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HIGHFLIGHT WILLIAM E. BOEING DEPARTMENT OF AERONAUTICS & ASTRONAUTICS | SPRING 2017

IN THIS ISSUE

RESEARCH SPOTLIGHT Prof. Jinkyu Yang

INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHT Blue Origin

DEAN’S MEDALIST Senior Alexis Harroun

DIAMOND AWARD RECIPIENT Alumna Suzanna Darcy-Hennemann

IN MEMORIAM Prof. Kuen Y. Lin

>>aa.washington.edu MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIR

The following pages show that this has been an exciting and successful year for the A&A department. The achievements of our faculty, students and alumni continue to make us proud, and are propelling us toward our goal of becoming one of the top ten programs in the nation.

We have seen remarkable growth in enrollment over the last year, and now have 461 students in our department. The students in our bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral programs are learning not only engineering fundamentals, they are also learning to become leaders and entrepreneurs through hands-on projects and cutting-edge research collaborations. The faculty in our department are actively engaged with prominent aerospace companies and research lab- oratories world-wide. With the rapidly changing technology in our industry, we will continue to improve and expand our curriculum to ensure that our students have up-to-date knowledge, relevant experience, and modern tools as they em- bark on their careers. One example of this philosophy is the adoption of “computational thinking.” By providing students access to cutting-edge computational tools, we expose them to the foundational software that drives our industry while aligning this experience with critcal fundamentals in rigorous coursework.

We have also undertaken new challenges and initiatives, including a focus on space engineering, low speed aerodynamics, and aerospace manufacturing and materials. This effort is leading to the development of three new research centers: (1) space policy and engineering, encompassing autonomy in space systems; (2) a center of excellence in low speed aerodynamics; and (3) an automated fiber placement and additive manufacturing center. The research carried out in these centers will necessarily be collaborative and multi-disciplinary with a diverse faculty base from the College of Engineering as well as participation from across the broader university. Years of active collaboration with Boeing have resulted in the creation of a new “Lines, Loads and Laws” program, a truly integrated approach HIGHFLIGHT 2017 to the design and analysis of airplanes. By working together we are progressing toward our goal of reducing cost in flight testing. Design & Editing In recent months, we have added some outstanding new faculty and Gaia Borgias Brown staff members and said goodbye to others who have retired. We Wanda Frederick have had losses as well. Joe Sutter (BS 43), the father of the 747, passed away last year. Joe was not only a giant in the field of aero- Contributors nautics, he was a steadfast friend and supporter of A&A. Professor Behçet Açıkmeşe Kuen Lin, who had been with our department for 33 years and Benjamin Estroff taught thousands of students including many Boeing engineers, Carl Knowlen passed away unexpectedly. We also lost a young alumna, Anita Christopher Lum Abrego, who made an outstanding impact in her life. We mourn Kristi Morgansen their passing. Anthony Waas Owen Williams Our students, faculty and alumni have also had some remarkable successes this past year. From prestigious research pub- Jinkyu Yang lications to unprecedented rocket launches, we are proud Chelsea Yates of all that they achieve. We are also very grateful for what our alumni give back to the department — as donors, men- UW Portrait & Event tors, project sponsors, and guest speakers, our alumni are Photography Credits reaching out to provide opportunities to future gener- Dennis Wise ations of engineers. We hope you enjoy reading about Matt Hagen them in this issue, and we encourage you to stay involved and stay in touch with the A&A department. HAVE NEWS? We like hearing from you. BOEING-EGTVEDT CHAIR Email us at: [email protected] ANTHONY M. WAAS

2 AA.WASHINGTON.EDU 206.543.1950 CHAIR’S DISTINGUISHED SEMINAR SERIES

This year, we welcomed 21 distinguished speakers from their resepctive fields, including featured presentations from research leaders at SpaceX and Amazon Prime Air.

The Chair’s Distinguished Seminar http://www.aa.washington.edu/students/academics/mae/2016aut http://www.aa.washington.edu/students/academics/mae/2017win www.aa.washington.edu/ChairSeminar

Series brings scholars of national William E. Boeing William E. Boeing William E. Boeing DEPARTMENT OF AERONAUTICS & ASTRONAUTICS DEPARTMENT OF AERONAUTICS & ASTRONAUTICS DEPARTMENT OF AERONAUTICS & ASTRONAUTICS and international reputation who DISTINGUISHED DISTINGUISHED DISTINGUISHED have made an impact in the field of SEMINAR SERIES SEMINAR SERIES SEMINAR SERIES

aerospace engineering and beyond. 2016-2017 2016-2017 2016-2017 Aerospace Engineering Colloquium Aerospace Engineering Colloquium Aerospace Engineering Colloquium This seminar series covers a diver- Mondays, 4-5pm | Johnson Hall 075 Mondays, 4-5pm | EEB 105 | UW Seattle Mondays, 4-5pm | JHN 102 | UW Seattle Open to the public with RSVP: [email protected] Open to the public with RSVP: [email protected] Open to the public with RSVP: https://goo.gl/forms/W0g9bJiD4bFPLWFi2 sity of topics of current interest to 10.10.16 11.14.16 01.23.17 02.13.17 03.06.17 03.27.17 04.24.17 05.22.17 DR. CHARBEL FARHAT DR. NOEL CLEMENS DANIEL INMAN LARS BLACKMORE SATYA ATLURI AARON AMES ANGELA SCHOELLIG CARLOS CESNIK Chair, Aeronautics & Astronautics Chair, Aerospace Engineering Professor & Chair Principal Rocket Landing Engineer Presidential Chair & Professor Assistant Professor Professor Professor, Mechanical Engineering & Engineering Mechanics Aerospace Engineering SpaceX University Distinguished Professor Mechanical & Civil Engineering Institute for Aerospace Studies Aerospace Engineering Director, Army High Performance UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS, AUSTIN University of Michigan Professor, Mechanical Engineering Control & Dynamical Systems Univ. of Toronto Univ. of Michigan those in academia, industry and Computing Research Center Texas Tech University California Institute of Technology STANFORD UNIVERSITY 05.01.17 11.28.16 04.03.17 GEOFF SPEDDING DR. RODNEY BOWERSOX KRISHNAN MAHESH Professor 10.24.16 Chair & Professor, Aerospace Engineering 01.30.17 02.27.17 WINTER 2017 Professor Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering DR. TOM SHIH Director, TAMU National PHILIPPE H. GEUBELLE NORMAN WERELEY Aerospace Engineering & Mechanics Univ. of Southern California Chair & Professor, Aerothermochemistry Laboratory Professor and Head Professor & Chair aa.washington.edu Univ. of Minnesota SPRING 2017 the general public. It is our hope Aeronautics & Astronautics TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY AUTUMN 2016 Aerospace Engineering Director, Composites Research Laboratory PURDUE UNIVERSITY aa.washington.edu The University of Illinois Aerospace Engineering 05.08.17 aa.washington.edu at Urbana-Champaign University of Maryland 04.10.17 GRETAR TRYGVASSON TOM JARBOE Professor 11.07.16 12.05.16 Professor Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering DR. ZDENEK P. BAZANT DR. MORTEZA GHARIB Aeronautics & Astronautics Univ. of Notre Dame Professor, Civil & Environmental Vice Provost for Research that these monthly seminars will Univ. of Washington Professor, Mechanical Engineering Professor, Aeronautics 02.06.17 RICHARD WIRZ Professor, Material Science Professor, Bio-Inspired Engineering 05.15.17 Professor, Mechanical & NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY CALTECH 04.17.17 CHRIS LYNCH Aerospace Engineering MARCO CEZE Professor University of California, Los Angeles Research Scientist Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering encourage an exchange of ideas Amazon Prime Air Univ. California, Los Angeles Photo courtesy of the Space Frontier Foundation. Credit: Marc Leatham and bring aerospace engineering and science to the forefront. >> Entire series posted at: aa.washington.edu/ChairSeminar

