Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Aerospace Engineering Welcome Week: [Day-One] Transfer Student Virtual Boot Camp (August 24, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75756 75756-19598165@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, August 24, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

The departmental preparatory boot camp and orientation will take place virtually on Monday and Wednesday of welcome week for new transfer students. The boot camp covers MATLAB, linear algebra, presentation skills, test preparation tips, and more. Transfer students are strongly encouraged to attend. Registration is required.

Audience: New Undergraduate Transfer Students
Contact: Kimberly Johnson, berlykim@umich.edu

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Other Wed, 19 Aug 2020 21:13:58 -0400 2020-08-24T13:00:00-04:00 2020-08-24T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Aerospace Engineering Other
Aerospace Engineering Welcome Week: [Day-Two] Transfer Student Virtual Boot Camp (August 26, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75758 75758-19600125@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 26, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

Aerospace Engineering Welcome Week: [Day-Two] Transfer Student Virtual Boot Camp
The departmental preparatory boot camp and orientation will take place virtually on Monday and Wednesday of welcome week for new transfer students. The boot camp covers MATLAB, linear algebra, presentation skills, test preparation tips, and more. Transfer students are strongly encouraged to attend. Registration is required!

Audience: New Undergraduate Transfer Students
Contact: Kimberly Johnson, berlykim@umich.edu

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Other Wed, 19 Aug 2020 21:13:33 -0400 2020-08-26T13:00:00-04:00 2020-08-26T14:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Aerospace Engineering Other
Aerospace Engineering Welcome Week: Undergrad Student Meet & Greet (August 26, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75853 75853-19615919@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 26, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

Join us for the Fall 2020 Undergrad Meet and Greet! During this virtual event students will meet our Department Chair, Dr. Tony Waas and Undergraduate Faculty Advisor, Prof. Luis Bernal. You will also hear directly from WAA, SGT, MASA, and Aerospace Engineering's new Students of Color committee members. Learn what these student groups are all about and how you can get involved.

Registration is not required, but you may submit a question to our faculty or student reps at the link below.

Questions: https://rb.gy/z8u5zk

See you there!

Audience: Undeclared CoE and Aerospace Engineering Undergraduate Students
Contact: Israa Ali (Undergrad DEI Committee Chair), aliim@umich.edu

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Reception / Open House Thu, 20 Aug 2020 08:02:25 -0400 2020-08-26T15:00:00-04:00 2020-08-26T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Aerospace Engineering Reception / Open House
Aerospace Engineering Welcome Week: Virtual Outreach Information Session (August 27, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75827 75827-19613921@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 27, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

The department is hosting an informative virtual outreach meeting with outreach student leaders and members. The meeting includes a special presentation from UM Risk Management’s Children on Campus Program Coordinator, Denne Lawton, who will share UM's new outreach policies as it relates to COVID-19 followed by a Q&A. The department will also share new outreach initiatives and opportunities for 2020/21.

Audience: Student leaders actively involved in outreach
Contact: Kimberly Johnson, berlykim@umich.edu

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Reception / Open House Wed, 19 Aug 2020 10:42:48 -0400 2020-08-27T13:00:00-04:00 2020-08-27T14:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Aerospace Engineering Reception / Open House
Aerospace Engineering Welcome Week: New Graduate Student Orientation (August 28, 2020 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/75752 75752-19598153@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 28, 2020 8:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

The departmental graduate orientation is a virtual event with presentations by faculty and staff from the department, and opportunities for questions.

Audience: New Graduate Students
Contact: Prof. Chris Fidkowski, aero-prospective@umich.edu

Session 1: 8:30 - 10:00am
Overview and MSE Description - Incoming Masters and PhD Students
Zoom Meeting Link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/96638469525

Agenda
- Welcome
- Facilities + Safety
- IT
- Financial Services
- MSE Overview

Session 2: 9:20 - 10:00am
PhD Description - Incoming PhD Students
Zoom Meeting Link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/94160504187

Agenda
- PhD Overview

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Reception / Open House Wed, 26 Aug 2020 22:58:57 -0400 2020-08-28T08:30:00-04:00 2020-08-28T10:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Aerospace Engineering Reception / Open House
Aerospace Engineering Welcome Week: Virtual Game Night organized by GSAC (August 28, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75751 75751-19598148@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 28, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

The aerospace graduate student advisory committee (GSAC) is hosting a virtual game night to kick off the Fall semester and welcome incoming graduate students! The event will be held over Zoom (https://umich.zoom.us/j/91832507573) and is open to all grad students in the department. Join us for a night of team trivia and other activities starting at 7 pm EDT on Friday, August 28.

Contact: Ryan Patterson, rppat@umich.edu

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Reception / Open House Fri, 21 Aug 2020 09:14:17 -0400 2020-08-28T19:00:00-04:00 2020-08-28T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Aerospace Engineering Reception / Open House
Chair's Distinguished Lecture: What Can the Aerospace Field Do About Its Diversity Problem? (September 3, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76153 76153-19669623@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 3, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

Ken Powell
Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and DEI Faculty Liaison
Aerospace Engineering, UM

The other talks this semester will be based on research in Aerospace Sciences and Engineering. This talk is based on research in the Social Sciences - particularly Psychology, Sociology, Economics - and how it applies to education and careers in aerospace engineering.

For the past five years, I have been part of a group of Michigan professors who read this social science literature, and meet to discuss its implications on academic careers - teaching, research, service and hiring of faculty. We also give talks about why and how to improve diversity in faculty hiring to faculty throughout the university, department chairs and deans, and faculty at other universities.

In this talk, I will present some classical and recent social science research about issues that affect our ability to hire and retain a diverse and excellent faculty, particularly in STEM fields, and especially in aerospace engineering. Topics will include implicit bias, stereotype threat, accumulation of disadvantage, and some of the steps we are taking as a university to improve the composition of the faculty. I will also present data about the demographics of the aerospace field, and give you some strategies for being a part of the much-needed solution to Aerospace's diversity challenges.

About the speaker...

Professor Powell is a member and past director of the W. M. Keck Foundation Computational Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, and a co-founder and co-director of the Center for Space Environment Modeling and the the Center for Radiative Shock Hydrodynamics. At the undergraduate level, he teaches freshman computing, compressible flow, aerodynamics and aircraft design; at the graduate level, he teaches aerodynamics and computational fluid dynamics. His research interests include: algorithm development for fluid dynamics, aerodynamics and plasmadynamics; and the application of computational methods to problems in aerodynamics, aeroelasticity, fluid dynamics and space environment/space weather. His articles appear in Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Journal of Computational Physics, and Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, among others. He is also a co-author of Multi-Media Fluid Mechanics. He has received a number of awards for his research, including a National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award, and a number of awards for his teaching, including the Arthur F. Thurnau Professorship. He is married to Susanne Maria Krummel; they have three children: Jasmine, Ryan and Nicole.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 01 Sep 2020 14:36:17 -0400 2020-09-03T16:00:00-04:00 2020-09-03T17:15:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Aerospace Engineering Class / Instruction Kenneth Powell
Chair's Distinguished Lecture: Safe and Adversarially-Robust Multi-Agent Systems (September 10, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76151 76151-19669621@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 10, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

Dimitra Panagou
Associate Professor
Aerospace Engineering
University of Michigan

Planning, navigation and control for multi-agent systems have been fundamental topics of research with numerous applications in unmanned aerial vehicles and robotic networks. Despite significant progress over the years, there are still open challenges due to constraints (in terms of state and time specifications), adversarial or faulty information, environmental uncertainty and scalability. This talk will present some of our recent results and ongoing work on safe and adversarially-robust multi-robot systems. The proposed framework provides provably-correct and computationally-efficient solutions on the mission synthesis of multi-agent systems in the presence of adversarial attacks and spatiotemporal constraints.

About the speaker...

Dimitra Panagou received the Diploma and PhD degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, in 2006 and 2012, respectively. Since September 2014 she has been a faculty member with the Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Michigan. Prior to joining the University of Michigan, she was a postdoctoral research associate with the Coordinated Science Laboratory, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (2012-2014), a visiting research scholar with the GRASP Lab, University of Pennsylvania (June 2013, fall 2010) and a visiting research scholar with the University of Delaware, Mechanical Engineering Department (spring 2009).
Dr. Panagou's research program spans the areas of nonlinear systems and control; multi-agent systems and networks; motion and path planning; human-robot interaction; navigation, guidance, and control of aerospace vehicles. She is particularly interested in the development of provably-correct methods for the safe and secure (resilient) operation of autonomous systems in complex missions, with applications in robot/sensor networks and multi-vehicle systems (ground, marine, aerial, space). Dr. Panagou is a recipient of the NASA Early Career Faculty Award, the AFOSR Young Investigator Award, the NSF CAREER Award, and a Senior Member of the IEEE and the AIAA.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 01 Sep 2020 14:54:48 -0400 2020-09-10T16:00:00-04:00 2020-09-10T17:15:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Aerospace Engineering Class / Instruction Dimitra Panagou
AE285 Engineering Seminar: COVID-19: How the Aerospace Ecosystem Went Into Hybernation Mode (September 11, 2020 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76515 76515-19719175@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 11, 2020 1:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

Mike Stengel
Senior Associate
AeroDynamic Advisory

The aerospace industry is no strangers to crises, be it economic downturns, oil price shocks, geopolitical events, or acts of terrorism. The industry has also faced outbreaks of disease as well, but COVID-19 has posed the most challenging circumstances in the entire history of the business. How did the industry respond in the wake of growing cases? How have airlines shifted into “survival mode” and what measures have they taken? How long is this hibernation period sustainable? What are the impacts on suppliers to airlines, like manufacturers and maintenance providers? What’s the outlook for the recovery, and what could the industry potentially look like on the other side? What does this mean for students looking to enter aerospace? What opportunities will arise, and which avenues will become more difficult? In this seminar, AeroDynamic Advisory Senior Associate Mike Stengel will outline the series of events that have characterized the COVID-19 outbreak, and the outlook for the aerospace industry.


About the speaker...

Mike Stengel is a Senior Associate at AeroDynamic Advisory and self-proclaimed aerospace industry geek. Over his consulting career, Mike has gained experience in over 50 client engagements focusing on strategy, market analysis, M&A/due diligence, technology, and customer satisfaction. Key clients that Mike has worked with have included aerospace manufacturers, airlines, maintenance providers, investors, and government agencies. Mike graduated from the University of Michigan with a BS in Aerospace Engineering, and is an FAA-licensed commercial pilot.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 01 Sep 2020 16:21:15 -0400 2020-09-11T13:30:00-04:00 2020-09-11T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Aerospace Engineering Class / Instruction Mike Stengel
Chair's Distinguished Lecture: Verified Artificial Intelligence and Autonomy (September 17, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77087 77087-19796482@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 17, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

Sanjit A. Seshia
Professor
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS)
UC Berkeley

Verified artificial intelligence (AI) is the goal of designing AI-based systems that have strong, verified assurances of correctness with respect to mathematically-specified requirements. This goal is particularly important for autonomous and semi-autonomous systems. In this talk, I will consider Verified AI from a formal methods perspective and with a special focus on autonomy. I will describe the challenges for and recent progress towards attaining Verified AI, with examples from the domain of intelligent cyber-physical systems, with a particular focus on autonomous vehicles and aerospace systems.

About the speaker...

Sanjit A. Seshia is a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley. He received an M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University, and a B.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. His research interests are in formal methods for dependable and secure computing, with a current focus on the areas of cyber-physical systems, computer security, machine learning, and robotics. He has made pioneering contributions to the areas of satisfiability modulo theories (SMT), SMT-based verification, and inductive program synthesis. He is co-author of a widely-used textbook on embedded, cyber-physical systems and has led the development of technologies for cyber-physical systems education based on formal methods. His awards and honors include a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, the Frederick Emmons Terman Award for contributions to electrical engineering and computer science education, the Donald O. Pederson Best Paper Award for the IEEE Transactions on CAD, and the IEEE Technical Committee on Cyber-Physical Systems (TCCPS) Mid-Career Award. He is a Fellow of the IEEE.

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Class / Instruction Fri, 11 Sep 2020 09:23:20 -0400 2020-09-17T16:00:00-04:00 2020-09-17T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Aerospace Engineering Class / Instruction Sanjit Seshia
Fall 2020 - AE285 Seminar Series, Architecting a System for Human Spaceflight, Rob Meyerson, Delalune Space (September 18, 2020 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76906 76906-19774606@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 18, 2020 1:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

Rob Meyerson
Founder and CEO
Delalune Space

Rob Meyerson, the former president of Blue Origin, will present "Architecting a System for Human Spaceflight." The pros and cons of the Space Shuttle system will be discussed, along with a review of the Blue Origin New Shepard suborbital space system. Booster propulsion, escape systems, and human factors will be considered in the discussion.


About the speaker...

Rob Meyerson is the founder and CEO of Delalune Space, a management consulting company focused on the aerospace, mobility, technology and investment sectors. Rob is the former President of Blue Origin.

Rob oversaw the steady growth of Blue Origin from 2003 to 2018, building the company from its founding into a more than 1500-person organization. Under Rob’s leadership, Blue Origin developed the New Shepard system for suborbital human and research flights, the BE-3 LOX/LH2 rocket engine, the BE-4 LOX/LNG rocket engine, the New Glenn launch vehicle and the company vision for humanity in space; including the Blue Moon lunar lander, human spacecraft, habitats and in-space tugs. During this time, Rob oversaw Blue’s growth in staff (10 to 1500+), budget ($10M to $1B), revenue (zero to confidential) and facilities (one location to six, 50K to 1M+ sq ft).

Prior to joining Blue, Rob was a Senior Program Manager at Kistler Aerospace, where he was a member of the leadership team developing a two-stage reusable launch vehicle. Rob began his career as an aerodynamicist at NASA’s Johnson Space Center (JSC).

Rob earned a B.S. degree in aerospace engineering from the University of Michigan and a master’s degree in industrial engineering from the University of Houston. He is an AIAA Fellow, a Trustee at the Museum of Flight, and a member of the University of Michigan College of Engineering Leadership Advisory Board. Rob was awarded the Space Flight Award by the American Astronautical Society in 2017 for his accomplishments at Blue Origin.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 08 Sep 2020 16:31:32 -0400 2020-09-18T13:30:00-04:00 2020-09-18T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Aerospace Engineering Class / Instruction Rob Meyerson
Chair's Distinguished Lecture: Simulation and Modeling of High-Speed Disperse Two-Phase Flows (September 24, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76157 76157-19669628@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 24, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

Jesse Capecelatro
Assistant Professor
Mechanical Engineering and Aerospace Engineering
University of Michigan

Disperse two-phase flows are composed of liquid droplets or solid particles suspended in a carrier fluid. Examples of such flows are numerous within engineering and science. While the past several decades have seen significant progress in developing predictive modeling capabilities, largely due to the advent of high-performance computing, the majority of these efforts have focused on dilute suspensions of particles under low-speed (incompressible) conditions. This talk will focus on recent progress towards understanding and predicting particle-laden flows in more extreme environments, in which gas-phase compressibility and back-coupling from particles to the fluid have an order-one effect. Some relevant examples include solid propellant combustion, coal dust explosions, volcanic eruptions, and the fluidization of regolith from a rocket exhaust plume during planetary/lunar landing. The latter example acts as the primary motivation of this talk. We will examine the fundamental processes of turbulent particle-laden flows, including state-of-the-art phenomenology from experimental observations, existing theories, and simulation techniques. New numerical methods uniquely designed to address this class of flows will be presented, in addition to high-resolution simulations that allow us to probe turbulence and Mach number effects at the sub-particle scale and at scales that encompass millions of particles.

About the speaker...

Jesse Capecelatro is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan. His research group develops numerical methods and data-driven approaches for the prediction and optimization of “messy turbulent flows” relevant to energy and the environment (often multiphase and reacting). Prior to joining Michigan in 2016, Dr. Capecelatro was a research scientist at the Center for Exascale Simulation of Plasma-coupled Combustion (XPACC) at the University of Illinois. He received a B.S. from SUNY Binghamton in 2009, a M.S. from the University of Colorado Boulder in 2011, and a Ph.D. from Cornell in 2014. He is a recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER Award, Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award, and the ASME Pi Tau Sigma Gold Medal Award.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 01 Sep 2020 14:52:26 -0400 2020-09-24T16:00:00-04:00 2020-09-24T17:15:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Aerospace Engineering Class / Instruction Jesse Capecelatro
Fall 2020 - AE285 Seminar Series, Stealth…An Airplane Design Challenge, Grant Carichner, California Polytechnic State University (September 25, 2020 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77556 77556-19885801@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 25, 2020 1:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

Grant Carichner
Adjunct Professor
California Polytechnic State University

In any combat scenario it is advantageous to be invisible or nearly invisible to your adversary (recall Desert Storm/bombing of Baghdad in 1991). In any situation it is very important to limit your opponent’s ability to harm you. More than 50 years ago initial stealth efforts focused on incorporating materials into an airplane’s design to reduce radar signatures. This proved to be a difficult and elusive goal. Today ‘stealth’ is designed into virtually every military vehicle.

This seminar will review the history of early stealth efforts and conclude with where the state-of-the-art is today. Air vehicles will be the main focus but it will also become clear that stealth is being added to the designs of land and sea vehicles as well. In this discussion reducing the ‘signature’ of an air vehicle to radar will be the primary focus. However, it should be recognized that IR (infrared), audible, and visual signatures can also be very important. They will be introduced with little discussion. Ultimately, the goal is to have a vehicle survive and be able to fly tomorrow’s missions or successfully penetrate enemy positions to destroy its target. Stealth is a major component of survivability but it is not the only one. What was the first stealth airplane? You may be surprised to learn the answer.


