{"497631":{"#nid":"497631","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Graduating GT-AE Student Shines at Undergraduate Research Symposium","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGraduating GT-AE senior Brandon Liberi received the top award for aerospace engineering at the 10th Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium, held April 22.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELiberi, 22, has been working with Dr. Narayanan Komerath for about two years on his research project, \u0022Divergence Speed Prediction for Slung Load Shapes\u0022 which was represented on a poster at the event. Judges from different disciplines roamed the afternoon-long poster session, grilling the young researchers on their projects.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EJoining Liberi at the symposium were\u003Cstrong\u003EKiijakarn Praditukrit, Victor Heaulme\u003C\/strong\u003Eand\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;Yuanxin Shen\u003C\/strong\u003E, three underclassmen with whom Liberi has worked on this research over the past year.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe research seeks to reduce the amount of time needed to certify safe flight speeds for sling loads by using airload maps and dynamic simulation methods.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPraditukrit, Heaulme, and Shen will continue the research under Komerath\u0027s tutelage when Liberi leaves in May to take a job at Ratheon in Tuscon, AZ.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022I\u0027m excited to be working in this area for Ratheon,\u0022 said Liberi.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022I think they were impressed not only with my research but with the experience I was able to get in managing the project with two other, less experienced researchers. This was a good experience.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch3\u003ESeveral other GT-AE teams presented posters, including:\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWind Tunnel Prototype Building\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEric Stoker-Spirt; Max Germain; Thomas Rainey;\u003Cbr \/\u003EFranklin Turbeville; Dyllan Russell\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EExtracting Static Pressure from Velocimetry in Vortical Flows\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EJackson Merkl\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EControl of Centrifugal Instability in Vortex-Surface Interaction using Plasma Flow Actuators\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EVaibhav Kumar\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EExtra Vehicular Activity Research\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAustin Claybrook\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch3\u003EOne student team made an oral presentation:\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBeyond Cost Tools: Spacecraft Net Present Value and the Hosted Payload Paradigm\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFan Geng and Robert Herd\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Graduating GT-AE senior Brandon Liberi received the top award for aerospace engineering at the 10th Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium, held April 22."}],"uid":"30502","created_gmt":"2016-02-09 16:49:37","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:20:38","author":"Sapna Mistry","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-04-24T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2015-04-24T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"497651":{"id":"497651","type":"image","title":"Graduating GT-AE Student Shines at Undergraduate Research Symposium","body":null,"created":"1455120000","gmt_created":"2016-02-10 16:00:00","changed":"1475895256","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:54:16","alt":"Graduating GT-AE Student Shines at Undergraduate Research Symposium","file":{"fid":"204640","name":"brandon-kijjakarn-victor.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/brandon-kijjakarn-victor_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/brandon-kijjakarn-victor_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1272581,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/brandon-kijjakarn-victor_0.jpg?itok=DEsYoVV6"}}},"media_ids":["497651"],"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":"134731","name":"Brandon Liberi"},{"id":"126111","name":"GT-AE"},{"id":"5322","name":"Undergraduate Research Symposium"}],"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":""}}}