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AE Students Take First Place in Design-Build Competition

On March 15-17, 2013 a group of Georgia Tech students were victorious in the micro class of the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) Aero Design East competition for the third year in a row. The Aero Design competition challenges students to design, build and fly a remote controlled airplane to meet a set of requirements that change from year-to-year for three different classes: micro, regular and advanced. There were 75 teams at the competition, held in Fort Worth, TX, from throughout the world, including 23 teams in the micro class. The Georgia Tech team competed in both the micro and regular class.

The micro class required the team to build a hand or catapult launched electric powered airplane that has a very low empty weight and can still carry a heavy payload. The Georgia Tech team built a flying wing with an empty weight lower than the average cell phone that could still carry over 4.6 times its own weight in steel payload. In addition to taking the overall first place in the micro class, the Georgia Tech team also won an award for the top micro class design report, for carrying the second highest payload fraction, and for the third place design report in the regular class.

A total of 40 students from both the Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering departments are part of the team, ranging from freshman to graduate students and led by Aerospace Engineering senior Tom Neuman. “The most significant contribution team leaders make is setting very ambitious goals for the team and pushing everybody to achieve them,” said Tom Neuman. “Our competitiveness would not be possible without the Aerospace Systems Design Laboratory (ASDL) and Prof. Mavris’ support of the group, which ranges from providing us with facilities, to corporate sponsors, to academic and engineering advising,” added Tom Neuman. Every year one or two of the seniors on the team go on to pursue a graduate degree at ASDL. This year, Tom Neuman is included in that group, and will join ASDL in May for his Master's.

The team is sponsored by Boeing, Rolls-Royce, and Lockheed-Martin. The AE team won 5 of the 6 rounds of this competition to take the first place.

SAE International is a global body of scientists, engineers, and practitioners that advances self-propelled vehicle and system knowledge in a neutral forum for the benefit of society.

The Aero Design competition is intended to provide undergraduate and graduate engineering students with a real life engineering exercise. The competition has been designed to provide exposure to the kinds of situations that engineers face in the real work environment. The Aero Design is meant to give students the opportunity to demonstrate their ability to apply engineering knowledge and leverage toward obtaining their career goals. In helping to make this possible, the rules promote engineering tradeoffs, systems engineering, component engineering, and multidisciplinary teamwork among many other industry valued skills.

For more information about The Georgia Institute of Technology and the Aerospace Systems Design Laboratory, contact Kara Kelch at 404.894.0203 or Kara.Kelch@asdl.gatech.edu.

Congratulations to the ASDL Students that Passed the Ph.D. Qualifying Examinations - Fall 2012 & Spring 2013

In order for students to be accepted into candidacy for the Ph.D. degree, the Aerospace Engineering Ph.D. Qualifying Examination must be successfully completed. The Ph.D. qualifying examination is an oral exam offered twice a year, usually in September and March. Graduate students must have at least a 3.25 grade point average to be permitted to take the Ph.D. Qualifying Examination. The student, with help from their advisor, must select three examination areas, including but not limited to: Vehicle Design (Fixed Wing), Helicopter Aeromechanics, Analytical Mechanics, Design Methods & Processes, Vehicle Design (Rotary Wing), High Temperature Gas Dynamics, Structural Analysis, Shear Flow, Solid Mechanics, Aeroacoustics, Aerodynamics, and Combustion.

ASDL is proud to announce that the following students have passed the Ph.D. qualifying exams.

Fall 2012
Cynthia Brown, Imon Chakraborty, Jason Corman, Maryon Dong, Ernesto Estrada, Katherine Gatian, Alek Gavrilovski, Ryan Jacobs, Justin Kizer, Matthew Levine, Henry Schwartz, Huy Tran, Linyu Zhang, Matthew Zwack

Spring 2013
Nelson Andriano, Gregory Busch, Youngjun Choi, John Dykes, Mauricio Guadamuz, Mohammed Hassan, Nathan Knisley, Mario Lee, Tyler Milner, Sanggyu Min, Aaron Mosher, Scott Phelan, David Rancourt

ASDL Faculty Represents Georgia Tech at PEGASAS Kickoff

As a core integration member of PEGASAS (Partnership to Enhance General Aviation Safety, Accessibility and Sustainability), the new Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Center of Excellence for General Aviation, the Georgia Institute of Technology participated in the kick-off meeting held on November 6-7, 2012 at Purdue University. The Institute is represented by faculty members of the Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering, lead by Prof. Dimitri Mavris, PEGASAS co-director for GT, and a number of ASDL research faculty.