About the speaker...

Mr. Carichner went to work for the Lockheed Skunk Works after earning his BS Engr and MS Engr degrees from UCLA. He retired in 2013 after 48 years at the Skunk Works where he worked on most of the company’s high-profile programs. During his career he started out as an aerodynamicist and eventually became Head of Aerodynamics for the Skunk Works. Future program assignments were either Chief Engineer or Program Manager positions. As Chief Engineer for the JASSM Program he was selected as Lockheed’s Inventor of the Year.

The last 15 years of his career were dedicated to lighter-than-air designs. He created the Aerocraft Program whose design resulted in a hybrid airship demonstrator that had many airplane flight characteristics that has changed the course of future airship design.

Currently, Mr. Carichner teaches Airplane Design at Cal Poly Pomona
Mr. Carichner has written two textbooks. One on airplane design and another on airship design. Both books are published by the AIAA.

Fundamentals of Aircraft and Airship Design: Volume I - Aircraft Design
Fundamentals of Aircraft and Airship Design: Volume II - Airship Design and Case Studies

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Class / Instruction Tue, 22 Sep 2020 12:27:45 -0400 2020-09-25T13:30:00-04:00 2020-09-25T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Aerospace Engineering Class / Instruction Grant Carichner
Black Students in Aerospace [BSA] Movie Event (September 29, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77826 77826-19941591@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 29, 2020 5:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

The Black Students in Aerospace (BSA), a new student organization within the Department of Aerospace engineering, would like to invite you to attend our upcoming movie night event.

Over the course of this summer, there has been a resurgence of support, activism, and protests for Black Lives Matter and other human rights issues that have cast a spotlight on the systemic racism present in society. Our organization felt it was important to tie these issues back to the department in order to continue the discourse as well as to bring visibility to the ways their peers are affected.

Because of this, we decided to host a viewing of the documentary I Am Not Your Negro by James Baldwin. The movie will be followed by a guided discussion with a panel of Black engineering students, alumni, and professors from U-M including Alec D. Gallimore, Robert J. Vlasic Dean of Engineering. 

Friday October 2nd
Movie: 6:00pm - 7:30pm (Eastern Time)
Panel: 7:30pm - 8:30pm (Eastern Time)

Please RSVP at https://tinyurl.com/bsa-movie-night

***It is important to note that the film includes brief moments of graphic images, specifically images of lynchings and police brutality.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 30 Sep 2020 12:22:25 -0400 2020-09-29T17:00:00-04:00 2020-09-29T18:00:00-04:00 Aerospace Engineering Lecture / Discussion [BSA] Upcoming Movie Event Flyer
Chair's Distinguished Lecture:Enabling Human Operational Performance for Space Exploration (October 1, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76160 76160-19669630@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 1, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

Leia Stirling
Associate Professor
Industrial and Operations Engineering
Core Faculty in the Center for Ergonomics
Core Faculty in the Robotics Institute
University of Michigan

Space exploration provides challenges in developing system capabilities to leave Earth’s orbit. While there are many missions that have been performed without a crew, having humans present provides many benefits. Humans have flexibility in decision making, versatility with tool usage, more robust perception, and increased efficiency in mission tasks. However, there are challenges to supporting the human in a space environment, including developing space suits, tools, and appropriate mission plans. In this talk, we consider how spacesuit fit affects human performance and how wearable sensors can inform designing space suits, tools, and extravehicular activity task planning.

About the speaker...

Leia Stirling is an Associate Professor in Industrial and Operations Engineering at the University of Michigan, a Core Faculty in the Center for Ergonomics, and a Core Faculty in the Robotics Institute. Her research quantifies human performance and human-machine fluency to assess performance augmentation, advance exoskeleton control algorithms, mitigate injury risk, and provide relevant feedback to subject matter experts across domains. She received her B.S. (2003) and M.S. (2005) in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and her Ph.D. (2008) in Aeronautics and Astronautics from MIT. She was a postdoctoral researcher at Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School (2008-2009), on the Advanced Technology Team at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering (2009-2012), then an Assistant Professor at MIT (2013 – 2019). She joined the faculty at the University of Michigan in 2019.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 01 Sep 2020 14:53:59 -0400 2020-10-01T16:00:00-04:00 2020-10-01T17:15:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Aerospace Engineering Class / Instruction Leia Stirling
Fall 2020 - AE285 Seminar Series, Startups and Innovation in the Aerospace Enterprise, Ben Marchionna, SkySpecs (October 2, 2020 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78029 78029-19955555@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 2, 2020 1:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

Ben Marchionna
VP of Global Operations
SkySpecs

Seminar Abstract:

In today’s world, tech startups are often held in high esteem as thriving innovation engines, whereas traditional companies sometimes struggle with getting new, revolutionary products to market quickly. What makes startups able to do this so efficiently? Do the same rules apply to aerospace startups, where the tolerance for risk is much lower?

Interestingly, many common themes can be traced between tech startup operating philosophies and those of the Lockheed Martin Skunk Works, founded in the 1940s by Clarence L. “Kelly” Johnson, a U-M Aero alum and one of the most famous aircraft designers in history. The Skunk Works achieved legendary status in the aerospace industry as an innovation factory through a unique set of operating principles, now known as “Kelly’s 14 Rules.”

This seminar will focus on the fundamentals of the innovation process, technology development principles, and best practices for “crossing the chasm,” drawing on numerous historical examples and startup stories. Are the “14 Rules” still relevant today? Have tech startups discovered a new secret sauce? How do you foster a culture where team members think vigorously outside the box to invent the impossible?

Bio:

Ben is currently the Vice President of Global Operations at SkySpecs, a venture-backed commercial drone startup in Ann Arbor, MI focused on at-scale autonomous robotics technologies in the wind energy industry. Since launching its autonomous drone inspection product in April 2017, SkySpecs has safely inspected over 150,000 wind turbine blades - both onshore and offshore - at more than 1,500 wind farms on 5 continents.

In his current role, Ben leads a team of 150+ pilots, engineers, technicians, analysts, and operations specialists around the world in the planning, execution, and global scaling of SkySpecs programs and products.

Prior to joining SkySpecs, Ben was a Senior Systems Engineer and graduate of the Engineering Leadership Development Program at the Lockheed Martin Skunk Works in Palmdale, CA. While at the Skunk Works, Ben worked on a variety of revolutionary autonomous aircraft projects from conceptual design through flight test. He graduated from the University of Michigan in April 2011 with a BSE in Aerospace Engineering and from the University of Southern California in December 2014 with an MS in Product Development Engineering.

Outside of work, Ben serves on the Industry Advisory Board of the University of Michigan's Department of Aerospace Engineering and as an appointee of Governor Gretchen Whitmer to the Unmanned Aircraft Systems Task Force for the State of Michigan. Ben was elected to the Board of Directors of the American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics (AIAA) in 2015, making him the youngest Director in AIAA's 85-year history. He has also served as Vice President of the nonprofit Los Angeles County Air Show, Inc.

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Class / Instruction Thu, 01 Oct 2020 11:09:57 -0400 2020-10-02T13:30:00-04:00 2020-10-02T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Aerospace Engineering Class / Instruction Ben Marchionna
Black Students in Aerospace [BSA] Movie Event (October 2, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77826 77826-19933615@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 2, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

The Black Students in Aerospace (BSA), a new student organization within the Department of Aerospace engineering, would like to invite you to attend our upcoming movie night event.

Over the course of this summer, there has been a resurgence of support, activism, and protests for Black Lives Matter and other human rights issues that have cast a spotlight on the systemic racism present in society. Our organization felt it was important to tie these issues back to the department in order to continue the discourse as well as to bring visibility to the ways their peers are affected.

Because of this, we decided to host a viewing of the documentary I Am Not Your Negro by James Baldwin. The movie will be followed by a guided discussion with a panel of Black engineering students, alumni, and professors from U-M including Alec D. Gallimore, Robert J. Vlasic Dean of Engineering. 

Friday October 2nd
Movie: 6:00pm - 7:30pm (Eastern Time)
Panel: 7:30pm - 8:30pm (Eastern Time)

Please RSVP at https://tinyurl.com/bsa-movie-night

***It is important to note that the film includes brief moments of graphic images, specifically images of lynchings and police brutality.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 30 Sep 2020 12:22:25 -0400 2020-10-02T18:00:00-04:00 2020-10-02T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Aerospace Engineering Lecture / Discussion [BSA] Upcoming Movie Event Flyer
Chair's Distinguished Lecture: A New Approach to Engineering for Safety and Cybersecurity (October 8, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76298 76298-19681596@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 8, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

Prof. Nancy Leveson
Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Aerospace and other systems are becoming increasingly complex and software-intensive. At the same time, human roles are changing along with the types of errors that the operators of these systems are making. These changes in engineering are leading to new causes of accidents. But the traditional approaches to safety engineering, created 50 to 70 years ago, are based on assumptions about system design that are no longer true. In this presentation I’ll suggest what is needed to prevent unnecessary losses, including a paradigm change in how we think about and deal with safety, i.e., basing system engineering on system theory (which is where it started a long time ago).

System theory provides the ability to overcome the deficiencies of traditional analytic reduction and to create new, more powerful approaches to the safety and security of today’s and tomorrow’s systems. Our new systems-theoretic approach to safety is being used successfully in just about every industry around the world and on the most complex systems humans have tried to create. It has been shown through both scientific evaluation and empirical use to be both more powerful and less expensive than the traditional approaches.

About the speaker...

Nancy Leveson is Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT. Prof. Leveson conducts research on all aspects of system safety including modeling and analysis, design, operations, management, and and human factors and the larger arena of system engineering. Her techniques are used in a wide variety of safety-critical industries including aerospace, transportation, chemical plants, nuclear power, medical devices, and many others. One particular common element throughout all her work is an emphasis on applying systems theory to complex systems. She has received many honors, most recently the 2020 IEEE Medal for Environmental and Safety Technologies. She was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2000.

Dr. Leveson is author of two books: Safeware: System Safety and Computers (1995) published by Addison-Wesley and Engineering a Safer World (2012) published by MIT Press. She consults extensively in many industries on the ways to prevent accidents and has served on numerous national and international committees and accident investigations including being an expert consultant for the Columbia Accident Investigation Board, the Presidential Commission on Deepwater Horizon, the Baker Panel on the Texas City explosion, and a Navy committee investigating one of the V-22 Osprey accidents as well as lesser-known accidents.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 01 Sep 2020 14:20:39 -0400 2020-10-08T16:00:00-04:00 2020-10-08T17:15:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Aerospace Engineering Class / Instruction Nancy Leveson
Fall 2020 - AE285 Seminar Series, Impact of Engineering Ethics - Boeing 737 Max, George Halow, UM (October 9, 2020 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78281 78281-20002862@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 9, 2020 1:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

George Halow
Professor of Practice
Aerospace Engineering
University of Michigan

Among the most critical traits of effective leaders is ethics. Ethics are a fundamental requirement for leading people, engendering the trust and confidence of your customers, co-workers, and the community at large, and for delivering the best and most reliable products and services. Furthermore, they embody the “right things to do”. It has been said, “it takes years to build a reputation for strong ethics, and just one single lapse to risk destroying it for years to come.” This is especially true in business.

This seminar examines a high-profile breach in ethics – what happened, the immediate impacts, and the lasting legacies it left.

About the speaker...
George Halow is Professor of Practice in Aerospace Engineering, a position he has held since May 1, 2019.

Prior to this, George served 31 years at Ford Motor Company in multiple capacities, including Chief Program Engineer for multiple vehicle lines, including Expedition, Navigator, Ranger, Crown Victoria, Grand Marquis, and Town Car, where he had lead responsibility for both the business and technical elements of running a vehicle program, Chief Functional Engineer, responsible for product design for interior and exterior vehicle components and systems, globally, and many other positions in engineering, manufacturing, and busines strategy.

George’s educational background includes an MBA from INSEAD in France, a Master’s in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University, and a Bachelor’s in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Maryland.

Throughout his career, George has been very active in support of universities – he was Ford’s Executive Champion for the University of Michigan Student Vehicle Teams, Ford’s representative on the Georgia Tech Ray C. Anderson Sustainability Executive Advisory Board, and gave lectures to students on Ethics & Integrity, Innovation, Leadership, Sustainability, and Career Building. He has published teaching materials on business ethics through the William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan, marketed by both Michigan and Harvard, and used by over 30 universities worldwide.

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Class / Instruction Wed, 07 Oct 2020 10:50:10 -0400 2020-10-09T13:30:00-04:00 2020-10-09T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Aerospace Engineering Class / Instruction George Halow
Chair's Distinguished Lecture: Formal Verification of Automobile and Aerospace Software Systems (October 15, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77995 77995-19949625@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 15, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

Jean-Baptiste Jeannin
Assistant Professor
Aerospace Engineering
University of Michigan


Software is increasingly present in our transportation systems, from the cars we drive to work to the aircraft we (used to) fly across the country. One particular aspect of this software is that it is often safety-critical, meaning that a serious bug in the software could lead to damage to the vehicle or even loss of life. For this reason the most critical software – such as collision avoidance software – must be thoroughly verified and validated. Formal verification provides a computer-checked proof that the software satisfies a given property, thus providing the highest level of verification and validation. In this talk I will show some recent results of my group on formally verifying several algorithms from the automobile and aerospace industries. I will first present a formal verification of several maneuvers for car collision avoidance, including turning-only maneuvers and braking-while-swerving maneuvers. I will then show how to verify recent designs of aircraft collision avoidance systems that use neural networks, and how to better design them so they don't exhibit bugs. Finally, I will show how to bring formal verification to computational science, with a verification of the Lax theorem for finite difference schemes.

About the speaker...

Jean-Baptiste Jeannin is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His research focuses on formal verification of cyber-physical systems and computational schemes, particularly applied to aerospace systems, as well as design and analysis of programming languages. Prior to Michigan, he was a Researcher at Samsung Research America and a Postdoctoral Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University, working with André Platzer. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Cornell University in 2013, where he was advised by Dexter Kozen.

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Class / Instruction Wed, 30 Sep 2020 16:14:15 -0400 2020-10-15T16:00:00-04:00 2020-10-15T17:15:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Aerospace Engineering Class / Instruction Jean-Baptiste Jeannin
Fall 2020 - AE285 Seminar Series, Environmental & Social Sustainability and Leadership in Corporate Citizenship, John Viera, UM (October 16, 2020 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78501 78501-20052320@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 16, 2020 1:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

John Viera
Executive in Residence
Erb Institute
University of Michigan


An increasing number of companies, large and small, are developing core strategies and engaging in projects that address environmental and social challenges in our society. The social efforts often reflect strong corporate citizenship cultures at these companies. Many engineers are seeking to work for companies that are engaging in these types of projects. During this seminar the speaker will highlight such efforts within a heavy manufacturing entity, in this case the automotive sector. Such efforts can be easily aligned with potential efforts within the aerospace industry.

About the speaker…

John Viera was most recently the former Global Director, Sustainability & Vehicle Environmental Matters at Ford Motor Company, a position he held since January, 2007. Mr. Viera was responsible for developing global sustainable business plans and policies, interfacing with global regulatory bodies, reporting externally on the company’s environmental and social performance, and leading the company’s engagement and partnerships with non-government organizations (NGOs) and other external stakeholders.

Viera has held several positions within Ford Motor Company during his 30 year tenure. For the first thirteen years of his career, he worked in the company’s Truck Division with responsibilities that included leading the Company efforts in the development of its first natural gas-fueled pickup trucks and also leading the Company’s Global Truck Computer Aided Design organization.

In 1997, Viera was appointed manager, Plant Engineering Vehicle Team, Explorer and Mountaineer programs. Located in Louisville, Kentucky, Viera was responsible for all on-site engineering personnel for Explorer plants in Louisville, St. Louis, Missouri, and Valencia, Venezuela. He returned to Michigan in 1999 to become the chief engineer for the Ranger Compact Pickup and Electric Ranger. In 2002, Viera took on the company’s mid-term cost reduction initiative, building a team which delivered $1.2 billion of savings in eighteen months, beating his assigned target by over a year. In 2003, Viera became chief engineer for the Expedition and Navigator Full Size SUVs, with complete responsibility for current and future model programs.

Mr. Viera recently served on the advisory boards at Georgia Tech in Atlanta, the Graham Institute of Environmental Sustainability at the University of Michigan, the advisory board of Sustainable Brands, and the Energy Advisory Committee at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago, as well as the chair of the Department of Homeland Security’s Sustainability and Efficiency Task Force in Washington, D.C.

A native of Chicago, Viera attended the University of Michigan, receiving his Bachelors of Science in Mechanical Engineering in 1984 as well as a Masters in Business Administration in 1992.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 13 Oct 2020 14:23:53 -0400 2020-10-16T13:30:00-04:00 2020-10-16T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Aerospace Engineering Class / Instruction John Viera
Aerospace GSAC DEI Community Forum (October 19, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78220 78220-19994965@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 19, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

Please virtually join us for the inaugural student/post-doc community forum organized by the Aerospace GSAC DEI sub-committee! At this forum, we will update the community on this year's goals and the progress made on current DEI initiatives. After this we will provide an open floor for your comments and feedback so that we can be sure that we are properly representing your voices.

