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Anthony "Tony" Frese, AE 1983, M.S. AE 1989, recently hand-delivered a generous endowment to support AE students in need. Accompanied by 13 family members - mostly Yellow Jackets - Frese shared how his upbringing was a catalyst to paying it forward.

🐝: https://bit.ly/4bGqXB3

Celebrating excellence in aerospace education! Congratulations to the remarkable award and scholarship recipients from this award season! Your dedication and innovation inspire us all.

🏆: https://b.gatech.edu/4bd66p0

Congrats grads! 🎓 We sat down with a few graduates and asked them "What's next?"

🐝 https://bit.ly/4dsdE9g

The AE School was honored to welcome Professor Subra Suresh who delivered the Gebhardt Distinguished Lecture. His talk discussed pathways to unprecedented mechanical, functional, and electronic properties of materials for a variety of applications.

🌿 https://b.gatech.edu/3QoYYOh

Join us in extending a heartfelt congratulations to Professor Dimitri Mavris for being honored with Georgia Tech's prestigious - Class of 1934 Distinguished Professor Award!

It's Georgia Tech's highest honor awarded to a faculty member for contributions that have brought widespread recognition to the professor, to their school, and to the Institute.

This accolade is a testament to Professor Mavris' outstanding contributions to academia, research, and his dedication to advancing aerospace engineering.

🎉Congratulations! https://b.gatech.edu/44iZqTR

Dimitri Mavris Receives 1934 Distinguished Professor Award | News Center In 1980, Dimitri Mavris left his hometown of Athens, Greece, for Atlanta, Georgia, to pursue a bachelor’s degree in aerospace engineering. He did not realize it at the time, but his first day of class at Georgia Tech would mark the beginning of a career that would span 44 years as a Yellow Jacket....

Congratulations to Team O.A.R.S for winning Best AE Project at the Spring 2024 Georgia Tech Capstone Expo!

Sponsored by Intelsat, they were tasked with helping the satellite company address the issue of spinning satellites. The team created an algorithm to identify spinning satellites and correct their positioning. The result, a winning solution for both OARS and Intelsat.

🛰: https://b.gatech.edu/44ed2zC

Recent AE alumnus Tarun Golla, AE 2022, M.S. AE 2023, won the Best M.S. Thesis Award from the Georgia Tech chapter of Sigma Xi, for his thesis, A Sliding-Window Matrix Pencil Method for Aeroelastic Design Optimization with Limit-Cycle Oscillation Constraints.

His advisor, Prof. Cristina Riso made sure to attend the award ceremony where Tarun received a special plaque and $500 for his achievement.

Read more: https://www.ae.gatech.edu/news/2024/04/ae-alumnus-tarun-golla-wins-best-ms-thesis-award-sigma-xi

The Georgia Tech Design Build Fly team took first place overall in the Micro and Advanced Class at the SAE Design East Competition. This year’s competition included more than 55 teams from all over the world.

🥇 https://www.ae.gatech.edu/news/2024/04/georgia-tech-students-land-top-sae-design-east-competition

Thanks to everyone who made the Celebrating Women in Aerospace Engineering event a success!

The AE School and the CoE hosted a variety events including outreach activities, a live talk with astronauts Tracy Dyson and Jeanette Epps on the International Space Station, a panel by leading women in aerospace companies, and much more.

https://coe.gatech.edu/news/2024/03/celebrating-women-aerospace-engineering

Live coverage of the SpaceX CRS-30 mission is happening now!

The payload includes a project with Georgia Tech researchers and NASA astronauts which will study antibiotic-resistant bacteria on the International Space Station.

Expected to launch at 4:55 p.m.

NASA's SpaceX 30th Commercial Resupply Services Launch SpaceX's 30th cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station is scheduled to lift off at 4:55 p.m. EDT (2055 UTC) from Cape Canaveral Space Force ...

🚀 Launching tomorrow from NASA Kennedy Space Center! 🚀

Georgia Tech researchers are teaming up with NASA to study bacteria on the International Space Station, aiding in the fight against antibiotic-resistant for long-duration space missions.