PEGASAS will focus research and testing efforts on safety, accessibility and sustainability to enhance the future of general aviation and will engage both graduate-level and undergraduate students in its research activities.

The kick-off meeting was the first opportunity for the representatives of the core universities in PEGASAS to meet with their FAA colleagues to coordinate capabilities, understand the FAA’s expectations and processes, and to further relationships between the researchers and FAA counterparts. John Wiley, Aviation Research Division Manager at the FAA and primary research sponsor for PEGASAS, briefed the meeting on the FAA’s commitment to general aviation and its unique and challenging research needs. Leads for each of the six core universities had an opportunity to brief all meeting attendants on their respective facilities, research activities, and capabilities. A kickoff ceremony was held featuring remarks by John Wiley and Patricia Watts (Director of FAA COEs), as well as Purdue University leadership. “This kickoff meeting allowed the team to interact with FAA leads and refine our collective understanding of their research needs and priorities for general aviation,” said Dr. Hernando Jimenez, ASDL researcher who attended the kick-off meeting and who will serve as deputy to Prof. Mavris.

The PEGASAS research and development efforts will cover a broad spectrum of general aviation issues, including airport technology, propulsion and structures, airworthiness, flight safety, fire safety, human factors, system safety management and weather.

Leading PEGASAS along with the Georgia Institute of Technology are Purdue University and the Ohio State University. The core team includes the Florida Institute of Technology, Iowa State University, Texas A&M University. Affiliate members include Arizona State, Florida A&M, Hampton, Kent State, North Carolina A&T State, Oklahoma State, Southern Illinois (Carbondale), Tufts, and Western Michigan universities and University of Minnesota, Duluth. In addition, PEGASAS counts with the commitment and support of several industry and organizational partners covering a broad range of general aviation activities.

For more information about the FAA Centers of Excellence program, visit the COE webpage at http://www.faa.gov/go/coe

To read more about the FAA’s announcement of PEGASAS, go to http://www.faa.gov/news/press_releases/news_story.cfm?newsId=13968

For more information about The Georgia Institute of Technology and the Aerospace Systems Design Laboratory, contact Kara Kelch at 404.894.0203 or Kara.Kelch@asdl.gatech.edu.

ASDL Students Move On In International Airbus Competition

(02/01/2013)Airbus has selected 100 student teams, out of 600, from across five continents who will continue in the 2013 "Fly Your Ideas" challenge. Among those selected are two teams from the United States, one of which is from the Aerospace Systems Design Lab (ASDL) at the Georgia Institute of Technology, while the other is from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.

The Georgia Tech team, named Aiolos (ruler of the wind in Greek mythology), is composed of aerospace graduate students Federic Allair, Jean-Guillaume Durand, Christopher Frank (team captain), and William Levy. Their project, in the energy category, is EConEcT (Environmentally Conscious and Economically viable Technologies), which is an integrated design solution focused around the landing gear. The GT students are working to reduce energy consumption and emissions around the airport property by storing unused energy for further exploitation, but also by improving one of the aircraft weak points: its landing gear. The teams have until April 2013 to explore, test and develop their concepts. Dr. Dimitri Mavris, professor of aerospace engineering and director of the Aerospace Systems Design Lab, is the faculty advisor to the team. While the idea remains in the hands of the students, an Airbus mentor and expert have been assigned to each team to support, inspire and challenge the competitors.

“Not only did Georgia Institute of Technology and the Aerospace Systems Design Laboratory make us grasp the necessary capabilities to tackle the Fly Your Ideas Team challenge, but it also empowered us with skills required at an international level,” said Frank. “The Aerospace Systems Design Laboratory was indeed all the more paramount as it offered us the ideal environment in terms of cutting edge engineering facilities. Also, there is no doubt in our minds that Professor Mavris’ classes on Aircraft Design and Advanced Design Methods provided us with a relevant overview of the current challenges and a desirable understanding of the way to carry out a project from requirements identification to the detailed design of the system.”

The students are battling it out to be one of the five final teams to present their idea to a panel of Airbus and industry experts at Airbus in Hamburg, Germany in June 2013. The Awards Ceremony will take place in Paris at the UNESCO headquarters. At stake, are the first prize of €30,000 and the opportunity for the winning team to host an 'innovation week' on campus run by Airbus experts. The runner up team wins €15,000.

