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Aug 16, 2012

Marcus Holzinger is an Assistant Professor who has joined the Space Systems Design Laboratory.

Professor Holzinger's research interests are in Space Situational Awareness, Guidance, Navigation & Control, Formation Flight, Rendezvous & Proximity Operations, Estimation & Sensor Fusion, and Strategic Analysis.

Aug 16, 2012

Michael Mello is an Assistant Professor who has joined the Structures and Materials Disciplinary Group.

Aug 14, 2012

Graduate and Undergraduate design teams did exceptionally well in the 2012 American Helicopter Society's design competition.  The Georgia Tech/University of Liverpool graduate team's coaxial helicopter with a counter-rotating auxiliary propeller system titled "Advanced Racing Concept (ARC)" took second place in their category.  The Georgia Tech/Middle East Technical University undergraduate team's "Badger", a single-pilot, highly maneuverable, intermeshing rotorcraft system took first place!  Prof.

Aug 07, 2012

Professor Bobby Braun (AE) with former Georgia Tech AE students Ravi Prakash, David Way and Devin Kipp and a full-scale model of the Mars Curiosity rover at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, CA.

Aug 03, 2012

Regents' Professor Emeritus Edward Warren Price, a world renowned expert in the fields of solid propellants combustion and solid propellants rockets passed away on June 11, 2012 in Atlanta, Georgia at the age of 91.

Aug 03, 2012

The Northrop Grumman board of directors recently elected Christopher T. Jones, AE 1986, to serve as corporate vice president and president of the Technical Services sector.  He currently is vice president and general manager of the Integrated Logistics and Modernization division within Technical Services.

Jul 31, 2012

Heidi Hatteberg, an AE senior who has been accepted into AE's Graduate School, has been named a Scholar Athlete of the Year by the Atlantic Coast Conference for the 2011-2012 academic year.

Heidi is the school record holder in three different events and qualified for the 2012 U.S. Olympic Trials.  Hatteberg served as the Yellow Jackets' captain in 2011-12, received the team's Tommy Towles Scholar Athlete Award and was awarded the ACC's Postgraduate Scholarship.

Jul 26, 2012

The AE School lost a great teacher and colleague with the passing of Professor William T. Mikolowsky on Tuesday, July 24, 2012.  As the Professor of the Practice, he touched the lives of many generations of our undergraduate students through his Capstone Senior Design sequence, Intro to AE, and Vehicle Performance classes.  His lectures were peppered with inspiring examples from his distinguished career at Lockheed Martin as the Chief Engineer for the C-130J program.

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Prof. Mitchell Walker in the High-Power Electric Propulsion Lab

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