{"498421":{"#nid":"498421","#data":{"type":"news","title":"ASDL Presents its Work Before External Advisory Board","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe 2015 External Advisory Board (EAB) meeting for AE\u0027s Aerospace System Design Lab (ASDL) drew a standing-room-only crowd of experts from industry, government and academia to the Weber Building April 28 and 29.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOrganized as a review of ASDL\u0027s research and academic mission, the meeting felt more like an aerospace symposium as nearly 120 students and faculty presented more than 50 academic and sponsored research projects.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESubjects ranged from airline schedule optimizations to astroid capture \u0026amp; mitigation and unmanned naval vehicles.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022For me, it was an opportunity to see how much more breadth and depth ASDL has acquired. It was great to see some of the projects have branched out into planetary exploration,\u0022 said William Kimmel, co-chair of the\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E60\u003Cstrong\u003E-\u003C\/strong\u003Emember advisory board and the chief technologist at NASA Langley Research Center\u0027s Systems Analysis and Concepts Directorate.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022This meeting always gives me a chance to think about the future and to connect with other possible research partners. This year, I spoke with people from [NASA\u0027s] Marshall Research Center -- people I normally would not see -- and we began collaborating about a possible Marshall-Langley-ASDL research project.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELast week\u0027s EAB was the 23rd time that ASDL\u0027s many sponsors and supporters have gathered at the School of Aerospace Engineering to review the lab\u0027s many accomplishments, which, this year included:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EStrategic software alliances with industry giants like Dassault Systemes, Phoenix Integration, Pace, and SAS;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EAn average of $14 million in research expenditures from nearly 50 industry and governmental entities, covering every sector of the aeronautical and astronautical fields;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ESix recognized Centers of Excellence;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E200 graduate and 100 undergraduate researchers;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E40+ research faculty and post-docs.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe first day of the meeting featured Grand Challenge presentations by ASDL graduate students. Inspired by the needs of industry and governemnt, these open-ended explorations are the bedrock of many students\u0027 graduate programs-- integrating key principles from mulitiple disciplines with research, teamwork, communication, and other \u201csoft skills\u201d needed for success in the field. The results are often used as a basis for further, sponsored research.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The hardest part about critiquing these presentations was finding something new to say about how well they were researched and executed,\u0022 said one industry attendee during the reception that capped off the first day.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022I had to repeat what every other firm was saying: \u0027Your work is great. Come work for us.\u0027\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe second day of the meeting featured closed-door\u0026nbsp;reports on the outcomes and projected next steps of currently sponsored research projects in a wide variety of applications, including civil aviation, propulsion and energy, defense and space, advanced systems engineering, and advanced concepts.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022I\u0026nbsp;think a lot of our board members walked away impressed by the level of analysis that ASDL research teams brought to their projects,\u0022\u0026nbsp;said Mavris.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022And we received feedback that confirmed our approach to the research.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"More than 100 faculty and students attended the ASDL\u0027 s External Advisory Board Meeting where they made presentations on current and future research projects. The critiques that followed were dominated by comments like \u0022forward-thinking,\u0022 \u0022exhaustive\u0022 and"}],"uid":"30502","created_gmt":"2016-02-10 14:56:28","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:20:38","author":"Sapna Mistry","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-05-05T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2015-05-05T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1239","name":"School of Aerospace Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"136","name":"Aerospace"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"}],"keywords":[{"id":"100921","name":"ASDL"},{"id":"135151","name":"Dimitri Davis"},{"id":"9441","name":"external advisory board"},{"id":"126111","name":"GT-AE"}],"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":""}}}