“Fly Your Ideas offers a unique opportunity for the students involved to gain valuable insight into this cutting-edge industry which today supports over 56 million jobs and 35% of global trade,” explained Charles Champion, Airbus Executive Vice President Engineering and Patron of Fly Your Ideas. “I am delighted to see the enthusiasm of the teams and our Airbus experts who are committed to sharing their know-how with these students from around the world who are the innovators of the future.”

For more information please contact: Kara Kelch at kara.kelch@asdl.gatech.edu

ASDL Student Selected as DOT FAA COE Outstanding Student of the Year- 2012

(12/03/2012)ASDL would like to congratulate one of our own students, Jose Bernardo, for winning the DOT FAA COE Outstanding Student of the Year Award for 2012!

Jose is currently completing a Ph.D. at the Georgia Institute of Technology’s Aerospace Systems Design Laboratory (ASDL) and conducts research for the FAA COE Partnership for Air Transportation Noise and Emissions Reduction (PARTNER) under the direction of Drs. Dimitri Mavris and Michelle Kirby. At the age of five, Jose moved with his family from Lima, Peru to the U.S., and he became a U.S. citizen in 2002. He received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering in 2008, capping his undergraduate studies by flying a microgravity experiment on NASA's microgravity research vehicle. Jose accepted a Research Assistantship, received an OMED Tower Award for academic excellence, and a Goizueta Foundation Fellowship award at Georgia Tech where he completed his M.S. degree in Aerospace Engineering in 2009.

Jose's doctoral thesis is entitled "Formulating and Implementing a Generic Fleet-level Noise Methodology" and his COE research in this topic is supported through the FAA Office of Environment and Energy in Washington, DC. His work is closely related to fleet-level noise, expanding on the research previously conducted in this area. The goal of this thesis is to provide capabilities to simply and rapidly analyze a multitude of operational, technological, and policy scenarios with respect to noise at the fleet level, while providing proper tools, methods, and metrics to analyze and compare results, thus improving the ability to select noise mitigation strategies. In addition to his academic and research capabilities, Jose has demonstrated significant leadership ability while responsible for organizing and directing graduate research assistants, overseeing aspects of the generic noise research, and contributing toward the completion of various COE research tasks.

Jose will be honored for this achievement at the Council of University Transportation Centers awards ceremony during the Transportation Research Board winter meeting in Washington, D.C.

For more information please contact: Allison Hill at allison.hill@asdl.gatech.edu

Georgia Tech Core Integration Member of New FAA Center of Excellence for General Aviation

(11/9/2012)The Georgia Institute of Technology has been selected by the Federal Aviation Administration as part of a multi-university team for the new Center of Excellence (CoE) for General Aviation. The CoE, called Partnership to Enhance General Aviation Safety, Accessibility, and Sustainability (PEGASAS), will concentrate research and development efforts on general aviation safety issues including airport technology, propulsion and structures, airworthiness, flight safety, fire safety, human factors, system safety management, and weather.

Along with Georgia Tech, PEGASAS will be led by Purdue University and Ohio State University as core integration members. Core team members include the Florida Institute of Technology, Iowa State University and Texas A&M University. PEGASAS affiliate members are: Arizona State University, Florida A&M, Hampton University, Kent State University, North Carolina A&T State University, Oklahoma State University, Southern Illinois University (Carbondale), Tufts University, Western Michigan University, and University of Minnesota, Duluth.

“The new FAA COE will reenergize and push the envelope of the general aviation sector while improving safety. We are excited and honored to be an integral part of this coalition of universities,” said Dimitri Mavris, Boeing Professor of Advanced Aerospace Systems Analysis, and Director of the Aerospace Systems Design Laboratory (ASDL) at the Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering. Prof. Mavris, who led the proposal effort for Georgia Tech with Dr. Hernando Jimenez, will act as co-director for PEGASAS at Georgia Tech and as one of the center’s coordinators for research. “The team of Georgia Tech AE researchers for PEGASAS brings forth abundant expertise and state-of-the-art capabilities across the center’s areas of research,” added Prof. Mavris. The team is comprised of Prof. Lakshmi Sankar, Prof. Massimo Ruzzene, Prof. Eric Johnson, Prof. Vitali Volovoi, Prof. Julian Rimoli, Prof. Karen Feigh, Dr. Hernando Jimenez, Dr. Jimmy Tai, Dr. Michelle Kirby, Dr. Holger Pfaender, and several other ASDL research faculty.