STAFF NEWS Eliot George Research Scientist Engineer

RETIREMENTS: Brian Leverson, NEW HIRES: We are pleased to the department’s IT architect, has retired welcome Eliot George, Research Scien- after 28 years. Brian implemented many tist Engineer, focused on engineering Pamela McGrath computing advancements and was a support for research and academics, Administrator pioneer in adopting new technologies Pamela McGrath, department admin- and IT improvements, including Web istrator, who comes to us from the UW conversions, creating student computing Bothell School of Business, and Steve labs, and providing high powered com- Scheier, senior computer specialist, who puting to students. is responsible for managing our department’s computing capabilities. Steve Scheier Senior Computer Specialist PROMOTIONS: Congratulations We are happy to have such an outstand- to Gaia Borgias Brown, who has been ing group of new staff members. promoted to the position of Associate Director, External and Industry Relations.

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DIRECT TO COLLEGE ADMISSION BEGINS 2018

The College of Engineering is taking a significant step to improve undergraduate engineering students’ educational experiences by offering Direct to College admission beginning with the entering freshman class of 2018.

This change will assure incoming fresh- admitted freshmen who continue to Space Systems Design man students who are admitted into the meet course requirements will find an (Advisers: Knowlen, Vaughan) college and their families that they will academic home in one of the university’s Large team effort focusing on design and be able to pursue an engineering degree ten engineering departments. construction of a cubesat rocket payload. at the UW. It will also allow the college This team collaborates closely with the to more fully engage these students in “Student demand for engineering extracurricular student organization an immersive engineering experience education is soaring, but with current “SARP,” which includes freshmen through from their first day on campus, while still resources, we can admit fewer than half junior undergraduates. maintaining opportunities for trans- of the well-qualified students who come fer and other UW students to pursue to UW to pursue an engineering major,” engineering degrees. Approximately said Michael Bragg, the Frank & Julie Aircraft Design 800 undergraduate students receive Jungers Dean of Engineering at the UW, (Advisers: Livne, Nelson) engineering degrees from the UW each year. “This new admission policy won’t solve Large team effort focusing on design, our capacity problem — that will require construction and flight of a scaled fixed- Following tri-campus review, the new ad- additional state investment to grow our wing aircraft from first principles. mission pathway was approved March programs. But we will be able to offer 31, 2017 by the UW Faculty Council on more transparency and certainty to in- Industry Sponsored Projects Academic Standards, which oversees coming UW freshmen about whether this (Faculty lead: Morgansen) changes to UW academic and admis- is a place where they can pursue their sions policies. passion for engineering.” • BOEING | Airplane Design & Modification for Short-Range Starting with next fall’s applicants for >> Direct to College FAQs: 5-Passenger Electric Commuter Aircraft the 2018 freshman class, the new pro- engr.washington.edu/admission cess will ensure that roughly half of the /directtocollege/faq • DAHER AEROSPACE | Process Valida- students who receive undergraduate tion and Characterization of a ‘Vacuum engineering degrees from the UW will Bag Only’ (VBO) Composites Material - have been admitted directly to the college Tests and Digital Model Comparison as freshmen. The remaining engineer- 2017 CAPSTONE PROGRAM ing degrees will be awarded to students • MICASENSE | Aerial Pointing and who transferred to the UW, primarily Stabilization System for Advanced Sensors and Testing with Unmanned from Washington community colleges, >> View Projects Aircraft Systems (MAPPS) or to students who were not admitted aa.washington.edu/students/ directly to the college but applied later as academics/capstone/2017 • MSNW | Modular Electric Propulsion UW freshmen and sophomores. Diagnostic Instrumentation Cluster The BSAAE includes an intensive senior (MEDIC Cubesat) Currently, most aspiring engineers at the capstone project providing students UW are not accepted into engineering with focused industry mentoring, in- • STELIA AEROSPACE | Robotic majors until they complete a competitive terdisciplinary teamwork, written and Solution for Aerostructure Bracket process at the end of their sophomore oral communication skills, engagement Positioning (ROCKETIN) years. This creates uncertainty among with regulatory requirements, fiscal and students about whether they will be able procurement management, social and • STUDENT FUNDED | Integration of to pursue their intended degree and ethical considerations, and market aware- Firefighting Devices with UAV career path. The Direct to College ness. The 2016-2017 Senior Capstone Deployment (SwarmFX) admission policy guarantees that projects include the following options:

4 AA.WASHINGTON.EDU 206.543.1950 RESEARCH SPOTLIGHT Laboratory for Engineered Materials & Structures (LEMS)

Impact mitigation and vibration filtering have been a longstanding subject of research in the field of aerospace and mechanical engineering, but challenges remain in Notable accomplishments of Pro- sorship of the US Air Force Office of Scientific Research, the US Office of developing highly efficient struc- fessor Yang’s team in the field of Naval Research, and the NSF among tures. For example, a significant mechanical metamaterials and oth- others. Members of LEMS work close- portion of shock absorbing struct- ers include: ly with distinguished scholars from ures relies on crushable metal, • Discovery and verification of turbu- all over the world, including Oxford which often suffers from the lack of lence-like energy cascades in solids University in the UK, CNRS in France, energy absorption performance and for efficient attenuation of impact. California Institute of Technology and also prevents it from being used more Harvard University in the US, Univer- than one time. Professor Jinkyu • Formation of rarefaction waves sity of Tokyo in Japan, and Seoul Na- Yang’s research has been motivated in solids to convert high-amplitude tional University in Korea. In recent by a fundamental question: Can we compressive waves to low- years, LEMS has produced a talented design novel engineered structures amplitude tensile waves for pool of undergraduate students, who that can absorb impact in a more impact mitigation. have been awarded NSF Fellowships, efficient and controllable manner? NASA-Space Grant Scholarships, Can we also integrate unique fea- • Design of mechanical diodes and Mary-Gates Scholarships, and AIAA tures, such as deployability, tunability, switches which enable controlling Undergraduate Research Competi- the flow of mechanical energy, and resuability, into these structures? tion Awards. similar to the operations of electronic devices. To tackle these challenges, Professor What is the ultimate vision of LEMS? Professor Yang says, “Energy flow Yang has leveraged a recent advance- • Band-gap engineering in mechanical ment of new material systems called systems for filtering a selected range control devices in electrical engineer- mechanical metamaterials. Mechani- of frequency components of vibra- ing (e.g., diodes and transistors) have cal metamaterials are an engineered tions, analogous to the working revolutionized modern industry. material system that exhibits novel principle of photonic crystals. Their mechanical counterparts are still elusive. However, the advance- mechanical properties unprecedented ment of novel material technologies, in nature, such as negative mass and • Design of non-conventional represented by acoustic/mechanical stiffness. These unique capabilities fiber-reinforced composites for achieving superior mechanical metamaterials, will enable the con- are obtained not from their chemical properties and structural health trol of mechanical energy flow in compositions, but from their sophis- monitoring capabilities. structures. This will, in turn, lead to ticated engineering architectures. the development of next-generation Professor Yang’s team has been These findings have been featured aerospace, military, and commercial recognized as one of the leading in high-impact journals, such as Na- structures with advanced impact mit- groups in the design, fabrication, ture Communications, Nature Scientific igation, noise filtering, and energy and testing of such novel mechanical Reports, and Physical Review Letters (a harvesting capabilities.” metamaterial systems. The team’s list of publications can be found on unique expertise lies in manipulating Professor Yang’s website). Professor dynamic responses (e.g., stress wave Yang is the recipient of several pres- JINKYU YANG propagation) of solids/structures tigious awards, including the Nation- in the settings of novel mechanical al Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty platforms (e.g., woodpile- and origa- CAREER Award, and the Samsung mi-based mechanical metamaterials). Think Tank Award.

