Congratulations to the 2019 Research Symposium Series Winners

Left to Right: Prof. Wayne Chen, Akshay Jacob Thomas, Rohan Deshmukh, Kevin Sheridan, Jennifer Pouplin, Paul Witsberger, Prof. Tom Shih.

  • Best Presentation - Rohan Deshmukh, “Formulation of a Modular Aerocapture Guidance Architecture”
  • Second Place Presentation - Akshay Jacob Thomas, “Damage detection via electrical impedance tomography in filament wound glass fiber/epoxy composite tube with carbon black filler”
  • Third Place Presentation - Jennifer Pouplin, “Integrating the Orbital and Physical Properties of Phobos and Deimos in their Origin from an Impact-Generated Debris Disk”
  • Best Abstract - Paul Witsberger, “An Evolutionary Neurocontroller Approach to Missed Thrust Trajectory Design”
  • Best Undergraduate Presentation - Kevin Sheridan, “A Quasi-Direct Approach to Visual-Inertial Odometry”

A plaque commemorating the best presentation of each year is on display on the 3rd floor of Armstrong Hall. Previous winners are: 

  • Ashwati Das
    Rapid Trajectory Design in Complex Environments via Machine Learning Strategies (2017-2018)
  • Prashanth Bangalore Venkatesh
  • Deflagration-to-Detonation Transition and Flame Acceleration in Nitrous Oxide-Ethylene Mixtures (2016-2017)
  • Heather Weist
    The Effect of Fuel Heating on the Penetration of a Liquid Jet in Crossflow (2015-2016)
  • William O'Neill
    Heat and Mass Transfer Analysis of a Film Evaporative MEMS Tuneable Array Thruster (2014-2015)
  • Christopher Ward
    Crossflow Instability and Transition in a Mach-6 Quiet Tunnel (2013-2014)
  • Nithya Subramanian
    Parallel Genetic Algorithm with Population-Based Sampling Approach to Discrete Optimization Under Uncertainty (2012-2013)
  • Mar Vaquero
    Design of Transfer Trajectories Between Resonant Orbits in the Restricted Three-Body Problem (2011-2012)
  • Cody Short
    Lagrangian Coherent Structures in the Restricted Three-Body Problem (2010-2011)
  • Katya Casper
    Hypersonic Wind-Tunnel Measurements of Boundary-Layer Pressure Fluctuations (2009-2010)
  • Joseph Gangestad
    The Dynamics of Lorentz Spacecraft with Application to a Mission to Enceladus (2008-2009)
  • Lindsay Millard
    Control of Spacecraft Imaging Arrays in Multi-Body Regimes (2007-2008)
  • Matthew Churchfield
    Numerical Computations of a Wingtip Vortex in the Near Field (2006-2007)
  • Arun Subramaniyan
    Toughening Polymeric Composites using Nanoclay (2005-2006)
  • Tyler Robarge
    Computations of Mean Flows and Instabilities on Axisymmetric Blunt Cones at Hypersonic Speeds (2004-2005)
  • Fong Loon Pan
    The Use of Integral Methods in Computational Aeroacoustics (2003-2004)
  • Ali Uzun
    3-D Large Eddy Simulation for Jet Noise Prediction (2002-2003)