Aerospace Engineering Seminars
The aerospace engineering department regularly invites alumni and experts from industry, academia, and government from around the world to speak to our students and faculty about the latest advancements in the aerospace industry and related areas.
Spring 2019 Schedule
PLEASE NOTE: All AERSP 590 seminars will be held from 2:00-2:50 p.m. in 220 Hammond Building, unless otherwise noted.
January 17
“Fault Protection and Some Failures/Near Failures of Spacecraft”
Bobak Ferdowsi, Systems Engineer, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
January 24
“Enabling Low Noise Flight with ‘Acoustically Aware’ Aircraft”
Eric Greenwood, researcher, aeroacoustics branch, NASA Langley Research Center
January 29
“Multi-Physics Simulation of Laser-Induced Ignition in Turbulent Flow
Pavel Popov, research scientist, Coordinated Science Laboratory at the University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign
January 31
No Seminar
February 7
“Trying to Understand the Basic Physics in Space Propulsion”
Richard Branam, assistant professor of aerospace engineering and mechanics, University of Alabama
February 12
“Computational Discovery of Hypersonic Aerothermoelastic Scaling Laws”
Daning Huang, Ph.D. candidate, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
February 14
“Low-Temperature Plasmas from Propulsion to Plants”
Gabe Xu, associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, University of Alabama in Huntsville
February 19
“Analysis of Aircraft and Operational Constraints for Urban Air Mobility”
Parker Vascik, Ph.D. candidate in aerospace systems engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
NOTE: This seminar will be from 9:05-10:20 a.m. in 160 Willard Building
February 21
“Modeling of Nonequilibrium Gas and Plasma with Applications to Hypersonics”
Kyle Hanquist, postdoctoral research fellow, Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Michigan
February 25
“The Power of Pressure: Achieving Dynamic Similarity with Laboratory Wind Turbines”
Mark A. Miller, postdoctoral researcher, Princeton University
NOTE: This seminar will be from 11:15 a.m.-12:05 p.m. in 221 Hammond Building
February 28
“Rotor Hub Wake Insights from High-Reynolds Number Water Tunnel Experiments”
Brian Elbing, assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, Oklahoma State University
March 7
Spring Break | No Seminar
March 14
“Whither In-Space Propulsion?”
Eric Cardiff, chief engineer for propulsion, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
March 21
“Rotor Hub Wake Insights from High-Reynolds Number Water Tunnel Experiments”
Brian Elbing, assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, Oklahoma State University
March 28
“Supercells to Supersonics: Enabling Severe Weather Research with Aerospace Engineering”
Brian Argrow, Professor and Chair, Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences, Director of the Integrated Remote & In-Situ Sensing Program, University of Colorado Boulder
April 4
“Hall Thrusters for Deep Space Travel”
Sarah Cusson, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Michingan
April 11
“Rotorcraft Load Alleviation Control Design Using High Order Dynamic Models”
Umberto Saetti, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Aerospace Engineering, Penn State
April 18
“Thinking Outside the Sphere: In pursuit of space exploration and thoughts about the future”
Bonnie Dunbar, TEES Distinguished Research Professor, Texas A&M University
April 25
“Cooperating With Mother Nature: A Variation of Parameters Approach to Find Quasi-Frozen Orbits Low Altitude Lunar Orbits”
John Junkins, University Distinguished Professor of Aerospace Engineering, Texas A&M University
