Georgia Institute of Technology

The Georgia Tech Foundation, Inc. (GTF), an external organization responsible for management of the private gifts that provide critical financial support for Institute priorities, has named Al Trujillo as its next president and chief operating officer (COO).

Trujillo will assume leadership of the GTF on July 1. He currently serves as a trustee of GTF and formerly was chairman of the Georgia Tech Alumni Association.

From left: Vigor Yang, AE School Chair; Nick Lappos, Senior Technical Fellow and AE Alumnus; Georgia Tech President Bud Peterson; Chris Van Buiten, Vice President, Sikorsky Innovations; Lakshmi Sankar, AE Assoc Chair and Raj Shenoy, Attributes Manager for the Naval Hawk Programs and AE Alumnus.

The School of Aerospace Engineering at Georgia Tech is pleased to announce the selection of three AE graduate students as 2013 Vertical Flight Foundation Fellows. Joachim Hodara (L), Rajiv Shenoy (Ctr) and Michael Mayo (R). 

All received stipends and will be recognized at the American Helicopter Society (AHS) International Forum banquet in May.

AHS Forum Information:   Forum

AE's "Maximum Capacitance" team took first place and a monetary award in the Capstone Design Expo Aerospace category. Team members are: Addison Hern, Michael Hodgson, Michael Steinfeld, Bobby Barrett, Parker Vascik, Ben Bitoun, Stephen Fialko, Jeff Brenna and David Diaz.  Faculty mentors are Neil Weston and Carl Johnson.