Since 2013, Professor Yang has served as the director of the Labo- ratory for Engineered Materials and Structures (LEMS) in the A&A department. He supervises a group of graduate students, undergraduate interns, and postdoctoral and visit- Assistant Professor ing scholars in LEMS under the spon- aa.washington.edu/people/faculty/yang

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FACULTY RETIREMENT NEW FACULTY KEITH HOLSAPPLE OWEN WILLIAMS

The UW and Tohoku University in Japan have established an Academic Open Space partnership for innovations in aerospace, clean energy and disaster preparedness. Several A&A faculty members spoke at the joint sym- Emeritus Professor Research Assistant Professor https://www.aa.washington.edu/people/faculty/holsapple https://www.aa.washington.edu/people/faculty/williams posium on April 13, 2017, including Dean Michael Bragg, A&A Chair Professor Keith Holsapple retired in Anthony Waas, and Associate Chair June 2016, after serving the depart- for Academics, Kristi Morgansen. ment for more than 50 years. Professor Holsapple is also an alumnus of A&A, having received his bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees here, and joining the faculty soon thereafter. He also served as associate dean of the College of Engineering from 1988 – 1997. Owen Williams joined our depart- With a background in structures, en- ment in 2016 as a research assis- gineering mechanics and numerical tant professor. Professor Williams methods, his current research interests studies the effects of non-uniform are focused on hypervelocity impacts fluid properties (such as density or and material and numerical modeling, viscosity) on turbulence and the Professor Uri Shumlak’s ZaP Laboratory work he continues now. resulting impact on real world vehicles was visited by Washington State Senate and devices. These non-uniformities can staff on Aug. 26, 2016. Rachel Peterson These studies primariy apply to applica- be due to heat-transfer, compressibility from Senator Patty Murray’s office visit- tions in the planetary sciences of small or additives, with applications to ed campus to tour the UW A&A labs and bodies of the solar system. His recent the development of high-speed receive an update on current research studies include the definition of the vehicles, environmental or biomedi- relevant to the US Senate Appropriations material behavior of those bodies, and cal flows. Previous work has primarily Subcommittee on Energy and Water. models to describe those in computer focused on the examination of high- studies. He has formulated and solved speed/hypersonic turbulent flows and the problem of the equilibrium shapes, the stratified atmosphere. spins and tidal disruptions of solid asteroid bodies using the models of Professor Williams was born and educat- soil and rock mechanics, generaliz- ed in Toronto, Canada before moving to ing the well-known and classical fluid England to complete his Master’s in models of Maclaurin, Jacobi, Roche and Engineering from Imperial College, others. He has been active in the studies of London. He obtained his PhD in Mechan- mitigation methods for Earth-threatening ical and Aerospace Engineering from asteroids, has presented talks at various Princeton University, experimentally Highlighted in the December 2016 AIAA and NASA sponsored meetings and examining the effects of compressibility issue of the AIAA Aerospace America 2016 has performed code calculations of the and stratification on wall-bounded tur- Year in Review was work being done on mitigation of threatening asteroids and bulence. Before joining the University of the Rotating Detonation Engine (RDE) comets by impacts and by nuclear weapons. Washington, he was a research associate or Pressure Gain Combustor (PGC) by at the University of Maryland, computa- and Professor Holsapple also has the distinc- Professors Mitsuru Kurosaka Carl tionally examining turbulent scaling theo- and their students. Also con- tion of having an asteroid named after Knowlen ries for hypersonic turbulent flows as well tributing to the project were him: Asteroid Holsapple (Asteroid 20360)! Professors as shock boundary layer interactions. Mattick, Breidenthal and Bruckner. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

6 AA.WASHINGTON.EDU 206.543.1950 Professor Dana Dabiri and Affiliate Pro- fessor Robert Yancey were both distinguished by their notable contributions to the aerospace community and honored with the title of AIAA Associate Technical In 2016, Prof. James C. Hermanson Fellow. This is a distinction that only one was awarded a prestigious Fulbright out of 150 voting members earns through Fellowship to collaborate with the Cen- peer nomination and a rigorous selection ter of Applied Space Technology and and approval process each year. Microgravity at the University of Bre- men in Germany (ZARM). Each summer, Hermanson travels to Germany to work in concert with the Combustion Technol- ogy group headed by Christian Eigenbrod on a new DLR-funded project to study the combustion of single oxygen droplets in a Professor Kristi Morgansen (pic- hydrogen environment. tured above, lower left) presented a talk on Sensing and Actuation in The latest two papers published by Biological and Engineered Systems at Professor Antonino Ferrante (principal the UW Computer Science & Engineering investigator of the Computational Fluid Frontiers of Science and Engineering in Mechanics group) were selected by the conjunction with the UW chapters of Journal of Fluid Mechanics to receive special ACM-W and the Society of Women recognition. The 2017 paper by Michael Engineers. This January 2017 event recognized the accomplishments of some Dodd and Ferrante (JFM 2016) is titled, of the University of Washington’s out- “On the interaction of Taylor length scale The National Geographic TV special standing women scientists and engineers. size droplets and isotropic turbulence.” “Mars” shows an advanced version of a WAVAR machine to extract humidity from the air on the planet. The WAVAR, which stood for Water Vapor Adsorption Reactor, was developed by Professor Adam Bruckner and his students in the late 90’s. Today, Prof. Bruckner and his graduate student, Osa Igbinosun, are working on developing a natural WAVAR system that would work by extracting water vapor from the Martian soil and heating the soil itself with microwaves. Assistant Professor Marco Salviato Professor and Chair Anthony Waas has been named the recipient of the received the 2017 American Institute of American Society of Mechanical Engi- Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) and neering (ASME) Haythornthwaite Young the American Society for Composites Investigator Award. The prestigious (ASC), James H. Starnes, Jr. Award. This award, based on selection by the ASME award recognizes his impactful contri- Applied Mechanics Division, recogniz- butions to experimental, analytical and es excellence in theoretical and applied computational aspects of composite mechanics research for early career structural mechanics, his commitment to faculty and provides a grant to support mentoring the next generation, and his the acquisition of key research equipment. service to the field. Professor Waas also Research Professor Christopher Lum The award will support Prof. Salviato’s moderated a panel discussion on Addi- participated in a panel with Dr. Lav R. research on the development of bio- tive Manufacturing at the Washington Khot from Washington State University inspired materials and graphene nano- Aerospace Futures Alliance 11th Annual at the 2016 Unmanned Aerial Systems composites. Governor’s Aerospace Summit and spoke (UAS) Agricultural and Academic Confer- at the AIAA Spring Technical Dinner ence to discuss the latest UAS trends in discussing his work with multi-scale agriculture. The panel explored current >> UW A&A News: modeling of the deformation response of UAS technology and future opportunities composite structures. for technology adoption and employ- aa.washington.edu/news ment in the agriculture industry.