Please RSVP: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdOsbs9R6QZgIbYtkjO7zvAZTuNAOgRw48-Bm71iPQ_yTzSGA/viewform?usp=sf_link.
If you would like to pre-submit a question/comment anonymously or because you are not able to attend, you may submit these through the RSVP form. As we work together to improve the climate in our department we ask that you will read and follow our community guidelines: https://docs.google.com/document/d/12uiiFuuqQWChgGRazttYYEH58VqXYcDY-gAvYrm2ggE/edit?usp=sharing

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 06 Oct 2020 10:33:54 -0400 2020-10-19T18:00:00-04:00 2020-10-19T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Aerospace Engineering Livestream / Virtual Flyer for the community forum
[Aero Homecoming] Chair's Distinguished Lecture: Birds, Drones, and Smart Structures (October 22, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76161 76161-19669631@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 22, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

Daniel J. Inman, Ph.D.
Harm Buning Collegiate Professor
Department of Aerospace Engineering
University of Michigan

Gliding birds perform some interesting non-aircraft like shapes with their wings and tails. Birds also respond to gusts in unique ways. These observations have motivated the study of shape changing, or morphing aircraft. Several unique uses of piezoceramic composites and shape memory alloys to achieve advantageous airfoil shapes are presented inspired by the incredible performance avian species achieve. The aerodynamics and control that birds use in gliding result in efficiencies in performance not yet realized by fixed wing aircraft. With the advent of smart, multifunctional composites, it is possible to implement motions inspired by avian gliding in small, unmanned air vehicles (UAV). Initially motivated by the casual observation of flight control motions made by birds, morphing research has proceeded with only limited understanding of how and why birds use their aerodynamic surfaces for flight control and gust alleviation. A summary of relevant previous results from two fields: avian biology and morphing aircraft, is presented followed by some current results on real time computing for learning control to attempt to emulate a bird’s ability to fly-by-feel.

About the speaker...

Daniel J. Inman received his Ph.D. from Michigan State University in Mechanical Engineering in 1980 and is the Harm Buning Collegiate Professor of former Chair of the Department of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Michigan, Since 1980, he has published eight books (on vibration, energy harvesting, control, statics, and dynamics), eight software manuals, 20 book chapters, over 400 journal papers and 650 proceedings papers, given 65 keynote or plenary lectures, graduated 67 Ph.D. students and supervised more than 75 MS degrees. He works in the area of applying smart structures to solve aerospace engineering problems including energy harvesting, structural health monitoring, vibration suppression and morphing aircraft. He is a Fellow of AIAA, ASME, IIAV, SEM and AAM.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 06 Oct 2020 17:53:19 -0400 2020-10-22T16:00:00-04:00 2020-10-22T17:15:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Aerospace Engineering Class / Instruction Daniel J. Inman
Dr. Nahum Melamed on Asteroid Interception (October 22, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78685 78685-20105421@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 22, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Join the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics this Thursday, October 22nd, for a lecture by Dr. Nahum Melamed on Applying Guidance, Navigation, and Controls Solutions to the Problem of Asteroid Interception for Planetary Defense.

Dr. Melamed is a project leader in the Embedded Control Systems Department in the Guidance and Control Subdivision at The Aerospace Corporation who validates and certifies the flight software and mission parameters for the Delta IV launch vehicles, and conducts planetary defense technical and policy studies. He earned a PhD in Aerospace Engineering from Georgia Tech.

If you're interested please add your name to the spreadsheet linked below.

When: Thursday, 22 October 2020 at 7pm ET (4pm PT)
Where: Zoom (see link below, passcode 424378)

We hope to see you there!!

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 20 Oct 2020 10:08:36 -0400 2020-10-22T19:00:00-04:00 2020-10-22T20:15:00-04:00 Off Campus Location American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Lecture / Discussion lecture flyer
[Aero Homecoming] 2020 State of the Department Address and Award Ceremony (October 23, 2020 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78262 78262-19998928@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 23, 2020 12:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

Dr. Tony Waas is the Richard A. Auhll Department Chair and Felix Pawlowski Professor of Aerospace Engineering. On October 23rd at 12:30 PM, Dr. Waas will share the current state of the Department of Aerospace Engineering and his vision for the academic year with alumni, faculty, and students. Alumni and student award recipients will be recognized during a special award ceremony directly following the Department address.

Please register for these and other Homecoming Events by Monday, October 19th, 2020.

Registration link: https://bit.ly/33y6KgC

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Presentation Wed, 07 Oct 2020 10:01:26 -0400 2020-10-23T12:30:00-04:00 2020-10-23T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Aerospace Engineering Presentation Dr. Tony Waas, Aerospace Engineering Department Chair Photo
[Aero Homecoming] Cultural and Career Panel Discussion (October 23, 2020 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78275 78275-20002861@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 23, 2020 1:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

Panelists -
Dr. Anthony Waas (UM Aero Dept Chair)
Kevin Michaels (President, AeroDynamic Advisory)
Kathryn Elliott (Chief of Performance & Aerothermal Systems, Rolls-Royce Corporation)
Aisha Bowe (Founder & CEO, Stemboard)
Corey Brooker (Staff Systems Engineer, Human Space Flight - Project Orion)
Moderator: Maddy Eichenberg (Aerospace Engineering Junior)

Culture and Careers Panel Discussion is with accomplished executives in the Aerospace Enterprise, who either started out with a degree in Aerospace Engineering, or who may have come in to the enterprise at some point in their careers.

Purpose - To give students the broadest range of input as they shape their own careers and plans.

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Class / Instruction Fri, 16 Oct 2020 16:50:36 -0400 2020-10-23T13:30:00-04:00 2020-10-23T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Aerospace Engineering Class / Instruction Cultural and Career Panelist
Chair's Distinguished Lecture: Abstractions for Robot Code (October 29, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76197 76197-19671630@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 29, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

Sayan Mitra
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Distributed robotics is poised to transformed manufacturing, transportation, agriculture, delivery, and exploration. Following the trends in cloud, mobile, and machine learning applications, finding the right programming abstractions is key in unlocking this potential. A robot's code needs to sense the environment, control the hardware, and communicate with other robots. Current programming languages do not provide the necessary hardware platform-independent abstractions, and therefore, developing robot applications require detailed knowledge of signal processing, control, path planning, network protocols, and various platform-specific details. Further, porting applications across hardware platforms becomes tedious. In this talk, I will present our recent explorations in finding good abstractions for robot code. The end result of our research is a new language called Koord which abstracts platform-specific functions for sensing, communication, and low-level control and makes platform-independent control and coordination code portable and modularly verifiable.

About the speaker...

Sayan Mitra is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research is centered around safe autonomy. He holds a PhD from MIT, MSc from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, and an undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering from Jadavpur University, Kolkata. Sayan was a postdoctoral fellow at CalTech, and held visiting faculty positions at Oxford University, TU Vienna, and Kirtland Air Force Research Laboratory. At Illinois, his research group has created a number of the leading software tools for programming and verification of autonomous systems and have authored more than one hundred peer reviewed articles. A textbook authored by Sayan “Verifying cyber-physical systems: A path to safe autonomy” will be published by the MIT Press in February 2021. Sayan’s work has been recognized by the National Science Foundation's CAREER Award in 2011, AFOSR Young Investigator Research Program Award in 2012, IEEE-HKN C. Holmes MacDonald Outstanding Teaching Award (2013), a RiSE Fellowship, a Siebel Fellowship, and several best paper awards.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 01 Sep 2020 14:22:04 -0400 2020-10-29T16:00:00-04:00 2020-10-29T17:15:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Aerospace Engineering Class / Instruction Sayan Mitra
Fall 2020 - AE285 Seminar Series, Stealth…An Airplane Design Challenge, Grant Carichner, California Polytechnic State University (October 30, 2020 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78969 78969-20162610@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 30, 2020 1:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

Grant Carichner
Adjunct Professor
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

Stealth is a design characteristic that attempts to minimize a reflected signal from an illuminated object. These reflected signals can be radar, IR, visual, or acoustic. For military platforms stealth is one way to improve survivability. In the late 70s the first airplane designed with stealth as its main feature was the F-117A. It proved that major improvements in survivability were possible using entirely new design criteria. All modern military vehicles incorporate stealth to some degree in their design.

However, the challenge is that designing for stealth compromises vehicle performance and cost. In the real world this is a difficult tradeoff. Improved stealth characteristics are very costly and must be considered carefully compared to other characteristics such as speed and altitude.

Before the F-117A there was an earlier airplane that had some major stealth components. Do you know what airplane this is? Find out on Friday.

About the speaker...

Mr. Carichner went to work for the Lockheed Skunk Works after earning his BS in Engineering and MS in Engineering degrees from UCLA. He retired in 2013 after 48 years at the Skunk Works where he worked on most of the company’s high-profile programs. During his career he started out as an aerodynamicist and eventually became Head of Aerodynamics for the Skunk Works. Future program assignments were either Chief Engineer or Program Manager positions. As Chief Engineer for the JASSM Program he was selected as Lockheed’s Inventor of the Year.

The last 15 years of his career were dedicated to lighter-than-air designs. He created the Aerocraft Program whose design resulted in a hybrid airship demonstrator that had many airplane flight characteristics that has changed the course of future airship design.

Currently, Mr. Carichner teaches Airplane Design at Cal Poly Pomona
Mr. Carichner has written two textbooks. One on airplane design and another on airship design. Both books are published by the AIAA.

Fundamentals of Aircraft and Airship Design: Volume I - Aircraft Design
Fundamentals of Aircraft and Airship Design: Volume II - Airship Design and Case Studies

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Class / Instruction Tue, 27 Oct 2020 15:59:36 -0400 2020-10-30T13:30:00-04:00 2020-10-30T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Aerospace Engineering Class / Instruction Grant Carichner
Chair's Distinguished Lecture: Battling TBI: High-Rate Deformation of Polymeric Cellular Solids (November 5, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76191 76191-19671624@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 5, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

Leslie Lamberson
Associate Professor
Mechanical Engineering
Colorado School of Mines

Polymer foams, a cellular solid comprising of a gas and solid phase, are used extensively for impact protection applications due to their light weight and high energy absorption. One specific application of interest is their use in combat helmet liners to protect service members from Traumatic Brain Injuries (TBIs), although they are also heavily leveraged in the packing industry, medical, aerospace and automotive fields, to name a few. These protective applications all have the common characteristic of dynamically applied loading leading to high strain-rate material deformation. Typically, polymer foams have low impedance and exhibit strong rate-dependent mechanical behavior; consequently, novel dynamic experimental techniques and metrologies need to be implemented and aid in the development of physics-based constitutive models for these cellular systems in loading regimes of real-world interest. As such, this talk focuses on quantitative microstructural characterization of open cell polyurethane foams and its relation to bulk response, their compressive behavior across six orders of magnitude in strain rates and utilizing a non-parametric formulation of the Virtual Fields Method to extract dynamic material behavior. How these efforts are leading us to explore the design space of microarchitected materials for next-generation protective systems will also be discussed.

About the speaker...

Leslie Lamberson is an Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering with affiliation in Materials Science at the Colorado School of Mines. Her area of expertise is in mechanics of materials under extreme conditions. She earned her B.S. in Aerospace Engineering and B.A. in Dance Performance from the University of Michigan, her M.S. in Aerospace Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and her Ph.D. in Aeronautics from the California Institute of Technology. Prior to her faculty position, Dr. Lamberson was a postdoctoral research scholar with K.T. Ramesh in the Center for Advanced Metallic and Ceramic Systems at the Johns Hopkins University. A former Lockheed Martin “Skunk Works” engineer, in 2013 Leslie was a NASA Glenn Faculty Fellow in the Materials and Structures under Extreme Conditions Division. She is the recipient of an ONR Young Investigator Award in 2017, an NSF CAREER award in 2018, and is currently an Associate Editor for the journal Strain.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 01 Sep 2020 14:32:52 -0400 2020-11-05T16:00:00-05:00 2020-11-05T17:15:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Aerospace Engineering Class / Instruction Leslie Lamberson
Fall 2020 - AE285 Seminar Series, Expectations, Perceptions and Prejudice in the Workplace, Karen Albrecht, Retired Lockheed Martin Executive (November 6, 2020 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79138 79138-20215739@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 6, 2020 1:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

Karen Albrecht
Lockheed Martin Executive (retired)

As you begin your career in the Workplace, you enter with certain expectations, and perceptions about what it will be in the Engineering Workplace. This course will provide insight on how your personal expectations and perceptions can be different than others and different from the organization. We will explore how each person’s personal prejudices can add/or detract to an expectation or perception that is not anywhere near the reality of the situation. This class will be interactive and will include viewing a video prior to the class, taking a survey a few minutes before the class and it will include polls during the class. There will be an opportunity to ask questions through the chat mode. Karen will use experiences from her nearly 40 year career as examples. As this course includes examples from a phenomenal career, there can be no pictures or video taken except for the “official” UM Aero Video that will be used only for AE 285 students in this class.

About the speaker...

Karen’s illustrious career as an Aerospace Engineer began at NASA JSC where she developed analytic methods for composite primary structure under fatigue and fracture mechanics for Space Shuttle. Karen participated in the Longitudinal Study of Astronaut Health (LSAH).

At Lockheed Martin, she worked on Missile Launching Systems, Basic Research, Commercial Aircraft, Undersea Systems, SMART Structures, Robotics and high performance Military Aircraft. She developed embedded fiber optics technology. She is a Master Black Belt in 6-sigma and Lean Engineering.

Karen serves on several university engineering and non-profit boards. Karen is the 2007 Distinguished Alumnus –Aerospace for the UM.

Karen is now CEO of Karen Albrecht Enterprises a Career and Personal Development Organization. Karen has delivered over 200 seminars for courses she developed and gives her time and knowledge to help students navigate career fairs and resume. Karen has set up an endowment fund for Aerospace undergraduate education and provides scholarships for Aerospace Engineering students who need the support to finish their education at the University of Michigan. She has already given out 10 scholarships to Aero students.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 03 Nov 2020 09:55:08 -0500 2020-11-06T13:30:00-05:00 2020-11-06T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Aerospace Engineering Class / Instruction Karen Albrecht
Chair's Distinguished Lecture | Trust and Transparency on Modern Flight Decks: Why They Matter and How to Support Them (November 12, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79293 79293-20264793@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 12, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

Nadine Sarter
Professor
Industrial and Operations Engineering, Aerospace Engineering and Robotics
Director, Center for Ergonomics

The introduction of high levels of automation and autonomy into the aviation industry has helped improve the precision and efficiency of operations. At the same time, it has created challenges for flight crews and resulted in incidents and accidents due to breakdowns in pilot-automation interaction. These breakdowns highlight the need to better support trust calibration and system transparency. Trust (the attitude that an agent will help achieve an individual’s goals in a situation characterized by uncertainty and vulnerability; Lee and See, 2004) is a critical intervening factor affecting automation usage. Misuse happens when pilots trust an automated system too much and over rely on the automation. Disuse happens when pilots lack trust in an automated system which can lead to the slow adoption, and even complete rejection of systems. Fostering safe and appropriate use of modern technologies requires better support for trust calibration which, in turn, calls for improved system transparency where the machine agent shares information regarding its status, reasoning, abilities, and plans for future actions with the human operator in a timely and effective manner. In this talk, aviation mishaps will be examined to illustrate problems with trust and transparency and suggest possible solutions to this challenge to human-machine teaming.

About the speaker...

Nadine Sarter is a Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering, Aerospace Engineering and Robotics at the University of Michigan where she also serves as Director of the Center for Ergonomics. Her primary research interests include (1) human-machine teaming, (2) operator trust in autonomous systems, (3) adaptive function allocation, (4) attention management, (5) multimodal interface design, (6) and the design of decision aids for high-tempo operations. She has conducted her work in a variety of application domains, including aviation and space, medicine, military operations, and the automotive industry. Dr. Sarter is a Member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and a Fellow of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES). She serves as Associate Editor for ‘Human Factors’, the HFES’ flagship journal, and has contributed as an invited member on numerous government and scientific committees, most recently the National Academies Panel on Human Factors Science at the Army Research Laboratory (ARL), the Human Performance Expert Panel To Inform The Air Force Strategy 2030, the National Academies Expert Panel on FAA Staffing Issues and the FAA Flight Deck Automation Working Group. She also served as an expert witness in the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) Investigative Hearing on Asiana Flight 214.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 09 Nov 2020 15:53:12 -0500 2020-11-12T16:00:00-05:00 2020-11-12T17:15:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Aerospace Engineering Class / Instruction Nadine Sarter
Fall 2020 - AE285 Seminar Series, Extreme Physiology: Engineering Meetings Physiology in Space (November 13, 2020 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79388 79388-20294464@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 13, 2020 1:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

Dr. Kathryn Clark
Associate Chair, Movement Science, School of Kinesiology
Adjunct Associate Research Scientist, Aerospace Engineering

Space enthusiasts have been talking about going to Mars since we launched the first astronauts into space. We have not actually travelled very far from our home planet and we are only beginning to understand physiological changes and the potential for using science and engineering to overcome those challenges. For example, we know we on Earth are protected by the van Allen belts. Can we find a way to protect astronauts who travel beyond the 36,000 miles of van Allen belt coverage from the radiation? Can we overcome the loss of blood cells, muscle mass, proprioception, and immune system function? Some of these are scientific questions; others are engineering problems to solve. NASA and her international partners must work together to solve these problems if we are ever to travel back to the Moon, on to Mars, and beyond. This generation of scientists and engineers are going to be the people who overcome these challenges. A side benefit is for people all over the world to overcome differences and work together on this greatest of adventures.

About the speaker...

