The Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering at Georgia Tech

Kelly Griendling

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Dr. Kelly Griendling

Research Engineer II
Weber, 321b
(404) 894 - 3967
kelly.griendling (at) asdl.gatech.edu

Education

  • B.S. Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2006
  • M.S. Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008
  • Ph.D. Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011

Research

  • GT MENTOR (Outreach Coordinator): This research effort aims to provide manufacturing education programs to high school students, by providing prize-based educational challenges for high school students, encouraging them to use the latest technology to design and build items such as wind turbines, mobile air and ground robots and electric car bodies–hopefully inspiring the next generation of manufacturers
  • Real World Design Challenge: ASDL is participating in a volunteer effort led by the Georgia Center for Aerospace Innovation to volunteer to mentor local high schools in the Real World Design Challenge competition. The goal is to help improve the quality of STEM education in high schools.
  • ONR ARCHITECT (Technical Lead): This is both a sponsored project and a lab initiative, and has included development of a comprehensive methodology for reducing time and improving traceability and confidence in Department of Defense pre-Milestone A decision making using a novel executable architecting approach for Navy applications
  • ROSETTA (Technical Lead): This research initiative focuses on bridging the gap between qualitative and quantitative techniques, and providing a translation between the two that enables a greater understanding of the problem
  • BAE Systems: This encompasses several research efforts sponsored by BAE systems which focused on capability planning, strategic acquisition decision making, gap analysis, and modeling and analysis of system of systems architectures for both information systems and aerospace systems

Honors and Distinctions

  • 2009-2010 Pre-Doctoral Sam Nunn Security Program Fellow
  • 2005-2006 Boeing Aerospace Scholarship Recipient
  • 2005 Lockheed Martin Women in Aerospace Scholarship Recipient
  • 2004 and 2005 Recipient of the President's Undergraduate Research Award

Membership and Service

  • AIAA Member
  • INCOSE Member
    • INCOSE Architecture Working Group Member
  • Golden Key Honor Society Graduate Member

Selected Publications

  • Griendling, Kelly. ARCHITECT: The Architecture-based Technology Evaluation and Capability Tradeoff Methodology Ph.D. Thesis. Georgia Institute of Technology. December, 2011
  • Mavris, Dimitri; Griendling, Kelly. The Relational Oriented Systems Engineering Technology Tradeoff (ROSETTA) Environment 6th Annual System of Systems Engineering Conference. June, 2011. Albuquerque, New Mexico.
  • Duncan, Scott; Griendling, Kelly; Mavris, Dimitri. An Assessment of ROSETTA for Smart Electricity Grid System-of-Systems Design 6th Annual System of Systems Engineering Conference. June, 2011. Albuquerque, New Mexico.
  • Griendling, Kelly; Duncan, Scott. Mavris, Dimitri. Combining Policy with Technology Research and Development to Enable Wind Energy Proliferation in the United States 20th International Conference for Management of Technology. April, 2011. Miami Beach, FL
  • Griendling, Kelly; Mavris, Dimitri. Development of a DoDAF-based Executable Architecting Approach to Analyze System-of-Systems Alternatives 2011 IEEE Aerospace Conference in Big Sky, MT
  • Griendling, Kelly. Chapter 11: DoDAF and MODAF Artifacts in Architecture and Principles of Systems Engineering Book Authored by Dr. Dimitri Mavris and Dr. Charles Dickerson, Auerbach Publications, 2010
  • Griendling, Kelly; Mavris, Dimitri. An Architecture-based Approach to Identifying System-of-Systems Alternatives5th Annual IEEE SoSE Conference. Loughborough, UK, June 22-24 2010
  • Bagdatli, Burak; Griendling, Kelly; Mavris, Dimitri. A Method for Examining the Impact of Interoperability on Mission Performance in a System-of Systems 2010 IEEE Aerospace Conference. Big Sky, MT
  • Griendling, Kelly; Mavris, Dimitri. A Process for System of Systems Architecting 2010 AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting in Orlando, FL