AA.WASHINGTON.EDU 206.543.1950 7 STUDENT NEWS

STUDENT SERVICE DEAN’S MEDALIST | ALEXIS HARROUN Our students are heroes! In Decem- ber, an A&A professor had a cardiac arrest. Students and others acted quick- Senior Alexis Harroun was selected as the 2017 College of ly by beginning CPR, calling 911, and Engineering Dean’s Medalist. Alexis, who is the propulsion importantly, applying an automated technical lead for the Society for Advanced Rocket Propulsion external defibrillator from one of the labs. and senior class president for the UW AIAA student chapter, is These efforts saved the professor’s life-- the first student from A&A to receive this honor. he has made a full recovery and we are all grateful to students Maggie Banks, Elliot Claveau, Eleanor Forbes, Osa NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENTS Igbinosun, Kyle Shipley, and to Profs. Golingo and Hermanson, Dr. Giovanni Sierra Adibi, (Adviser, Prof. Kristi Morgansen), Nino, and Victor Aque, all of whom did received a National Defense Science and En- everything right during this emergency. gineering Graduate Fellowship. Dillon Foight, (Adviser, Prof. Anshu Narang-Siddarth), received a National Science Foundation Fellowship. Gustavo Eidji Camarinha Fujiwara, (Adviser, Prof. Michael Bragg), has been awarded a UW Graduate School Latino/a Scholars Graduate School Fellowship. Helen Kim, (Adviser, Prof. Jinkyu Yang), received the Zonta International Amelia Earhart Fellowship. A&A students served as Earth Science Fair mentors at Bryant Elementary School. The mentors created a scientific inves- tigation and worked with a small group of 5th graders to formulate a hypothe- sis, develop appropriate experiments, analyze results, and draw/communicate conclusions. Bryant 5th grade students greatly benefited from exposure to adult mentors who are pursuing a career in the sciences. Thanks to A&A undergraduate A&A graduate student Daniel Crews’ team, Explorer, won first prize at the 2017 Hunter Mellema, and graduate students Caltech Space Challenge held March 26 – 31, 2017. Daniel was selected from an Sierra Adibi and Stephanie Camello for applicant pool of more than 800 students from universities world-wide to be one of providing inspired leadership, enthusi- 32 participants in the challenge. Students were brought together into two teams asm and expertise to these students. and given a mission problem to be solved in five days. This year’s mission was to design a plan for “Lunarport,” a launch and supply station for deep space missions. Team Explorer was selected as the winner of the challenge.

STUDENT STARTUP

Derek Sutherland, PhD candidate, who works with Professor Thomas Jarboe in the Steady Inductive Helicity Injected Students in the Autonomous Flight Torus (HIT-SI) research group, is the Systems Laboratory built a mobile CEO of a new start-up company called flight operations center to conduct field CTFusion. The company, which is a experiments related to unmanned aerial spin-off from the work done by the HIT- systems (UAS). The mobile flight oper- SI Research Group, seeks to develop a ations center is a large, enclosed trailer novel approach to spheromak fusion that supports a range of flight test ap- reactors. Alumnus Aaron Hossack (PhD plications including aerial mapping, crop 15), a post-doctoral research associate in A&A, inspection, multi-spectral imagery, visual is the company’s chief technology officer. flight navigation and wildlife preservation.

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SARP

The Society for Advanced Rocket HUSKY ROBOTICS | Story Credit: Ben Estroff Propulsion’s (SARP) 70 member student team will be competing in this summer’s UW A&A students on the Husky Robot- EXTREME RETRIEVAL AND DELIVERY: The Spaceport America Cup, the world’s larg- ics Team are competing in the Univer- rover operators are supporting operations est international intercollegiate rocket sity Rover Challenge (URC) for their fifth on the Martian surface, and must pick up, engineering competition. The team is year. This club provides opportunities carry, and deliver objects to given points divided into four groups: Structures, Avi- for students to learn leadership skills, by navigating hazards such as steep sandy onics, Recovery, & Propulsion. The UW gain hands-on experience in project slopes, sharp rock beds, sudden crevasses, SARP team plans to design, build, and management, and design integrated and signal-blocking outcroppings. This tests launch their rocket, Big Dawg, to 30,000 ft. hardware, software and program the team’s navigation skills, and the rover’s planning solutions while carrying out durability and reliability. >> UW SARP simulated space exploration missions. www.facebook.com/uwsarp The competition is hosted by The Mars EQUIPMENT SERVICING: The rover is Society, which has selected Husky Robot- required to attach a wagon to itself, towing ics as one of 36 international teams to a fuel canister to a generator and refueling DBF participate this year. it. This tests the precision and strength of the arm, and the team’s ability to do fine THE CHALLENGE: Design and build Mars control and manipulation. rovers that will one day work alongside human explorers in the field. SCIENCE CACHE: The rover is fitted with a science station designed by the team, and Previous competitions only required re- sets out into the field to take soil samples mote control rovers, but this year includes for onboard analysis and delivery to the Photo credit: Lexi Ott an autonomous navigation challenge. science team, who then use the results to Team captain Thomas Pryor and soft- create a presentation about the habitability Traveling to the middle of the Sonoran ware lead Trevor Hedges, both juniors in of Mars. Desert in Tucson, Arizona, four members the A&A department, have led the team’s of Design Build Fly (DBF) competed in development of the autonomous control The diversity of the tasks means that the AIAA’s international DBF fly-off rep- and navigation code, alongside systems working with students from other resenting the University of Washington lead Brian Lunder (CSE) and electronics departments and backgrounds is vi- with their remote-controlled aircraft. The lead Justin Almaras (EE). To speed de- tal to the success of Husky Robotics. missions and design constraints for the velpment, the team 3D printed miniature Over the past five years, the UW Husky competition change annually. This year, versions of the rover, to give the software Robotics team has grown from 8 to 76 the team was tasked with designing, team testbeds and drivable prototypes to student members and attracted students constructing, and operating a tube- work on well before the rover was ready from many backgrounds and majors, launched UAV with the ability to carry a to drive. These minirovers were funded including engineering, music, account- payload of at least three hockey pucks. in part by the A&A department, and have ing, and political science. With interest This was the 10th year that UW has been an invaluable asset to building the and membership in the team growing, been represented in this competition. software team’s expertise in autonomous mechanical systems lead Tyler Mundt From April 20th through 23rd, the team controls and navigation. and team captain Thomas Pryor cham- worked to successfully fly three different pioned substantial reforms to the team’s missions and placed highly against 95 Autonomous navigation is just one of constitution to handle decision-making, competing teams from universities four challenges of the competition. The ensure timely part production, and pro- around the world. rover also has to be able to perform the vide better communications between the following tasks: rover subsystem teams. Their combined >> UW DBF www.facebook.com/uwdbf (Story continues on p.10 )