Dr. Kathy Clark is currently a Movement Science Lecturer in the University of Michigan School of Kinesiology. She received her Ph.D. in Kinesiology from the University of Michigan. Prior to her time at the school, Dr. Clark was a member of the Stafford/Anfimov Advisory Panel and the Stafford-Covey Return to Flight Task Group at NASA. She also served as Chief Scientist at NASA for both the Human Exploration & Development of Space Enterprise and the International Space Station.
Dr. Clark is a professional speaker who uses her experience to motivate and inspire others to reach for the stars in their careers. She also works to promote education with groups like the Jean-Michel Cousteau Society, the Square One Education Network, the Argos Foundation, the National Marine Sanctuaries, the Sea World Hubbs Institute, SAS Games, the National Space Grant Foundation, Arnold Schwarzenegger’s After School All Stars, and the 27 Foundation.

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Class / Instruction Fri, 13 Nov 2020 08:50:25 -0500 2020-11-13T13:30:00-05:00 2020-11-13T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Aerospace Engineering Class / Instruction
Elsie MacGill Women in Aerospace Conference (November 14, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73903 73903-18393017@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 14, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Women in Aeronautics and Astronautics

The Elsie MacGill Women in Aerospace Conference is a one-day virtual event dedicated to bringing together students, academics, and professionals in the aerospace industry. In honor of Elsie MacGill, the first woman to receive an aeronautical engineering degree, the conference will focus on overcoming adversity and creating a sustainable environment for inclusion and diversity. Representatives from a variety of companies are invited from all over the country to speak, mentor students, and support our mission. This conference will include keynote speakers from NASA and industry, several tech talks, networking events, professional development events and other workshops throughout the day.

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 09 Nov 2020 12:47:26 -0500 2020-11-14T10:00:00-05:00 2020-11-14T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Women in Aeronautics and Astronautics Conference / Symposium Flyer
Defense Dissertation: Aerodynamic Shape Optimization with Time-Spectral Flutter Adjoint (November 19, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79324 79324-20272788@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 19, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

Sicheng He ** Aerospace Engineering PhD Candidate

Virtual- Zoom (Please register before hand)
https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcudOuurT4vG9y33TQA1IDLv10GbWMd8yaJ

Flutter and limit cycle oscillation (LCO) are important phenomena
that need to be considered in aircraft design. To avoid them in flight
envelope, we can conduct a multidisciplinary design optimization
(MDO) to maximize the flutter speed by changing the wing aerodynamic shape.

One challenge is that we need to simulate flutter or LCO efficiently
using high fidelity computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model in the
transonic regime. We propose a coupled Newton-Krylov method to
solve the time-spectral aeroelastic equations. We observe that the
proposed method is more efficient than the time-accurate method.

Another challenge is that we need to compute the flutter speed derivative with respect to a large number of design variables. We propose the use of coupled adjoint to address that. Using this adjoint solver, we conduct an aerodynamic shape optimization of a wing and the flutter speed increases by 118%.

Finally, for mode based aerostructural optimization problems, we identify a computational bottleneck related with the structural mode and natural frequency derivative computation. We propose two formulae based on reverse algorithmic differentiation to reduce the cost from number of design variables computations to a single computation.

Defense Committee Members:
Prof. Joaquim R. R. A. Martins (Chair)
Prof. Bogdan Epureanu (Cognate)
Prof. Carlos E. S. Cesnik (Member)
Assoc.Prof. Krzysttof Fidkowski (Member)

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Presentation Tue, 10 Nov 2020 15:07:32 -0500 2020-11-19T10:00:00-05:00 2020-11-19T11:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Aerospace Engineering Presentation Sicheng He
Chair's Distinguished Lecture: Aerion: Design Technology Behind Revolutionizing Sustainable Global Mobility (November 19, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79414 79414-20317943@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 19, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

Alex Egeler
EVP of Aerion Technologies

Aerion is committed to changing the face of global mobility by dramatically increasing the speed of transportation in an environmentally sustainable way. The first step towards this goal is the AS2, a carbon-neutral Mach 1.4 supersonic business jet that is slated for entry into service in 2027. To support this vision, Aerion Technologies is an innovation center located in Palo Alto, CA that develops tools and infrastructure to rapidly respond to the needs of the company and provide automation to engineering tasks and beyond. This seminar will discuss the capabilities that Aerion Technologies provides and how that enables Aerion to design the revolutionary concepts required to alter the way we think about travel.

About the speaker...

Alex Egeler is the EVP of Aerion Technologies, leading the team in Palo Alto, CA. He has worked at Aerion for 7 years, starting as a software developer and inlet designer. His background is in aerodynamic shape optimization, with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University and an M.S. in Aero/Astro Engineering from Stanford. He also worked in underwater missile launching systems at Northrop Grumman for 9 years with a focus on systems engineering and analysis software development.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 16 Nov 2020 08:45:37 -0500 2020-11-19T16:00:00-05:00 2020-11-19T17:15:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Aerospace Engineering Class / Instruction Alex Egeler
Fall 2020 - AE285 Seminar Series, Space is Open for Business, Tess Hatch, Bessemer Venture Partners (November 20, 2020 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79415 79415-20317944@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 20, 2020 1:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

Tess Hatch
Vice President
Bessemer Venture Partners

Entrepreneurs are flocking to the final frontier, where Moore’s Law has unleashed massive, enduring opportunities. This is how humanity will colonize cis-lunar, the moon, asteroids, Mars and beyond — through the emergence of a distributed, commercial ecosystem infinitely more powerful than any single company or government.

About the speaker...

Tess is a vice president at Bessemer Venture Partners fostering entrepreneurship of frontier technology, specifically the commercialization of space, drones, autonomous vehicles, and the future of agriculture and food technology. She wants to invest in technology and people who believe as strongly as she does that frontier technology will develop solutions for societal problems.

Tess earned a Bachelor’s degree in aerospace engineering from the University of Michigan and a Master’s degree in aeronautics and astronautics engineering from Stanford. She went on to work for Boeing and then SpaceX where she worked with the government on integrating its payloads with the Falcon9 rocket. Tess was recently named Forbes’ 30 Under 30 in Venture Capital.

Tess is passionate about space exploration and imagines a future where we all travel to space. She hopes to one day take a trip herself.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 16 Nov 2020 09:08:23 -0500 2020-11-20T13:30:00-05:00 2020-11-20T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Aerospace Engineering Class / Instruction Tess Hatch
Control Allocation of Flexible Aircraft for Load Alleviation (December 8, 2020 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79628 79628-20486026@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 8, 2020 2:30pm
Location:
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

As wing designs aim for higher aerodynamic efficiency, the underlying aircraft structure becomes more flexible, requiring additional features to alleviate the loads encountered from gusts and maneuvers. While alleviating loads, it is desirable to minimize the deviations from the original flight trajectory.

In this work, a dynamic control allocation method which exploits redundant control effectors for maneuver and gust load alleviation is proposed for flexible aircraft. The control architecture decouples the two objectives of load alleviation and rigid body trajectory tracking by exploiting the null space between the input and the rigid body output. A reduced-dimensional null space input is established, which affects the flexible output (but not the rigid body output) when passed through a null space filter to generate incremental control signals. This null space input is determined to maintain the flexible output of the aircraft within specified values, thereby achieving load alleviation.

A receding horizon approach to generate the trajectory of the null space input is developed based on linear aircraft models. This receding horizon approach then informs a model predictive control-based control allocator function which can be used as an add-on scheme to a nominal controller. Numerical simulations are used to show that the proposed load alleviation system can successfully avoid the violation of load bounds in the presence of both gust disturbances and maneuvers and with minimal effect on the trajectory tracking performance.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 07 Dec 2020 16:34:21 -0500 2020-12-08T14:30:00-05:00 2020-12-08T15:30:00-05:00 Aerospace Engineering Livestream / Virtual PhD candidate John Hansen
Graph Theoretic Algorithms Adaptable to Quantum Computing (December 17, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79629 79629-20432433@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 17, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

This thesis is the first effort towards solving scientific computing problems using graph-based algorithms amenable to quantum computers and specifically, quantum annealers.

Many engineering problems, when considered in a discrete computational setting, can be reduced to a graph coloring problem. Examples range from systems design, image segmentation to pattern recognition where energy cost functions with discrete variables are extremized.

However, graph techniques remain under-utilized in scientific computing. However, we have recently witnessed great advancements in quantum computing where physical devices are available that can solve discrete optimization problems faster than most well-known classical algorithms.

This warrants further investigation into re-formulation of scientific computation problems as graph theoretic problems, and thus enable rapid engineering simulations in a soon-to-be quantum computing world. The computational techniques developed in this thesis allow representation of surface scalars like perimeter and area using discrete variables in a graph. With this framework, several quantities important to engineering applications can be represented in graph based algorithms.

These include: surface energy of cracks for fracture prediction, grain boundary energy to model microstructure evolution, estimate surface areas (of grains, fibers) to generate conformal meshes of microstructures, etc. Combinatorial optimization problems for these applications are first presented.

The last two chapters of the thesis describes two new graph coloring algorithms implemented on a physical quantum computing device: the D-wave quantum annealer. The first algorithm describes a functional minimization approach to solve differential equations. The second algorithm describes a realization of Boltzmann machine learning algorithm on a quantum annealer, with open source codes available on GitHub. The latter allows generative and discriminative learning of data which has vast applications in many fields.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 30 Nov 2020 21:10:48 -0500 2020-12-17T10:00:00-05:00 2020-12-17T11:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Aerospace Engineering Livestream / Virtual Representative figure
Multidisciplinary Study of Soft Shape Morphing Systems (December 18, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/80090 80090-20556868@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 18, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

Nature abounds with examples of shape morphing systems where an entity either gradually grows into a complex 3-D shape pattern or rapidly morphs into a new configuration. Inspired by the shape shifting capabilities of biological systems, we study the response of natural and synthetic morphing systems through a few examples. These include the in vitro adaptive contraction of a cardiac muscle cell inside a constraining hydrogel, inflation of architectured rubber membranes, and a shape morphing soft robot.

Cardiac muscle cells (cardiomyocytes) have an intrinsic mechano-chemo-transduction (MCT) mechanism that enable them to automatically convert mechanical loads into biochemical signals to actively regulate their amplitude and speed of contraction. At the molecular level, this is attributed to the morphing of regulatory and motor proteins (actin and myosin filaments) to facilitate muscle contraction. The underlying MCT mechanisms, however, are unclear and currently under investigation. To help decipher these mechanisms, we develop a mathematical model, as a companion tool for the experimental in vitro Cell-in-Gel system of our collaborators, to analyze the time-dependent, 3-D strains and stresses within a cardiomyocyte contracting in a viscoelastic medium. The model utilizes the exact analytical solution of the viscoelastic Eshelby inclusion boundary value problem as an efficient computational tool to simulate the mechanical fields inside and outside the cardiomyocyte.

In a second study, we investigate the inflation of shape morphing synthetic soft composites with architectured geometry and material properties. Such shape morphing systems could have desirable applications in space deployable systems where there is a growing demand for energy-efficient lightweight and low-cost structures. These structures possess an exceptionally high mechanical packaging efficiency and very small stowage volume, which makes them attractive candidates for space applications including antenna reflectors, solar arrays, inflatable rovers, re-entry equipment, and human habitats. In particular, we explore several feasible 3-D shapes that can be achieved through the inflation of an initially flat rubber membrane with nonuniform geometrical and material properties. Our rubber-based prototypes provide a convenient basis for conceptual scientific and design explorations in shape morphing inflatable structures.

In a third study, we explore the idea of shape shifting in the design and fabrication of synthetic soft robots with active components. Motivated by the swimming mechanisms of jellyfish, we develop a novel concept for a soft biomimetic underwater robot that imitates the shape and kinematics of the typical animal. The robot swims by harnessing the buckling instability of its soft body to quickly morph from an initially flat into a deformed dome-shaped configuration, which generates the required thrust for underwater locomotion. Joule heating of an embedded pre-stretched shape memory alloy spring serves as an artificial muscle for the robot to make this shape morphing possible. The proposed synthetic shape morphing system introduces a new idea in design of simple, compact, and biomimetic robots with smart artificial muscles.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 16 Dec 2020 14:38:05 -0500 2020-12-18T10:00:00-05:00 2020-12-18T11:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Aerospace Engineering Livestream / Virtual Headshot of Mohammad Kazemi
2021 Virtual MLK Day Event | Overcoming Turbulence: Trials and Triumphs of Black Women in Aerospace (January 19, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80062 80062-20550961@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 19, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

You're invited to join us for a candid and inspiring panel discussion in recognition of Martin Luther King Jr. Michigan Aerospace will host a panel of Black alumnae to discuss their unique career journeys, the impact of being "the only one," and how to overcome roadblocks. The panel discussion will be moderated by Black Students in Aerospace members, Erin Levesque and Erika Jones.

This event is free and open to the public via Zoom.
https://umich.zoom.us/j/92087353589

Meet the panelists:

Aisha Bowe, BSAE ’08
STEMBoard

Sydney Hamilton, BSAE '13
Boeing

Dr. Jessica Jones, MSAE ’13, PhD AE '17
Aurora Flight Sciences

Jasmine LeFlore, BSAE ’15
Collins Aerospace

Jasmine Sadler, BSAE ’09
The STEAM Collaborative

Lizalyn Smith, BSME ’02
Self-Published Author

Tia Sutton, BSAE ’00
Truck and Engine Manufacturers Association

Belinda Worley, BSAE '96
Amazon

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 15 Jan 2021 11:46:58 -0500 2021-01-19T12:00:00-05:00 2021-01-19T13:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Aerospace Engineering Livestream / Virtual Aerospace Engineering MLK Day Event Flyer
Chair's Distinguished Lecture: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Engineering (January 21, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80971 80971-20824903@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 21, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

Sara A. Pozzi
Professor
University of Michigan

To build a great College of Engineering, we must improve diversity, equity, and inclusion among our students, faculty, and staff. One of the ways to measure a College of Engineering’s impact is by our ability to develop future engineering and science leaders prepared to thrive in an environment that is clearly becoming more diverse and more global. Research and experience have shown time and again that diverse and inclusive teams provide the diversity of backgrounds and perspectives that result in better, more comprehensive solutions to the complex problems that we tackle in engineering and in society at large.

We recognize that historically, engineering is a field that lacks diversity, for example, along gender and race/ethnicity identities, and that women and underrepresented minorities in this field report experiencing the workplace climate more negatively than members of the majority. In this talk, I will discuss the forces that hold us back when attempting to build a more diverse, inclusive, and equitable College of Engineering. I will also discuss strategies that have been proven to be effective in counteracting these negative forces. I will conclude by discussing ways in which you can be a positive force for change as we work towards a great College of Engineering for all.

About the speaker...
Professor Sara Pozzi is a Professor of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences and a Professor of Physics at the University of Michigan. Her research interests include the development of new methods for nuclear materials detection, identification, and characterization for nuclear nonproliferation, safeguards, and national security programs. Her publication record includes over 400 papers in journals and international conference proceedings. She was invited to give over 100 seminars, both nationally and internationally. She has graduated 24 Ph. D. students who went on to develop successful careers at the national laboratories, academia, and industry.

Professor Pozzi is the founding Director of the Consortium for Verification Technology (CVT) 2014-2019 and the Consortium for Monitoring, Technology, and Verification (MTV) 2019-2024, two large consortia of multiple universities and national laboratories working together to develop new technologies needed for nuclear treaty verification. In 2018, Professor Pozzi was named the inaugural Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) for the UM College of Engineering. In this capacity, she heads the DEI implementation committee and works to ensure that the students, faculty, and staff are increasingly diverse, everyone is treated equitably, and everyone is included. She is a Fellow of the Institute of Nuclear Materials Management, the American Nuclear Society, and the IEEE.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 19 Jan 2021 16:42:08 -0500 2021-01-21T16:00:00-05:00 2021-01-21T17:15:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Aerospace Engineering Class / Instruction Sara Pozzi
Chair's Distinguished Lecture: Understanding Human Performance During Extravehicular Activity (January 28, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81091 81091-20846552@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 28, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

Allison Anderson
Assistant Professor
Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering
University of Colorado Boulder

The future of human spaceflight will send people away from the Earth for longer durations to explore the surface of the moon or Mars. Extravehicular Activity (EVA) will be a critical component of these missions, necessitating advances in spacesuit technology to support elevated human performance. As crews become increasingly autonomous from an Earth-based mission control, human-autonomy interaction and associated decision support tools will also be a critical element. This talk will discuss our research on novel spacesuit architectures and wearable sensors to minimize restricted mobility and injuries during EVA. It will also discuss our work to assess operator workload and situation awareness to enable adaptive autonomy that mitigates the impact of high-risk, strenuous activities. While this research is focused on individuals in extreme environments, it also has direct implications for patient populations here on Earth.

About the speaker...
Dr. Anderson graduated in 2007 with a B.S. in Astronautics Engineering from the University of Southern California with a minor in Astronomy. She received an M.S. in Aerospace Engineering and an M.S. in Technology Policy in 2011 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and a Ph.D. in Aerospace Biomedical Engineering in 2014 from MIT. She received a postdoctoral fellowship from the National Space Biomedical Research Institute to study human space physiology at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. She is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado – Boulder Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences an Adjunct Professor in Integrative Physiology, and an affiliated faculty member in the Biomedical Engineering program. Her work focuses on aerospace biomedical engineering, spacesuit design, wearable sensors, spacecraft habitat design, alternative reality technologies, and human physiology in extreme environments. Specifically, her work is directed toward enabling a human mission to Mars.

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Class / Instruction Fri, 22 Jan 2021 11:13:06 -0500 2021-01-28T16:00:00-05:00 2021-01-28T17:15:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Aerospace Engineering Class / Instruction Allison Anderson
AE200 Seminar Series, Aerospace-Beyond the Airframers (January 29, 2021 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81094 81094-20848505@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 29, 2021 1:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

Juan M. de Bedout
Vice President of Aerospace Technology
Technology & Global Engineering
Raytheon Technologies

The lecture will provide an overview of the role played by system providers in the Aerospace industry, which work closely with the airframers to produce much of the content that goes into their vehicles and platforms. Several examples of tough engineering challenges as well as areas of important innovation will be shared.