“The FAA continues its goal of working to reduce general aviation fatalities by 10 percent over a 10-year period, from 2009 to 2018,” said Acting FAA Administrator Michael Huerta in a statement released by the FAA. “The Center of Excellence program is a valuable tool in providing the critical data we need to reduce those accidents.”

The FAA’s COE program is a cost-sharing research partnership between academia, industry, and the federal government. The FAA plans to invest a minimum of $500,000 per year during the first five years of the new 10-year agreement with PEGASAS.

For more information about the FAA Centers of Excellence program, visit the COE webpage at http://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters_offices/ang/offices/management/coe/

To read more about the FAA’s announcement of PEGASAS, go to http://www.faa.gov/news/press_releases/news_story.cfm?newsId=13968

For more information about The Georgia Institute of Technology and the Aerospace Systems Design Laboratory, contact Kara Kelch at 404.894.0203 or Kara.Kelch@asdl.gatech.edu.

Georgia Tech First Place at 2012 SAE Aero Design East competition

(4/29/2012)Georgia Tech took first place out of sixty-nine teams in their division at the 2012 SAE Aero Design East competition in Forsyth County, Georgia, on April 29 th. The team had the lightest flying aircraft out of the twenty-seven entries into the Micro class. The airplane successfully carried over 3.5 times its own weight in payload. After building eleven prototypes with over 100 successful flights before the competition, the team was confident in the reliability and performance of the design even beyond the payloads flown in the competition.

Georgia Tech's NEEC Ballistic Missile Defense Team Recognized

(3/30/2012)After a successful review meeting in late March, the Naval Engineering Education Center (NEEC) chose to recognize the work conducted by one of our research teams in their featured research section. The Ballistic Missile Defense team is developing models to assist in the analysis of a sea-based ballistic missile defense systems-of-systems, including advanced technologies and tactics, to improve the survivability of US Navy task groups. The research is being supervised by personnel from the Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division in Dahlgren, VA.

Congratulations to Hiram High School, declared the winner of the Georgia state-level Real World Design Challenge (RWDC)

(2/21/2012)The Aerospace Systems Design Laboratory is pleased to offer our congratulations to Hiram High School, who was recently declared the winner of the Georgia state-level Real World Design Challenge (RWDC). This year’s challenge was to design a fuel-efficient Light Sport Aircraft. The team, consisting of Brooks Cato, John Cohran, Josh Dempsey, Lucas Jones, Morgan Ott, Michael Russell, and Caleb Waters, was coached by Mr. Leon Grant, who is the pre-engineering instructor at Hiram High School. The team engaged a variety of mentors to help with the competition, who included Dr. Kelly Griendling from ASDL, Dr. Patsy Hambry, Major Aundra Billups, and Mrs. Vickie Grant. The winning design, named the Chimera, was developed through approximately five months of hard work by the students, and successfully met all the requirements of the challenge. The team will be representing Georgia in the National Challenge in April of this year. ASDL is excited to have the opportunity to continue mentoring this team for the National Challenge. The official press release from Georgia Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle recognizing Hiram High School as the state winner and recognizing ASDL as an important partner in the success of the competition can be viewed here: [1]

ASDL Signs CRDA with FAA Tech Center for UAS NAS Integartion Research, Visits Center Facilities

(11/21/2011) The Georgia Tech Research Corporation and the FAA William J. Hughes Technical Center have signed a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRDA) in support of research efforts conducted by ASDL researchers and graduate students on Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) integration into the National Airspace System (NAS). This research, sponsored by the FAA’s Office of Systems Engineering and Safety, features systems engineering trade studies across various concepts of operations and technologies. The CRDA provides a mechanism that facilitates the exchange of information between parties and the provision of various FAA resources pursuant of this research.

Following the establishment of the CRDA, ASDL researchers toured the facilities at the FAA Technical Center in an official visit on November 18th, 2011. They were joined by FAA Office of Systems Engineering and Safety staff, and held various meetings with Technical Center researchers and specialists dedicated to UAS NAS integration.

