{"574951":{"#nid":"574951","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Two AE faculty receive named professorships","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe tremendous career contributions of longtime AE professors \u003Cstrong\u003EJohn-Paul Clarke \u003C\/strong\u003Eand \u003Cstrong\u003EMassimo\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERuzzene\u003C\/strong\u003E were recognized recently with their appointment to two named professorships.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EClarke was appointed by Dean Gary May to the College of Engineering\u2019s Dean\u2019s Professorship in recognition of his outstanding leadership and many contributions in the areas of air traffic management, aircraft and airline operations. Clarke also holds a courtesy appointment in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERuzzene was awarded the first-ever Pratt \u0026amp; Whitney Professorship in Aerospace Engineering, an honor that was officially presented to him by that company\u2019s vice president of engineering, \u003Cstrong\u003EThomas W. Prete\u003C\/strong\u003E during the recently convened Aerospace Engineering School Advisory Council (AESAC) meeting. Ruzzene holds a dual appointment within the School of Mechanical Engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor both professors, the financial support that comes with these professorships will provide a well-deserved boost to their current and future research and teaching efforts.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI am deeply honored to have received this appointment, as it confirms the relevance and importance of my work, and the confidence that Dean May has in my vision for the future,\u201d said Clarke, the director of the Air Transportation Laboratory and an active contributor to GT\u2019s Decision and Control Laboratory. \u201cThis is the seed money that will allow me to work on truly innovative concepts, things that will push my research forward.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERuzzene echoed those thoughts.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis will allow me to explore new directions in my research \u2013 areas that have not yet been studied or picked up by a sponsor,\u201d he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt will also allow me to invite PhD researchers from other countries to visit Tech, so I can learn from them. I won\u2019t have to wait until they have the funding. I\u2019ll have it. And it will allow me to send my students to other labs, where they can learn things that they can bring back to Georgia Tech. It will be tremendous for their educational experience.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EClarke is a leading expert in aircraft trajectory prediction and optimization, especially as it pertains to the development of flight procedures that reduce the environmental impact of aviation. His research has been instrumental in changing both the theory and the practice of flight procedure design, and has spurred the global effort to reduce the environmental impact of aviation via changes in operational procedures. He is also an expert in the development and use of stochastic models and optimization algorithms to improve the efficiency and robustness of airline, airport, and air traffic operations.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe director of AE\u2019s Vibration and Wave Propagation Lab, Ruzzene conducts research in metamaterials, structural health monitoring, structural dynamics, and multi-scale modeling of complex structural components. He has authored two books and more than 260 journal and conference publications. He has participated in projects funded by the US Air Force, US Army, US Navy, DARPA, NASA, NSF, and by Boeing, Raytheon and TRW.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAmong other things, Clarke said the funds from the Dean\u2019s Professorship will allow him to more deeply explore the concept of trust as it applies to the use of autonomous systems.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIf you replace a human with an autonomous system, you need to trust that that system will work as well if not better than the human. So the question becomes: how do you find a way to quantify the trust have in a human so you can apply it to an autonomous system? I mean, you can\u2019t look into the eyes of a robot and tell if it\u2019s trustworthy, can you?\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERuzzene said the Pratt and Whitney Professorship will give him greater freedom to expand the focus of his research in wave propagation.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cA lot of work is funded to look at how to prevent waves, to prevent motion in materials,\u201d he said. \u201cThere\u2019s a whole other area that looks at ways to transfer information from one place to another using electromagnetic waves. I\u2019m interested in understanding how waves can be used to transport information in small structures. For instance, your cell phone already has a filter that can take an input wave, filter it, and send out a cleaner signal. What if we did different things with that filter?\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Profs. J.-P. 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