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March 2020

AE doctoral student Lee Whitcher responded to COVID-19 by bringing together expertise and good will to establish ABC: Atlanta Beats COVID-19. read more

News @GT-AE

All Eyes Were on Cape Canaveral

On Thursday March 26, the U.S. Space Force launched its first satellites aboard a ULA Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral. The COVID-19 crisis had cleared out the usual crowds of space fans that routinely witness these events, but there was no dearth of excitement.

A virtual cheering section from Georgia Tech was glued to a livestream, watching every moment. read more

Georgia Tech Police Honor ASDL's Grand Challenge Team



A strategic partnership between the Aerospace Systems Design Lab (ASDL) and the Campus Police was publicly recognized March 11 during the Georgia Tech Police Department's Annual Awards Ceremony.  read more

Swapnil JagtrapSwapnil Jagtap Named to Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe List for 2020

Swapnil Jagtap, MSAE '18, has been named to Forbes Magazine's 2020 List of 30 under 30, an annual recognition of the young gamechangers, disrupters, and visionaries who are shaping the technology, business, political, and artistic innovations of tomorrow. read more

Prof. Yongxin Chen Selected to Receive NSF CAREER Award

Professor Yongxin Chen has been selected to receive a National Science Foundation CAREER Award to support his project, "Towards a Principled Framework for the Modeling and Control of Non-equilibrium Thermodynamic Systems."  read more

Matthew N. Corrado Selected for 2020 NSFGRF

Matthew N. Corrado, a fourth-year aerospace engineering major was selected to receive a 2020 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship to support his research proposal, "Effects of Mass Flowrate on Plasma Oscillations in a Hall Effect Thruster Discharge Channel." read more

Prof. Rimoli's Research Highlighted in the Wall Street Journal

Their focus on the architecture of planetary landing vehicles, may have allowed Prof. Julian Rimoli's Computational Solid Mechanics lab team to build a better athletic shoe. read more



AE Graduate Program Ranked #4 in the Nation by USN&WR

For the ninth consecutive year, all 11 of Georgia Tech’s graduate engineering programs are ranked in the top 10 in their fields in the 2021 U.S. News & World Report graduate rankings. The Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering remained at #4 overall, and # 1 among publicly-funded institutions. read more
From the Chair


As I write this, the AE campus is as close to empty as we will ever see it - a necessary precaution against the threat of COVID-19.

It is my sincerest hope that you, your family, and your community are safely enduring this crisis.

I am proud of the way the AE faculty, staff, and students quickly adapted to this new normal - adopting new online formats to continue working and learning. It's not a perfect fit, but, in its imperfection, this new normal has revealed another layer of creativity and grit.

Nowhere is this more evident than with Lee Whitcher, who, three months into his job as AE lab manager, had to shut down all AE labs due to COVID-19.

It took him less than a day to interpret this situation as an opportunity to help others fight the virus. In so doing, he strengthened the fiber of the entire community.

As we continue our journey into this new normal, there are bound to be other unanticipated challenges - for the AE School, and for you. It is my hope that we all take a step back, like Lee, and look for solutions hidden in the gloom.

That's what engineers do. And, for the foreseeable future, we're all engineers in this together.

ASDL Design-Build-Fly Team Takes Home Top Honors at SAE Competition

For the sixth year running, the student engineers from the AE School's Aerospace Systems Design Lab (ASDL) took home top awards for their entries into the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) Aero Design East, held in Lakeland Florida, March 6-8.  read more
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