Aerospace Engineering
Charles A. Garris, Jr.
Professor (Professional Engineer and Registered Patent Agent)
Department: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Phone: (202) 994-3646
Email: garris
gwu [dot] edu (garris[at]gwu[dot]edu)
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Research Interest: Professor Charles Garris is currently interested in sustainable energy technologies utilizing advanced pressure-exchange phenomena. These technologies include carbon sequestration, air conditioning and refrigeration, fuel cells, turbocharging, and water desalinization. Research is focused on fundamental behavior of pressure-exchange, which generally involves non-steady compressible fluid mechanics including the effects of energy dissipation in mixing layers, turbulence, and shock-wave structure. The research involves both computational and experimental investigations.
Michael Keidar
A. James Clark Professor
Department: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Biomedical Engineering
Phone: (202) 994-6929
Email: keidargwu [dot] edu (keidar[at]gwu[dot]edu)
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Research Interest: Professor Michael Keidar's Micropropulsion and Nanotechnology Lab conducts advanced fundamental and applied research in plasma medicine, micropropulsion for micro and nanosatellites, and plasma nanoscience and nanotechnology. Current projects include a cold plasma application for wound healing; cold plasma cancer therapy; the synthesis of single-wall carbon nanotubes with controlled conductivity; the synthesis of graphene with controlled numbers of layers; and the manufacturing of ultracapacitor devices based on nanotubes and graphene, micro-cathode thrusters for nano satellites, and multi-scale plasma simulations.
Taeyoung Lee
Professor
Department: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Phone: (321) 480-8048
Email: tyleegwu [dot] edu (tylee[at]gwu[dot]edu)
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Research Interest: Professor Taeyoung Lee's Flight Dynamics and Control Lab conducts theoretical, computational, and experimental research in nonlinear dynamics and control for complex aerospace systems. Current projects include geometric control for complex maneuvers of unmanned aerial vehicles, vision-based formation control of spacecraft, computational geometric uncertainty propagation for Hamiltonian systems on a Lie group, relative orbit estimation based on line-of-sight measurements, agile load transportation with dynamically-coupled quadrotor aerial vehicles, and orbital maneuvering for nano satellites with micro-cathode thrusters.
Azar Panah
Associate Professor
Department: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Biomedical Engineering
Phone: 202-994-4069
Email: azar [dot] panahgwu [dot] edu (azar[dot]panah[at]gwu[dot]edu)
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Research Interest: Professor Azar Panah’s research focuses on fundamental and creative fluid dynamics, with an emphasis on unsteady aerodynamics and flow phenomena that connect engineering, nature, and visual perception. Her work investigates the mechanics of bird flapping wings and fish swimming to uncover the physics of natural locomotion in fluids and to inform the design of unmanned air and underwater vehicles. In addition to advancing experimental and theoretical understanding of unsteady flows, she is deeply interested in flow visualization and its role in education and informal learning. She is leading museum exhibits that integrate art and science, making invisible flows accessible and engaging for visitors through photography, video, and sculpture.
Michael Plesniak
Professor and Department Chair
Department: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Biomedical Engineering
Phone: (202) 994-9803
Email: plesniakgwu [dot] edu (plesniak[at]gwu[dot]edu)
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Research Interest: Professor Michael Plesniak's Biofluid Dynamics Lab conducts advanced fundamental research on human speech production (phonation) and cardiovascular flows. An overarching motivation for studying hemodynamics and speech production is to facilitate surgical planning, i.e. to enable physicians to assess the outcomes of surgical procedures by using faithful computer simulations. Professor Plesniak is the director of GW's Center for Biomimetics and Bioinspired Engineering. His Turbulence, Fluid Dynamics and Wind Energy Lab at GW's Virginia Science and Technology Campus is equipped with wind tunnel facilities to study a variety of flows relevant to transportation and energy research.
Peng Wei
Associate Professor
Department: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Email: pweigwu [dot] edu (pwei[at]gwu[dot]edu)
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Research Interest: By contributing to the intersection of control, optimization, machine learning, and artificial intelligence, Dr. Wei develops autonomy and human-in-the-loop decision making systems for aeronautics, aviation and aerial robotics. His current focus is on safety, efficiency, and scalability for decision making in uncertain and dynamic environments. Recent applications include: air traffic control/management, airline operations, UAS traffic management, eVTOL urban air mobility, and autonomous drone racing. Dr. Wei leads the Intelligent Aerospace Systems Lab (IASL).