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Professor Candler Elected to National Academy of Engineering Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics Professor Graham V. Candler has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). Election to the National Academy of Engineering is among the highest professional distinctions awarded to an engineer. Only 87 new members nationwide and 18 international members to receive the honor this year. Candler, a University of Minnesota McKnight Presidential Professor, is nationally renowned expert on computational methods to study high-speed flight with application to future hypersonic flight systems and the entry of spacecraft into planetary atmospheres. He is recognized by the National Academy for development and validation of computational
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models for high-fidelity simulation of supersonic and hypersonic interactions. Recently, his work has focused on the development of high accuracy simulation methods for the exploration of hypersonic flight system design space. He has published extensively in the areas computational methods, high-temperature gas dynamics, boundary layer laminar to turbulent transition, and validation of computational simulations with hypersonic wind tunnel data. Candler has been at the University of Minnesota since 1992, and leads a research group in hypersonic aerodynamics and computational fluid dynamics. Candler and the other individuals selected for membership this year will be formally inducted during a ceremony at the NAE annual meeting on Oct. 4 in Washington, D.C.
What’s Inside... p.2 Letter from Department Head p.3 John Weyrauch's Retirement p.4 Faculty Spotlight p.5 Student Achievements p.6 Senior Design 2020 p.8 Student Achievements p.9 Congratulations Graduates p.12 Student Exit Survey p.13 Thank You, Donors p.14 SOCRATES in Orbit
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FROM THE DEPARTMENT HEAD
Dear Friends, Well, where to begin? First and foremost, I hope you and your loved ones are all well in these incredible times. We are in the middle of the most tumultuous times in my lifetime. I am proud of the response of our faculty, staff and students, and our college and University leadership, to everything that’s happened the last four or five months. Faculty, staff and students first transitioned to on-line instruction, and then we watched as Minneapolis became the center of the world with George Floyd’s murder and the subsequent protests. I know many of our students, faculty, staff, and friends were involved in the protests and the clean-up afterwards. We are now involved in rebuilding both community and trust. While AEM (and the college, and the university) has always had diversity and inclusion as a goal, it’s clear that we can and must do more. I look forward, both personally and as part of AEM, CSE and the University of Minnesota, to being part of the solution. I urge you to hold me and all of us to this commitment to get better. I also want to keep you up to date on the latest news in the AEM department. As you may know, Graham Candler was elected to the National Academy of Engineering. We also were able to hire a new faculty member, Kirsten Strandjord, who will start in Fall 2021. Dr. Strandjord works in the area of GPS in urban areas, and will strengthen not just our systems group, but also other research activities at Minnesota. I want to give special thanks to John Weyrauch, who retired after spring semester. John has been a great resource to the department for a long time, first with our Professional Advisory Board and more recently by leading the design class and working with our students on their professional development. John has also been a valued colleague and friend, and I have really appreciated his advice and wisdom over the years. I also want to thank Chris Regan, who has been working with John on the design class and will now take over fully. Going forward, thank you for continuing to advocate for our department and the University of Minnesota. We need smart, engaged citizens more than ever, with the ability to advance technologies in all areas of society. Be well, Perry
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FACULTY Professor John Weyrauch Retires Students, faculty and staff offer congratulations and best wishes to John Weyrauch upon his retirement after seven years of service as Industrial Professor of Design. Weyrauch received his BS and MS in Aeronautical and Astronautical engineering from the University of Illinois. Before joining our faculty Weyrauch worked for McDonnell Douglas, Honeywell, Rockwell Collins, and Alliant Techsystems (ATK). He is also the founder of the aerospace consulting company, Weyrauch Engineering. During his 40 year industrial career Weyrauch's major projects included design and development of advanced weapon systems, research in cockpit and control systems for commercial and military aircraft, development of guidance, navigation, and control systems for hypersonic vehicles including the National Aerospace Plane and boost glide vehicles, development of miniature inertial navigation systems for high-G weapon applications, development of fault tolerant inertial navigation concepts and system implementations, design of the digital entry guidance, navigation, and control system for the Space Shuttle Orbiter, and design of engine and flight