Total mentored projects: 15
Understanding failure of composite structures leads to efficient use of resources, an increase in safety and an improved design process.
Program: FURI
Creating a weight estimation tool will allow for better design decisions regarding small unmanned aircraft.
Obtaining electric fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicle performance data will help verify and optimize aircraft designs from a single flight.
Examining how control surface sizing and center of gravity location effect the stability of an aircraft will teach people how to design more efficiently.
Determining accurate performance measures of small scale aircraft allows for design validation and greater effectiveness.
Optimizing electric aircraft propulsion through data will help maximize range and other aircraft performance features.
Studying how the sizing of an aircraft's control surfaces impacts its stability will help teach people how to design more efficiently.
Designing instruments for aircraft performance measurement will increase aircraft energy efficiency.
Creating the tools to measure motor efficiency under practical conditions will help optimize aircraft performance.
Creating a tool to automatically design wing structures will accelerate future aircraft design processes.
Studying the effects of propellers in small wind tunnels will allow for further propeller motion research without the cost of large tunnels.
Developing tools to better measure and evaluate the efficiency of the thrust-generation of aircraft propulsion will make drones more efficient.