About the speaker...
Juan is the Vice President of Aerospace Technology in Technology & Global Engineering. In this role he works closely with the RTX businesses to shape the technology vision and strategy for the Company’s commercial offerings, and to drive the identification and use of technology synergies and best practices across RTX.

Prior to this role, Juan was the Vice President of Advanced Technology and Engineering Effectiveness at Collins Aerospace, leading a team of 2800 engineers across the United States, the United Kingdom, Poland and India. He shaped the composition and drove the integration of this team after the integration of Rockwell Collins and United Technologies Aerospace Systems in late 2018. In this role he worked closely with the engineering teams in Collins’ six business units to shape advanced technology planning and investment, drive the vitality of the Global Engineering Center teams, streamline engineering supplier planning, and promote continuous improvement throughout Collins’ businesses.

Prior to joining United Technologies, Juan was with the General Electric Company, where he served for 18 years in roles of increasing responsibility from his start at the Global Research Center in 2000. Juan’s last role with GE prior to joining Collins Aerospace was as the Chief Technology Officer for GE’s Grid Solutions business, a joint venture between GE and Alstom, serving the electrical transmission and distribution industry with a complete portfolio of high voltage equipment, energy management, controls and protection systems. In this role, he drove business technology strategy and new product development across seven diverse industry segments, leading a global team of 3,600 engineers with operations in over 18 countries around the world.

Juan is an avid Boilermaker through and through, with Bachelors, Masters and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University. He lives with his wife Erika, his son Carlos and his daughter Josephine in Sudbury, Massachusetts.

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Class / Instruction Fri, 22 Jan 2021 12:15:41 -0500 2021-01-29T13:30:00-05:00 2021-01-29T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Aerospace Engineering Class / Instruction Juan M. de Bedout
How to effectively promote your research (February 4, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80661 80661-20769645@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 4, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

Please join us Thursday February 4th 12-1:00PM EST for a discussion with Laura Lessnau (University of Michigan News Director) and Nicole Casal Moore (COE Director of Communications) on how to effectively frame your research to promote your findings to the general public.

Laura directs the news enterprise with a staff of primarily former journalists dedicated to telling meaningful stories about the university to the world. The news team develops strategic communications plans that include news stories, media pitches, multimedia presentations, social media outreach, experts advisories and news websites. Michigan News includes an international team of storytellers who translate stories and reach out to audiences in four languages.

Nicole spent five years as a newspaper reporter covering natural resources, agriculture and environment, as well as state and county governments in California and Virginia. She worked as an online magazine editor and public affairs manager at the National Conference of State Legislatures in Denver for five years. She has been a science writer and public relations representative at Michigan News and the U-M College of Engineering since 2007.

Please RSVP in advance: https://forms.gle/PZwNUwAJ9WTuBRWf7

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 12 Jan 2021 18:22:21 -0500 2021-02-04T12:00:00-05:00 2021-02-04T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Aerospace Engineering Lecture / Discussion Event flyer
Chair's Distinguished Lecture: Particle-laden Flows, From Incompressible Turbulence to Supersonic Jets (February 4, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81309 81309-20885807@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 4, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

Laura Villafane Roca
Assistant Professor
Aerospace Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Heavier-than-fluid particles are often found in environmental and engineering applications. Particles may alter the underlying flow dynamics, disperse non-homogeneously, trigger coalescence or chemical reactions, and lead to multi-physics phenomena that can impact the overall flow or system behavior. Whether the presence of particles is intentional or unavoidable, we need a better understanding of particle-laden flows that supports improved predictive capabilities across a range of regimes. We will discuss two distinct problems involving particle-flow interactions.

Preferential concentration arises due to the interaction of small inertial particles with turbulence. If the flow is exposed to thermal radiation that is partially absorbed by the particles, preferential concentration leads to fluctuations of transmitted radiation and fluid temperature. Particle-turbulence-radiation interactions are important to solar energy harvesting, combustion systems and fires. We will show experimental and numerical results from a fully developed turbulent flow laden with micron-size particles and highlight the impact of including real effects in the numerical framework.

The impingement of supersonic plumes onto a granular surface combines the challenges of time-varying flow characteristics as the surface morphology evolves, and those of fluid-particle interaction. Erosion of the granular surface, fluidization, and entrainment lead to a coupled fluid-surface-particle dynamics problem where the dominant physical mechanisms vary in space and time. The successful landing of a payload and the safety of surrounding assets critically relies on the understanding and prediction of those complex interactions. We will present ongoing efforts to experimentally study plume-granular surface interactions in conditions representative of Moon and Mars landings.

About the speaker...

Laura Villafañe is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research focuses on turbulence, multiphase flows, flow-surface interactions and on the development of experimental diagnostics and data analysis tools to study these complex flows.

Laura received her B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Aerospace Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain, and a Research Master in Fluid Mechanics followed by Ph.D. from the von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics, Belgium. Prior to joining UIUC she was Postdoctoral Fellow and Research Associate at the Center for Turbulence Research at Stanford University.

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Class / Instruction Wed, 27 Jan 2021 08:28:03 -0500 2021-02-04T16:00:00-05:00 2021-02-04T17:15:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Aerospace Engineering Class / Instruction Laura Villafane
AIAA Winter Mass Meeting (February 4, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81559 81559-20927549@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 4, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Join us for our Mass Meeting this Thursday, February 4 at 7 PM as we present an overview of our org and bring everyone up to speed as to what to expect this semester as a member of AIAA! We'll briefly go over our plan, have a bite together (all attendees will be reimbursed $5 on Venmo), and then, we'll finish off the night with a game of Aerospace Kahoot! The winner gets a $15 Amazon gift card, so come PREPARED!!!

Please fill out this Google form if you are interested in becoming a member of our branch:
https://forms.gle/3a4f4qHd1E4Ta67t7

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Rally / Mass Meeting Mon, 01 Feb 2021 19:09:28 -0500 2021-02-04T19:00:00-05:00 2021-02-04T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Rally / Mass Meeting meeting flyer
AE200 Seminar Series, Boeing in Space (February 5, 2021 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81661 81661-20941442@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 5, 2021 1:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

Raenaurd Turpin
Chief Engineer and CTO
Boeing Commercial Satellites

This new age of space exploration will require a robust, interconnected ecosystem of low-earth-orbit AND cislunar and deep-space platforms and operations. Even today, we can see how interconnected systems work in space….and the role that a strong space infrastructure – stretching from LEO to deep space – plays in successful missions. Along with aerospace engineering technologies, innovations from other industries are being applied to space: additive manufacturing, virtual reality, artificial intelligence and autonomous systems…just to name a few. We are standing at another crossroads in human history as we venture deeper into space. At Boeing, we are building the future. Follow our journey – and maybe even join us – as we connect, protect, explore and inspire the world.

About the speaker...

Raenaurd Turpin is the Chief Engineer of Boeing Commercial Satellite Systems and Common Products (CSCP). He also leads advanced satellite architecture development and technology insertion as the Chief Technical Officer (CTO) for Commercial Satellite Business Development. In 2018, Raenaurd was recognized as Boeing Defense, Space, and Security (BDS) Engineer of the Year, in addition to BEYA Black Engineer of the Year. As Chief Architect and System Engineering Lead for the O3b mPOWER campaign, he led the team through a significant evolution of the design. Their efforts yielded increased efficiency (mass, power, operational complexity) and lower design complexity and risk, all while aligning to the customer’s affordability target. As a result, Boeing was awarded contracts to build seven satellites using this advanced digital payload design. Today, the O3b mPower constellation is in production. Turpin has also performed as a Major Supplier Program Manager for National Security Programs. In addition to this program management role, Raenaurd has also lead teams to develop the Next Generation of Wideband Global Satcom (WGS) Satellites and implement Ground-Based Anti-Jam Enhancements for the existing WGS constellation.

Turpin has previously held roles in business capture as well as systems architecture & design, and began his career at Boeing as a phased array antenna analyst and digital signal processing (DSP) subsystem engineer, holding a patent for phased array calibration methodology. He received a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering at Arizona State University in 1997, played in the Rose Bowl as member of the PAC-10 Championship Football team, and completed credentials towards MS in Electrical Engineering in 1999.

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Class / Instruction Wed, 03 Feb 2021 09:24:20 -0500 2021-02-05T13:30:00-05:00 2021-02-05T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Aerospace Engineering Class / Instruction Raenaurd Turpin
Aerospace Engineering Department Seminar: Advancing Rechargeable Zinc-Air Batteries For Electric Aviation (February 9, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81775 81775-20957297@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 9, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

Brandon J. Hopkins
U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
National Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow

My research vision is to enable multifunctional electrochemical energy systems that boost system-level energy density. Conventional electrochemical energy systems such as batteries, capacitors, and fuel cells are reaching fundamental energy-density limits. To overcome these limitations, I will increase the functionality of these systems. For example, if the airframe of an electric aircraft could also function as a battery, the aircraft could store more energy without a weight or volume penalty, boosting range by 40 to 70%. In this talk, I highlight my work that lays a foundation to enable this idea. I discuss (1) why a zinc–air battery chemistry is promising for this concept; (2) how to efficiently increase the specific energy of electrically rechargeable zinc–air batteries; (3) a manufacturing method to create dendrite-free zinc electrodes that allow for high specific energy; (4) a meta-analysis showing a promising route to enable load-bearing zinc–air batteries; and (5) technical challenges and fundamental questions that I will address at Michigan to realize a load-bearing zinc–air battery for electric aircraft.

About the speaker...
Brandon J. Hopkins is a National Research Council postdoctoral fellow at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory currently focused on advancing sustainable battery materials and systems with Dr. Debra R. Rolison. Hopkins received his PhD at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) where he created corrosion-mitigation methods for aqueous metal–air batteries with professors Yang Shao-Horn and Douglas P. Hart. As a master's candidate at MIT, he was part of the Joint Center for Energy Storage Research where he designed and fabricated gravity-driven flow batteries using semi-solid suspensions with professors Yet-Ming Chiang and Alexander H. Slocum. He received his bachelor's degree from Harvard University and interned at Akamai Technologies and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 05 Feb 2021 09:02:25 -0500 2021-02-09T16:00:00-05:00 2021-02-09T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Aerospace Engineering Lecture / Discussion Brandon J. Hopkins
Chair's Distinguished Lecture: Traffic In Near-Earth Space: A Wicked Problem Of A Complex System Requiring A Transdisciplinary Solution (February 11, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81658 81658-20941440@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 11, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

Moriba Jah
Associate Professor
The University of Texas at Austin
Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics Department

The space domain is what you get when you mix a wicked problem with a complex system, whose behavior is difficult to model and predict due to unknown dependencies, non-linear causal relationships, incomplete and even contradictory knowledge, competing opinions, and other types of interactions amongst the participants and constituents of the domain.

Given the vast and deep developments of each scientific field, coupled with globalization and competing interests, problems related to the space domain are finding themselves unsolvable through unidisciplinary or even multidisciplinary efforts because the space domain represents a complex system where the measured aspects of it are not explained by simply aggregating the behaviors of individual participants and constituents. The emergent behavior is more than the individual sum of its parts. Solving wicked problems in a complex system requires transdisciplinary, which is a fused or holistic solution from the melange of multiple disciplines concurrently. You’ll recognize a transdisciplinary solution when it is difficult if not impossible to identify the unique contribution of any specific discipline to the solution.

We have developed ASTRIAGraph as an initial transdisciplinary solution to this space traffic problem. We describe this development in terms of a digital twin and library making the best of sound data engineering, science, and analytics, with real world examples.

About the speaker...
Moriba Jah is an Associate Professor of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics at The University of Texas at Austin where he is the holder of the Mrs. Pearlie Dashiell Henderson Centennial Fellowship in Engineering. He’s the director for Computational Astronautical Sciences and Technologies (CAST), a group within the Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences as well as the Lead for the Space Security and Safety Program at the Robert Strauss Center for International Security and Law. Moriba came to UT Austin by way of the Air Force Research Laboratory and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory prior to that, where he was a Spacecraft Navigator on a handful of Mars missions.

Moriba is a Fellow of multiple organizations: TED, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), American Astronautical Society (AAS), International Association for the Advancement of Space Safety (IAASS), Royal Astronomical Society (RAS), and the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL). He has served on the US delegation to the United Nations Committee On Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UN-COPUOS), is an elected Academician of the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA), and has testified to congress on his work as related to Space Situational Awareness and Space Traffic Management. He’s an Associate Editor of the Elsevier Advances in Space Research journal, and serves on multiple committees: IAA Space Debris, AIAA Astrodynamics, IAF Astrodynamics, and IAF Space Security.

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Class / Instruction Wed, 03 Feb 2021 15:44:30 -0500 2021-02-11T16:00:00-05:00 2021-02-11T17:15:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Aerospace Engineering Class / Instruction Moriba Jah
AE200 Seminar Series, Stealth...An Airplane Design Challenge (February 12, 2021 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81659 81659-20941441@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 12, 2021 1:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

Grant Carichner
Adjunct Professor
Cal Poly Pomona

In any combat scenario it is advantageous to be invisible or nearly invisible to your adversary (recall Desert Storm/bombing of Baghdad in 1991). In any situation it is very important to limit your opponent’s ability to harm you. More than 50 years ago initial stealth efforts focused on incorporating materials into an airplane’s design to reduce radar signatures. This proved to be a difficult and elusive goal. Today ‘stealth’ is designed into virtually every military vehicle.

This seminar will review the history of early stealth efforts and conclude with where the state-of-the-art is today. Air vehicles will be the main focus but it will also become clear that stealth is being added to the designs of land and sea vehicles as well. In this discussion reducing the ‘signature’ of an air vehicle to radar will be the primary focus. However, it should be recognized that IR (infrared), audible, and visual signatures can also be very important. They will be introduced with little discussion.

Ultimately, the goal is to have a vehicle survive and be able to fly tomorrow’s missions or successfully penetrate enemy positions to destroy its target. Stealth is a major component of survivability but it is not the only one.

What was the first stealth airplane? You may be surprised to learn the answer.

About the speaker...
Mr. Carichner went to work for the Lockheed Skunk Works after earning his BS Engr and MS Engr degrees from UCLA. He retired in 2013 after 48 years at the Skunk Works where he worked on most of the company’s high-profile programs. During his career he started out as an aerodynamicist and eventually became Head of Aerodynamics for the Skunk Works. Future program assignments were either Chief Engineer or Program Manager positions. As Chief Engineer for the JASSM Program he was selected as Lockheed’s Inventor of the Year.

The last 15 years of his career were dedicated to lighter-than-air designs. He created the Aerocraft Program whose design resulted in a hybrid airship demonstrator that had many airplane flight characteristics that has changed the course of future airship design.

Currently, Mr. Carichner teaches Airplane Design at Cal Poly Pomona.

Mr. Carichner has written two textbooks. One on airplane design and another on airship design. Both books are published by the AIAA
Fundamentals of Aircraft and Airship Design: Volume I - Aircraft Design
Fundamentals of Aircraft and Airship Design: Volume II - Airship Design and
Case Studies

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Class / Instruction Wed, 03 Feb 2021 09:10:42 -0500 2021-02-12T13:30:00-05:00 2021-02-12T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Aerospace Engineering Class / Instruction Grant Carichner
Aerospace Engineering Department Seminar: Electrified Aircraft: A New Design Space For a More Sustainable Aviation (February 16, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82004 82004-21004770@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 16, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

Gökçin Çınar
Research Engineer
Aerospace Systems Design Laboratory
Georgia Institute of Technology

The global aviation industry is an important contributor to climate change due to the products emitted by fossil fuel combustion. Electrified aircraft propulsion is a novel technology that has the potential to significantly reduce, and even fully eliminate fuel consumption and aircraft emissions while allowing for more affordable and quieter flights. Electrification enables diverse propulsion architectures and fundamentally changes the relationship between the propulsion system and the airframe, creating a very rich and complex aircraft design space with many exciting opportunities. However, it also poses significant challenges due to technological bottlenecks, lack of historical data, and high levels of uncertainty. Thus, potential environmental benefits can be easily diminished by suboptimal propulsion solutions.

In this talk, I will address the diverse design space and the importance of performing architectural and operational trade studies in the early aircraft design stages. I will present a methodology to perform the sizing, integration, and performance evaluation of electrified aircraft. I will explore advanced design methods and surrogate modeling techniques to enable rapid evaluation of hundreds of sized and optimized designs. Finally, I will outline some strategic areas for future research to maximize the environmental benefits of novel aircraft concepts.

About the speaker...

Dr. Gökçin Çınar works as a Research Engineer at the Aerospace Systems Design Laboratory at Georgia Institute of Technology. Her main research interests include electrified aircraft and propulsion, systems design and integration, model-based engineering, and advanced design methods. She is currently working on a range of government and industry funded research projects on novel aircraft technologies for greener aviation.

Dr. Çınar received her B.S. degree in Aerospace Engineering from Middle East Technical University and her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Aerospace Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology. She serves as the Publications and Policy Chair of the AIAA Electrified Aircraft Technical Committee. She is also serving as the Technical Program Co-Chair for the 2021 AIAA/IEEE Electric Aircraft Technologies Symposium.