control systems for the Harpoon missile. Weyrauch's primary teaching responsibilities have been the two required senior capstone design courses. In these courses AEM seniors designed, built, and flew or tested a variety of aerospace vehicles, components or systems. Weyrauch served as a mentor and role model. He spent many hours working with students on their resumes and providing advice on employment expectations. He also participated in outreach activities, presenting pre-college students with information on Aerospace Engineering as a potential career path. Weyrauch served as a Program Evaluator for ABET, the international organization which accredits engineering programs. Emeritus Professor, William Garrard, who worked with Weyrauch on the Senior Design Course commented: “John made major improvements in the way we teach design by introducing a systems engineering approach. Student were presented with a concept of operation and some general performance requirements for a vehicle or system and then were required to develop more detailed design specifications. This approach is common in industry but for
most students this was a new way of approaching problems and greatly enhanced their abilities to think creatively. John also emphasized the so called “soft skills” which are essential to an engineer’s success. These included oral, graphical, and written communications; teamwork; scheduling of tasks and personnel; decision making; ethics; and interpersonal skills. John also was instrumental in obtaining design projects from industry and made industrial involvement a key element in design education. Many of the student projects won prizes at competitions including the SAE Aero Design Challenge and the NASA sponsored RASC-AL Space Systems Design Contest. John was extremely popular with students. In addition to his work in the design course, he mentored student in a variety of ways including reviewing their resumes and providing insight into what to expect in their first jobs after graduation. John was a fantastic colleague and he will be missed by all of us.” Professor and Department Head, Perry Leo, added: “John has been a tremendous asset to AEM for not only through his work with the design class, but also with mentoring students and helping them find success after graduation. Prior to his teaching roles, John was a leader of the AEM Professional Advisory Board, and helped make that group into the great resource it remains today. John has always been a trusted friend and adviser to the Department and to me personally. I wish him all the best on his retirement and I look forward to having a beer with him soon.
Professor Demoz Gebre-Egziabher Presented Burka Award The Institute of Navigation (ION) presented its Dr. Samuel M. Burka Award to Professor Demoz Gebre-Egziabher and his co-authors, Dr. Jordan D. Larson, and Dr. Jason H. Rife, for their paper “GaussianPareto Overbounding of DGNSS Pseudoranges from CORS” published in the Spring 2019 issue of NAVIGATION The Dr. Samuel M. Burka Award is granted to recognize outstanding achievement in the preparation of a paper advancing the art and science of positioning, navigation and timing and is given in memory of Dr. Samuel M. Burka, a dedicated public servant who devoted a long and distinguished career to
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FACULTY the research and development of air navigation equipment and reviewing technical material for official publications. He retired from public service in 1958 and died several months later. Professor Gebre-Egziabher's research deals with the design of multi-sensor navigation and attitude determination systems for aerospace vehicles. He was the past secretary of the Satellite Division of the Institute of Navigation and has also served as associate editor of navigation for the IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems. He is current director of the NASA/Minnesota Space Grant Consortium. Professor Gebre-Egziabher received his BS in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Arizona, a MS in Mechanical Engineering from the George Washington University and a PhD in Aeronautics and Astronautics from Stanford University.
U.S. DoD Funds Maziar Hemati's Research Project Professor Maziar Hemati’s research project, “Certifiable Transition Prediction and Control,” has been selected for funding by the U.S. Department of Defense. The project runs Junes 1, 2020 through May 31, 2022. This project is in collaboration with Professor Peter Seiler at the University of Michigan. The goal is to develop a framework to certify the efficacy, reliability, and performance of feedback flow control laws without relying on resource intensive direct numerical simulations or physical experiments. The research project will focus on certification of controllers designed to suppress laminar-to-turbulent transition in wall bounded shear flows. An ability to delay transition from laminar to turbulent flow would enable efficiency and performance enhancements in a variety of internal and external flow configurations. Laminar flows exhibit a lesser degree of skin-friction drag relative to turbulent flow; thus, reliably maintaining laminar flow over the lifting surfaces of a flight vehicle, for example, would directly result in increased range and endurance, improved fuel economy, lower aircraft weight, weakened sonic boom signatures, and reduced aerodynamic heating.
