Geogria Institute of Technology

B.S., Aerospace Engineering, 1999, Georgia Institute of Technology
M.S., Aerospace Engineering, 2000, Georgia Institute of Technology
Ph.D., Aerospace Engineering, 2007, Georgia Institute of Technology

Dr. Brian German is an assistant professor in the Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering at Georgia Tech. His work is in the field of aerospace system design and optimization, and he is the associate director of the Aerospace Systems Design Laboratory (ASDL). His research areas are multidisciplinary design, multi-objective optimization, and decision methods applied to air vehicle design and systems engineering. He also conducts research in aerodynamic, propulsion, subsystem, and performance models suitable for aircraft design studies. Dr. German is a Senior Member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) and a member of the AIAA Multidisciplinary Design Optimization (MDO) Technical Committee. He was recently awarded the Outstanding Aerospace Engineering Professor Award by the Georgia Tech chapter of the Sigma Gamma Tau Aerospace Honor Society, and he received the 2011 Northrop Grumman Dean’s Excellence in Teaching Award. Dr. German is a former Fulbright student scholar and a recipient of the NDSEG and NSF Graduate Research Fellowships.

Design and Systems Engineering Methods

• Design space visualization and exploration
• Design decision making
• Uncertainty quantification, robust design, and reliability-based design optimization
• Multidisciplinary analysis and optimization (MDAO)
• Systems engineering process modeling and optimization

Design Analysis Models for Aircraft Concept Studies

• Configuration aerodynamics and wing synthesis
• Propulsion and power system performance models
• Thermal system models

• Outstanding Aerospace Engineering Professor Award, presented by the Georgia Tech chapter of the Sigma Gamma Tau Aerospace Honor Society, 2011
• Northrop Grumman Dean’s Excellence in Teaching Award, 2011
• AIAA Senior Member, 2010
• Fulbright Student Scholar, 2002-2003
• National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellow, 1999-2002
• National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Fellow, 1999
• AIAA Gordon C. Oates Air Breathing Propulsion Graduate Award, 2001

• German, B.J., “A Tank Heating Model for Aircraft Fuel Thermal Systems with Recirculation,” accepted to Journal of Propulsion and Power, Sept. 2011.
• Pate, D.J., Patterson, M.D. and German B.J., “Methods for Optimizing a Family of Reconfigurable Aircraft,” 11th AIAA Aviation Technology, Integration, and Operations (ATIO) Conference, including the AIAA Balloon Systems Conference and 19th AIAA Lighter-Than, Virginia Beach, VA, Sep. 20-22, 2011.
• Patterson, M.D., Pate, D.J., and German B.J., “Performance Flexibility of a Reconfigurable Family of UAVs,” 11th AIAA Aviation Technology, Integration, and Operations (ATIO) Conference, including the AIAA Balloon Systems Conference and 19th AIAA Lighter-Than, Virginia Beach, VA, Sep. 20-22, 2011.
• Takahash i, T.T., German, B.J., Shajanian, A., Daskilewicz, M.J., and Donovan, S., “Form Factor and Critical Mach Number Estimation for Finite Wings,” accepted to Journal of Aircraft, July 2011.
• Daskilewicz, M. J., German, B.J., and Takahashi, T.T., Donovan, S., Shajanian, A., “Effects of Disciplinary Uncertainty on Multi-Objective Optimization in Aircraft Conceptual Design,” Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization, accepted and published online, May 2011. In press.
• German, B., “Laplacian Equivalents to Subsonic Potential Flows,” AIAA Journal, Vol. 47, No. 1, 2009.