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Four New Faculty Join AE Ormsbee Professorship Endowed Online MS Newsletter of the Department of Aerospace Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Vol. 17 • 2015 Upholding AE’s Tradition of Teaching Excellence PAGE 18 Four New Faculty Join AE PAGE 4 Ormsbee Professorship Endowed PAGE 14 Online MS Program Debuts PAGE 15 Inside Welcome to the 2015 Edition of the Alumni Newsletter of Faculty News Aerospace Engineering at AE Gains Four New Faculty ....................................4 Selig and Chung Earn Promotions ...............................7 Illinois Bodony Named Willett Faculty Scholar ...........................7 In last year’s newsletter, I started my introductory Bringing Aerodynamics Research to Life, Elliott Builds on Illinois’ Tradition . 8 words by reporting with great excitement that four Friend, Colleague Recalls Professor Sivier .........................9 Mission Possible: This Device Will Self-Destruct When Heated .........10 new faculty members were going to join the Depart- Chung Co-leading $1.5 Million Development of Robot Bats for ment during the 2014-15 academic year. This was Construction Site Monitoring ...............................10 the culmination of a remarkable recruitment effort Ansell Wins Young Investigator Award for Work on Dynamic Stall that our Department had never experienced in the Unsteady Flow ..........................................11 twenty or so years that I have been in AE@Illinois. AE Scientists Examine Deflecting, Exploring Asteroids ...............12 Well, I am absolutely delighted to report once again Panesi earns NASA Early Career Faculty Award for Modeling of that four more faculty members will join AE during Mars Entry .............................................13 the 2015-16 academic year to help the Department Chasiotis, Ansell and Gerhold Recognized for Advising ..............13 with its teaching and research missions in the areas of Department News space exploration and technology, aeroelasticity, big data, topology optimization and additive manufactur- Liebeck Endows Ormsbee Professorship .........................14 ing. The profiles of these four highly talented new AE Celebrates 70th Anniversary, Harry Hilton .....................14 faculty members, Dr. Maciej Balajewicz, Dr. Koki Ho, AE’s Online Master’s Degree Has Successful Start ..................15 Dr. Kai James, and Dr. Zachary Putnam, can be found NASA chief technologist delivers Stillwell Lecture ..................16 on pp. 4–6. Rolls-Royce Model 250, J35 Engines and Propeller Blades Add to AE Display .............................................16 This substantial increase (by more than 40 percent!) in Students Gain Hands-On Learning from High-Altitude Balloon Course ..17 the size of our faculty over the past two years reflects the drastic corresponding increase in our undergradu- Teaching Excellence ate enrollment, which, for the first time in decades, AE Upholds Tradition of Teaching Excellence ......................18 now exceeds 500 students. As reflected by the test scores of the entering freshmen class (the average Student News Five Years Running, AE Team Is AIAA Space Design Champ ...........24 Student Competitions .......................................25 ISS Team Competes in Designing Tool for Use in Asteroid Exploration ...25 AE Undergrads Gain Rocketry, Robotics Knowledge from NASA Launch Challenge .......................................25 Writers Liz Ahlberg, Physical Sciences Editor, University of Illinois News IRIS Team Takes First for Mining Competition Paper .................26 Bureau Student Startups ...........................................28 Katie Carr, Communications Coordinator, Coordinated Science Student Awards: Congratulations AE Students!. 29 Laboratory Daniel Dexter, Electrical and Computer Engineering at Illinois Alumni News Mike Koon, College of Engineering at Illinois Communications Office Jensen Elected to AIAA Board of Directors. 33 Susan Mumm, Aerospace Engineering Media Specialist Welcome to AE’s Newest Alumni ..............................33 AE Honors Alumni Raymond, Hoch and Shaw .....................34 Photographers/Graphics Prof. Vicki Coverstone, High-altitude Balloon Class AE Alumni Share in New Horizons’ Success .......................35 Laura Gerhold, AE Academic Advisor & Coordinator of Muellner Elected to National Academy of Engineering ..............36 Undergraduate Program Bragg Honored with College Alumni Award ......................37 Assistant Prof. Koki Ho and Takuto Ishimatsu Big Ten Honors Hopkins .....................................38 Illinois Robotics in Space Letter from AE Alumni Board President ..........................38 Intelligent Space Systems Laboratory, the University of Tokyo Susan Mumm, AE Media Specialist Class Notes ...............................................39 