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October 2019

AE Celebrates Homecoming 2019

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Prof. Vamvoudakis Co-Chairs International Conference on IoT


Kyriakos VamvoudakisHumans in the Loop  was the theme of the 9th International Conference on the Internet of Things, co-chaired by AE professor  Kyriakos Vamvoudakis in Bilbao, Spain.
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Prof. Dewey HodgesAIAA Publishes Festschrift to Honor Dr. Dewey Hodges


The outstanding research and teaching accomplishments of Prof. Dewey H. Hodges were formally recognized with the publication of "Asymptotic Analyses, Dynamics and Aeroelasticity," a special section in the AIAA journal.
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narayan KomerathProf. Narayanan Komerath to Retire at Year's End


With the conclusion of the 2019 calendar year, the Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering will bid adieu to Professor Narayanan M. Komerath, who is retiring from a career that has spanned more than four decades at Tech.
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Glenn LightseyProf. Glenn Lightsey Selected by NSF to Help Solve Coronal Heating Question

Prof. Glenn Lightsey has been selected by the National Science Foundation to collaborate with a team of universities and NASA on a new space mission that will employ novel CubeSat technology to expand our understanding of our own sun -- and, possibly in the future, to search for exoplanets around other stars.
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marilyn smithProf. Marilyn Smith Addresses the Royal Aeronautical Society

Prof. Marilyn J. Smith, director of the Vertical Lift Research Center of Excellence (VLRCOE) was a plenary speaker at the Royal Aeronautical Society’s Aerodynamics Tools and Methods in Aircraft Conference, on October 14-15 in London.
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National Research Council Selects Miad Karimi for 2019 Fellowship


Dr. Miad Karimi has been selected to receive the 2019 National Research Council (NRC) postdoctoral fellowship to begin research under the auspices of the Air Force Research Laboratory in Dayton, Ohio. read more

Petro MilanArgonne National Lab Workshop Launches New Possibilities for AE Doctoral Student

A two-week supercomputer boot camp organized by Argonne National Lab is widening the research ambitions of AE doctoral student Petro Junior Milan.
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Benjamin BreerPhysics/AE Undergrad Publishes First Journal Paper


Benjamin Breer, 19, a second-year student double majoring in physics and aerospace engineering, submitted his first first-author paper – “Energetic Ion Dynamics in the Perturbed Electromagnetic Fields near Europa” – to the Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, They published it. read more

AE Alumnus Andrew Hsu Sworn In as President of College of Charleston
Andrew Hsu being sworn in as president

Dr. Andrew Hsu, AE '86, was sworn in as the president of the College of Charleston on Friday, October 25.  read more

From the Chair


 
 
The last month has borne testimony to the old adage: the only constant is change.

We celebrated change on Oct. 28, with the investiture of Ángel Cabrera as Georgia Tech's 12th president. A Tech grad, Cabrera has often marveled at how he was  "a kid from a working-class neighborhood [in Spain], whose parents didn’t go to college...[who went on to earn a] doctorate at an iconic American research university. What are the odds?”

We grieved change a few days earlier, on Oct. 24, when AE alumnus (and longtime AESAC chair) Dr. Don Richardson, passed away.  A man of myriad talents who transformed the aeronautics and aerospace industries, Don was particularly visionary with regards to his alma mater. Though he attended Tech at a time when few women were enrolled, Don long ago recognized the importance of investing in the best to make the future better: he set up a scholarship fund to help women studying aerospace engineering at Tech.

Two individuals - each with different timelines and different challenges before them. I can't help but be inspired by how they both effected change by embracing it. Together, they give us all something to shoot for.

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