AA.WASHINGTON.EDU 206.543.1950 9 STUDENT CLUBS & COMPETITIONS

innovation by challenging teams to design and build the best high-speed efforts helped the team build this year’s pod. Teams put their pods through a sleek new rover faster than in any previ- litany of tests, made possible through the ous year, with greater oversight to catch Hyperloop system. This competition was issues during design and production. the first of its kind anywhere in the world. (http://www.spacex.com/hyperloop) The design and planning phase lasts two quarters, with veterans doing gen- Recent A&A graduate Aditi Bhide (MS was part of the UW team selected eral design work over the summer and A&A Department students involved 16) to compete in the SpaceX sponsored finalizing designs as part of new member in the project include seniors Hunter challenge to design and fabricate a training in autumn. Fabrication starts in Mellema, principal engineer and Chayse Hyperloop pod. Last year, the UW team winter, leading to testing and debugging Aubuchon, propulsion team lead; won the Safety Subsystem Technical in the spring. The team is organized into graduate students Bijan Barzgaran, Excellence Award. This year the com- subsystems (e.g. Arm, Chassis, Electron- creating the simulations and comput- petition went global. After a week in ics, Software, and Science) with leads er models used to design and validate California, the UW Hyperloop team under an executive board providing attitude control algorithms; Mathias placed 6th overall in the world, and 4th experienced engineering and financial Hudoba de Badyn, designing attitude in the US. This new transportation model oversight. The business team handles control estimator and working to imple- could make the trip between Seattle and fundraising and publicity, and a manufac- ment code on MSP432 microcontrollers; Portland take as little as 15 minutes. turing lead ensures timely production of and Taylor Reynolds, designing BDOT the rover. Founded under the Mechanical controller and magnetorquer system for Engineering department, Husky Robotics detumbling the satellite. Also assisting >> UW Hyperloop makes extensive use of the ME machine the students is postdoctoral fellow Dr. www.facebook.com/hyperloopuw shop to manufacture the chassis, arm, Unsik Lee, designing control algorithms and science station. for actuators and orbit propagator for es- timating satellite position; and alumnus UW AIAA The URC is an increasingly competitive Krish Kaycee (BS 12, MSAA 16), an aero- event that requires talented, interdisci- space engineer at Planetary Resources, plinary teams to adapt, collaborate, and who is mentoring the attitude determina- push the boundaries of what is possible. tion and control team.

You can follow their journey on Facebook. This team is part of the NASA Space Grant program, led by Prof. Robert Winglee in >> UW Husky Robotics UW Earth & Space Sciences. The team has www.facebook.com/uwrobots also received funding from JCATI in part- The UW chapter of the AIAA provides nership with Eagle Harbor Technologies leadership, mentorship and networking and Aerojet Rocketdyne. opportunities to UW students in Aero- nautics & Astronautics. This past year’s UW CUBESAT TEAM >> UW CubeSat Team activities included a “Night With Indus- www.facebook.com/uwcubesat try” with corporate participation from B/E Aerospace, Blue Origin, Boeing, Greenpoint Technologies, and Systima UW HYPERLOOP Technologies. Representatives from these companies offered valuable advice about the engineering profession and suggested strategies for future employment.

In turn, the AIAA student chapter serves as an ambassador team, inspiring the The UW CubeSat Team is creating the next generation of engineers. This year first student-built small satellite in Wash- they attended Highland Terrace Elemen- ington State. The UW team, along with tary School Science Night where they en- a team from Washington State Uni- couraged young enthusiasts to pursue versity, was selected by NASA to build In January 2017, SpaceX offered its future studies in the field of aerospace the tiny ‘CubeSats.” The UW’s Cubesat, Hyperloop transportation services to engineering. nicknamed DubSat1, which measures 10 27 teams from around the world in the cm by 10 cm by 30 cm, is scheduled to first Hyperloop Pod Competition at the Throughout the year, the UW AIAA launch into low-Earth orbit in 2018, and SpaceX track. The competition’s goal further supports networking connections will send data and photos back to Earth is to accelerate the development of by coordinating industry tours for stu- for three to four months. functional prototypes and encourage dents throughout the department.

10 AA.WASHINGTON.EDU 206.543.1950 INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHT | BLUE ORIGIN

Congratulations to our student award Professors Behçet Açıkmeşe and winners at the 2017 AIAA Region VI Kristi Morgansen specialize in the area of Student Conference March 17 -19 in San Guidance, Navigation & Control (GN&C). The Jose, California! As they did in 2016, this mathematical methods they develop tell year’s graduate students made a clean an autonomous vehicle how to plan sweep in the Master’s Research category: where to go (guidance), how to figure out where it is (navigation), and where it needs to maneuver itself to follow the 1st Place – Balakumaran Gopalarethinam plan that was built (control). This past year, (Prof. JK Yang, adviser; Hiromi Yasuda, both faculty members established reward- mentor) ing collaborations with local aerospace company, Blue Origin, manufacturer 2nd Place – Eric Wheeler (Prof. Carl of the New Shephard reusable launch Knowlen, Prof. Mitsuru Kurosaka, advisers) system and the New Glenn orbital rocket.

3rd Place (tie) – Trever Byrd (Prof. Carl Space launch systems are inherently Knowlen, adviser) and Wei-Siang Lay (Dr. complex to engineer and can be further Roger Raman, adviser) complicated by variables like atmospheric conditions, material property interac- Our students also took the top two prizes tions, and stresses on the system during in the Undergraduate Research category: re-entry. Blue Origin has pioneered bold advances in vertical-takeoff, vertical- 1st Place – Greg Derk and Angela Kimber landing (VTVL) technology and embraced (Prof. Carl Knowlen, adviser) the technical challenges that come with this approach by recruiting brilliant engineers 2nd Place - Chayanat Wanitthananon and partnering with experts in the field. (Prof. JK Yang, adviser; Seunghyun Ko, mentor) Previously at JPL, Prof. Açıkmeşe worked on real-time optimization-based control problems that helped land a rover on Mars. >> AIAA Upon realization that this theory could also www.pnwaiaa.org be useful in rocket landing applications, Prof. Açıkmeşe transitioned to a role in academia where he began developing techniques that ensure rocket landings are JCATI AWARDS 2016 repeatable, safe, and robust.

Prof. Açıkmeşe came to UW in 2016 and PI: Antonio Ferrante “Direct Numerical brought a team of students with him. Açıkmeşe’s student, Michael Szmuk, is now on Simulation of an Aft-Body Flow” his 4th internship at Blue Origin. This sort of long-term partnership enables deep-dive Partner: The Boeing Company learning that might not otherwise exist within the bounds of a standard curriculum.