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Hemati’s research group has been formulating new flow control solutions for transition suppression and delay. However, certifying the performance of these flow control strategies is a daunting task and an open challenge. Transition involves complex flow interactions that make it notoriously difficult to predict, and the challenge is compounded when flow control is introduced into the mix. “This effort will explore how to effectively provide certifiable measures of stability and robustness for the control of complex, high-dimensional systems,” said Dr. Matthew Munson, program manager at the Army Research Office, an element of U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command’s Army Research Laboratory. “This framework could offer a way to develop effective non-linear control strategies for turbulent flows. As the majority of U.S. Army vehicle and weapon systems operate in the presence of turbulent flow, this work has opportunity to have broad impact on the performance of such systems.”
New Faculty Member, Kirsten Strandjord The Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics Department welcomes new faculty member, Kirsten Strandjord, beginning Fall 2021. Strandjord is a Draper Fellow and holds a doctorate degree from the University of Colorado Boulder in Aerospace Engineering Sciences. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics, Physics, and Computer Science from Luther College, and a Master of Science degree in Aeronautics and Astronautics from Purdue University. She also worked at Boeing for several years as an electrophysicist in the computational infrared department. Kirsten’s research involves the study of global navigation satellite system (GNSS) technologies and navigation in difficult signal environments. Recently, her research topics have included studying the very stable clocks on board the latest GPS IIF satellites and developing new applications that incorporate 3-D building environments, the GPS orbital parameters, and acquisition techniques for direct positioning with the prediction of direct and reflected signals for improved positioning.
Doctoral Student, Rong Ma, Receives Amelia Earhart Fellowship
space sciences.
Rong Ma, a doctoral student in the Department of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics, has been awarded the 2020-2021 Amelia Earhart Fellowship by Zonta International. The fellowship is awarded to women who demonstrate a superior academic record conducting research applied to aerospace engineering or
Rong’s current research focuses on performing direct numerical simulation (DNS) of turbulent channel flow over realistic rough surfaces and investigating turbulence and drag effects of the realistic roughness on turbulent flow.
Ph.D. Student, Yi Hui Tee, Receives Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship Yi Hui Tee has been awarded the highly competitive Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship for the 2020-21 academic year. The Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship gives the University’s most accomplished doctorate candidates an opportunity to devote full-time effort to an outstanding research project. Her research focuses on conducting simultaneous particle and fluid tracking experiments to understand the effects of friction, collision, and turbulence on particle dynamics in a turbulent boundary layer. Poor understanding of particle-turbulence interactions has led to catastrophic failure of aircraft due to lift degradation as well as severe environmental pollution. Hence, her research goal is to investigate the flow physics surrounding a moving particle in turbulent flow and provide key dimensionless data for parallel simulation to be conducted.
STUDENTS 2020 John and Jane Dunning Copper Fellows The Department of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics is proud to announce that Soham Prajapati, Anjanroop Singh, and Marc Plasseraud are the recipients of the 2020 John and Jane Dunning Copper Fellowship for passing their Written Preliminary Examinations. Soham Prajapati is working to understand sound radiation from structures excited by turbulent flow. He studied at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India from 2015 to 2019, earning a Bachelor of Technology in Aerospace Engineering. He joined the University of Minnesota for his graduate studies, and is now working alongside Professor Krishnan Mahesh. Anjanroop Singh is an Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics international student working on Phase Transformations and Compatibility in Objective Structures. Singh was raised in Punjab, India, and studied at the India Institute of Technology, Roorkee, where he completed his undergraduate studies. He has been at the University of Minnesota for the past eight months under the guidance of Professor Richard James. Marc Plasseraud currently works with Professor Krishnan Mahesh on resolving the flow around a prolate spheroid. Plasseraud earned his engineering degree in hydrodynamics and ship engineering from Ecole Centrale de Nantes in Nantes, France. After graduating, he moved to Houston, Texas for work as a naval architect at Bureau Veritas before joining the university.
