Reincarnation of Apollo Lunar Descent Guidance: Landing Human on Mars and Beyond

Ping Lu
Professor and Chair
Aerospace Engineering Department
San Diego State University

The Midwest Mechanics Seminar presents Unsteadiness of Shock Wave / Turbulent Boundary Layer Interactions

Dr. Noel Clemens
Professor and Chair
Department of Aerospace Engineering ans Engineering Mechanics
The University of Texas at Austin

AirCraft Engine Certification: The Role of Theory in Practice

Dr. Robert Bitmead
Cymer Corporation Endowed Chair
Mechanical & Space Engineering
University of California, San Diego

Modeling Materials Degradation in Nanostructures:
An Example of the Intersection of Computational Material Science, Experimental Characterization and Data Analysis

Dr. Remi Dingreville
Center for Integrated Nano Technologies (CINT)
Nanostructure Physics Department
Sandia National Laboratories
Albuquerque, New Mexico

Alternatives to Wahba's Problem in Attitude Determination

Dr. Yang Cheng
Associate professor
Department of Aerospace Engineering, Mississippi State University
MIT

Local Deformation Heterogeneity in Materials Under Dynamic Loading and Meso Scale Approach

Dr. Addis Kidane
Associate Professor
Mechanical Engineering
University of South Carolina

Petascale computing of turbulent combustion

Jacqueline Chen
Distinguished Member of Technical Staff
Reacting Flows Department
Sandia National Laboratories

High-Speed Boundary-Layer Instability and Transition
to Turbulence: Fundamentals and Applications

Dr. Joseph Jewell
Research Scientist, Aerospace Systems Directorate
US Air Force Research Laboratory
Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio

Toward Predictive Simulations of Chemically-Reacting Flow Systems: From Chemistry to Turbulence

Dr. Yuan Xuan
Assistant Professor
Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering
Pennsylvania State University

Navigating the Course Towards Stability and Away from Catastrophe: LI-ION Batteries in the U.S. Navy

Dr. Corey T. Love
Materials Research Engineer
U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
Washington, D.C.

Optimal Path Planning and Sensor Placement for Mobile Target Detection

Dr. Brian Anderson
Distinguished Professor & National Academy of Engineering Member
Systems Engineering
Australian National University

Living on the Edge—Emerging Interface Problems in Soft Matter, Cell, and Neuro Mechanics

Dr. Christian Franck
Grainger Institute for Engineering Associate Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Wisconsin-Madison

HIVE: A New Architecture for Space

Dr. Henry Helvajian
Senior Scientist
Physical Sciences Laboratory
The Aerospace Cooperation
El Segundo, California

Building Robots for Long-Term Autonomy, and Keeping Them Autonomous

Dr. Joydeep Biswas
Assistant Professor
College of Information and Computer Sciences
University of Massachusetts Amherst

Boeing and the future of space exploration

Dennis Muilenburg
Chairman, president and CEO
The Boeing Company

System-of-Systems Research Agenda for Sustainability and Sustainable Development

Dr. Datu Buyung Agusdinata
Assistant Professor
School of Sustainability
Arizona State University

Stochastic reachability: Tools for Verification, Planning, and Control

Dr. Meeko Oishi
Associate Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of New Mexico

Characterization of Constricted Air Plasma with Emphasis on Application for a High-Speed Flow/Combustion Control

Dr. Sergey B. Leonov
Research Professor
Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
University of Notre Dame

A Systems Approach to Management of Transient Thermal Systems for Mobile Electrification

Andrew Alleyne
Ralph and Catherine Fisher Professorship
Director for the NSF Engineering Research Center on Power Optimization for Electro-Thermal Systems
University of Illinois

J. William Uhrig and Anastasia Vournas Distinguished Short Course Series

Paul Bevilaqua
Lockheed Martin (retired)

Things They Don’t Teach You in School, You Really Need to Know

Jon Clauss
Lockheed Martin

Distributed Global Awareness for Control of Multi-Agent Systems

Dr. Huazhen Fang
Assistant Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Kansas

