Department Archives

2007

November 5th - Professor Bruckner was interviewed by the Christian Science Moniter for his expertise on maintenance issues in space. You can read the article here.
October 29th - Professor Jarboe was interviewed by Fox News for the article "Far-Out Ideas Could Provide Solutions to World's Energy Crisis." You can read the article here.
Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI) in Houston, TX releases new cratering web-based software designed by Professor Holsapple
July - Professor Feraboli publishes his article "Composite Engine SubFrame a popular option on open cockpit supercar" in High Performance Composites.
Harold E. "Bud" Froelich, the designer of the famous deep-sea minisub "Alvin," died May 24th. Bud was a 1946 graduate of our department, did additional studies in engineering until 1949, and then transferred to U. of Illinois, where he received his MS in Aeronautics.
Engineering Diamond Awards, May 18th - The award for Distinguished Group Achievement goes to A&A Alums Pioneers of the Passenger Jet: Maynard Pennell, Robert Hage, John Steiner, Lynn Olason, Joseph Sutter, Robert Brown, Richard FitzSimmons, and John Roundhill
UX recognized the Boeing-UW team with the Excellence Award in the Corporate/College Partnership category "working in partnership with a college or university to address critical business challenges". This was the top award in this category, in which the other finalists were National Defense University, Coles Group Ltd., and Florida Power and Light.

The award to the Boeing-UW team was for the hugely successful Certificate Program in Aircraft Composite Structural Analysis and Design that the UW teaches at Boeing. Kuen Lin, Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics, is the director of this program. Kuen, together with Michael Richey of Boeing's LTD Engineering, accepted the award at the ceremonies. On the previous day, at the Training 2007 Conference, also in Orlando, they co-presented the approach that UW and Boeing used to partner and implement the certificate program. Boeing also won another CUX award on its own, in the category of Alignment.

The Corporate University Xchange, of which Boeing is a member, is a leading provider of corporate university research, benchmarking and advisory services for helping organizations transform corporate learning. See http://www.corpu.com/.

2006

A stuntman's mid-air accident is recreated by Joe Giordano, a former UW student, at the UW's water tunnel for the Discovery Channel's show Survive This!
Sy Liebergot, former Apollo EECOM Flight Controller, presented Apollo 13: Anatomy of the Failure to graduate students on November 6th, 2006. More information about his presentation can be found here: http://www.apolloeecom.com/

Chair Adam Bruckner and Sy Liebergot
A&A Department co-founder, Fred Eastman, dies at 102.

A&A Department co-founder and inventor of an innovative and widely adopted device to measure wind tunnel forces, Fred Eastman died Saturday, August 5th, 2006. The Seattle Times Article.

A Special Note from Professor and Chair Adam Bruckner:

I just received this very sad news about the passing of Professor Emeritus Fred Eastman last Saturday. He was 102 years old. Fred was featured in an article in "The Washington Engineer" last year and also in our recent High Flight. Fred was a wonderful person who loved our department, and was planning to visit us again this summer. He was one of the four founding faculty of our department in 1929, and one of the longest-lived (if not the longest) aero faculty in the nation. Among his other contributions to aeronautics, he was responsible for the design of the electromagnetic balance in the Kirsten Wind Tunnel. Fred will be deeply missed. - Adam
2006 Graduation Celebration
Saturday, June 10th 9:00am HUB Auditorium
Graduation Slideshow »
Graduate Student Presentations:

Bhuvana Srinivasan will be presenting her poster, "A Comparison between the Discontinuous Galerkin Method and the High Resolution Wave Propagation Method for the Full Two-Fluid Plasma Model" at the ICOPS June 8th.

Amirreza Rahmani will be presenting a paper co-authored with Professer Mesbahi, "Controlled Agreement" at the upcoming American Control Conference in Minneapolis June 14th - 16th
2006 Undergraduate Research Symposium Friday, May 19th 12-5 pm Mary Gates Hall
A&A proudly recognizes 6 Undergraduate Students for their participation in this year's Undergraduate Research Symposium:
Joni DeBoever - "Plasma Space Thrusters: The Way of the Future
Amanda Horike - "Ionic Wind Lifter"
Joshua Proctor - "Averaged models for passive mode-locking using nonlinear mode-coupling" GregoryQ uetin - "High Powered Helicon Thrust Stand and Prototype S"
Kimberlee Shish - " Nonlinear Mode Coupling in Dual Core Fibers and Waveguide Arrays: Theory and Application"
Morgan Wise - "The Influence of Extracorporeal Shock Wave Therapy on the Rat Nervous System: a Histological and Immunohistochemical Study"
Graduate student Manav Bhatia with Professor Livne present "Shape Sensitivities and Taylor Series Approximations of Thermoelastic Structures with External and Internal Radiation" at the AIAA 47th Structures, Structural Dynamics, and Materials Conference in Newport, Rhode Island, May 1-4, 2006.
Famous alum Scott Crossfield dies in crash

Scott Crossfield as a Student in UW

Scott Crossfield & Professor Joppa in 1986
We are deeply saddened by the tragic death of 1986 Distinguished Alumnus and famed test pilot Scott Crossfield (BSAE '49, MSAE '50) in the crash of his single-engine plane on April 19th, 2006. After graduating from our department, Scott joined NACA as a test pilot and was the first to fly at Mach 2. After leaving NACA in 1955 he worked at North American Aviation, where he was involved in all phases of the X-15 rocketplane project, flew the checkout flights, and reached Mach 3. He was later a technical director at North American, served as division vice president of Eastern Airlines, and was consultant to the House Committee on Science and Technology. Crossfield's many honors include presentation of the Harmon and Collier Trophies by President Kennedy, induction into the National Aviation Hall of Fame, and NASA's Distinguished Public Service Medal.

NASA Article
Seattle PI Article
Students Fly in ZeroG. Read more in Student Research
A&A congratulate our Engineering Community & Innovation Awards Nominees:

Carmela Halos & Keith Munson are pictured here with Acting Dean Mani Soma during the Engineering Community & Innovation Awards, April 20th, 2006. Carmela Halos, Fiscal Specialist, was nominated and won Honorable Mention. Keith Munson was also nominated for his T.A. position.
A&A Students attend AIAA Region VI Student Conference

Congratulations to all who attended and submitted papers, and to Kristi Morgansen for her continued leadership and support.
Jeffrey Boulware placed 2nd for Graduate Level:
"Varying Acceleration functions on Rayleigh-Taylor Flow in a Microgravity Environment"

T. Maruo with U. Shumlak placed 1st in Undergraduate:
"Analysis of Pulsed Plasma Thruster Plume Characteristics"

Alice Kunkel with Kristi Morgansen placed 3rd in Undergraduate:
"Buoyancy Control of an Autonomous Fin-Actuated Underwater Vehicle"

2005

Aircraft Composite Structural Analysis and Design certificate program announced
The UW EDGE Engineering Professional Program announced a certificate program in aircraft composite structural analysis and aesign.

2004

75th Anniversary Celebration
The department celebrated its 75th anniversary in grand style.

2003

FAA Center for Excellence in Advanced Materials Award
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has awarded the College of Engineering funding to participate in the creation of the FAA Center for Excellence in Advanced Materials. Department faculty will participate in developing better tools for analyzing composite material performance during aircraft construction and operational lifespan. See Seattle PI news article for more details.