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Class / Instruction Thu, 11 Feb 2021 10:19:42 -0500 2021-02-16T16:00:00-05:00 2021-02-16T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Aerospace Engineering Class / Instruction Gökçin Çınar
Chair's Distinguished Lecture: The Inventor Tells the Story of How the AgustaWestland Project Zero, the World First All-Electric Vertical Takeoff Aircraft, was Born (February 18, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81970 81970-20998836@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 18, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

James Wang
Professor of Aircraft Design
Director of the eVTOL Research & Innovation Centre
Nanyang Technological University

In 2013 WIRED Magazine named Dr. Wang “the Steve Jobs of Rotorcraft” for inventing the AgustaWestland Project Zero: world’s first all-electric VTOL aircraft. This secret project was created by Dr. James Wang in 2010, when he was the Vice President of R&D at AgustaWestland. In this seminar, Dr. Wang will present the story of how he led a small skunkworks team and working quietly with 16 international partners to design, built and tested this disruptive eVTOL aircraft in only 6 month. The complete project was funded internally and was finally unveiled by debuting at the 2013 Paris Airshow. It instantly went viral and sparked the global eVTOL revolution and race that we see today. During his term as the VP of R&D, he has created and led over 60 research projects and he wrote the 15-year technology strategy plan for AgustaWestland. (This presentation is based on the Royal Aeronautical Society Hensen & Stringfellow Lecture presented by Dr. Wang.)

About the speaker...

Dr. James Wang has held several executive leadership positions and has 30 years of experience in aerospace and high-tech industries; including as Senior Vice President of Marketing and Vice President of R&D at Leonardo Helicopters; led Strategic Sales and worked on many helicopter designs at Sikorsky Aircraft. An internationally renowned expert in designing manned/unmanned helicopters and eVTOL aircraft. In 2018, he founded Vtolwerke to provide consulting in advanced air mobility and eVTOL aircraft designing, eVTOL business strategy and product development. Dr. Wang is also a Professor of Aircraft Design, and Director of the eVTOL Research & Innovation Centre at NTU in Singapore.

He received bachelor degrees in Aeronautical, and Electrical Engineering from MIT, a PhD from the University of Maryland, and a Master’s from the MIT Sloan Business School. He holds numerous patents and major international awards, including: Royal Aeronautical Society Fellow, Royal Aeronautical Society Team Gold Award, VFS Fellow, AHS’ Grover E. Bell Award, UTC George Mead Award, NASA Award, and Italian National Highest Innovation Grand Prize Premio dei Premi.

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Class / Instruction Wed, 10 Feb 2021 13:19:27 -0500 2021-02-18T16:00:00-05:00 2021-02-18T17:15:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Aerospace Engineering Class / Instruction James Wang
AE200 Seminar Series, Bringing Space Down To Earth (February 19, 2021 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81969 81969-20998834@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 19, 2021 1:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

Sara Spangelo
Co-Founder and CEO of Swarm

This talk will discuss Swarm's evolution over the last 4 years in our mission to bring low-cost connectivity to every point on Earth at all times. I will discuss the trajectory of my career starting at UM in academia, to JPL/NASA, to Google X, to my tryouts to be a Canadian astronaut, and how each experience prepared me for starting and running Swarm. Through many failures and some wins, I’ll discuss how my team has used our engineering backgrounds and expertise to bring the world’s lowest-cost connectivity solution to life. I'll discuss how we enable new use cases and value to customers across agriculture, logistics, energy, environment, and global development, and discuss future ideas for how I believe we can have a positive impact on life on Earth.

About the speaker...

Dr. Sara Spangelo is the co-founder and CEO of Swarm, the company that is developing the world's lowest-cost global communications network with breakthrough satellite technology and ground hardware for customers in remote locations. Before starting Swarm, Sara worked on small satellites and autonomous aircraft at the University of Michigan and was a lead systems engineer at both NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) and Google X. Her expertise is in modeling and optimizing satellite constellations to maximize impact and business opportunities. Sara holds a PhD in aerospace engineering from the University of Michigan and in 2017 was a Top 32 Canadian astronaut candidate.

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Class / Instruction Wed, 10 Feb 2021 13:03:55 -0500 2021-02-19T13:30:00-05:00 2021-02-19T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Aerospace Engineering Class / Instruction Sara Spangelo
Aerospace Engineering Department Seminar: Spectral Models For Air Transportation Networks (February 23, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82337 82337-21068619@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 23, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

Max Li
Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Air transportation networks are canonical examples of highly interconnected and complex systems. Furthermore, these societal-scale infrastructures generate large amounts of data upon which decisions regarding operational safety, efficiency, and reliability must be made. Therefore, understanding the characteristics of performance measures such as air traffic delays is critical for developing ways to mitigate their significant economic and environmental impacts.

I will focus on network behavior and performance during disruptions (e.g., thunderstorms, nor'easters, hurricanes), and discuss how airport delays can be viewed as graph-supported signals, amenable to a variety of spectral and graph signal processing-based methods. Through this analysis, I characterize the spatial distribution of delays across a network of airports, highlighting key differences in delay dynamics between different types of disruptions and among different airline networks. I will then touch on some recent work regarding low-dimensional representations of airport network delays and how to use these representations to develop control and traffic flow management strategies. Finally, I will briefly discuss some salient research directions of interest to me, such as developing integrated solutions for managing disruptions in networks, gaining a better understand of graph-supported dynamical systems, and exploring issues of privacy in emerging aerospace mobility systems (e.g., UAS/AAM).

About the speaker...

Max is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AeroAstro) at MIT. He is advised by Prof. Hamsa Balakrishnan, and is affiliated with the Dynamics, Infrastructure Networks, and Mobility (DINaMo) Research Group as well as the International Center for Air Transportation (ICAT). Max received a BSE in Electrical Engineering and Mathematics (2018), as well as an MSE in Systems Engineering (2018), both from the University of Pennsylvania. Broadly, he is interested in the analysis, control, and optimization of networks and networked processes, signal processing over irregular domains and manifolds, and geometric/topological data analysis, with an eye towards applications in air transportation systems and other societal-scale networks. He is the recipient of the Federal Aviation Administration RAISE Award (2018), a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (2018), and the Wellington and Irene Loh Fellowship from MIT (2019), as well as several best paper awards from ICRAT and the ATM R&D Seminar, two joint FAA-Eurocontrol conferences.

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Class / Instruction Fri, 19 Feb 2021 14:49:23 -0500 2021-02-23T16:00:00-05:00 2021-02-23T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Aerospace Engineering Class / Instruction Max Li
Chair's Distinguished Lecture: On Safe and Efficient Human-Robot Interactions Via Multimodal Intent Modeling and Reachability-Based Safety Assurance (February 25, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82259 82259-21060577@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 25, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

Marco Pavone
Associate Professor
Stanford University

In this talk I will present a decision-making and control stack for human-robot interactions by using autonomous driving as a motivating example. Specifically, I will first discuss a data-driven approach for learning multimodal interaction dynamics between robot-driven and human-driven vehicles based on recent advances in deep generative modeling. Then, I will discuss how to incorporate such a learned interaction model into a real-time, interaction-aware decision-making framework. The framework is designed to be minimally interventional; in particular, by leveraging backward reachability analysis, it ensures safety even when other cars defy the robot's expectations without unduly sacrificing performance. I will present recent results from experiments on a full-scale steer-by-wire platform, validating the framework and providing practical insights. I will conclude the talk by providing an overview of related efforts from my group on infusing safety assurances in robot autonomy stacks equipped with learning-based components, with an emphasis on adding structure within robot learning via control-theoretical and formal methods.

About the speaker...

Dr. Marco Pavone is an Associate Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Stanford University, where he is the Director of the Autonomous Systems Laboratory and Co-Director of the Center for Automotive Research at Stanford. Before joining Stanford, he was a Research Technologist within the Robotics Section at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He received a Ph.D. degree in Aeronautics and Astronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2010. His main research interests are in the development of methodologies for the analysis, design, and control of autonomous systems, with an emphasis on self-driving cars, autonomous aerospace vehicles, and future mobility systems. He is a recipient of a number of awards, including a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers from President Barack Obama, an Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award, a National Science Foundation Early Career (CAREER) Award, a NASA Early Career Faculty Award, and an Early-Career Spotlight Award from the Robotics Science and Systems Foundation. He was identified by the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) as one of America's 20 most highly promising investigators under the age of 40. He is currently serving as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Control Systems Magazine.

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Class / Instruction Thu, 18 Feb 2021 14:55:07 -0500 2021-02-25T16:00:00-05:00 2021-02-25T17:15:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Aerospace Engineering Class / Instruction Marco Pavone
Cultural and Career Panel Discussion (February 26, 2021 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82336 82336-21068618@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 26, 2021 1:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

Participants:
Jennifer Duke
Trudy Kortes
Rob Meyerson
Kevin Michaels
Tia Sutton
Anthony Waas

The Culture and Careers Panel is made up of accomplished executives in the Aerospace Enterprise who either started out with a degree in Aerospace Engineering, or who may have come into the enterprise at some point in their careers. Panelists from companies like AeroDynamic Advisory, Rolls-Royce Corporation and others will address what they feel are the elements required to create a healthy and winning culture in an organization, their career paths and advice for up and coming graduates.

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Class / Instruction Fri, 19 Feb 2021 14:18:46 -0500 2021-02-26T13:30:00-05:00 2021-02-26T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Aerospace Engineering Class / Instruction
Ask Me Anything: Instagram Takeover with Aisha Bowe and Sydney Hamilton (February 27, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82339 82339-21068621@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 27, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

Calling the U-M Engineering community! Tune in to the College of Engineering’s live Instagram Ask Me Anything takeover to celebrate Black History Month with two of our Aerospace alumnae. Aisha Bowe (BSAE ’08), a former NASA engineer and founder and CEO of STEMBoard and Sydney Hamilton (BSAE ’13) a Structures Stress Manager at Boeing, will be your hosts on Saturday, February 27th from 2:00-3:00 pm EST. Come and ask them anything from their experiences being Black in STEM, WOC in STEM or Women in AERO, to starting a successful company, to making the most of your time at U-M. Head over to the College of Engineering's Instagram if you'd like to pre-submit your questions in advance!

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 19 Feb 2021 15:10:35 -0500 2021-02-27T14:00:00-05:00 2021-02-27T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Aerospace Engineering Livestream / Virtual Ask Me Anything with Aisha Bowe and Sydney Hamilton
Aerospace Engineering Department Seminar: A Formal Methods Approach for Dynamical Systems to Learn Complex Behaviors (March 2, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82522 82522-21114100@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 2, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

Derya Aksaray
Assistant Professor
Department of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics
University of Minnesota

Dynamical systems such as drones, mobile robots, or driverless cars are envisioned to achieve complex specifications which may include spatial (e.g., regions of interest), temporal (e.g., time bounds), and logical (e.g., priority, dependency, concurrency among tasks) requirements. As specifications get more complex, representing them via algebraic equations gets harder. Alternatively, such specifications can be compactly expressed using temporal logics (TL). In this talk, I will address the problem of learning optimal control policies for satisfying TL specifications in the face of uncertainty. Standard reinforcement learning algorithms are not directly applicable when the objective is to satisfy a TL specification. To overcome this limitation, I will formulate an approximate problem that can be solved via reinforcement learning and present the suboptimality bound of the proposed solution. Then, I will consider a TL specification as a hard constraint in the learning problem and present a novel approach to reinforcement learning with guaranteed constraint satisfaction. I will motivate this part by multi-use of autonomous systems, e.g., a drone executing a pick-up and delivery mission as the primary-task while learning to fly over critical regions as the secondary-task. Finally, I will conclude my talk by discussing some future directions in resilient and safe autonomy.


About the speaker...

Derya Aksaray is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics at the University of Minnesota (UMN). Before joining UMN, she held post-doctoral researcher positions at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 2016-2017 and at Boston University from 2014-2016. She received her Ph.D. degree in Aerospace Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2014. Her research interests lie primarily in the areas of control theory, formal methods, and machine learning with applications to autonomous systems and aerial robotics.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 01 Mar 2021 13:22:42 -0500 2021-03-02T16:00:00-05:00 2021-03-02T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Aerospace Engineering Class / Instruction Derya Aksaray
Chair's Distinguished Lecture: Dynamics of Acoustically Coupled Combustion Instabilities (March 4, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82517 82517-21114093@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 4, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

Professor Ann R. Karagozian
Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Department
UCLA

Acoustically-coupled combustion instabilities can result in large scale, potentially catastrophic pressure oscillations in aerospace propulsion systems, including liquid rocket engines (LREs) and gas turbine engines. A fundamental understanding of the interactions among flow and flame hydrodynamics, acoustics, and reaction kinetics is essential to determining combustor stability and controlling combustion processes. Over the past several years our group at the UCLA Energy and Propulsion Research Laboratory has been pursuing fundamental experiments that can shed light on combustion instabilities and their control, including exploration of the effects of external acoustic perturbations on liquid nanofuel combustion as well as gas-phase fuel jet combustion for alternative geometrical configurations. Phenomena such as periodic liftoff and reattachment, periodic partial extinction and reignition, and full extinction are explored and quantified via phase-locked OH* chemiluminescence and high speed visible imaging. Proper orthogonal decomposition (POD) modes and coefficient plots of time-resolved imaging enables characterization of various dynamical behaviors and signatures associated with different phenomena. Understanding such characteristic signatures enables development of reduced order models that can impact eventual control strategies.


About the speaker...

Ann Karagozian is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at UCLA and heads the UCLA Energy and Propulsion Research Laboratory and the UCLA-Air Force Research Laboratory Collaborative Center for Aerospace Sciences. Her research interests lie in fluid mechanics and combustion as applied to improved energy efficiency, reduced emissions, and advanced air breathing and rocket propulsion systems. Professor Karagozian is a current member of the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board, having served previously as SAB Vice Chair (2005-2009) and twice receiving the Air Force Decoration for Exceptional Civilian Service. She is a Member of the National Academy of Engineering and is a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), the American Physical Society (APS), and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). She received her B.S. in Engineering from UCLA and her M.S. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology. She is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA) and is an alumna of and mentor for the IDA Defense Science Study Group. Prof. Karagozian is also the Inaugural Director of The Promise Armenian Institute at UCLA.

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Class / Instruction Thu, 25 Feb 2021 10:45:50 -0500 2021-03-04T16:00:00-05:00 2021-03-04T17:15:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Aerospace Engineering Class / Instruction Ann Karagozian
Aerospace Engineering Department Seminar: Parametric Design and Isogeometric Modeling for Complex Engineering Applications (March 9, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82791 82791-21179563@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 9, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

Emily L. Johnson
Graduate Research Assistant
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Iowa State University

Among many global engineering challenges, two pressing concerns for current and future generations are healthcare and renewable energy production. In particular, cardiac health and wind energy are difficult or prohibitive to study experimentally due to the scale, cost, and accessibility of the structures. With such complex engineering problems, computational methods provide a suitable alternative to empirical scientific investigation. One challenge associated with computational modeling arises from converting computer-aided design models into a suitable format for traditional analysis methods. When isogeometric analysis (IGA) was originally proposed, it addressed this disconnect by incorporating the same representation of the geometry model for both design and analysis. While IGA has been proven to be an efficient method to facilitate the transition from design to analysis, additional strategies are often necessary when simulating complicated structures using IGA. The presented methods address fundamental challenges related to isogeometric modeling for complex engineering applications and demonstrate effective simulation approaches for multi-component heart valves and wind turbine blades. A framework for parametric design and analysis of tricuspid valves demonstrates the advantages of innovative parameter-based modeling techniques and a coupled design-to-analysis approach that can be applied to many engineering problems, including aerospace and wind turbine structures.

About the speaker...

Emily L. Johnson is a Ph.D. Candidate in Mechanical Engineering and the Wind Energy Science, Engineering, and Policy program at Iowa State University. She received her Bachelor's degree in Physics and Mathematics from St. Olaf College in 2016. At Iowa State, Emily has worked on numerous projects related to isogeometric analysis and computational mechanics for wind turbine blade and heart valve applications. In 2019, Emily received the Graduate College Research Excellence Award in Mechanical Engineering at Iowa State, and she recently received an award for the best presentation by a female graduate student at the 14th World Congress in Computational Mechanics and ECCOMAS Congress. Emily's primary research interests are in parametric modeling and computational mechanics, emphasizing computational design and engineering for aerospace structures, wind energy, and biomedical applications.

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Class / Instruction Fri, 05 Mar 2021 12:17:29 -0500 2021-03-09T16:00:00-05:00 2021-03-09T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Aerospace Engineering Class / Instruction Emily Johnson
Brown Bag Discussions with Dr. Tony Waas (March 11, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82853 82853-21201324@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 11, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

Attention Undergraduate Students!

Please join Department Chair, Dr. Tony Waas, for an informal discussion this Fall.

Come out and voice the issues that are important to you as an undergrad student in the Department of Aerospace Engineering.

Please bring your questions, concerns, and ideas via Zoom!

See you on March 11th.

No registration needed.

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Meeting Mon, 08 Mar 2021 11:29:35 -0500 2021-03-11T12:00:00-05:00 2021-03-11T12:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Aerospace Engineering Meeting Anthony Waas
Brown Bag Discussions with Dr. Tony Waas (March 11, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82852 82852-21201321@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 11, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

Attention Graduate Students!

Please join us for an informal discussion with Department Chair, Dr. Tony Waas. Come voice the issues that are most important to you as a graduate student in the Department of Aerospace Engineering.

Bring your questions, concerns, and your ideas via Zoom!

See you there!

No registration needed.

