{"555411":{"#nid":"555411","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Prof. Mark Costello Elected ASME Fellow","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) has announced that AE professor \u003Cstrong\u003EMark Costello\u003C\/strong\u003E has been elected a Fellow.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWith the announcement Costello joins an elite group of ASME members recognized for supporting the organization\u0027s commitment \u0022to be the essential resource for mechanical engineers and other technical professionals throughout the world for solutions that benefit humankind.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECostello holds AE\u0027s David S. Lewis Professorship of Autonomy and holds an appointment in the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn 2013, Costello launched the Georgia Tech Center for Advanced Machine Mobility (CAMM), a multidisciplinary research network of faculty and students engaged in creating new mobile platform technologies and configurations. The CAMM focuses on creating highly specialized and application-specific technologies to improve the mobility of new and existing platforms.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Professor Costello has earned an outstanding international reputation for his creative research -- at the intersection of design, dynamics, and control system engineering,\u0022\u0026nbsp; said Yang, also an ASME Fellow. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0022He has created and implemented innovative technologies for flight vehicles such as rotorcraft, smart projectiles, and autonomous airdrop systems that improve the machine\u2019s dynamic behavior and automatic control. This has included creation of new physical control mechanisms, specialized autonomous control algorithms and software, and unique sensor arrays. Many of these technologies have been commercialized and\u0026nbsp;transferred to practice through collaborations with industry and government partners.\u0022\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECostello earned his master\u0027s and doctoral degrees in aerospace engineering at the Daniel Guggenheim School. His research focuses on dynamics, control, and design. He has earned national recognition for a substantial research program in the development of innovative flight mechanics and controls technologies for a variety of flight vehicles, including rotorcraft, projectiles, parafoils, and unmanned air vehicles.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPrior to his appointment at Georgia Tech, Costello was on the faculty of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Oregon State University and the United States Military Academy at West Point. He also worked as a research engineer in the Helicopter Division of the Boeing Company and at the Georgia Tech Research Institute.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Longtime ASME member joins elite group of scholars and innovators"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EProf. Mark Costello, who holds a joint appointment in Georgia Tech\u0027s schools of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, has been recognized for his many contributions to the field of mechanical engineering with election as an ASME Fellow.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Prof. Costello has been elected to ASME Fellow"}],"uid":"27836","created_gmt":"2016-07-25 19:16:05","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:22:08","author":"Kathleen Moore","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-07-25T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2016-07-25T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"555551":{"id":"555551","type":"image","title":"Dr. Mark F. Costello","body":null,"created":"1469548531","gmt_created":"2016-07-26 15:55:31","changed":"1475895355","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:55:55","alt":"Dr. Mark F. Costello","file":{"fid":"206603","name":"costellomark16-92.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/costellomark16-92.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/costellomark16-92.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":54180,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/costellomark16-92.jpg?itok=d4AtyB6o"}}},"media_ids":["555551"],"groups":[{"id":"1239","name":"School of Aerospace Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"2728","name":"asme"},{"id":"16201","name":"College of Engineering; George Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering; Capstone Design Expo; Fall 2010; Heart-Thromb"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}