Welcome 2 New Faculty for the 2011-2012 Year

Sally Bane received her B.S. degree with High Distinction in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Virginia in June 2004. She began her studies as a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow at the Graduate Aerospace Laboratories at Caltech in September 2004. Under the supervision of Professor Joseph Shepherd, she earned an M.S. degree in Aeronautics in 2005, followed by a Ph.D. in Aeronautics in 2010.

Her research at Caltech focused on investigating the process of spark ignition of flammable mixtures and quantifying the risk of accidental explosions, especially as it relates to aircraft safety. Her research interests encompass a wide range of topics in experimental fluid mechanics and reacting flow, including combustion of alternative fuels and flow control for improved flight.

Michael D. Sangid received his BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2002 with a minor in Mathematics. During his undergrad, he worked in the Advanced Materials Testing and Evaluation Laboratory and also the Autonomic Materials Laboratory in the fields of material behavior and testing. After which, he continued his education and research at UIUC working under the tutelage of Prof. Placid Ferreira on a Boeing sponsored project. He graduated with his Master's degree in 2005 and published his thesis, which focused on: Process Characterization of Vibrostrengthening and Application to Fatigue Enhancement of Aluminum Aerospace Components. After graduation, he spent two years working in Indianapolis, IN for Rolls-Royce Corporation, specializing in material characterization, fatigue, fracture, and creep of high temperature aerospace materials.

Dr. Sangid resumed his education at UIUC in 2007 and received his PhD in 2010. He developed a fatigue model for nickel-based superalloys under the guidance of Prof. Huseyin Sehitoglu. His PhD research was centered around a multi-scale approach to understanding grain boundary effects on crack initiation. He continued as a Postdoctoral Research Associate working on heterogeneous deformation of materials and fatigue crack growth testing and modeling of new and emerging materials. In the fall of 2010, he was appointed a fellowship to instruct a graduate level class on Failure Mechanisms in Engineering Materials and received the highest ranking of outstanding by his students. We look forward to welcoming Dr. Sangid to the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics in January 2012.