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STUDENTS AEM 4333 Senior Design - Spring 2020 The Senior Design teams this spring faced an enormous challenge in executing build and test team projects with campus closed, no machine shops available, and no way to meet physically as a team to build their designs. The COVID-19 pandemic provided the students with a unique and valuable experience in project risk management and re-scoping to meet new requirements and new realities. This challenge was very similar to major aerospace projects being cancelled or significantly slowed down or reduced in scope. The senior teams handled this challenge with creativity and persistence. There were 4 teams in student competitions: AIAA Design, Build, Fly; SAE Aerospace Micro Air Vehicle; American Astronautical Society Design, Build, Launch CanSat, and the NASA / National Institute of Aerospace Revolutionary Aerospace Systems Concepts – Academic Linkage (RASCAL). In the past, all of these team events required travel and meeting with large numbers of other college student teams in a competition format. That type of event was not possible this spring. The goal of the AIAA DBF competition was to design and fly an aircraft to carry passengers and luggage with a very short takeoff run for one mission and to carry, deploy, and release a banner for another mission. Due to the pandemic, the competition organizers decided to cancel the flight portion of the competition and limit the competition scoring to the final technical report. The AEM team (Austin Kopesky, Ben Kufrin, Matthew Finn, Nik Pardoe, and Ben Pauls) faced many challenges in this competition including a total re-design in January in response to a major rule change by the AIAA organizers. The team responded very quickly, changed a large percentage of their design, AEM Team AIAA DBF Prototype ready for testing
CANSAT Team Glider Design
built prototypes and flew them prior to the pandemic shutting down all of these activities. They were able to capture all these design changes in their final report. They finished 12th out of 101 teams in the competition. They were in a very strong position for the flight portion of the competition and would most likely have improved their already very impressive ranking. The SAE Aerospace Micro Air Vehicle competition required the team to design, build, and fly an aircraft to carry PVC pipe payload and fit unassembled in a small box. The AEM team (Isaiah Patton, Meryl Dery, and Alex Pfeifer) did a great job of developing a novel design and getting their first prototype ready to fly just as the pandemic shut everything down. They are very disappointed that they never got the chance to fly their micro air vehicle. The team wrote a very comprehensive final report for the competition. The SAE decided to make their virtual competition a formal presentation to a panel of judges. Unfortunately this presentation was scheduled for after the semester was over, so the team decided not to participate. The team was very small (only three students) and accomplished a tremendous amount of work over the semester. The AAS CanSat competition tasked the teams with designing, building, and flying a glider with sensors to measure air quality and atmospheric conditions after deploying the glider that from a rocket launched canister.
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AEM RASCAL Martian Transfer Vehicle
The glider was required to fly a specific competition defined trajectory. The AEM team (Casey Carlson, Joseph Romfoe, Marcus Rios, Ethan Neubauer, and Noah Werden) followed a rigorous systems engineering process to develop their design. They were in the process of building the glider for flight testing when the pandemic hit. The organizers canceled the launch portion of the competition and decided the team scores would be based on the teams Preliminary Design Review and Critical Design Review presentations. The team made their CDR presentation in mid-May, and they felt they did a very good job and that their presentation was highly regarded by the judges.
Kate Kwiecinski, Samuel Somrock, and Shivani Mahajan) chose Challenge 3 – develop a space mission design for flying four astronauts to Mars, have two land on the surface and spend 30 days exploring while two stay in orbit and support the surface mission and perform science experiments, then all four astronauts rendezvous in Mars orbit and safely return to earth with rock and soil samples from Mars. The University of Minnesota team consisted of six AEM students and one Physics student. The team developed a complete and innovative mission design. Their mission innovations include an artificial gravity system for the transit to and from Mars, a Martian Transfer Vehicle design with nuclear thermal propulsion, a tracked rover vehicle for the crew to use on the Martian surface, and an electric curtain to remove dust from surface solar arrays. The University of Minnesota team was one of only fifteen teams selected to participate in the competition finals. The final event is usually a 3 day symposium in Cocoa Beach Florida where the teams present their final design to a panel of government and industry judges, tour Kennedy Space Center, and hear presentations from NASA and industry professionals. Unfortunately the pandemic replaced the traditional final event with a virtual symposium on June 16-18.
