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Jeffrey McNabb

Research Engineer I
Defense & Space Division

Jeffrey McNabb is a Research Engineer at the Aerospace Systems Design Laboratory (ASDL) within the School of Aerospace Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, as a part of the Defense & Space Division. His areas of expertise include software development to enable modeling & simulation for complex systems and how corporations develop technology investment strategies. In his time at ASDL, he has developed software to calculate the reliability of space vehicles for campaigns to Mars, estimate the system performance of Lunar Power Transmission Systems, and assess the ship level impacts of high temperature superconducting technologies for Naval vessels.

  • Doctor of Philosophy, Computational Science & Engineering/Aerospace Engineering, In Progress, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA - USA
  • Master of Science, Computational Science & Engineering, In Progress, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA - USA
  • Master of Business Administration, In Progress, Strategy & Technology, Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA - USA
  • Master of Science, Aerospace Engineering, 2017, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA - USA
  • Bachelor of Science, Aerospace Engineering, 2015, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA - USA

Superconducting Shipboard Power and Energy Architecture Study for Next Generation Surface Combatant (SuPEr Ship Study) (Sponsor: ONR)

  • Role: Graduate Research Assistant
  • Project overview: Integrating complex multi-disciplinary software systems to create a unified modeling and simulation environment for evaluating new HTS Electric Ship concepts

Reliability Modeling Support in DYREQT for the Robust Mars Study (Sponsor: Jacobs Engineering/ NASA Marshall Space Flight Center)

  • Role: Graduate Research Assistant
  • Project overview: The project objective is to develop a methodology to perform a conceptual level reliability assessment of space transportation system architectures to support NASA MSFC’s Robust Mars study.

Lunar Surface Power Transmission Systems (Sponsor: NASA)

  • Role: Graduate Research Assistant
  • Project overview: Development of a modeling and simulation environment to evaluate the performance, mass, and efficiency of Lunar surface power transmission systems

Satellite Constellation Imaging Performance (Sponsor: Georgia Tech Research Institute)

  • Role: Graduate Research Assistant
  • Project overview: Development and implementation of a high-performance computer (HPC) modeling and simulation environment to evaluate the imaging performance of large satellite constellation

Conference Papers

  1. Bender, T., McNabb, J., Birbasov, N., Bowne, M., Robertson, B. E., Sudol, A., … & Lourenco, N. (2022). Satellite Formation Design to Enhance Passive Millimeter Wave Imaging Mission Performance. In AIAA SCITECH 2022 Forum (p. 1881).
  2. McNabb, J., Robertson, N. A., Steffens, M., Sudol, A., Mavris, D., & Chalfant, J. (2019, August). Exploring the Design Space of an Electric Ship using a Probabilistic Technology Evaluation Methodology. In 2019 IEEE Electric Ship Technologies Symposium (ESTS) (pp. 181-188). IEEE.
  3. Robertson, N., McNabb, J., Balchanos, M., Sudol, A., & Mavris, D. (2022, June). A Design Decision-Support Environment for Evaluating the Impact of Ship Technologies. In SNAME 14th International Marine Design Conference. OnePetro.
  4. Robertson, B. E., McNabb, J., Rines, M. R., Mavris, D. N., Stanley, D., Gupta, M., & Taylor, C. (2021). The Effectiveness of Power Distribution Systems for Deployment on the Lunar Surface. In ASCEND 2021 (p. 4161).