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Meeting Mon, 08 Mar 2021 11:21:49 -0500 2021-03-11T15:00:00-05:00 2021-03-11T15:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Aerospace Engineering Meeting Anthony Waas
Chair's Distinguished Lecture: Ultralight Coilable Structures for the Space Solar Power Project (March 11, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82796 82796-21179584@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 11, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

Sergio Pellegrino
Professor of Aerospace and Civil Engineering
Jet Propulsion Laboratory Senior Research Scientist
Co-Director, Space-Based Solar Power Project
California Institute of Technology

In 1968, Peter Glaser envisaged kilometer-scale space systems comprising solar collectors and transmitting antennas that would beam power to the earth from geostationary orbit, but for many years that dream remained elusive. In this talk, I will discuss the Caltech Space Solar Power Project’s pursuit to conceive, design, and demonstrate a scalable vision for a constellation of ultralight, modular spacecraft that collect sunlight, transform it into electrical power, and wirelessly beam electricity to the earth. The basic module of these future solar power systems is a scalable plate-like square spacecraft that can be tightly coiled for launch and reliably deployed in space. Its structural concept combines origami packaging techniques and coilable shell structures built from ultrathin composite laminates that support photovoltaic and antenna elements. I will present our research on the packaging, deployment and stability of these structures of unprecedented lightness. I will conclude by showing proof-of-concept physical models for an upcoming demonstration in space.

About the speaker...

Sergio Pellegrino is the Joyce and Kent Kresa Professor of Aerospace and Civil Engineering at the California Institute of Technology, JPL Senior Research Scientist and Co-Director of the Space Solar Power Project. Pellegrino’s general area of research is the mechanics of lightweight structures, focusing on packaging, deployment, shape control and stability. He has authored over 300 technical publications on these topics, including the recently published book Forms and Concepts for Lightweight Structures, co-authored with Koryo Miura. Pellegrino is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of AIAA and a Chartered Structural Engineer. He is currently President of the International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures and Chairman of the Aerospace Historical Society.

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Class / Instruction Fri, 05 Mar 2021 12:35:47 -0500 2021-03-11T16:00:00-05:00 2021-03-11T17:15:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Aerospace Engineering Class / Instruction Sergio Pellegrino
AE200 Seminar Series, Impact of Engineering Ethics - Boeing 737 Max (March 12, 2021 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82879 82879-21209382@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 12, 2021 1:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

George Halow
Professor of Practice
Aerospace Engineering
University of Michigan

Among the most critical traits of effective leaders is ethics. Ethics are a fundamental requirement for leading people, engendering the trust and confidence of your customers, co-workers, and the community at large, and for delivering the best and most reliable products and services. Furthermore, they embody the “right things to do”. It has been said, “it takes years to build a reputation for strong ethics, and just one single lapse to risk destroying it for years to come.” This is especially true in business.

This seminar examines a high-profile breach in ethics – what happened, the immediate impacts, and the lasting legacies it left.

About the speaker...

George Halow is Professor of Practice in Aerospace Engineering, a position he has held since May 1, 2019. Prior to this, George served 31 years at Ford Motor Company in multiple capacities, including Chief Program Engineer for multiple vehicle lines, including Expedition, Navigator, Ranger, Crown Victoria, Grand Marquis, and Town Car, where he had lead responsibility for both the business and technical elements of running a vehicle program, Chief Functional Engineer, responsible for product design for interior and exterior vehicle components and systems, globally, and many other positions in engineering, manufacturing, and busines strategy.

George’s educational background includes an MBA from INSEAD in France, a Master’s in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University, and a Bachelor’s in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Maryland.

Throughout his career, George has been very active in support of universities – he was Ford’s Executive Champion for the University of Michigan Student Vehicle Teams, Ford’s representative on the Georgia Tech Ray C. Anderson Sustainability Executive Advisory Board, and gave lectures to students on Ethics & Integrity, Innovation, Leadership, Sustainability, and Career Building. He has published teaching materials on business ethics through the William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan, marketed by both Michigan and Harvard, and used by over 30 universities worldwide.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 09 Mar 2021 10:34:32 -0500 2021-03-12T13:30:00-05:00 2021-03-12T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Aerospace Engineering Class / Instruction George Halow
Aerospace Student Town Hall (March 15, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82787 82787-21177572@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 15, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

Please join us virtually Monday March 15th from 12-1PM EST for a student town hall organized by the Undergraduate DEI Committee, GSAC DEI Committee, BSA, WAA, and SGT. This event is intended for Aerospace Engineering undergraduate students, graduate students and post doctoral fellows.

We want to hear your concerns with the department and/or ideas about how the department could improve. The organizing student groups will anonymously keep track of your input and use this to guide our efforts to promote a more equitable, inclusive and diverse department.

Please RSVP in advance with the linked form. Let us know what topics are of primary interest to you and include any questions/comments or concerns.

We look forward to seeing you all.

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 05 Mar 2021 10:50:53 -0500 2021-03-15T12:00:00-04:00 2021-03-15T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Aerospace Engineering Livestream / Virtual Townhall Flyer
Aerospace Engineering Department Seminar: Engaging Undergraduate Students in the Productive Beginnings of Professional Engineering Practices (March 15, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83006 83006-21235296@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 15, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

Aaron Johnson
Instructor
Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences
University of Colorado-Boulder

In 200- and 300-level engineering science courses, students are traditionally asked to use mathematical models to solve well-defined textbook homework problems. While these problems are important for practicing mathematical problem-solving, they lack the complexity of ill-defined, sociotechnical engineering projects in the real world. In my current research I seek to bridge this gap between the engineering classroom and workplace by understanding how students engage in the productive beginnings of professional practices and how instructors can support these productive beginnings.

This seminar will focus on my research in one particular practice, engineering judgment, which is the use of mathematical models in design and analysis. I will discuss my development of a new innovative type of assignment in which students model a real-world system by making and justifying their own assumptions. The quantitative and qualitative results showcase students’ affective response to the problems, the ways in which students exhibit the productive beginnings of engineering judgment, and the influence of the assignment scaffolding on students’ work. I will conclude by outlining my future work on professional practices, including students’ development of macroethical reasoning, and formative assessment strategies instructors can use to engage students in the productive beginnings of professional practices.

About the speaker...

Aaron W. Johnson is an Instructor in Smead Aerospace Engineering Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder. He believes in a strong connection between engineering education research and practice, and his research leverages his experience teaching engineering science courses to bridge the gap between theoretical, well-defined coursework and ill-defined, sociotechnical engineering practice. His current work seeks to develop an understanding of how students engage in the productive beginnings of professional practices and how instructors’ pedagogy and assignments can support these productive beginnings. Aaron holds a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Michigan, and a Ph.D. in Aeronautics and Astronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Prior to CU Boulder, he was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Tufts University Center for Engineering Education and Outreach and the University of Michigan Engineering Education Research Program. Aaron is a two-time recipient of the U-M Aerospace Department Silver Shaft Award for Undergraduate Teaching and was recently awarded the 2020 American Society for Engineering Education Apprentice Faculty Grant for promising engineering education scholars.

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Class / Instruction Fri, 12 Mar 2021 16:35:38 -0500 2021-03-15T16:00:00-04:00 2021-03-15T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Aerospace Engineering Class / Instruction Aaron Johnson
Chair's Distinguished Lecture: Challenges Predicting the Lifetime of Hall Effect Thrusters (March 18, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82019 82019-21006756@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 18, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

Mitchell L. R. Walker
School of Aerospace Engineering
High-Power Electric Propulsion Laboratory
Georgia Institute of Technology

Electric propulsion devices are rapidly replacing traditional chemical rockets on spacecraft. Electric propulsion devices possess a combination of high specific impulse and high thrust efficiency that drastically reduce the mass of propellant required to perform a specific mission. Satellite operators leverage these characteristics to reduce the mass, size, and launch cost of a spacecraft while maintaining its payload capability. The drawback of electric propulsion is that the thrust level is limited by the electrical power available on the spacecraft. Thus, the required operational life of electric propulsion devices is thousands of hours.

The Hall effect thruster (HET) is a type of electric propulsion routinely flown on spacecraft. Currently, HET development requires expensive, high-risk, ground-based qualification tests that exceed 7,000 hours to demonstrate the necessary on-orbit lifetime. To date, modeling efforts have been unable to predict the dominant failure mechanism observed in HET qualification tests. In particular, how quickly does the accelerated plasma erode the ceramic HET discharge channel?

This presentation discusses an AFOSR-sponsored effort to develop a fundamental understanding of how the HET discharge plasma erodes the ceramic discharge channel. This knowledge will facilitate our ability to predict HET lifetime and will influence the design of future high-power HETs.

About the speaker...

Mitchell L. R. Walker is a Professor of Aerospace Engineering and Associate Chair for Graduate Studies at Georgia Tech. His primary research interests include experimental and theoretical studies of advanced plasma propulsion concepts for spacecraft. Dr. Walker received his Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Michigan in 2004. His research activities include Hall thrusters, gridded ion engines, diagnostics for plasma interrogation and thruster characterization, vacuum facility effects, helicon plasma sources, and plasma-material interactions. He has authored 130 journal articles and conference papers in the fields of electric propulsion and plasma physics.

Dr. Walker serves as the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Deputy Director for Space Rockets and Advanced Propulsion and as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets. He is also a consultant to the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board. Dr. Walker delivered expert witness testimony to the Space Subcommittee - House of Representatives, Washington, D.C. to help guide national investments in electric propulsion technology. Dr. Walker is a recipient of the Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Program Award, the AIAA Lawrence Sperry Award, the AIAA Sustained Service Award, and the Georgia Power Professor of Excellence Award.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 01 Mar 2021 13:39:59 -0500 2021-03-18T16:00:00-04:00 2021-03-18T17:15:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Aerospace Engineering Class / Instruction Mitchell L. R. Walker
Aerospace Engineering Department Seminar: Rocket Science 2.0: How Aerospace Engineering Benefits From Social Science and Engineering Education Research: Adaptability, Risk-Taking and Value-Making (March 22, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83164 83164-21282852@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 22, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

Hadi Ali
Ph.D. student
Engineering Education Systems and Design
Arizona State University

The Aerospace Engineering curriculum, in its current form, is largely a derivative of the post-World War II era, when American engineering colleges embraced the analytical mode of engineering science. However, the changing nature of work, largely influenced by the rise of digital technologies and smart machines, is calling for curricular change to integrate the drive of big data in design and analysis; the modularized, continuous and recombined nature of learning with work; and the grounding in human relationships as it affects productivity, teamwork and equity. I share my journey from a personal interest in studying the Apollo Lunar Module to an interest in engineering education research. Engineers can benefit from social science research to explore the increased connectivity and interaction between humans and machines, and to understand the shift in the way we relate to one another, and the way we see cultures, economies, and institutions. I structure my talk around three major themes of my work: adaptability, risk-taking and value-making. I share my vision for the implications on the Aerospace Engineering curriculum and its purpose in graduating engineers who are socially conscious, who can survive change, and who are able to shift to new directions.


About the speaker...

Hadi studies the influence of the future of work on curricular innovation. Hadi was a Faculty Associate at The Polytechnic School at ASU and, before that, a Future Faculty Fellow in Engineering Education at Purdue. He taught at the Minority in Engineering Program at Purdue. Prior to joining ASU, Hadi worked at the University of Jordan as a facilitator for curricular change and instructor in Mechatronics.

Hadi is completing his PhD in Engineering Education Systems and Design at ASU. He has MS degree in Aeronautics and Astronautics (space systems design, and astrodynamics), MSE degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering (artificial intelligence, fields and optics), MS degree in Engineering Education (design cognition and human communication inquiry), B.Sc. degree in Aeronautics and Astronautics (propulsion and design) all from Purdue University; and an undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering (design) from the University of Jordan.

He was awarded the 2013 Magoon Award for Excellence in Teaching at Purdue. His essay on “How might engineering design be used to better teach engineering analysis?” won the first place in the 2018 ASEE’s DEED competition. Recently, he was awarded the 2020 Wellness Committee Member of the Year for his work with the Graduate Students Association at ASU.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 18 Mar 2021 15:15:06 -0400 2021-03-22T16:00:00-04:00 2021-03-22T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Aerospace Engineering Lecture / Discussion Hadi Ali
Aerospace Engineering Department Seminar: From Design Time To Run Time: Formal Methods for Ensuring the Safety of Safety-Critical Aerospace Systems (March 23, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83183 83183-21290770@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 23, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

Kristin Yvonne Rozier
Assistant Professor
Iowa State University

2020 has brought a new understanding of the need for automation of safety-critical systems, from Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) and their automated control to robots taking over tasks recently done by humans. As the demands for automation increase and the systems we design grow ever-more complex to accommodate advancing technology, a question arises: how do we know we are safe? This talk demonstrates how formal methods are growing increasingly vital for the development of safety-critical aerospace systems, and our ability to ensure safety and security of new designs for the next era in air and space.

We highlight success stories of formally-verified automation, including NASA's automated Air Traffic Management (ATM) system and its equivalent for UAS (UTM). We contribute significant algorithmic advances to launch the design-time verification technique of model checking to new heights. Also, we demonstrate how formal specifications can be carried through to system run time and used to take runtime verification out of this world... all the way to the International Space Station (ISS). Our real-time, Realizable, Responsive, Unobtrusive Unit (R2U2) fills the gap of flight-certifiable reasoning that embeds on constrained safety-critical systems like UAS, satellites, and NASA's humanoid robot Robonaut2 on the ISS. We introduce projects launching in 2020 to further push the boundaries of both design-time and runtime verification, asking the question, how do we proceed safely from here?

About the speaker...

Professor Kristin Yvonne Rozier heads the Laboratory for Temporal Logic in Aerospace Engineering at Iowa State University; previously she spent 14 years as a Research Scientist at NASA and three semesters as an Assistant Professor at the University of Cincinnati. She earned her Ph.D. from Rice University and B.S. and M.S. degrees from The College of William and Mary. Dr. Rozier's research focuses on automated techniques for the formal specification, validation, and verification of safety critical systems. Her primary research interests include: design-time checking of system logic and system requirements; runtime system health management; and safety and security analysis.

Her advances in computation for the aerospace domain earned her many awards including: the NSF CAREER Award; the NASA Early Career Faculty Award; American Helicopter Society's Howard Hughes Award; Women in Aerospace Inaugural Initiative-Inspiration-Impact Award; two NASA Group Achievement Awards; two NASA Superior Accomplishment Awards; Lockheed Martin Space Operations Lightning Award; AIAA's Intelligent Systems Distinguished Service Award. She holds an endowed position as Black & Veatch faculty fellow, is an Associate Fellow of AIAA, and is a Senior Member of IEEE, ACM, and SWE. Dr. Rozier has served on the NASA Formal Methods Symposium Steering Committee since working to found that conference in 2008.

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Class / Instruction Fri, 19 Mar 2021 12:10:04 -0400 2021-03-23T16:00:00-04:00 2021-03-23T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Aerospace Engineering Class / Instruction Kristin Rozier
Todd Barber on the Curiosity Rover (March 23, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83025 83025-21253076@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 23, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Curiosity's mission to the red planet will be covered in detail by Todd Barber, a graduate of MIT and recipient of NASA's exceptional achievement award. Topics to be discussed include the history of Mars rovers at JPL, the scientific motivation for Curiosity, and the preparations for launch two days after Thanksgiving in 2011.

The science suite on board this one-ton mega rover will be presented, as well as the engineering challenges involved in getting Curiosity to the launch pad, traveling 352 million miles to Mars over 8.5 months, and ‘sticking the landing’ following the so-called ‘seven minutes of terror’ on August 5th, 2012.

Please join AIAA virtually for this event with an amazing speaker!

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Lecture / Discussion Sun, 14 Mar 2021 21:43:32 -0400 2021-03-23T20:00:00-04:00 2021-03-23T21:15:00-04:00 Off Campus Location American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Lecture / Discussion Flyer
RAIDE SEMINAR: "Risk Analysis and Management, COVID, and the Center for Risk Analysis Informed Decision Engineering" — Jim Bagian and Seth Guikema (March 24, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83132 83132-21274913@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 24, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

SPECIAL GUEST: Dean Alec Gallimore

The RAIDE seminar series is open to all. Any interested in risk analysis, risk management, or risks associated with the COVID pandemic are especially encouraged to attend.

Meeting ID:
915 4223 3753

Passcode:
309867

Title:
Risk Analysis and Management, COVID, and the Center for Risk Analysis Informed Decision Engineering

Abstract:
The Center for Risk Analysis Informed Engineering (RAIDE) is a new center at the University of Michigan with the goal of furthering risk analysis that informs improved decision through education, research, and practice. This seminar gives an overview of RAIDE and will highlight ongoing work being led by RAIDE to develop a risk informed approach to planning for the Fall 2022 semester given the ongoing challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. Dean Alec Gallimore will be joining the seminar as a special guest to provide a perspective from senior leadership on this risk-informed approach to planning.

Bios:
Dr. Bagian is a co-founder and the Executive Director of the Center for Risk Analysis Informed Decision Engineering (RAIDE) and is a Professor in the Departments of Industrial and Operations Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, and the Department of Anesthesiology at the University of Michigan. He has extensive experience in the fields of human factors, aviation, patient and transportation safety, and risk assessment and management. Dr. Bagian was the founding Director of the Center for Healthcare Engineering and Patient Safety at the University of Michigan. Previously he served as the first and founding director of the VA National Center for Patient Safety and as the VA’s first Chief Patient Safety Officer where he developed numerous systems and risk based tools and programs that have been adopted nationally and internationally. A NASA astronaut, he is a veteran of two Space Shuttle missions and has also served as the Chief Flight Surgeon and Medical Consultant for the Space Shuttle Columbia Accident Investigation Board. He was elected to two terms as the Chair of the Joint Commission’s Patient Safety Advisory Group and was a member of NASA’s Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel from 2006 2018. Bagian holds a B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from Drexel University and a doctorate in medicine from Thomas Jefferson University. He is a Fellow of the Aerospace Medical Association and is an elected member of the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Medicine.