PI: Carl Knowlen, CO-PI: Adam Bruckner Back on campus, Professor Kristi Morgansen is thinking about ways her six-month “A High Pressure Baffled-Tube Ram sabbatical at Blue Origin might support new curriculum within the department. In Accelerator” Partners: HyperSciences, Inc., complex aerospace systems, future engineers will encounter increasing levels of Systima Technologies, Inc. vehicle autonomy, data dependence, and design capabilities enabled by computational modeling tools and advanced manufacturing technologies. Professor Morgansen worked closely with the GN&C team responsible for developing mathematical control PI: Kristi Morgansen “Modeling and methods for the New Glenn orbital rocket. In order to apply their methods to the Control of a Shape Actuated Quadrotor” full complexity of the system, they use a combination of experimental and simula- Partner: Robodub tion data. In space applications, the desired data is not always available, so the engineering team compensates by running the model with large ranges of perturba- PI: Sumit Roy, CO-PI: Christopher Lum tions and disturbances. Their goal? Improve the simulation to more accurately assess “Advancing State-of-the-Art UAS Networking potential landing enviroments with a lower volume of data. and Communication with Software Defined Radios” Partner: Insitu Professor Morgansen noted that many of the most transformative technology advances occur when cross-disciplinary integration is supported. By grouping specialists PI: JK Yang, CO-PI: Anthony Waas from different disciplines, engineering teams are able to apply creativity and problem “Development of High Performance Ductile solving earlier in the process, often resulting in a better solution in the long run. As Composites Base on Hybrid C-ply Associate Chair for Academics, Prof. Morgansen is championing the adoption of Technology” Partners: Think Composites, this approach in several areas of the academic experience here at UW. Toray Composites America, Chomarat These Blue Origin collaborations have provided our department with a rare and valuable opportunity to contribute to the next generation of vehicles launching to space — and we >> JCATI | www.jcati.org will be cheering their arrival each time they safely return to earth again.

Story photo credit: Blue Origin Origin AA.WASHINGTON.EDU 206.543.1950 11 ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT

DIAMOND AWARD RECIPIENT 2017 DISTINGUISHED ALUMNUS 2016 SUZANNA DARCY-HENNEMANN (BS 81) DR. LELAND NICOLAI (BS 57)

As a record-breaking chief pilot, di- Dr. Leland Nicolai, renowned educa- rector of flight training and designat- tor, author, and aircraft designer, was ed captain of multiple jets, Suzanna selected as the department’s 2016 Dis- Darcy-Hennemann’s career at The tinguished Alumnus. Boeing Company is significant by any measure. As the first woman to serve Dr. Nicolai has spent more than five as a Boeing test pilot and first female decades in service to his country as an captain of the 747-400 and 777, she is educator, author and aircraft designer. a pioneer and role model for women in He spent 23 years in the US Air Force aerospace and for anyone who aspires to as an R&D officer and aircraft design- break barriers and achieve their dreams. er (retiring as a Colonel in 1982) and 34 years in the aerospace industry as Darcy-Hennemann joined Boeing in 1974 as an engineer, and an aircraft designer/developer (retiring as a Lockheed Martin later their frst female test pilot, performing feats that included Fellow). For more than 25 years as an educator, Nicolai con- stalling a jet at 30,000 feet and pulling out of a nosedive close ducted aircraft design courses as part of the Lockheed Martin to the speed of sound. Her work was vital for tracking perfor- Aeronautics Technical Institute. More than 2,000 practicing mance in airline service as well as emergency situations. Dar- engineers went through these programs. Dr. Nicolai has visited cy-Hennemann was named the first female captain on the 747- more than 20 schools in the last three decades for lectures, 400, and was also rated to captain the 737, 757 and 767. She design reviews, seminars, and speeches (including the AIAA went on to become the chief training pilot and head of flight student chapters, and A&A banquets and graduation). In addi- training operations, and was an integral member of the 777 tion, he has written four textbooks on aircraft design. program from conception to certification. In 2005, as chief pilot and project leader, she led the team that set a world record for While deployed to The Defense Advanced Research Projects distance traveled nonstop by a passenger plane by flying from Agency in 1977, Nicolai designed and developed a low signa- Hong Kong to London in just over 22 hours — a record that still ture, nuclear tipped, air-launched cruise missile called the Ad- holds to this day. In 2008, Darcy-Hennemann was named chief vanced Cruise Missile (ACM). The full-scale design was devel- pilot of Boeing Commercial Airplane Services. oped by Convair, San Diego. The ACM program was transferred to the Air Force in 1982 as the AGM-129A. Convair produced A leader in the global aerospace community, Darcy- 460 ACMs and none were ever launched in anger. Hennemann is a member of the Royal Aeronautical Society, the International Organization of Women Pilots and Women In addition to receiving his bachelor’s degree from UW A&A, in Aviation International. She was inducted in the Women in Dr. Nicolai received a Master’s Degree in Aerospace Engineer- Aviation’s International Pioneer Hall of Fame, and received ing from the University of Oklahoma in 1962, a PhD in Aero- their Outstanding Aviator Award. Other honors include the space Enginering from the University of Michigan in 1968, and Museum of Flight Pathfinder Award and the Wings Club Award an MBA from Auburn University in 1976. His military education for Outstanding Aviator. She received the UW College of Engi- consists of Squadron Officer School, Command and Staff Col- neering Diamond Award in May 2017. lege and Air War College.

