Faculty Vitae: Aerospace engineering
Selected Presentations and Keynote Addresses: 1998-2002
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- Professional Service and Development Activities: 1998-2002
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Selected Presentations and Keynote Addresses: 1998-2002Prasad, J.V.R., Calise, A.J., Pei, Y. and Corban, J.E., “Adaptive Nonlinear Controller Synthesis and Flight Test Evaluation on an Unmanned Helicopter,” IEEE Conference on Control Applications, Hawaii, August 1999. Prasad, J.V.R., Neumeier, Y. and Krichene, A., “Active Control of Compressor Surge using a Real Time Observer,” NATO Symposium on Active Control Technology for Enhanced Performance Operational Capabilities of Military Aircraft, Land Vehicles and Sea Vehicles, Braunschweig, Germany, May 2000. Prasad, J.V.R., Calise, A.J., Hajra, S. and Shanthakumaran, P., “Neural Net Based Adaptive Nonlinear Control of a Turboshaft Engine,” 57th AHS Forum, Washington, DC, May 2001. Prasad, J.V.R., Zhao, J. and Peters, D.A., “Modeling of Rotor Dynamic Wake Distortion during Maneuvering Flight,” AIAA Atmospheric Flight Mechanics Conference, Montreal, Canada, August 2001. Yavrucuk, I., Prasad, J.V.R. and Calise, A.J., “Adaptive Limit Detection and Avoidance for Carefree Maneuvering,” AIAA Atmospheric Flight Mechanics Conference, Montreal, Canada, August 2001. Professional Service and Development Activities: 1998-2002American Helicopter Society, Member, 1987 - present. American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Member (1988-’92), Senior member (1992-’99), Associate Fellow, 1989 – present. Editorial Board for the International Journal of Mathematical Modeling of Systems, Member, 1994-present. AIAA Atmospheric Flight Mechanics Technical Committee, Member, 1998-2001. AHS International Technical Specialists' Meeting on Advanced Rotorcraft Technology and Disaster Relief, Gifu City, Japan, Co-Technical Chair, 1998. AIAA Atmospheric Conference, Portland, OR, Session Chair, 1999. AIAA 38th Aerospace Sciences Meeting, Reno, Session Chair, 2000. AIAA Atmospheric Flight Mechanics Conference, Technical Chair, 2001 Institutional Service and Development Activities: 1998-2002AE Academic Advisory Council, Member, 2000 – present. AE Flight Mechanics and Control Committee, Chair, 2001 – present. AE Advisory Committee (elected), Chair, 2001 – present. AE Reappointment, Tenure and Promotion Committee, Member, 2001 – present. College Reappointment, Tenure and Promotion Committee, Member, 2001 – 2003.
Sigma-Xi Junior Faculty Research Award, 1992.Sigma-Xi Best Ph.D. Thesis Advisor Award, 1992. "1990-91 Faculty of the Year" award by the Georgia Tech Graduate Student Government, 1991. Lilly Teaching Fellowship Award, 1992. Co-Advisor of the student that has won the AHS Lichten Award, 1998. Best Paper of the Session at the 19th Digital Avionics Systems Conference, 2000. Best Paper of the Session at the AIAA Atmospheric Flight Mechanics Conference, 2001. Stephen M. Ruffin Associate Professor of Aerospace Engineering Degrees B.S., Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University, 1985. M.S., Aeronautics and Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1987. Ph.D., Aeronautics and Astronautics, Stanford University, 1993. Georgia Tech Experience Assistant Professor, Aerospace Engineering, 1993-1999. Associate Professor, Aerospace Engineering, 1999-present.
Research Engineer, Princeton Electric Propulsion Laboratory, 1985. Aerospace Engineer, NASA Lewis Research Center, 1986. Aerospace Engiener, NASA Ames Research Center, 1987-1993. Barron, Inc., Design and analysis of jet educators, 1995-1996. Visiting Associate Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000-2001. Diamond Power Inc., Analysis and testing of soot blower nozzles, 1999-2002.