The NASA / National Institute of Aerospace competition tasked student teams with one of four space exploration challenges. The University of Minnesota team (Thomas Skahen, David Richardson, Devin McGee, Garrett Ailts, AEM Team SAE Micro Air Vehicle Design
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UMN’s Design, Build, Fly Team Placed 12th The University of Minnesota Design, Build, Fly (DBF) team placed 12th at this year’s AIAA Competition with a score of 87. A total of 101 teams from all around the world competed, the University of Southern California taking first place with a score of 93. The competition was originally scheduled to take place from April 16 to 19 in Wichita, Kansas. For the 24th annual Design Build Fly Competition, the fly-off portion was canceled, and only final report scores were taken into account. This year’s theme was a Banner Towing Bush Plane. Along with a timed ground mission, the competition
encompassed three main missions that included a test flight, charter mission, and banner flight. More details on the mission requirements can be found at the competition website: http://www.aiaadbf.org. Despite the changes and restrictions, the UMN DBF team surpassed challenges and performed well. AIAA has also compiled footage of teams flying their planes at home. The full list of submissions can be seen at z.umn.edu/AIAADBF. The UMN Team’s video is z.umn.edu/UMNDBF2020.
RASC-AL Team Finalists in National Competition The AEM RASC-AL (Revolutionary Aerospace Systems Concepts—Academic Linkage) team made it to the finals of this year's NASA RASC-AL competition. The 2020 RASCAL competition invited teams of university students to develop new and creative concepts that would leverage innovations for NASA’s Artemis lunar exploration program and future human missions to Mars. 15 teams were chosen as Finalists to present their concepts in a competitive design review at the RASC-AL Forum in June 2020. The UMN Team project, Sisyphus, was developed under the RASC-AL’s 2020 Theme 3: Short Surface Stay Mars Mission. The mission will achieve the first human landing
on another planet and support the search for life on Mars. To make this mission possible, several new designs have been proposed, including the Off-Earth Tracked Rover, habitat configuration, electric curtain and a centrifugal artificial gravity system. The crew will consist of four members—two to land on Mars, engaging in scientific work for approximately thirty days, and two to support the mission from orbit. Surface work will be assisted by the use of a pressurized rover capable of drilling core samples. This rover, the crew and all other equipment will be delivered to the surface by up to three landers, each with a capacity to deliver 22 tons to the surface. This mission will depart from Earth prior to December 31, 2035.
Team members from left to right: Tom Skahen (Team Lead), David Richardson, Garrett Ailts, Devin McGee, Kate Kwiecinski, Sam Somrock, Shivani Mahajan
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GRADUATES Congratulations Graduates!
