rtecenter\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003EHarry McDonald giving the August 21 Gebhardt Lecture: \u0022A Critical Look at some Notable Aerospace Engineering Failures\u0022\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cp\u003EUltimately, the forensic engineering team brought in by the DoD determined that the accident had been caused by vortex ring state, a concept well-known among rotorcraft engineers but possibly overlooked by some of the fixed wing engineers who designed the V-22.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The V-22 is a hybrid vehicle, so there were airplane and helicopter engineers working on it,\u0022\u0026nbsp;said McDonald. \u0022Engineering failures often occur at the interface of related disciplines, where important information from one field is not fully interpreted by the other.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EA native of Glasgow, Scotland Dr. McDonald holds a B.Sc.(Hons.) and a D.Sc. in aeronautical engineering from the University of Glasgow. He is a member of the NAE, and the UK Royal Academy of Engineering and is a Fellow and Honorary Member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and is a Fellow of Royal Aeronautical Society.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EAt United Technologies Research Center, he became a department head and concentrated on what became known as Computational Fluid Dynamics. McDonald held a number of academic posts at Penn State University and Mississippi State before 1996, when he was appointed Center Director at NASA Ames Research.\u0026nbsp; He is currently the chair of Excellence in Computational Engineering at the University of Tennessee in Chattanooga\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMark your calendars!\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThe next Gebhardt Lecture is\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ae.gatech.edu\/node\/1473\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThursday, October 9\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u0026nbsp;and will feature Dr. Richard M. Murray from CalTech.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The first Gebhardt Lecture of the 2014-15 academic year gave listeners valuable insight into some of the most dramatic aeronautic disasters of our time."}],"uid":"27456","created_gmt":"2015-07-16 14:40:08","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:19:08","author":"Britanny Grace","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-08-25T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-08-25T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1239","name":"School of Aerospace Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"2082","name":"aerospace engineering"},{"id":"135611","name":"Henry McDonald"},{"id":"408","name":"NASA"}],"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":""}},"425631":{"#nid":"425631","#data":{"type":"news","title":"AE\u0027s Dr. J. P. Clarke and the National Research Council review the future of UAVs","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFrom traffic monitoring to crop dusting, the potential uses for unmanned autonomous vehicles (UAVs) have ingited the popular imagination.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBut we still have a little way to go before your late-night pizza arrives via a micro air vehicle.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA report released June 5 by the National Research Council has identified potential barriers to the safe integration of unmanned autonomous vehicles into civil airspace.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe 94-page report, co-authored by AE\u0027s\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.ae.gatech.edu\/community\/staff\/bio\/clarke-j\u0022\u003EDr. J. P. Clarke\u003C\/a\u003E, also maps out a research agenda that could address those challenges and launch a new era in air transport.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThere is little doubt that over the long run the potential benefits of unmanned aircraft in civil aviation will indeed be great, but there should be equally little doubt that getting there while maintaining the safety and efficiency of the nation\u2019s civil aviation system will be no easy matter,\u201d said Clarke, co-chair of the committee that wrote the report.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe report emphasizes that the most critical goal is to ensure that these aircraft perform with the same high level of safety and reliability expected of civil aviation systems.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAmong the most pressing obstacles are:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETechnological barriers\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis includes the inherent difficulty associated with characterizing and predicting the behavior of systems that can adapt to changing conditions. This poses a particular challenge in engineering unmanned and autonomous systems to be compatible with already-existing air traffic management systems and other elements of the national airspace system. And the ability of systems to operate independently of human operators is currently limited by the capabilities of machine sensory, perceptual, and cognitive systems\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERegulation and certification\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThese barriers include the fact that existing processes, criteria, and approaches for certifying aircraft do not adequately address the special characteristics of advanced autonomous systems. In addition, many existing safety standards and requirements, which are focused on ensuring the safety of aircraft passengers and crew, are not well suited to ensure the safety of unmanned aircraft operations, where the main concern is the safety of people in other aircraft and on the ground.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EOther barriers\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOther barriers include social issues, such as public concerns about privacy and safety, and legal hurdles, such as public policy, reflected in law and regulation. To help surmount these and other barriers, the report recommends a national research agenda that would involve government agencies, industry, and academia.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;To surmount these and other barriers, the report recommends a national research agenda that would involve government, industry, and academic leaders in eight research projects, the following four of which are considered crucial:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Col\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBehavior of adaptive\/nondeterministic systems\u003C\/strong\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003ETechnologies that enable aircraft to adapt to uncertain environments and to learn based on experience will be integral to many advanced autonomous aircraft. As autonomous systems take over more functions traditionally performed by humans, there will be a growing need to incorporate autonomous monitoring and other safeguards to ensure that appropriate operational behavior continues. Research is needed to develop new methods and tools to address the inherent uncertainties in airspace system operations due to factors such as weather and conflicting air traffic and thereby enable advanced autonomous systems to improve their performance and provide greater assurance of safety.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EOperation without continuous human oversight.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEnabling unmanned aircraft to operate for extended periods of time without real-time human oversight will require that the autonomous systems be able to perform certain critical functions currently provided by humans, such as \u201cdetect and avoid\u201d and contingency decision-making. Successful development of these systems and technologies depends on understanding how humans perform their roles in the current system and how these roles are translated to the autonomous system, particularly for high-risk situations.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EModeling and simulation.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cp\u003EModeling and simulation capabilities will play an important role in the development of autonomous aircraft because they enable researchers, designers, regulators, and operators to get information about how something performs without actually testing it in real life. For example, computer simulations may be able to test the performance of an autonomous aircraft in millions of scenarios in a short timeframe to produce a statistical basis for determining safety risks. The committee recommended the creation of a distributed suite of modeling and simulation modules developed by disparate organizations with the ability to be interconnected or networked; monolithic modeling efforts that are intended to \u201cdo it all\u201d and answer all questions posed tend not to be effective.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EVerification, validation, and certification.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe high levels of safety achieved in the operation of the national airspace system largely reflect the formal requirements imposed by the FAA for verification, validation, and certification of hardware and software and the certification of people as a condition for entry into the system. Extension of these concepts and principles to highly autonomous aircraft and systems is not a simple matter and will require the development of new approaches and tools.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ol\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe barriers we identify and the research agenda we propose to overcome them is a vital next step as we venture into this new era of flight,\u201d said committee co-chair\u0026nbsp; John Lauber, a consultant and former Senior Vice President and Chief Product Safety Officer at Airbus.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThe study was supported by the Office of Naval Research, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, and the Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Research and Technology.\u0026nbsp; The National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine, and National Research Council make up the National Academies.\u0026nbsp; They are private, independent nonprofit institutions that provide science, technology, and health policy advice under a congressional charter granted to NAS in 1863.\u0026nbsp; The National Research Council is the principal operating arm of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ae.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/img\/UAV%20Report.pdf\u0022\u003ERead the report\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"A 4-page report, co-authored by AE\u0027s Dr. J. 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