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2023 A&A Graduate Research Showcase

Sarah Chu
August 14, 2023

A&A’s 2nd annual Graduate Research Showcase featured cutting-edge research from graduate students across all of our programs.

A&A’s second annual Graduate Research Showcase celebrated the department’s cutting-edge research. Graduate students delivered 2-minute lightning pitches on their research to the audience and then presented their posters to attendees and judges. A&A Condit Scholar Sarah Li delivered her research via video as a keynote presenter.

We would like to thank our judges, A&A board members Laila Elias, Gary Lai, and Roger Myers, alumna Deanna Farago, and A&A professor Karen Leung. Criteria included accessible messaging, viable solutions, and the potential impact for aerospace and society.

Congratulations to our 2023 Research Showcase winners!

1st Place $600

Chris Hayner and Samuel Buckner

HALO: Hazard-Aware Landing Optimization (for Autonomous Systems)

2nd Place $300

Collins Davis

Rain Erosion: from Multi-physics Modelling to Efficient & Cost-Effective Qualification

3rd Place $200

Troy Nakagawa

Unraveling the Mechanical Behavior of Discontinuous Fiber Composites

People’s Choice $300
Tie

Ari Athair

How Can We Improve Underwater Turbines with Hydrodynamic-Exploiting Control?

Peter Thoreau

Performance of the Plume: The ACME Hall Thruster

Research projects

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Optimal transport particle filters

Mohammad Al-Jarrah

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Optimal fiducial marker placement for satellite proximity operations

Nicholas Andrews

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AprilTag applications to autonomous spacecraft docking

Nicholas Andrews, Joshua Cheng, Harry Furey-Soper and Kaylee Hudson

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How can we improve underwater turbines with hydrodynamic-exploiting control?

Ari Athair and Abigale Snortland

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Development of dielectric barrier discharge thruster and PPU for small satellite applications

Landon Bevier, Megan Clements, Jia Hao Wang, Kevin Um and  Alex Mamishev 

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Quasibrittle fracture behavior and size-Effect of fiber reinforced polymer

Jiacheng Chen

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Can airfoil camber enhance the performance of VAWTs?

Han-Wen Chi

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Rain erosion: From multi-physics modelling to efficient & cost-effective qualification

Collins Davis

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HALO: Hazard-aware landing optimization (for autonomous systems)

Christopher R. Hayner, Samuel C. Buckner, Daniel Broyles and Evelyn Madewell

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Beyond visual line-of-sight drone-aided search and locate

Sanghamitra Johri, Helen Kuni, Evelyn Madewell, Eli Pollack and Danny Broyles

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Satellite pose estimation via consensus on manifolds

Spencer Kraisler and Aditya Doyle

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Unraveling the mechanical behavior of discontinuous fiber composites

Troy Nakagawa

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Sensor placement using observability gramians

Ena Sundquist, Carey Whitehair, & Natalie Brace

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Does divergence angle affect shock standoff distance in SRP?

Amrit Tarur

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Performance of the plume: The ACME hall thruster

Peter Thoreau

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Supersonic configurations at low speeds (SCALOS)

Kuang-Ying “Eddie” Ting