Professor Chris Carr and a team of researchers in the Planetary eXploration Lab (PXL), will work with astronauts living on the ISS as they collect air, water, and surface samples.

Read more: https://b.gatech.edu/3TpkOlo

Elizabeth Qian has been awarded an Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) Young Investigator Program Award for a new research project titled, Inference-oriented Model Reduction: A New Paradigm.

She will receive $447,000 over three years to develop new algorithms for model reduction, which replaces expensive and complex engineering simulations with less compute-intensive approximations, which are cheaper and faster.

👏: https://www.ae.gatech.edu/news/2024/03/elizabeth-qian-chosen-afosr-young-investigator-award

Give today so that AE can soar even higher tomorrow. 🐝 bit.ly/3wsUoY0

Giving Day at Georgia Tech buzzes on. Have you done your part?

Our alumni have created challenges to help increase your impact — chipping in extra funds when we meet hourly goals or matching your gifts dollar for dollar.

So find what matters to you and join us today before 9PM: bit.ly/3wsUoY0

Wondering how best to help? Here are our priorities:

> Dean’s Excellence Fund – for innovative new programs and unique projects that directly impact students, faculty, instruction and research

> Transforming Lives Scholarship Fund – for undergrads with demonstrated need, helping us compete for the best young minds

It's Georgia Tech Giving Day, let's empower future leaders in technology and advance groundbreaking research together. Every contribution makes a difference! bit.ly/3wsUoY0

It’s Georgia Tech Giving Day, and you can make a difference! 33% of the Tech experience is funded by donors, and today you can help change the lives of young engineers. Here’s how:

1. Dean’s Excellence Fund – for innovative new programs and unique projects that directly impact students, faculty, instruction and research

2. Transforming Lives Scholarship Fund – for undergrads with demonstrated need, helping us compete for the best young minds

Giving Day is about finding what matters most to you. Help ensure our continued success for years to come, taking pride in knowing it’s funded by you. Give now: bit.ly/3wsUoY0

Exciting news! The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded Assistant Professor Christos Athanasiou the 2024 CAREER Award from the Mechanics of Materials and Structures (MoMS) program, one of the most prestigious awards for junior faculty members.

Through this award, Prof. Athanasiou envisions contributing to the field of engineering by focusing on the discovery of new failure mechanisms of sustainable composite materials. Such discoveries can enable the greater adoption of sustainable materials for various applications, including greener structures for aviation and space exploration.

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Newly appointed Chair, Mitchell Walker sees the best days are ahead for the AE School.

Through innovative curricula and research pursuits, to expanding recruitment and development, there's a lot to look forward to in shaping the future of aerospace.

🚀 https://www.ae.gatech.edu/news/2024/02/strong-now-and-stronger-tomorrow

🚨Watch NASA's Live Coverage (1824ET): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21X5lGlDOfg 🚨

Professor John Christian developed an optical navigation algorithm onboard a lunar lander that is headed to the Moon and expected to land later today, as a part of Intuitive Machines IM-1 Mission.

The algorithm is part of the Terrain Relative Navigation (TRN) software onboard Intuitive Machines' Nova-C lander Odysseus, which launched on February 15 and is attempting to become the first American spacecraft to land on the lunar surface since Apollo 17 in 1972

🌕 https://www.ae.gatech.edu/news/2024/02/georgia-tech-algorithm-headed-moon

Four determined undergraduates from the AE School, Ihsaan El-Amin, Deshawn Johnson, Papa Quainoo, and Chanelle Taylor, have been named to the 2024 Patti Grace Smith Fellowship cohort.

They'll spend their summer interning with Lockheed Martin, the Aerospace Corporation, Airbus, and Aurelia Institute respectively.

Congrats! https://ae.gatech.edu/news/2024/02/four-aerospace-engineering-students-selected-patti-grace-smith-fellowship

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Connor Johnson and Sabrina Mayor join the Matthew Isakowitz Fellowship Program's Class of 2024! As fellows, they'll spend their summer interning at Firefly Aerospace and Blue Origin respectively, and match with executive-level mentors in the aerospace industry.