Life on Mars? Story by Chelsea Yates

in a HI-SEAS Mars simulation mission in didates who meet the requirements of Hawaii, living in an isolated dome on the NASA’s Astronaut Program. For eight slopes of Mauna Loa on Hawaii’s Big Is- months, the team will live and work in a land, where the geology mimics that of 36-foot-wide geodesic dome, which in- Mars. She is participating in a NASA-fund- cludes a kitchen, laboratory, bathrooms, ed Mars simulation mission, known as sleeping quarters, simulated airlock and the Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and work areas. The crew only leave their Simulation project (HI-SEAS). Managed habitat when exploring the terrain in sim- by the University of Hawaii at Manoa, HI- ulation spacesuits. Crewmembers com- SEAS is designed to simulate an actual municate via Mission Support, though Red Planet exploration mission. communication is delayed 20 minutes A&A alumna Ansley Barnard (BS 12) is one each way, as would be experienced on of six volunteers currently participating Ansley was selected from a pool of can- Mars when it is furthest from Earth. (Story continues on p.13) 12 AA.WASHINGTON.EDU 206.543.1950 Ansley is the mission’s engineering officer multuous time. His book is available on staff consultant at Ball Aerospace, was in charge of optimizing power consump- Amazon. named Associate Fellow of the AIAA. tion, habitat systems and maintenance. This involves data collection and analysis Dave Plassman (BS 76) reached out to Dennis Muilenburg (MS 90), chairman, through their habitat sensor network and Professor Keith Holsapple after many president and CEO of Boeing, was the managing maintenance schedules. She is years. He has been a social worker in 2017 undergraduate commencement also responsible for monitoring power Moses Lake, which, he says, shows you speaker at Iowa State University, where usage and the weather forecast. When that a good background in engineering he received his BS in Aerospace Engineer- asked how her studies in A&A prepared will take you pretty much anywhere! He ing. Muilenburg received an honorary her for this mission, Ansley said, “Most of still works on engineering related projects, Doctor of Science degree for outstanding the work I’m doing at HI-SEAS is based on including a 3-D drawing program for blind contributions to the advancement of sci- the same engineering principles taught people, such as himself, and anyone else ence and technology, particularly in the in undergraduate courses. For my senior unable to use a mouse. field of aerospace engineering. capstone project, I investigated an archi- tecture to mine resources on the moon. I Tim Cacanindin (BS 84, MS 95), depu- Rich Johnson (BS 91, MS 94) is function- learned about trade studies and how to ty director, Flight Systems Integration, al chief engineer for Boeing Commercial prioritize options in a complex system. 773rd Test Squadron of the US Air Force Airplanes, leading a 120 person team I developed teamwork skills; we had to Test Center, took time out from his va- supporting Landing Gear, Door, and Win- work together on a complicated problem cation to visit the department recently, dow Engineering cradle-to-grave on all for many months. This is exactly what my hoping to find a few good students to join BCA models and new airplane projects. crew and I are doing now.” And asked their team! what she most looks forward to when the Robert Hoyt’s (MS 92, PhD 94) Tethers mission ends, she responds, “I can’t think Gordon Gee (BS 84) is a mass properties Unlimited has secured a contract to pre- much further than how nice it will feel lead engineer for The Boeing Company, pare an Earth orbit test of its technology to go swimming or walk barefoot over and is an FAA Authorized representative. for robotic, in-space manufacturing of grass. And to eat a fresh avocado!” satellite components. Alek Komarnitsky (BS 84) continues to travel to exotic places. Last year, Alek BlackSky, a company owned by Jason went on a trip to the South Georgia and Andrews (BS 94), which is a service of Falkland Islands where he saw amazing Spaceflight Industries, has launched its scenery, including hundreds of thou- first satellite in a planned 60 satellite con- sands of penguins! Alek has posted a vid- stellation designed to allow anyone to eo compilation of photos from the trip: order low-cost, custom satellite photos. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5siX- AtCMrJc Nujoud Merancy (BS 01) is the Orion Mission planning & analysis lead at NASA. Timothy Nelson (BS 85, MS 89), associate technical fellow at The Boeing Com- Tony Antonelli (MS 02), retired NASA >> Mars Mission Blog pany, published Jet City Rewind: Aviation astronaut, now works as chief technolo- www.hi-seas.org History of Seattle and the Pacific Northwest gist for exploration systems at Lockheed (available on Amazon). The book gives Martin where his team is working on a ALUMNI UPDATES fascinating details about the develop- proposal to pre-position key pieces of an ment of flight in the Northwest, covering outpost in orbit around Mars, and launch the role of the UW and the Boeing Com- the remaining elements and a crew of six pany, along with wonderful historical there by 2028. Luke Shindo (BS 57), who retired as a photos. UWAL staff member in 1993, recently Steven Nielson (BS 04) has been active touched base to let us know about his Adnan Eroglu (MS 86, PhD 91) is princi- in politics since high school. His aim is second retirement as an engineering pal senior key expert for gas turbines at space advocacy and the advancement advisor for Kawada Industries Co. Ltd. Siemens Power Generation, Switzerland. of technologies. Steve was the 2016 Lib- in their low speed wind tunnel in Utsu- Adnan received the Asea Brown Bovery ertarian candidate for Washington State nomiya, Japan. Luke came full circle, Technology Achievement Award in 1993, Public Lands Commissioner. moving back to Kobe, Japan, where he the ASME IGTI Best Paper Award in 1996, embarked in 1952 to begin his college the ASME Gas Turbine Award in 1998, Sanjoy Som (MS 04) co-wrote an article career! and the Alstom Green Innovation Award, published in Nature Geoscience describing 2015. the results of an analysis of trapped air Dennis Ingebretsen (BS 65) was a top bubbles found inside a 2.7 billion year old graduate of the USAF Navigator & Elec- Scott Martin (BS 86, MS 93), who re- lava flow at the Beasley River in Western tronic Warfare Schools and is the owner ceived his PhD in Mechanical Engineering Australia. Sanjoy, who received his PhD in and aeronautical consultant at Practical at UW, is a senior scientist at Embry-Rid- Astrobiology at the UW in 2010, is found- Analytics, Inc. dle Aeronautical University. He also held er and research scientist/director of the a Post Doctoral Fellowship at the Center non-profit research institute Blue Marble Capt. Dean Weber (BS 71), retired pilot, for Turbulence Research at Stanford Uni- Space Instute of Science. American Airlines, has published a book: versity. 9/11 An Airline Pilot’s Perspective, about Aleem Wali (MS 07) is now regional di- his experience as a pilot during that tu- Chris McLean (BS 89, MS 91) who is a rector for Airline Economic Analysis, Sales (Continued on p.14) AA.WASHINGTON.EDU 206.543.1950 13 Undergraduate Student Support to help A&A undergraduates from economically and educationally disadvantaged backgrounds who are also the first in their families to attend college. When asked what prompted him to establish this fund, Emilio said, “I grew up in a small ALUMNI UPDATES (CONT.) town in Washington, and — to be honest — going to college felt like a long shot. I didn’t know anybody aside from teachers at the time who’d even been to a four- Thank you to all who attended the year school, let alone for engineering, Support for the Middle East, Africa and Alumni & Friends Luncheon. South America at Boeing. Aleem received so in a lot of ways the idea of going to We hope that those of you who college felt like trying to get to the moon. I his MBA at the UW Foster School of were unable to make it last year Business last year. was fortunate in that, once I set my sights will join us this year! on applying to college, a lot of people helped me prepare.” Eduardo Gonzalez-Vega (BS 08, MS In the meantime, stay in touch. We 11) is a CFD consultant with Analytical welcome your involvement as Methods, Inc. Emilio was admitted to the UW and mentors, guest lecturers, student received some scholarships, which, he sponsors, and industry ambassadors. Matt Bonna (BS 14) is product manager says, was a big help. “My mom raised in Manufacturing Engineering at Boeing. me on her own; she didn’t have a lot of money, so having financial support to Seah Ung (BS 15) is a stress engineer at attend school had a big impact on me. So Boeing, and a private pilot. did programs like MSEP, UW’s Minority Scholars Engineering Program, through Nat Guy (MS 16), who is lead user in- which I met mentors and advisors who terface developer in the Human Inter- helped me carve out a place for myself at faces Group at the NASA Jet Propulsion the UW.” He notes that there were more Laboratory, made a presentation to our people in his first math class at the UW students last October about the ways JPL than there were in his hometown! is using immersive, virtual and augment- ed reality technologies to support ongo- “Now I’m in a position where I can give ing missions to Mars and Europa. back, and that’s what I want to do,” says Emilio. He wants to help students the way Mia Lee (BS 16) received the first place others helped him. Asked to offer ad- award in the undergraduate category at vice to today’s engineering students, he the 2016 AIAA Region VI Student Con- says, “It might not seem like it at first, but ference. As an award winner, Mia was Paying it Forward there are so many great resources avail- invited to participate in this year’s AIAA Story by Chelsea Yates able for students if you seek them out. SciTech international student compe- Connecting with academic advisors, MSEP tition and she again won first place, tri- When Emilio Beltran (BS 99) was grow- mentors, even students through the umphing over all of the other regional ing up, college seemed like a foreign various clubs, teams and organizations conference winners. concept. But, thanks to an inspiration- can make the UW feel less overwhelming al grandfather who introduced him to and more accessible. And above all, don’t model airplanes and ideas of space be afraid to try new things; after all, you’re travel, Beltran set his sights on studying in college! It’s a great time to step out of ALUMNI AND FRIENDS rocket science. With the support of teach- your comfort zone and discover new things ers and family members, he applied — about yourself.” LUNCHEON and was accepted — to the UW. We are grateful for the generosity of In October 2016, the department held At first, Emilio felt like an outsider on Emilio and Neely, its first Annual Alumni and Friends campus. But he soon discovered diversity who are ‘paying it Luncheon. A&A faculty and staff were programs, started to build relationships forward’ to encour- joined by more than 100 of our alumni, with advisers and professors who would age future engi- industry partners and friends. Melissa soon become mentors, dove into his neers to start their Wuerl (BS 03), director of business devel- coursework in Aeronautics & Astronau- academic careers. opment at Spaceflight Industries, was the tics and began to cultivate a community keynote speaker. It was an opportunity of friends. for alumni to connect with one anoth- >> Support this Fund er, with their former professors, and for Emilio credits the support network he aa.washington.edu/giving everyone to celebrate the department’s established as a student with his success Beltran Endowed Fund successes. Pioneering engineer Luella at the UW, and he’s committed to paying for Undergraduate Student Support Armstrong (BS 51) was also recognized for it forward. In 2013 he and his wife Neely her contibutions to the aerospace industry. created the Beltran Endowed Fund for

