{"497571":{"#nid":"497571","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Department of Defense Taps GT-AE Grad Student Timothy Murphy for NDSEG","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe United States Department of Defense last month announced that second-year\u0026nbsp;GT-AE graduate student\u003Cstrong\u003ETimothy Murphy\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003Ehas been chosen to receive a\u0026nbsp;three-year\u0026nbsp;National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) scholarship.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe highly competitive grant will enable Murphy to continue his doctoral studies at Georgia Tech without seeking additional sponsorship. Not only does the NDSEG cover his tuition and fees, it provides $102,000 in living expenses\u0026nbsp; for the next three years. A DoD spokesperson confirmed that the 2015 NDSEG scholarships were awarded to just 180 of the more than 3,500 top-tier graduate students who applied.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMurphy,\u0026nbsp;24, of Drexel Hill, PA,\u0026nbsp;is currently working with his advisor,\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003ED\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003Er. Marcus Holzinger\u003C\/strong\u003E, on research that focuses on space situational awareness (SSA)\u0026nbsp; -- the monitoring and analysis of debris that poses a potential threat to spacecraft and satellites. Murphy spent last summer doing SSA research at the Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) in New Mexico, where he will return this summer.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022I\u0027ve been working on specific image processing algorithms to detect small, easily missed objects,\u0022 he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Mainly, I\u0027m using optical systems to locate them and then developing ways to predict how fast they are going and what their trajectories might be. If you can predict their path, you can avoid a collision.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETraveling at an average rate of seven kilometers per-second, space debris the size of a pea could cause serious damage to any number of\u0026nbsp;deployed assets in earth\u0027s orbit and beyond.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMurphy earned his undergraduate degree at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. He believes his current association with the Air Force may lead to work in the military after he graduates, but is also open to a career in academia.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Second-year grad student Timothy Murphy has received a National Defense Science  \u0026 Engineering Graduate scholarship that will fund the remainder of his studies at Georgia Tech."}],"uid":"30502","created_gmt":"2016-02-09 16:20:09","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:20:38","author":"Sapna Mistry","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-04-21T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2015-04-21T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"497581":{"id":"497581","type":"image","title":"Department of Defense Taps GT-AE Grad Student Timothy Murphy for NDSEG","body":null,"created":"1455120000","gmt_created":"2016-02-10 16:00:00","changed":"1475895256","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:54:16","alt":"Department of Defense Taps GT-AE Grad Student Timothy Murphy for NDSEG","file":{"fid":"204637","name":"murphy-tim-ndseg.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/murphy-tim-ndseg_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/murphy-tim-ndseg_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":47553,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/murphy-tim-ndseg_0.jpg?itok=0B4Uv6LA"}}},"media_ids":["497581"],"groups":[{"id":"1239","name":"School of Aerospace Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"136","name":"Aerospace"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"}],"keywords":[{"id":"2082","name":"aerospace engineering"},{"id":"8246","name":"Department of Defense"},{"id":"126111","name":"GT-AE"},{"id":"130401","name":"Marcus Holzinger"},{"id":"171675","name":"NDSEG"},{"id":"169903","name":"Timothy Murphy"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":["kathleen.moore@ae.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}