BAEM recipients: Garrett Ailts Marwan Albadi Megan Ball Anna Bialke Dominic Brostrom Keegan Bunker Casey Carlson Brett Cowdery Charles Davidson Meryl Dery Jacob Dubose Matthew Eimer Matthew Finn Kellen Garrett Tyler Gasiorowski Erik Graba Joshua Graeler
Joshua Hale Christopher Heen Alexander Heide William Herdman Kyle Houser Arkar Htike Andrew Johnson Erik Johnson Connor Keech Jacob Kerling Austin Kopesky Hudson Kraft Emma Krieg Adam Kriz Benjamin Kufrin Kathryn Kwiecinski Andrew Larson
In Kyu Lee Matthew Lehnen Joel Luedke John Marah Devin Mcgee Scott McWilliams Jacob Meiners Matthew Melander Lucas Metcalf Louis Mueller Ethan Neubauer Holly Newton Vinh Nguyen Quan Nguyen Ethan Och Thomas Paal Nikolas Pardoe
Isaiah Patton Robert Pauls Alexander Pfeifer Rami Qamhieh Grace Reimer David Richardson Michael Rogge Amalia Schwartzwald Matthew Shella-Stevens
Aaron Siordia Thomas Skahen Samuel Somrock Hunter Staack Luke Stangl Samuel Somrock Hunter Staack Luke Stangl
Alexander Stetzer Jack Stutler David Sundvold Zachary Taylor Jacob Venner Hannah Warner Noah Werden James Wenzel Lukas Zumwalt
AEM Masters and PhD recipients: Douglas Carter Nicholas Carter Durgesh Chandel Justin Dietz Bryce Doerr Jiadi Fan Abhineet Gupta
Charles Hollender Sahar Jalal Anthony Knutson Timothy Kukowski Alec Petersen Ryan Peterson Joel Runnels
Narendra Singh Parul Singh Dhanada Thumiah Harish Venkataraman Mingjian Wen Kyle Winters
Congratulations to this year's BAEM, MS, and PhD graduates on all of their accomplishments!
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Say "yes" to as many opportunities that are presented to you as possible. You'll never know what will become your passion until you try it. Keep an open mind and educate yourself; professionally and personally. The experience and education you've gained at Minnesota will open many doors and cultivate many valuable relationships for you, but only if you take the initiative. -Ben Koch (Aerospace Engineering '04, Master's in Mechanical Engineering '10; CSE Collegiate Life)
Great job 2020 CSE graduates! Graduating from UMN CSE is a major accomplishment that will pay off for years. You have all done a ton of hard work over the years. Make sure to sit back and appreciate your success. Congratulations! -Eric Snustad (Aerospace Engineering '94) Keep the faith. Hard work, intelligence and knowledge will pay off for you. - Perry Leo (AEM Professor & Department Head)
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Always stay open to learning new things, trying out new ideas, and taking new paths in your career! - Ellen Longmire (CSE Associate Dean; AEM Faculty)
Stay the course and be confident that you can solve whatever problems you encounter with the skill set you've been given. Never stop learning and questioning. There are no easy answers, that's why you chose engineering. -Mark Mixell (Aeronautical Engineering '70) DEPARTMENT OF AEROSPACE ENGINEERING AND MECHANICS 11
STUDENT SURVEY
Senior Exit Survey Results Each year, graduating seniors complete a 30 question senior exit survey evaluating the AEM program. The survey is intended to touch on student experiences in both lower division and upper division, and to examine student experiences both in and out of the classroom. This spring, the number of responses was well down from previous years, likely owing to the on-line format brought on by Covid-19. The responses are listed below, with scores ranging from 1 (worst) to 5 (best). Despite the low number of responses, they indicate that AEM students are pleased with their education. Students had especially positive feedback and comments on the required technical courses, the design course, and the accessibility of the faculty. Areas that students indicated could be improved include the laboratory facilities and turn-around time for grading assignments and exams. As in past years, students also wanted more computational tools and resources.
2019-20
Preparation to use engineering tools like CAD: 4.17 Quality of AEM Advising: 4.3 Knowledge of Aerodynamics: 4.77 Knowledge of Aerospace Structures: 4.54 Knowledge of Atmospheric Flight Mechanics: 4.8 Quality of Design Experience: 4.45 Quality of Laboratory Facilities: 3.9
2018-19
Preparation to use engineering tools like CAD: 3.32 Quality of AEM Advising: 3.58 Knowledge of Aerodynamics: 4.13 Knowledge of Aerospace Structures: 3.96 Knowledge of Atmospheric Flight Mechanics: 4.15 Quality of Design Experience: 3.65 Quality of Laboratory Facilities: 3.51
AEM Undergraduate Program Objectives 1. Consistent with the mission of the University of Minnesota, graduates of the BAEM program will be success fully employed in aerospace or other high technology industries. 2. Graduates admitted to graduate level studies in engineering and other professions will obtain an advanced degree.