Dr. Guikema is a co-founder and the Director of Research and Education for the Center for Risk Analysis Informed Decision Engineering (RAIDE) and is a Professor in the Departments of Industrial and Operations Engineering and Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Michigan. He is also a Professor II (adjunct) in the Department of Safety, Economics, and Planning at the University of Stavanger (Norway) and a Research Fellow at One Concern, Inc., a Silicon Valley start-up. Dr. Guikema was the President of the Society for Risk Analysis (SRA) in 2020 and is a Fellow of SRA. He is an Area Editor for the journal Risk Analysis. He has published over 120 peer-reviewed journal papers and won numerous publication awards for his research. He also has extensive risk analysis consulting experience in the DoD, Intelligence, and Commercial sectors. He has B.S., M.Eng., and M.S. degrees in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Cornell University, the University of Canterbury, and Stanford University respectively and a Ph.D. in Engineering Risk and Decision Analysis from Stanford University.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 17 Mar 2021 16:16:35 -0400 2021-03-24T16:00:00-04:00 2021-03-24T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Livestream / Virtual Speaker headshot photos and department and center logos.
Chair's Distinguished Lecture: Emerging InSAR Applications for Observing the Dynamics of Earth Systems (March 25, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83167 83167-21282854@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 25, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

Ann Chen
Assistant Professor
Dept. of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
The University of Texas at Austin

Over the past 60 years, advances in satellite remote sensing techniques have made it possible to observe the Earth with finer resolution and broader coverage than could ever be achieved before. In particular, Earth-observing radar satellite missions have generated a large volume of Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) data since 1992 with 10s-100s of meters spatial resolution. Recently launched Sentinel-1 mission has provided global coverage and open data access on a 6-day repeat cycle (with a two-satellite constellation). The upcoming NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) mission is scheduled to launch in 2023, which will continue to provide high-quality radar data free of charge for scientific uses in the coming decades. In this talk, we will discuss how to infer a broader range of properties of the earth’s surface and subsurface using InSAR. These newly available satellite observations have opened up new research opportunities in understanding the dynamics of earth systems.

About the speaker...

Ann Chen received a B.S. degree in geophysics from the University of Science and Technology of China in 2008; an M.S. degree in electrical engineering in 2012 and a Ph.D. degree in geophysics in 2014 from Stanford University, California. She has more than 10 years of experience in SAR/InSAR algorithm design for earth system science applications. In 2017, she joined the Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics at The University of Texas at Austin as an assistant professor. Since 2018, she has also served as a faculty member (by courtesy) in the Department of Geological Sciences at UT Austin. She currently leads the Radar Interferometry Group housed in the Center for Space Research. Her group focuses on the development of new satellite, and especially interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) techniques, for studying natural and induced seismicity, groundwater resources, natural disasters, and permafrost hydrology and carbon storage.

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Class / Instruction Thu, 18 Mar 2021 15:33:58 -0400 2021-03-25T16:00:00-04:00 2021-03-25T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Aerospace Engineering Class / Instruction Ann Chen
AE200 Seminar Series, Expanding Your Flight Envelope: Careers in the Aerospace Industry (March 26, 2021 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83168 83168-21282856@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 26, 2021 1:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

Ben Marchionna
Director of Technology & Innovation
Electra.aero

Aerospace engineers have the world as their oyster. From hopping around between small startups to lifelong stints at giant companies, Ben will help you see “the art of the possible” in expanding your own career flight envelope. He’ll cover the entire spectrum, their similarities, and differences, and how to figure out which is best for you. Ben will share a number of strategies to help you with personal career development, landing your dream job, charting a path for your future, and figuring out how to navigate internal politics, career ladders, and career path forks in the road – to name just a few. The goal will be to give you some tools that help you figure out both where you want to be, but also how to get there.

About the speaker...

Ben is currently the Director of Technology & Innovation at Electra.aero, a seed-stage startup focused on hybrid-electric short takeoff and landing (eSTOL) aircraft for urban and regional markets.

Most recently, Ben was the Vice President of Global Operations at SkySpecs, a venture-backed startup company developing and fielding at-scale autonomous robotics technologies for the clean energy industry. While there, he built an international team of 150+ professionals to execute SkySpecs’ global scaling to nearly 100,000 autonomous drone flights in 26 countries.

Prior to SkySpecs, Ben was a graduate of the Engineering Leadership Development Program at the famous Lockheed Martin Skunk Works, where he worked on a variety of revolutionary autonomous aircraft projects from conceptual design through flight test.

He earned a BSE in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Michigan and an MS in Product Development Engineering from the University of Southern California.

Outside of work, Ben serves on the Industry Advisory Board of the University of Michigan's Department of Aerospace Engineering and the Unmanned Aircraft Systems Task Force for the State of Michigan. Ben has previously served on the Board of Directors of AIAA and as Vice President of the nonprofit Los Angeles County Air Show, Inc.

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Class / Instruction Fri, 19 Mar 2021 08:48:19 -0400 2021-03-26T13:30:00-04:00 2021-03-26T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Aerospace Engineering Class / Instruction Ben Marchionna
Chair's Distinguished Lecture: Low-Carbon Transportation Fuels - Restarting the Conversation Around Hydrogen (April 1, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83314 83314-21338293@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 1, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

Margaret Wooldridge
Professor
Department of Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering
University of Michigan

Hydrogen is an attractive energy carrier because it emits nearly zero carbon emissions when the hydrogen is sourced from a carbon neutral process. Although many pathways for hydrogen production exist, the primary barrier to widespread use of H2 remains the costs associated with H2 synthesis, storage and distribution. If costs can be reduced; however, there are additional challenges to the design of combustion systems that use high concentrations of hydrogen. You might think H2 is the simplest combustion fuel, so we should be able to build H2 engines with high confidence in their performance. However, H2 is a tricky gas that likes to defy expectations. Some examples of the anomalous combustion behavior of hydrogen will be presented here. The experimental results include performance and imaging data from H2 spark-ignition engine studies and fundamental studies of hydrogen ignition. The discussion focuses on understanding the hydrogen properties important for improving predictive performance of H2-fuels engines.

About the speaker...

Professor Margaret Wooldridge is an Arthur F. Thurnau Professor in the Departments of Mechanical Engineering and Aerospace Engineering and the Director of the Dow Sustainability Fellow Program at the University of Michigan. She received her Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in mechanical engineering (M.S.) from Stanford University and her B.S. M.E. degree from the University of Illinois at Champagne/Urbana. Prof. Wooldridge was on the faculty at Texas A&M University in 1995 before joining the University of Michigan in 1998. Her research program spans diverse areas where high-temperature chemically reacting systems are critical, including power and propulsion systems, fuel chemistry, and synthesis methods for advanced nanostructured materials. Her research team has pioneered methods for characterizing fundamental fuel properties and performance in modern spark-ignition and gas turbine engines. She is a 2013 recipient of the Department of Energy Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award and a fellow of the Combustion Institute, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and of the Society of Automotive Engineers.

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Class / Instruction Thu, 25 Mar 2021 16:12:51 -0400 2021-04-01T16:00:00-04:00 2021-04-01T17:15:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Aerospace Engineering Class / Instruction Margaret Wooldridge
AE200 Seminar Series: Extreme Physiology: Engineering meets Physiology in Space (April 2, 2021 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83340 83340-21346225@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 2, 2021 1:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

Kathryn Clark
Associate Chair
Department of Movement Science
School of Kinesiology
University of Michigan

Space enthusiasts have been talking about going to Mars since we launched the first astronauts into space. We have not actually travelled very far from our home planet and we are only beginning to understand physiological changes and the potential for using science and engineering to overcome those challenges. For example, we know we on Earth are protected by the van Allen belts. Can we find a way to protect astronauts who travel beyond the 36,000 miles of van Allen belt coverage from the radiation? Can we overcome the loss of blood cells, muscle mass, proprioception, and immune system function? Some of these are scientific questions; others are engineering problems to solve. NASA and her international partners must work together to solve these problems if we are ever to travel back to the Moon, on to Mars, and beyond. This generation of scientists and engineers are going to be the people who overcome these challenges. A side benefit is for people all over the world to overcome differences and work together on this greatest of adventures.

About the speaker...

Dr. Clark is currently the Associate Chair of the Department of Movement Science in the School of Kinesiology here at UM. She is also an Adjunct Associate Research Scientist in the Department of Aerospace Engineering. However, these are both “retirement jobs” as she spent most of her career at NASA headquarters, first as the International Space Station (ISS) Senior Scientist and then as the Chief Scientist for Human Space Flight. She worked with scientists from all over the world to communicate research needs and identify areas for international collaboration. Her particular interest was in “Human Factors”, all the elements necessary for the health, safety, and efficiency of crews in space. One of the primary tasks was to identify the problems associated with long-duration space flight and use the ISS to find solutions to those problems. These include biological countermeasures for the undesirable physical changes as well as the psychological issues that may occur in response to the closed, dangerous environments while traveling in space or living on other planets. One result of this work was a talk she gave regularly on the speakers’ circuit called, “The 55 Reasons We Can’t Go.”

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Class / Instruction Fri, 26 Mar 2021 14:02:47 -0400 2021-04-02T13:30:00-04:00 2021-04-02T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Aerospace Engineering Class / Instruction Kathryn Clark
Chair's Distinguished Lecture: A Brief History of Electric Propulsion Research at Michigan (April 8, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83474 83474-21385568@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 8, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

Dean Alec Gallimore
Robert J. Vlasic Dean of Engineering,
Richard F. and Eleanor A. Towner Professor of Engineering,
Arthur F. Thurnau Professor,
UM

Michigan Engineering has been at the forefront of spacecraft Electric Propulsion (EP) research and development for nearly three decades. Our graduates have populated academia, industry and government labs as EP specialists and leaders. Our work has had a major impact on the field. For example, the Hall thruster that will be used on NASA's Lunar Gateway space station shares its design heritage with thrusters developed at the University of Michigan in partnership with NASA.

I will provide a brief history of EP research at the University of Michigan. While Michigan has played a leading role in developing several types of EP systems, my talk will focus on how we established the University as the academic focal point of Hall thruster research, and walk us through the many twists and turns that got us to where we are today!

About the speaker...

Dr. Alec D. Gallimore is the Robert J. Vlasic Dean of Engineering at the University of Michigan. Dean Gallimore is a rocket scientist, and in 2019 was elected to the National Academy of Engineering--among the highest professional distinctions accorded to an engineer. He earned a BS in Aeronautical Engineering from Rensselaer (RPI), and MA and Ph.D. degrees in Aerospace Engineering with a focus on plasma physics from Princeton. He is the Richard F. and Eleanor A. Towner Professor of Engineering, an Arthur F. Thurnau Professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering, and founder and co-director of the Plasmadynamics and Electric Propulsion Laboratory (PEPL). He is also a member of the Applied Physics faculty. He is co-founder of ElectroDynamic Applications, Inc. (EDA), a high-tech aerospace firm in Ann Arbor, specializing in plasma device engineering.

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Class / Instruction Wed, 31 Mar 2021 15:17:07 -0400 2021-04-08T16:00:00-04:00 2021-04-08T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Aerospace Engineering Class / Instruction Dean Alec Gallimore
AE200 Seminar Series, Venturing in Aerospace (April 9, 2021 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83473 83473-21385565@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 9, 2021 1:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

Ellen Chang
Founder & Managing Partner
Syndicate 708

Today, much of the A&D industry is at risk from disruption. The democratization of technology, digitalization, globalization, the atomization of security threats, and other factors are disrupting many A&D markets in ways not seen for years. These forces are opening the door for more nimble competitors and new entrants able to compete in different ways - leveraging commercial trends that originate from other sectors.

Making incremental choices to run faster just to keep up will become increasingly insufficient. To outperform, companies will need to scale innovation by not only making internal investments but also through building new partnerships with new found partners, largely startups, whose ambitions know no boundaries.

About the speaker...

Ellen is founder/managing partner of Syndicate 708, a deep tech focused investment syndicate that looks to invest in and accelerate Deep Tech companies @ LightSpeed. Syndicate 708 is especially focused on investing in and fostering startups in the aerospace sector. She also is director at BMNT, a defense innovation consultancy, and leads H4X Labs, an accelerator and venture studio for deep tech/dual use startups.

Ellen’s career spans from the U.S. Navy as an intelligence officer to JP Morgan where she focused on exploring and facilitating investing in start-ups. She later founded her own start-up in the aviation industry where the team focused on building a B2B aviation part sourcing and brokerage focused on business jets.

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Class / Instruction Wed, 31 Mar 2021 13:03:20 -0400 2021-04-09T13:30:00-04:00 2021-04-09T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Aerospace Engineering Class / Instruction Ellen Chang
INCORPORATING DEI INTO ENGINEERING EDUCATION (April 14, 2021 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/83663 83663-21452154@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 14, 2021 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

The Department of Aerospace Engineering is hosting a panel discussion on using our position as faculty to incorporate and address diversity, equity and inclusion in the classroom. Our panelists feature professors across multiple departments at the University of Michigan including Aerospace, Kinesiology, and Materials Science and Engineering. We hope that you learn from our panelists' successes and challenges in incorporating DEI into their coursework, and leave this event inspired and motivated to incorporate similar methods into your own classes. This event is open to both faculty and students! If you have questions, please contact Professor Quim Martins, Aerospace Engineering DEI Committee Chair (jrram@umich.edu).

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 09 Apr 2021 11:27:39 -0400 2021-04-14T11:00:00-04:00 2021-04-14T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Aerospace Engineering Livestream / Virtual INCORPORATING DEI INTO ENGINEERING EDUCATION
Chair's Distinguished Lecture presents the Annual Gerard M. Faeth Memorial Lecture: Thinking Outside the Sphere: Engineering Challenges and Opportunities for Returning to the Moon (April 15, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83723 83723-21477635@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 15, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

Professor Bonnie J. Dunbar
John and Bea Slattery Chair
Department of Aerospace Engineering
Texas A&M University

In 1969, the first human, Neil Armstrong, stepped on the surface of the Moon. He did so at a time when most of the technologies required to do so were in their infancy. Computers were not every desk. Cell phones were a distant vision, and communication, navigation and weather satellites did not exist. An International Space Station was the subject of Science Fiction and visionaries. The Apollo program not only propelled the US in the second half of the 20th century, it created new laboratories, new technologies, new graduate degrees and a workforce which expanded this knowledge into the 21st Century globally, manifesting itself through new companies and enterprises. The Artemis program plans to return the United States to the Moon as early as 2024. However, new challenges still remain. What are they and how will solving them pave our way to human exploration of Mars? Why does it matter? Dr. Dunbar will describe some of the Apollo events which affected her own academic and professional pathway and explain how similar circumstances for the Artemis Program will help to steer the future for engineering, science, and the 21st Century workforce.

About the speaker...

Dr. Dunbar is a retired NASA astronaut, engineer and educator, currently with Texas A&M Engineering as a Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES) John and Bea Slattery Chair in the Department of Aerospace Engineering.
Dunbar, who is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, came to Texas A&M from the University of Houston where she was an M.D. Anderson Professor of Mechanical Engineering. There she provided leadership in the development of a new integrated university science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) center and was Director of the Science and Engineering Fair of Houston. She also taught the Mechanical Engineering “Introduction to Engineering” course, and directed the SICSA Space Architecture and Aerospace graduate programs. She has devoted her life to furthering engineering, engineering education, and the pursuit of human space exploration.
Dunbar worked for The Rockwell International Space Division Company building Space Shuttle Columbia and worked for 27 years at NASA, first as a flight controller; then as a mission specialist astronaut, where she flew five space shuttle flights, logging more than 50 days in space. She then served for 7 years as a member of the NASA Senior Executive Service (SES). Her management experience included assistant NASA JSC director for university research; deputy director for Flight Crew Operations; Associate Director for ISS Mission Operations development, and as NASA headquarters deputy associate administrator for the Office of Life and Microgravity Sciences and Applications (OLMSA).
After retiring from NASA, Dunbar became president and CEO of The Museum of Flight in Seattle, where she established a new Space Gallery and expanded its K12 STEM educational offerings. She has also consulted in aerospace and STEM education as the president of Dunbar International LLC, and is an internationally known public speaker.
Dunbar holds bachelor and master degrees in ceramic engineering from the University of Washington and a Ph.D. in mechanical/biomedical engineering from the University of Houston.
She is a Fellow of the American Ceramic Society, the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and the Royal Aeronautical Society. She has been awarded the NASA Space Flight Medal five times, the NASA Exceptional Leadership Medal and the NASA Distinguished Service Medal. Dunbar was elected into the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and to the US National Academy of Engineering. In 2013 she was selected into the Astronaut Hall of Fame, in 2016, she was inducted into the Omega Alpha Association (OAA) Systems Engineering Honor Society. From 2017 to 2018, Dr. Dunbar served as the President of the Association of Space Explorers (ASE).

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Class / Instruction Tue, 13 Apr 2021 15:55:01 -0400 2021-04-15T16:00:00-04:00 2021-04-15T17:15:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Aerospace Engineering Class / Instruction Bonnie J. Dunbar
Chat with Dr. Tony Waas (April 23, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83804 83804-21532320@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 23, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

Attention Graduate Students!

Please join us for an informal discussion with Department Chair, Dr. Tony Waas. Come voice the issues that are most important to you as a graduate student in the Department of Aerospace Engineering.

Bring your questions, concerns, and your ideas via Zoom!

See you there!

No registration needed.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 19 Apr 2021 16:24:15 -0400 2021-04-23T14:00:00-04:00 2021-04-23T14:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Aerospace Engineering Class / Instruction Anthony Waas