{"501961":{"#nid":"501961","#data":{"type":"news","title":"AE Undergrad Michael Portman Receives EAA Scholarship","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMichael Portman, an undergraduate in the Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering, has been chosen by the Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) to receive one of its 2015 Hansen Scholarships.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis is the second time that Portman, 21, has received the scholarship, which is awarded annually to a college student in good academic standing, who is pursuing a degree in aerospace engineering, or aeronautical engineering. Previously, Portman received AIAA\u0027s Cary Spitzer Digital Avionics scholarship and Georgia Tech\u0027s Gregory R. Matheson Memorial scholarship.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe San Francisco native is currently finishing up a summer internship in the Office of Research and Engineering - Vehicle Performance Division -- within the National Transportation Safety Board in Washington, DC. He plans to continue his education to the master\u0027s level before pursuing a job in industry in flight testing, flight ops, or aviation safety.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPortman is mentored by AE professor Dr. Amy Pritchett.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Dr. Pritchett and I have been conducting research into various topics relating to aviation safety and some human performance. This past semester, I completed a research assignment looking into the events of Asiana Flight 214 and creating a theoretical design for a context dependent total energy alerting system.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Michael Portman, an undergraduate in the Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering, has been chosen by the Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) to receive one of its 2015 Hansen Scholarships."}],"uid":"30502","created_gmt":"2016-02-17 13:38:08","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:20:46","author":"Sapna Mistry","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-08-10T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2015-08-10T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"501941":{"id":"501941","type":"image","title":"Michael Portman","body":null,"created":"1455904800","gmt_created":"2016-02-19 18:00:00","changed":"1475895261","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:54:21","alt":"Michael Portman","file":{"fid":"204734","name":"portman-michael.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/portman-michael_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/portman-michael_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":153027,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/portman-michael_0.jpg?itok=Ivg2oC56"}}},"media_ids":["501941"],"groups":[{"id":"1239","name":"School of Aerospace Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"136","name":"Aerospace"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"169937","name":"EAA Hansen Scholarship"},{"id":"126111","name":"GT-AE"},{"id":"169938","name":"Michael Portman"}],"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":""}}}