Undergraduate In Astronautical Engineering

Bristol academic honoured by the American Institute of Aeronautics and ...

This award was established in 1973 and is presented for an outstanding technical or scientific achievement resulting from an individual’s contribution to the field of aircraft community noise reduction. 

The award was presented to Martin at an awards banquet at the 17th AIAA/CEAS Aeroacoustics Conference, USA in June. 

Among Martin’s many accomplishments recognised by the AIAA are his 1965 paper from which the basic theory for accelerated sources was derived, leading him to design quiet blade machinery; his papers in 1969 and 1970 which significantly increased the understanding of noise generation and reduction in compressors and helicopter rotors.

He was also chief engineer of Westland BERP rotor blade, which was the basis for winning the absolute world record speed for helicopters in 1986, and for the new rotor system for the Lynx and EH-101 helicopter.

His research in the Department of Aerospace Engineering University led to a way to remove the whistle from wind, and the latest draft of the first cycle, he oversaw led to the recognition of the crucial importance of soundscape tunnel measurements of aerodynamic forces at low Reynolds number. 

In addition to his work in aeroacoustics, Martin is the founder and President of ULTra PRT – formed as a University of Bristol spin-out in 1995 and which developed the ULTra (Urban Light Transportation) driverless personal transport system now linking Heathrow Terminal 5 with its business car park.  ULTra promises to deliver rapid, environmentally friendly, sustainable mass transportation to urban areas in ongoing projects around the world.

At the University of Bristol, Professor Lowson place on Sir George White Chair in Aeronautical Engineering and was Head of the Department of Aerospace Engineering from 1986 to 2000.

He is a Fellow of AIAA and a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society, the Acoustical Society of America, the Royal Academy of Engineering and the Chartered Institute of Transport. 

Previous accolades include the 2001 Altran Prize for Innovations to Improve Urban Quality of Life; the 1997 British Wind Energy Association’s Award for Research; the 1994 Queen’s Award for Technology; and the 1992 Royal Aeronautical Society’s Busk Prize for the best paper in aerodynamics.

USC - Viterbi School of Engineering - A Viterbi Sweep at the ...

April 19, 2011 —

USC Viterbi students turned in a strong performance at the recent American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Region VI Student Conference in San Diego University, winning the top honors in the undergraduate category and team category, and securing an honorable mention in the graduate category.

Eric Teegarden (senior in aerospace engineering) and Ryan Jansen (a senior in a joint BS-MS in astronautical engineering) won the first place in the undergraduate category, which carries a $500 prize and a spot at the AIAA Aerospace Sciences meeting next January in Nashville, where they will compete against undergraduate winners of the other 6 AIAA regions. Teegarden and Jansen’s project involved the design and testing of a hybrid rocket thruster designed as a booster engine for nanosatellites such as cubesats.They were able to use a method of injecting oxidant that has only been tried once before on a large scale. Their project was the first to miniaturize the extent that they do. Their research was born from a suggestion made by Jansen Research Consultant, Research Associate Professor Sergey Gimelshein Astronautics, seek areas of propulsion of small-scale chemical rocket as a possible area for senior design project.

USC Viterbi students also finished first in the team category. Alec Winetrobe (BS in Aerospace Engineering), Michael Jacobs (BS in Mechanical Engineering) and Matthew Dung (BSMechanical Engineering) placed first with their project "Analysis and design of a robot-mounted sphere for integration in environments of man." Winetrobe said: "We wanted to make a robot that intuitively stabilized from stimuli external, like a Segway, but had an even smaller footprint and therefore more versatile was in human environments. "

The team developed a prototype of a robot who leads a balanced base sphere, and used this prototype to test the limiting factors in their design to try to create the most cost effective robot. They succeeded in determining many of these limitations and plan on reproducing a more robust scale model of the Sphere-Mounted Robot in the future.

In the graduate category, Pedro Llanos, a Ph.D. candidate in the Astronautical Engineering Department, won an honorable mention. His paper was on "Morphology and Dynamics of Galaxies" about a way to improve our perception of how galaxies are intrinsically structured. His paper was not directly being related to his Ph.D. research,but  he credits his mentors and faculty advisors in the Astronautical Engineering Department, including Mike Gruntman and Dan Erwin, for their support. The honorable mention included a cash scholarship.

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