14 AA.WASHINGTON.EDU 206.543.1950 IN MEMORIAM

JOSEPH F. SUTTER KUEN Y. LIN 1921 – 2016 1946 – 2017

Just as the 747 is iconic, so is one of UW Engineering’s most We mourn the passing of Professor Kuen Y. Lin. Professor Lin accomplished and beloved alumni, Joe Sutter (BS 43), “Father served on the A&A faculty for 33 years as a dedicated profes- of the 747.” His passing leaves a void in the hearts of many. sor, mentor and colleague. After receiving his bachelor’s degree from National Taiwan University and master’s and doctor- Joe’s career began at Boeing as an aerodynamicist and he quick- al degrees in Aeronautics and Astronautics from MIT, Professor ly moved on to prominent roles on design teams for the 707, Lin spent six years in industry, working for Deere & Co. and The 727, and 737—planes that established Boeing as a world lead- Boeing Company. Professor Lin was an expert in the areas of er in commercial aviation. Joe invented the concept of “wide composite materials, finite element methods, and fracture me- body” aircraft. The 747 series of airplanes continue to carry chanics, and co-creator of the Mar-Lin Fracture Model, which is much of the world’s cargo and passengers, and Boeing contin- used by the aerospace industry for the damage tolerant design ues to build upon the outstanding earliest design of the 747. As of composite aircraft structures. He also developed a singu- executive vice president of Commercial Aircraft, Joe was “chief” lar hybrid finite element method for the accurate analysis of engineer to thousands of Boeing engineers, and his mentorship bi-material fracture problems. His recent research had direct set the stage for future success. applications to the critical technologies needed in developing the next generation of aerospace vehicles. Many prestigious honors have been awarded to Joe, including the National Medal of Technology, UW’s Alumnus Summa In addition to teaching structures and composites classes to Laude Dignatus Award, and designation as a fellow in the NAE, hundreds of our students, Professor Lin was a co-founder and the AIAA and the RAS. In his retirement, Joe continued as a co-director of the UW FAA Center of Excellence for Advanced consultant and advocate for Boeing commercial aircraft. He re- Materials in Transport Aircraft Structures. He also developed mained a champion for our department as well. the UW-Boeing Certificate Program in Aircraft Composite Struc- tural Analysis and Design, and in 2014, he was awarded the UW To honor Joe, a fund was established to support undergradu- Distinguished Contributions to Lifelong Learning Award. More ate scholarships, senior design projects, and K-12 engineering recently, Professor Lin co-developed an online course on com- outreach in the William E. Boeing Department of Aeronautics and posite materials with Boeing, UWEO and edX, which enrolled Astronautics. more than 12,500 students from 154 countries. >> Support this Fund Professor Lin’s contributions in industry and academia were aa.washington.edu/giving many and will leave a lasting legacy. He greatly enriched the lives of his students and colleagues, and will be missed but The Joseph F. Sutter Endowed Education Fund always remembered by all whose lives he touched.

ANITA Boulder in 1996, Anita took a position with named by UW as “One of the top 40 emerg- NASA, where she continued her advocacy ing leaders from underrepresented com- ABREGO work, chairing the Native American Adviso- munities to watch.” 1970 - 2016 ry Committee for the NASA-Ames campus. She served as a mentor and role model to More important than her professional young women pursuing engineering and accolades, however, was Anita’s character. the sciences. She was an incredibly generous person with both her time and her spirit. To hon- Anita was a highly-recognized and award- or her memory, two of Anita’s classmates, It is with much sadness that we share the ed research scientist in the field of rotor Bill Fishburn and Juan Carlos Varela, have loss of alumna Anita Abrego (BS 94). Anita blade dynamics. She managed wind tunnel started a memorial student endowment graduated from UW A&A in 1994, though test programs for NASA, for the US Army, fund at the University of Washington for she was a member of the class of 1993. and for the US Navy. She was recognized women pursuing engineering degrees, A strong advocate for underrepresented multiple times during more than 25 years especially those of Native American and/or populations, Anita was active at the UW in in her career at NASA, including the NASA Latina descent. Please consider making a the Society of Hispanic Professional Engi- Equal Employment Opportunity Med- donation in Anita’s memory. neers and in the American Indian Science al. In 2005 she was recognized by Science and Engineering Society. After receiving Spectrum Magazine as the Top Minority in >> Support this Fund her MS from the University of Colorado Science winner. In Spring 2009, Anita was aa.washington.edu/giving Anita Abrego Endowed Student Support Fund

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THE JORDAN EDUCATION TRUST GEDA AND PHIL CONDIT ENDOWED FELLOWSHIP

Geda Condit (BS 77) and Phil Condit, retired President and Geda Condit was born in Jordan and moved to the United CEO of Boeing, generously established The Jordan Education States at age 15. Upon graduation from UW A&A, she accepted Trust - Geda and Phil Condit Endowed Fellowship to support a a position at The Boeing Company, working on a number meritorious student who has graduated from high school or of programs including the 777, New Large Airplane, and Composites Joint Venture with China. Upon retirement, Geda university in Jordan, and who has expressed an intent to teach and her husband, Philip Condit started JET in recognition of in Jordan. her heritage and their joint passion for aviation and education. The department is honored to partner with the Condits on this The Jordan Education Trust (JET) was formed by the Condits for collaborative endeavor. the purpose of building bridges between Jordan and the United States through education. JET has helped to train teachers from >> Support this Fellowship both Jordan and the United States through an exchange program aa.washington.edu/giving in which teachers from both countries study together. Geda and Phil Condit Endowed Fellowship