ASDL researchers visit FAA Technical Center after signing CRDA for UAS NAS integration. From left to right:

• Francisco Estrada C. - Chief of Staff, Office of Systems Engineering and Safety
• Carleen A. Genna - Intergovernmental Affairs Liaison, FAA Wm. J. Hughes Technical Center
• Dimitri N. Mavris - Director, Aerospace Systems Design Laboratory
• Hernando Jimenez - Research Engineer, Aerospace Systems Design Laboratory
• James H. Williams - Director, Office of Systems Engineering & Safety, AJP-1
• Dr. Wilson N. Felder - Director, FAA William J. Hughes Technical Center, ACT-1
• Rick May - Management and Program Analyst, NextGen Advanced Concepts and Technical Development
• Kevin Carbajal - NASA Aeronautics Liaison to FAA
• Katherine Gatian - Graduate Research Assistant, Aerospace Systems Design Laboratory
• Nathan Knisely - Graduate Research Assistant, Aerospace Systems Design Laboratory

ASDL Announced AIAA Graduate Missile Design Competition Winners

(7/11/2011) The Aerospace Systems Design Laboratory (ASDL) of the Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering is proud to announce that a team of eight Aerospace Engineering graduate students was awarded first place in the 2010-2011 AIAA Graduate Missile Design competition, which is organized by the AIAA Missile Systems Technical Committee (MSTC). The team, led by Program Manager Scott Strong and Chief Engineer William Garrison, performed a complete design space exploration and conceptual design of a tactical missile system. This system was required to engage targets at ranges of at least 500 n.mi. in less than ten minutes demanding hypersonic flight speeds. The team analyzed design possibilities ranging from advanced air-breathing systems to traditional rocket configurations and determined that a three stage solid rocket ballistic missile was optimal. The final missile design, capable of launching from both naval ships and military aircraft, utilizes a boost-glide trajectory, carrying conventional payloads and reaching speeds in excess of Mach 6 upon impact. A total of three teams entered the competition, including Auburn University, Georgia Institute of Technology, and the Naval Post Graduate School. The team plans to present their results at the Joint Army, Navy, NASA, Air Force (JANNAF) conference held in Huntsville, AL later this year.

Advisors: Dr. Dimitri Mavris - Faculty Advisor

Rebecca Douglas - Team Advisor

Bradford Roberston - Student Advisor

Team Members: Jeremy Bennetch, Christopher Brenci, Grace Contino, Addison Dunn, William Garrison, Blaine Laughlin, Anthony Piplica, and Scott Strong

A special thanks to AE undergraduate Andrew Peterson for his contributions to the project.

Georgia Tech Team places third at the 2011 ONR/AUVSI RoboBoat Competition

(6/12/2011) Georgia Tech student team "Captain Planet" placed 3rd at the 2010-2011 AUVSI Foundation and ONR 4th International RoboBoat Competition held June 9-12 at the Founders Inn and Spa in Virginia Beach, VA. The RoboBoat Competition is a student robotics challenge in which teams race autonomous surface vehicles (ASVs) of their own design through an aquatic obstacle course. Fifteen student teams competed in this year’s event. The participants included teams from US universities, as well as Taiwan and Indonesia. Admiral Carr addressed the teams and presented the winners with the awards at the dinner banquet on Sunday evening. The Georgia Tech Savannah Robotics team placed seventh. Click here to visit the official RoboBoat Competition website.

Dr. Kirby named FAA's Faculty of the Year

(April, 2011) Dr. Michelle Kirby was awarded the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) Faculty of the Year award. Dr. Kirby received her award for being instrumental in research accomplished under PARTNER Project 30, Metrics for an Aviation CO2 standard. Project 30 supports the FAA's high-level objective: to improve air transportation's environmental performance. The award was presented at the Partnership for AiR Transportation Noise and Emissions Reduction's (PARTNER) April Advisory Board meeting in Washington, DC.

ASDL's 19th Annual External Advisory Board Review

(April, 2011) The 19th External Advisory Board (EAB) review was held on the 27th and 28th of April, 2011. This event highlighted and provided attendees with an overview of ASDL's capabilities and recent advances in complex system design and analysis techniques. The program featured an overview of various design "case studies," the so called "Grand Challenges," on April 27th followed by a review of this year's research portfolio on April 28th.

Prof. German named "Most Valuable Professor" by 2011 Georgia Tech AE Seniors

(4/23/2011) Prof. German, ASDL's Co-Director, has been named the "Most Valuable Professor" of the School of Aerospace at Georgia Tech by the 2011 senior class. He received this distinguished award at the Sigma Gamma Tau Senior Banquet on Friday April 22, 2011.

