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  • Dimitri Mavris
  • Professor
  • Boeing Professor of Advanced Aerospace Systems Analysis

Contact Information

  • Phone: 404.894.1557
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  • Office: SST/Weber 301-A

Degrees

  • B.S., Aerospace Engineering, 1984, Georgia Institute of Technology
  • M.S. Aerospace Engineering, 1985, Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Ph.D., Aerospace Engineering, 1988, Georgia Institute of Technology

Biography

Dr. Mavris is a pioneer in the area of Robust Design and Design for Affordability for aerospace systems. He is responsible for teaching several design courses including Life Cycle Cost (AE 4353) and Aerospace Systems Design I, II (AE 6351,6352). Dr. Mavris is responsible for the research of 35 graduate students working in a variety of sponsored research funded by NASA, DoD, and industry. Dr. Mavris advised two winning teams in the AIAA Undergraduate Propulsion Design Competition (1995 and 1997) as well as to a student who was runner-up in he 1996 AIAA Individual Design Competition. He has spent three research sabbaticals over the past 5 years at NASA (2 times at NASA Ames Research Center and once at NASA Langley Research Center). Dr. Mavris is a senior member of AIAA as well as a member of their Aircraft Design and Air Transportation technical committees. In addition, he serves as editor of the  Journal of Parametrics and he is a member of AHS, SAE, ASME, ASQC, SAWE, and SCEA.

Selected Publications

  • Mavris, D.N., Schrage, D.P., and Brewer, J.L., "Economic Risk Analysis for a High Speed Civil Transport,” 16th Annual Conference of the International Society of Parametric Analysts, Boston, MA, May, 1994. (accepted for publication in the Journal of Parametrics.
  • Mavris, D., Bandte, O., and Schrage, D., "Economic Uncertainty Assessment of an HSCT Using a Combined Design of Experiments/Monte Carlo Simulation Approach,” 17th Annual Conference of the International Society of Parametric Analysts, San Diego, CA, June, 1995.
  • Mavris, D., Bandte, O., "Effect of Mission Requirements on the Economic Robustness of an HSCT Concept,” presented at the 18th Annual Conference of the International Society of Parametric Analysts, Cannes, France, June 3-5, 1996. Journal of Parametrics, June, 1997.
  • Mavris, D., DeLaurentis, D., Schrage, D., “System Synthesis in Preliminary Aircraft Design Using Statistical Methods,” Proceedings of the 20th Congress of the International Council of Aeronautical Sciences, Sorrento, Italy, Sept 8-13, 1996.
  • Chen, W., Allen, J.K., Mavris, D.N. and Mistree, F., “Robust Concept Exploration for Developing the Top-Level Specifications of Complex Systems.” Journal of Engineering Optimization, Volume 26, pp. 137-158, 1996.

Honors and Distinctions

Research Interests

Formulation, development and implementation of comprehensive approaches to the design of affordable and high quality complex systems using visual analytics emphasizing:
  • Disciplinary breath and depth while accounting for uncertainty and risk
  • Multi-disciplinary analysis, optimization and design, including requirements definition and analysis
  • Reduction of analysis, design process cycle time
  • Physics based analysis and design of unconventional vehicles
  • System-of-systems, architecture-based systems engineering