National Aeronautics and Space Administration James W. Phillips, Emeritus Professor, Department of Mechanical Thanks to Our Donors Sciences & Engineering Why I Give… .............................................42 L. Brian Stauffer, UI News Bureau Support Your Alma Mater ....................................43 Thompson-McClellan Photographers Designer Gretchen Wieshuber, Studio 2D 2 Department of Aerospace Engineering ACT score now approaches 32.5/36), and especially by the Department of Aerospace Engineering accomplishments of these students in class and in extra-curricular Ki D. Lee activities, this rapid increase in Faculty Phillip J. Ansell John E. Prussing undergraduate enrollment (from Wayne C. Solomon about 350 two years ago to about Maciej Balajewicz Lawrence A. Bergman Shee Mang Yen 510 this fall) has not come at Daniel J. Bodony the detriment of quality. To the Timothy W. Bretl Affiliate/Adjunct contrary! I encourage you to read about some of their Ioannis Chasiotis Faculty truly remarkable accomplishments in this newsletter. Huck Beng Chew Joseph Bentsman Delivering innovative and quality instruction has long Soon-Jo Chung Kenneth A. Christensen Victoria L. Coverstone Naira Hovakimyan been a key emphasis of the AE education mission. J. Craig Dutton Tonghun Lee The main cover story on pp. 18–23 of this newsletter Gregory S. Elliott Eric Loth is dedicated to some of the recent educational initia- Jonathan B. Freund Arif Masud tives in the creation of new hands-on courses and the Grace X. Gao D. Michael McFarland introduction of novel delivery techniques. Philippe H. Geubelle George H. Miley Koki Ho James W. Phillips The other cover stories of this newsletter include Kai James Srinivasa M. Salapaka an update on the on-line AE MS program that was John Lambros Nancy R. Sottos started about a year ago (p. 15) with emphasis on Cedric Langbort Alexander F. Vakakis both flexibility and quality, and on the creation this Vincent Le Chenadec fall of the first departmental professorship created in Deborah A. Levin Staff honor of Professor Al Ormsbee by one of his former N. Sri Namachchivaya Lee A. Booher PhD students, Dr. R. Liebeck (p. 14). Marco Panesi Timothy A. Cochrane Zachary R. Putnam David E. Farrow I encourage you to learn in this newsletter about Taraneh Sayadi Laura A. Gerhold these and other stories on the accomplishments of Michael S. Selig Diane E. Jeffers AE faculty, students and alumni. I also encourage you Petros G. Voulgaris Kendra Lindsey to check regularly the Department’s website, www. Scott R. White Stephen S. Mathine aerospace.illinois.edu, where we post many more Staci L. McDannel stories that cannot fit in this publication. And, as Lecturers Gregory S. Milner always, I look forward to your comments. Steven J. D’Urso Susan K. Mumm Gail C. Jonkouski Irene Sakellarakis Philippe H. Geubelle Brian S. Woodard Ann Marie Zettervall Bliss Professor and Head Emeritus Faculty Shared Services Michael B. Bragg Tessa M. Hile John D. Buckmaster Lori Ann Ballinger-Pankau Rodney L. Burton Leslie L. Reinhart Bruce A. Conway Lori A. Rairden Willoughby Harry H. Hilton Teachers Ranked Excellent by Their Students Spring 2015 Timothy W. Bretl Timothy W. Bretl Sparsh A. Chadha On the cover: This photo taken of Earth and the Steven J. D’Urso Vishal Chikkerur edge of space resulted from a Spring 2015 student J. Craig Dutton Steven J. D’Urso project in AE Prof. Victoria Coverstone’s high Grace Gao J. Craig Dutton altitude balloon course. Alexander R. Ghosh Gregory S. Elliott John Lambros Giovanni Fiore Brian S. Woodard Alexander R. Ghosh David J. Hanley Fall 2014 J. Puig Navarro Gavin K. Ananda Brian S. Woodard Daniel J. Bodony Hoong Chieh Yeong 2015 Newsletter 3 Faculty News AE Gains Four New Faculty Data Drives Balajewicz’s physical system that is governed by partial differential equations.” Simulations He believes his research in data reduction will be More and more, scientists use simulations to model beneficial in collaborations with many of AE’s faculty, physical systems. Often, they model smaller and including Larry Bergman, Harry Hilton, Marco Panesi, smaller pieces of the system, resulting in billions of Dan Bodony and Phil Ansell. Using Ansell’s experimen- equations and a plethora of data. tal work in dynamic stall as an illustration, Balajewicz Balajewicz said, “In experiments, you collect a lot of data, and “That’s fine if you’re interested in something very you have to get something out of it. Model reduction specific,” believes Maciej Balajewicz, new AE assistant can provide a smaller, simpler kind of model, and tell professor. “The problem is, for a lot of applications, other things like ‘What are the coherent structures you don’t know exactly what configuration you want that live in the flow?’ ‘What are the
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