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2022 A&A Research Showcase


July 12, 2022

A&A organized our 1st Annual Research Showcase featuring cutting-edge research projects from our graduate students.

Over Zoom, our graduate student presenters did a round of lightning pitches on their research before splitting into breakout room poster sessions. Visitors could move freely among the poster sessions and speak with the students to learn more about the exciting research underway across all of our research programs.

The Research Showcase is an initiative that grew out of A&A’s Strategic Planning to foster community and celebrate and share the research across our programs. Associate Professor Marco Salviato, who leads the Research Task Force of A&A’s Strategic Planning, was the lead organizer of the Showcase, and PhD student Landon Bevier, also on the Task Force,  emceed the event and helped make execute the vision of a fun, upbeat evening that also delivered serious research.

Salviato said, “This was an event focused on the students. We wanted to give them the opportunity to share with our community the outstanding research that they perform everyday through hard work and dedication. The response from students and faculty was overwhelming to say the least! It was a lot of fun! The quality and insight of the pitches and posters were really mind-boggling! It made me want to become a student again! I am so excited to do it again next year!"

A&A would like to thank our judges, Roger Myers, Cris Bosetti, Francesco Deleo and Amir Taghvaei, who judged the presentations on criteria such as accessible messaging, viable solutions, and the potential impact for aerospace and society.

Missed the Showcase?

Catch the lightning pitches on YouTube.

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Congratulations to our 2022 Research Showcase winners!

1st Place $600

Skye Mceowen

Visual Modeling System for Optimization-Based Real-Time Trajectory Planning for Autonomous Aerial Drones

2nd Place $300

Elliot Jennis

Thermodynamic Scaling of Supersonic Retropropulsion Flowfields

3rd Place $200

Spencer Kraisler

Distributed Consensus Algorithms on Lie Groups

People’s Choice $300

Sean Phenisee and Antonio Deleo

Discrete, Mesoscale Modeling of Composite for Attritable Aircraft.

Research Projects

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Structural Optimization for Automated Fiber Placement

Andrew Atkinson

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Diagnostics for Plasma-Material Interactions on the ZaP-HD Sheared-Flow-Stabilized Z Pinch

Aqil Khairi

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Optimization of Intracycle Velocity Control for Cross Flow Turbines

Ari Athair

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New Technological Advances to Bring the Ram Accelerator to Commercial Industry within a Few Years 

Brian Leege

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High Pulse Rate Inductive Pulsed Plasma Thrusters

Curtis Promislow, Arvindh Sharma, Cameron Marsh, and Gordon McCullo

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Supersonic Configuration At Low Speeds (SCALOS) & Wind Tunnel Aeroservoelasticity

Kuang-Ying "Eddie" Ting

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Thermodynamic Scaling of Supersonic Retropropulsion Flowfields

Elliot Jennis

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Crashworthiness of Filament Wound Composite Origami Thin-Walled Tubes

James O'Neil

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Experimental and Computational Exploration of the Fracture Energy in Fiber Composites When Subject to Crack Parallel Compression

Jeremy Brockmann

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Design and analysis of origami-based mechanical metamaterials via 3D Ashby chart

Koshiro Yamaguchi

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Next generation of aviation:
Energy Management for Electrically Propelled Aircraft & Urban Air Mobility

Mengyuan Wang

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Deferred Decision Trajectory Optimization

Purna Elango and Selahattin Burak Sarsılmaz

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Architecting Co-existence: Scalable Integration of Autonomy in Shared Spaces

Sarah Li

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Exploration of coral behaviors via coral motions

Shuaifeng (Scott) Li

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Discrete mesoscale modeling of composites for attritable aircraft 

Sean Phenisee and Antonio Deleo

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 Visual Modeling System for Optimization-Based Real-Time Trajectory Planning for Autonomous Aerial Drones

Skye Mceowen

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Distributed Consensus Algorithms for Lie Groups

Spencer Kraisler

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Guided Policy Search using Sequential Convex Programming for Initialization of Trajectory Optimization Algorithms

Taewan Kim

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Geometric Scaling of Cylindrical Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine Combustors

Tyler Mundt

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Rogue waves in mechanical metamaterials

Yasuhiro Miyazawa