Harnessing Data for Resilient Systems: Resilience through Data-driven Modeling and Machine Intelligence

Dr. Hyun T. Tran
Research Assistant Professor
Aerospace Engineering Department
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Laser Diagnostics for Measurements of Electric Field and Excited
Metastable Species

Dr. Igor Adamovich
Professor
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department
Ohio State University

Bridging Educational Pathways: Applied Research and the Development of Future Technologies

Dr. Michael Atkinson
Assistant Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University

Dr. Srinath V. Ekkad
Department Head and RJ Reynolds Professor
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
North Carolina State University

Experimental Investigation of Flow, Heat Transfer, and Combustions

Dr. Srinath V. Ekkad
Department Head and RJ Reynolds Professor
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
North Carolina State University

The Midwest Mechanics Seminar

Professor Detlef Lohse
Physics of Fluids Group
University of Twente, Netherlands

"High-Fidelity Engineering Design Innovation for Aerospace Systems"

Professor Vigor Yang
Professor
Aerospace Engineering and Industrial and Systems Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, Georgia

Bill Gerstenmaier

Associate administrator
Human Explorations and Operations
NASA

Engineering 2169

Leveraging Low Temperature Plasmas for Materials, Energy and
Environment

Dr. Mark J. Kushner
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
University of Michigan

Ann Arbor, MI

Dr. Nicholas Armstrong
Chief Defence Scientist Research Fellow
Aerospace Division of Defence Science and Technology Group
Australian Department of Defence

Featuring Gene Kranz

Apollo 11 flight director

Overview of the Air Force Research Laboratory Aerospace Systems Directorate

Dr. Frank Gulzcinski
Acting Chief Scientist
Aerospace Systems Directorate
Air Force Research Laboratory

Multiscale Constitutive Modeling on Finite Strain Viscoelasticity of Elastomers

Dr. Ying Li
Associate Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Connecticut

Interdependency of Control and Communications: From Maxwell’s Demon to Cyber Physical Systems

Dr. Husheng Li
Min H. Kao Department of Electrical Engineering
and Computer Science
University of Tennessee-Knoxville

The Future of Asteroid Exploration and the Hayabusa2 and OSIRIS-REx Missions

Daniel J. Scheeres
Distinguished Professor, A. Richard Seebass Endowed Chair, Celestial and Spaceflight Mechanics Laboratory Head
University of Colorado Boulder

Land Water, Energy and Carbon Cycles Coupling Diagnosed from Remotely Sensed Global Observations from NASA's SMAP Mission

Dara Entekhabi
Bacardi and Stockholm Water Foundations Chair Professor, Ralph M. Parsons Laboratory for Environmental Science and Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Prediction of Drag for Rough Wall Boundary Layer Flows

Professor Karen Flack
Department of Mechanical Engineering
United States Naval Academy

Ella Atkins
University of Michigan

Understanding Reactivity of Nonequilibrium Molecular Plasmas for Propulsion and Power

Igor Adamovich
Ohio State University

The Quest on Trajectory Optimization: To the Moon, Mars, Asteroids and Beyond

ChitHong Yam
Manager
Mission Design and Operations group
ispace, Inc. (Tokyo, Japan)

Precise Orbit Determination and Global Gravity Field Recovery at AIUB

Adrian Jaggi
Astronomical Institute of the University of Bern

Finsler-geometric Phase Field Mechanics of
Crystals with Microstructure

John Clayton
CCDC Army Research Laboratory
Aberdeen, MD

Jetsons or Practical Air Taxi Service? Enabling Electric Vertical Take-Off and Landing

Wave Propagation in Complex Material Systems

Srinivasan Gopalakrishnan
KSIIDC Chair Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering
Indian Institute of Science
Bangalore, India

Observing and Characterizing Space Debris at the SwissOGS

Thomas Schildknecht
Director of Swiss Optical Ground Station and Geodynamics Observatory Zimmerwald

Practical Approach toward Deep Reinforcement Learning

Dr. Kartavya Neema
Cummins, Inc.