🚀 https://ae.gatech.edu/news/2024/02/two-daniel-guggenheim-aerospace-engineering-students-receive-matthew-isakowitz

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Aerospace engineering student Mallika Misra has been named to the 2024 AVIATION WEEK Network's 20 Twenties Class!

“Receiving Aviation Week Network’s 20 Twenties award is really empowering, and I am honored to be selected. It validates that I am making the right decisions toward achieving my goals and motivates me to continue working hard to pursue my passions,” shared Mallika.

✈️ https://ae.gatech.edu/news/2024/01/aerospace-engineering-student-awarded-aviation-week-networks-20-twenties

New competition in AE 3610 tasks aspiring engineers to find unique solutions to fluid mechanics or solid mechanics-based problems.

https://www.ae.gatech.edu/news/2024/01/two-teams-rise-victory-new-ae-experimental-mechanics-course-competition

AE Assistant Professor Álvaro Romero-Calvo will serve as the principal investigator on a NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) project to research an alternative system through a new, more efficient water-splitting magnetohydrodynamic architecture that combines multiple functionalities with reduced subsystems. The new technology could result in up to a 50% mass reduction over current systems.

Read more: https://www.ae.gatech.edu/news/2024/01/nasa-selects-professor-alvaro-romero-calvo-study-new-magnetohydrodynamic-technology

Congratulations to the Class of 2023! We sat down with a few aerospace engineering graduates and asked them, "What's next?".

Read what Kojo Bekoe-Sakyi, Robert Clark, Eliezer Zavala Gonzalez, Alexandra Hickey, Grace Krahn, Snigdha Nellutla, Grant Schlichting, Eleanor Smith, Audrey Waliliong and Alan Yeung have in store after graduation.
🎓: https://www.ae.gatech.edu/news/2023/12/whats-next-class-2023

Mitchell Walker, the John W. Young Chair and professor in Georgia Tech’s Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering, has been selected as the School’s next chair. Walker is currently serving as the College’s associate dean of academic affairs and will begin his new role on Jan. 2, 2024.

Read more: https://coe.gatech.edu/news/2023/12/mitchell-walker-named-chair-ae-school

Team RHEA² won Best AE Team at the Fall 2023 Capstone Design Expo for their exploratory mission of the mysterious planet, Venus.

👏 https://www.ae.gatech.edu/news/2023/12/ae-winning-capstone-team-will-unlock-mysteries-venus

AE student Sid Suratia never thought throwing a football would help him pay for college, but over the weekend he found himself a finalist in the Dr Pepper Tuition Giveaway for a chance to win $100,000.

🏈 https://ae.gatech.edu/news/2023/12/aerospace-engineering-student-wins-100000-dr-pepper-tuition-giveaway

Dalton Luedke has created a model engine that’s helping NASA lay the foundation for deep space exploration to the moon and Mars.

During a summer internship at the space agency, Luedke worked with a team exploring new rocket designs that are more powerful and weigh less. But his contribution — “sizable,” in NASA’s own words — is small enough to hold in your hand.

🚀 Read more: https://www.ae.gatech.edu/news/2023/11/dalton-luedke-propels-nasas-rocket-experiments

In a state of peaches, pecans, and peanuts, aerospace products are Georgia’s No. 1 export. According to the Georgia Department of Economic Development (GDEcD) the aerospace industry totaled $9.2 billion in 2021.

Much of that is fueled by the Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering (AE School), the nation's No. 1 public aerospace engineering programs.

🛰: https://www.ae.gatech.edu/news/2023/11/peaches-satellites

Vigor Yang, Ralph N. Read Chair and Regents’ Professor in the Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering, has been elected as a Foreign Fellow to the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE).

Read more: https://www.ae.gatech.edu/news/2023/10/georgia-tech-research-recognized-world-stage