ASDL Holds 33rd External Advisory Board Review
ASDL Holds 33rd External Advisory Board Review
On 29 April-1 May, the Aerospace Systems Design Laboratory (ASDL) held its annual External Advisory Board (EAB) meeting and review. The program for this event included overviews for ASDL’s seven divisions and its Experimental Testing Group and presentations and demonstrations of ASDL graduate student “Grand Challenge” projects. The event featured 51 Grand Challenges—25 focused on system of systems (SoS) topics and 26 focused on vehicle design topics. The external audience was composed of ASDL External Advisory Board members and sponsors, with representatives from government organizations, FFRDCs, and companies.
“The ASDL Grand Challenge program is a core component of the ASDL academic program and serves as an important means of teaching and training our first-year students,” explained ASDL Director and Distinguished Regents Professor Dimitri Mavris. In the Grand Challenges, student teams are given broad, open-ended problems to address over the course of two semesters. “We are grateful to our sponsors for supporting these projects and giving the student teams interesting, real-world topics ranging from Transportation Infrastructure & Sustainability and Environmental Concerns to Lunar Operations & Infrastructure and Defense & National Security Considerations,” continued Mavris.
The event included a poster session/reception where students presented the project poster to board members and sponsors. There was also a feedback session during which the sponsors provided constructive comments to the students about their work as well as advice on how to use the critical system thinking skills they learned through the course of the projects.
The reception included an awards ceremony to recognize individual students and teams for their work. Mavris presented the Daniel P. Schrage Award for Excellence to the best Grand Challenge teams in both the SoS and Vehicle Design categories.
SoS Winners
Advanced Uninterrupted Relay for Optical Routing & Access (AURORA)
Team members:
- Yani Ait Ammar
- Antoine David Goldman
- Alexandre Masset
- Joy Velasquez
Technical advisors:
- Jeffrey McNabb (ASDL)
Investigating supersonic Civil Aviation Role in the Upper troposphere and Stratosphere (ICARUS)
Team members:
- Lensa Tariku Alemu
- Clementin Leron
- Naomi Worku Michael
- Leo Andre Wattebled
Project Sponsor: NASA
Technical advisors:
- Eva Kallou (ASDL)
- Holger Pfaender (ASDL)
- Alexia Payan (ASDL)
Vehicle Design Winners
Crew Habitat Architectures for Interplanetary Operations in Transit (CHARIOT)
Team members:
- Shridhar Krishnan
- Daniel Christopher Larrowe
- Roya Lewis
- Alejandra Medina
- Akash Ethan Shiri
Technical advisors:
- Bradford Robertson (ASDL)
OPerational Efficiency Research And Technological Enhancements (OPERATE)
Team members:
- Adam Paul Benabou
- Benjamin Harrison Bond
- Yooho Byron Chang
- Cem Kocer
Project Sponsor: Boeing
Technical advisors:
- Ameya Behere (ASDL)
- Jirat Bhanpato (ASDL)
- Michelle Kirby (ASDL)
MBSE Modular Satellite Architectures (MOSAIC)
Team members:
- Benjamin Bi
- Aidan Macleod Coleman
- Akram Fakir
- Harry Aaron Shrager
Project Sponsor: Airbus
Technical advisors:
- Elena Garcia (ASDL)
- Selcuk Cimtalay (ASDL)
- Michelle Madden (Airbus)
- Aaron Rubel (Airbus)
Grand Challenge Demonstration Winners
Green Wargaming & Aviation Forecasting for a Future with Less Emissions (Green WAFFLE)
Team members:
- Yilin Deng
- Chloe Heraudet
- Vaid P Kulkarni
- Noa Levy
- Jessica Alewine
- Savar Shirbhate
Project Sponsor: NASA
Technical advisors:
- Burak Bagdatli (ASDL)
- Holger Pfaender (ASDL)
- Ranya M Almarzooqi (ASDL)
- Kavya Navaneetha Krishnan (ASDL)
- Eric Hendricks (NASA)
In addition, Mavris presented awards to the best senior student presentations during the ASDL division overviews.
| John Robinson, Defense Systems & Technologies Division, Conceptual Design and Architecting Methods for Sensor Fusion Architectures | |
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| Mert Atasoy, Propulsion & Energy Division, Exploring the Influence of Alternative Fuels on Aircraft Engine Performance | |
| Hayden Dean, Space Systems & Technologies Division, A Reduced Order Modeling Approach to the Dynamic Stability Analysis of Blunt-Body Entry Vehicles |