Outcomes
Upon completion of the AEM degree students will have: 1. An ability to identify, formulate, and solve complex engineering problems by applying principles of engineering, science, and mathematics 2. An ability to apply engineering design to produce solutions that meet specified needs with consideration of public health, safety, and welfare, as well as global, cultural, social, environmental, and economic factors 3. An ability to communicate effectively with a range of audiences 4. An ability to recognize ethical and professional responsibilities in engineering situations and make informed judgments, which must consider the impact of engineering solutions in global, economic, environmental, and societal contexts 5. An ability to function effectively on a team whose members together provide leadership, create a collaborative and inclusive environment, establish goals, plan tasks, and meet objectives 6. An ability to develop and conduct appropriate experimentation, analyze and interpret data, and use engineering judgment to draw conclusions 7. An ability to acquire and apply new knowledge as needed, using appropriate learning strategies.
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THANK YOU DONORS From the Development Office: We are deeply grateful to our many alumni, friends, and companies listed below, who have made generous donations to the department. This support is incredibly important, particularly in this challenging time. Your gifts are instrumental in enabling our students, faculty, and staff to pivot into new ways of teaching to ensure a safe environment, while continuing to provide a world class education. The need for support has never been greater. Gifts of all sizes are making a difference as we prepare our students to be the next generation of leaders in engineering, education, research, and industry. We thank you for your past support and encourage you to continue helping us prepare our students Now, more than ever, your support is making a great difference.
Kathy Peters-Martell
Senior Development Officer College of Science and Engineering
Thanks for the generous gifts to support the AEM department and our students list below. These are gifts to the AEM department received December 10, 2019 - June 16, 2020.
Individual Donors David Anderson Vibhor Bageshwar Anil Bajaj Daniel Baseman Robert & Lucia Bell Richard Buretta J M Carlson Michael & Linda Carpenter George Ceman John Clemens Rollie Dohrn Thomas Douma Clinton Eckstrom Roger Engdahl & Susan Green Kenneth Ewald Janet Fransen Paul Freeman William & Judith Garrard Judith Gaskell Alford Hanson David & Willa Holger Michael Jackson Gregory Johnson Kenneth Kline Gerald LeBeau Shaobo Liu
Ellen Longmire James Malone Darren Mason Mark Mixell Gregory Ohrt Ahmet Ozdemir Michael Paleen David & Joyce Quam David Radtke Rodney & Patricia Reeve Patrick Rygh Nicolas Schellpfeffer Jong Shin David Sippel Jerome Socha Peter Torvik James & Lois Urnes Vincent Weirs Andrew & Sally Vano Dona Wagner Ross Wagnild Anita Westberg Thomas Zeimet
Corporate and Foundation Donors 3M Adventium Enterprises B A E Systems Clifton B. & Anne Stuart Batchelder Foundation Benevity Community Impact Fund Boeing Dow GE Honeywell Intel Medtronic Micron Technology Northrop Grumman Praxair United Technologies Your Cause
Gifts received after June 16, 2020 will be listed in the next newsletter. For information on giving, visit www.cse.umn.edu/aem/give, or contact Kathy Peters-Martell at kpeters@umn.edu or 612-626-8282. DEPARTMENT OF AEROSPACE ENGINEERING AND MECHANICS
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SOCRATES in Orbit
The U of MN Small Satellite Research Group's CubeSat, SOCRATES (Signal Opportunity CubeSat Ranging and Timing Experiment System) has officially deployed from the International Space Station into Earth's orbit. This is the first small satellite built by the U of MN to go into space. SOCRATES has two missions as it soars with the stars. The first is to demonstrate the operation of an X-ray spectrometer on orbit, which can be used to demonstrate a new method of navigation, X-ray navigation or XNAV, an alternative to GPS. The second mission is to record spectra from x-rays coming from solar flares. This will be used to investigate electron acceleration mechanisms in solar flares which can better inform models of solar weather. Once SOCRATES is in orbit, the team will try to make contact from ground stations across the country— including one in northern Minnesota—with hopes of gathering six months of continuous data from the CubeSat.