Georgia Tech team wins 2010-2011 AIAA Design/Build/Fly Competition

(4/17/2011) Georgia Tech student team “There Will Be Buzz” won first place in the 2010–2011 Cessna Aircraft Company/Raytheon Missile Systems/AIAA Foundation Student Design/Build/Fly Competition, held April 15–17, at the Tucson International Modelplex Park Association (TIMPA) Airfield. A record high 71 teams from 68 universities and colleges, representing 25 states and 8 foreign nations, participated in this 15th annual installment of the competition. (Read the AIAA official announcement here.) The second team completed the mission with enough points to finish in second place. Unfortunately, their run was disqualified after the tail extension broke off upon landing. Congratulations to the two teams, and their faculty advisor, ASDL Research Engineer Carl Johnson, for developing two outstanding designs!

Georgia Tech Welcomes The Boeing Company CFO and President of Network and Space Systems

(4/8/2011) On Friday, April 8, 2011 Georgia Tech welcomed The Boeing Company. This event invited all undergraduate and graduate students who were either scholarship winners or participants in a Boeing sponsored research to their annual student recognition luncheon. We were privileged to have James A. Bell, the Boeing CFO present to the students along with Roger A. Krone the president of Network and Space Systems for The Boeing Company. The students were able to ask questions and interact with these officials on the various aspects of the company, learning the different paths they can take within the company.

ASDL Students Pass Ph.D. Qualifying Examinations - Spring 2011

(4/14/2011) ASDL is proud to announce that the following students have passed the PhD qualifying exams.

• Nicholas Molino
• Zohaib Mian
• Michael Ellis
• Annie Jones
• Charles Potter
• Daniel Garmendia

Congratulations to recent Rolls-Royce Undergraduate Scholarship and CASA Fellowship Recipients

(4/14/2011) It is with great pleasure that we announce the following students that have received the Rolls-Royce Undergraduate Scholarship.

• Mallory Lefland
• Joseph Mattingly
• Nicholas Picon

ASDL is very proud to announce Jeff Naro as the Rolls-Royce CASA Fellowship recipient.

FAA Officials - Southern Regional Office visit ASDL, Collaborative Partnership Launched

(3/11/2011) The ASDL and the FAA Southern Regional Office have launched a collaborative partnership supporting efforts for the integration of Unmanned Air Systems (UAS) into the National Airspace System (NAS). This partnership also supports the development of a state of the art NextGen Workroom by the NextGen and Flight Standards branches of the Southern Regional Office.

The collaborative effort with the FAA Southern Regional Office builds upon the existing relationship with the FAA Operations Planning, Systems Engineering & Safety office in Washington D.C. which has previously sponsored a systems engineering tradeoff study for the reduction of interference effects of wind turbines to air search RADARs, and currently supports a systems engineering tradeoff study on the integration of UAS into the NAS.

FAA Regional Administrator Douglas Murphy, Deputy Regional Administrator Pearlis Johnson, and various branch leaders of the Southern Regional Office visited the ASDL on March 11, 2011, where they met with ASDL director Dimitri Mavris and members of the ASDL research faculty at the Collaborative Design Environment (CoDE).

FAA Southern Regional Office leaders meet with ASDL director and research faculty, visit the Collaborative Design Environment. From left to right: Bruce LaCour, UAS ASI; Augie Casado, Deputy AFS Division Manager; Jennifer Mansour, ROC Ops Lead; Mike Wilson, UAS Program Lead; Prof. Dimitri Mavris, ASDL Director; Pearlis Johnson, Deputy Regional Administrator; Tom Walsh, NextGen Branch Manager; and DuRhunda Davenport-Willis, Space and Design Specialist. (Not in this picture: Douglas Murphy, Regional Administrator; and Jim Wiglesworth, Avionics SME)

FAA Southern Regional Office leaders experience 3-D stereoscopic visualization capabilities at the Collaborative Visualization Environment. From left to right: Mike Wilson, UAS Program Lead; Tom Walsh, NextGen Branch Manager; Bruce LaCour, UAS ASI; and Jim Wiglesworth, Inspector ADSB Avionics.

Congratulations to the Recent Boeing Scholarship Recipients

This year we received over 40 applicants to the Boeing Scholarship program, after extensive review we are proud to announce the following winners:

• David Dement
• Jennifer McDuffie
• Marie Lei Ysabel Acuna
• Sarah Markiewicz
• Lizabeth Sidlov
• Jeffrey McNabb
• William Piersol
• Tyler Anderson
• Christopher Richardson
• Tuure Pasto
• Jennifer Dowlings
• Eric Stuber