Sarah Chu
August 14, 2023
A&A’s 2nd annual Graduate Research Showcase featured cutting-edge research from graduate students across all of our programs.
A&A’s second annual Graduate Research Showcase celebrated the department’s cutting-edge research. Graduate students delivered 2-minute lightning pitches on their research to the audience and then presented their posters to attendees and judges. A&A Condit Scholar Sarah Li delivered her research via video as a keynote presenter.
We would like to thank our judges, A&A board members Laila Elias, Gary Lai, and Roger Myers, alumna Deanna Farago, and A&A professor Karen Leung. Criteria included accessible messaging, viable solutions, and the potential impact for aerospace and society.
Congratulations to our 2023 Research Showcase winners!
1st Place $600
Chris Hayner and Samuel Buckner
HALO: Hazard-Aware Landing Optimization (for Autonomous Systems)
2nd Place $300
Collins Davis
Rain Erosion: from Multi-physics Modelling to Efficient & Cost-Effective Qualification
3rd Place $200
Troy Nakagawa
Unraveling the Mechanical Behavior of Discontinuous Fiber Composites
People’s Choice $300
Tie
Ari Athair
How Can We Improve Underwater Turbines with Hydrodynamic-Exploiting Control?
Peter Thoreau
Performance of the Plume: The ACME Hall Thruster
Research projects
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Optimal transport particle filters
Mohammad Al-Jarrah
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Optimal fiducial marker placement for satellite proximity operations
Nicholas Andrews
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AprilTag applications to autonomous spacecraft docking
Nicholas Andrews, Joshua Cheng, Harry Furey-Soper and Kaylee Hudson
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How can we improve underwater turbines with hydrodynamic-exploiting control?
Ari Athair and Abigale Snortland
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Development of dielectric barrier discharge thruster and PPU for small satellite applications
Landon Bevier, Megan Clements, Jia Hao Wang, Kevin Um and Alex Mamishev
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Quasibrittle fracture behavior and size-Effect of fiber reinforced polymer
Jiacheng Chen
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Can airfoil camber enhance the performance of VAWTs?
Han-Wen Chi
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Rain erosion: From multi-physics modelling to efficient & cost-effective qualification
Collins Davis
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HALO: Hazard-aware landing optimization (for autonomous systems)
Christopher R. Hayner, Samuel C. Buckner, Daniel Broyles and Evelyn Madewell
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Beyond visual line-of-sight drone-aided search and locate
Sanghamitra Johri, Helen Kuni, Evelyn Madewell, Eli Pollack and Danny Broyles
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Satellite pose estimation via consensus on manifolds
Spencer Kraisler and Aditya Doyle
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Unraveling the mechanical behavior of discontinuous fiber composites
Troy Nakagawa
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Sensor placement using observability gramians
Ena Sundquist, Carey Whitehair, & Natalie Brace
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Does divergence angle affect shock standoff distance in SRP?
Amrit Tarur
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Performance of the plume: The ACME hall thruster
Peter Thoreau
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Supersonic configurations at low speeds (SCALOS)
Kuang-Ying “Eddie” Ting