Patent: Ruffin, S.M., “Leading Edge Channel for Enhancement of Lift/Drag Ratio and Reduction of Sonic Boom,” Submitted: April, 1997, APPROVED: January, 2002. Patent application: Ruffin, S.M., Venkatapathy, E., “Leading Edge Channel for Enhancement of Lift/Drag Ratio and Reduction of Sonic Boom and Directional Control,” Submitted: July, 1998. Selected Publications: 1998-2002 Ruffin, S.M., Gupta, A. and Marshall, D., “Supersonic Channel-Airfoils for Reduced Drag,” AIAA Journal, Vol. 38, No. 3, pp. 480-486, Mar., 2000. Gupta, A., Ruffin, S.M., “Optimal Artificially Blunted Leading Edge (ABLE) Airfoils for Hypersonic Performance Enhancement,” Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, Vol. 36, No. 4, pp. 499-506, July-Aug., 1999. Gupta, A., Ruffin, S.M., Newfield, M., and Yates, L, “Aerothermodynamic Performance Enhancement and Design of Blunted Sphere-Cones using the ABLE Concept,” Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, Vol. 37, No. 2, Mar.-Apr. 2000. Gupta, A., Ruffin, S.M. and Newfield, M., “Aerothermodynamic Performance Enhancement and Design of Blunted Sphere-Cones using the ABLE Concept,” AIAA Paper 99-0897, January, 1999. Gupta, A. and Ruffin, S.M., “Investigation of Artificially Blunted Leading Edge Geometries with Curved Channels for High Speed Drag Reduction,” AIAA Paper 2000-0901, January, 2000. Tam, T., Ruffin, S., Gage, P., Bogdanoff, D., Yates, Y., Morgenstern, J., “Sonic Boom Testing of Artificially Blunted Leading Edge (ABLE) Concepts in the NASA Ames Aeroballistic Range,” AIAA Paper 2000-1011, January, 2000. Gupta, A., Ruffin, S.M., “Application of the Artificially Blunted Leading Edge Concept for Directional Control of High Speed Vehicles,” AIAA Paper 2000-2598, June, 2000. Chen, L, and Ruffin, S.M., “Evaluation of Multi-Element Airfoils for Dynamic Stall Mitigation,” AHS Aeromechanics Specialists Meeting, Atlanta, GA, November, 2000. Marshall, D., Aftosmis, M.J., and Ruffin, S.M., “Study of Parallelization Enhancements for Cartesian Grid Solver,” International Conf. on Parallel CFD, May, 2002. Tu, Shuangzhang, Ruffin, S.M., “Solution Adaptive, Unstructured Cartesian-Grid Methodology for Chemically Reacting Flows,” AIAA/ASME Thermophysics and Heat Transfer Conf., June, 2002. Tu, Shuangzhang, Ruffin, S.M., “Calculation of Nonequilibrium Flows Using a Solution Adaptive, Unstructured Cartesian-Grid Methodology,” AIAA/ASME Thermophysics and Heat Transfer Conference, June, 2002. Selected Presentations and Keynote Addresses: 1998-2002 Ruffin, S.M., “Investigation of Artificially Blunted Leading Edge Geometries with Curved Channels for High Speed Drag Reduction,” AIAA 38th Aerospace Sciences Meeting, Reno, NV January 13, 2000. Ruffin, S.M., “High Speed Aerothermodynamic Performance Enhancement Using Artificially Blunted Leading Edges,” MIT, January 24, 2000. Ruffin, S.M., “Sonic Boom Fundamentals,” MIT, March 2001. Professional Service and Development Activities: 1998-2002 Member, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1989-present Reviewer, Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer, 1991-present
Member, Aerodynamics and Fluid Mechanics Discipline Committee, 1993-present. Member, Undergraduate Enrollment Enhancement Committee, 1995-present. Member (Elected), AE Advisory Committee, 1995-present. Workshop Coordinator, Univ. System of Ga. Leadership Development and Minority Recruitment Conference, 1997, 1998, 1999.
Consortium for Graduate Degrees for Minorities in Engineering (GEM) Fellowship, 1984-1987. Nominee, Black Engineer of the Year - U.S. Black Engineer Magazine, 1991. NASA Superior Performance Award, 1992. NASA National Aerospace Plane CFD Validation Team Award, 1992. NASA Historically Black Colleges & Universities Research Center Team Award, 1992. NASA College Recruitment Award, 1993. AIAA Best Thermophysics Paper Award, 1993. CETL/Amoco Junior Faculty Teaching Excellence Award, 1997. Meritor Inc. Faculty Excellence Award, 2000. Directory: people -> lsankar people -> Handling Indivisibilities people -> San José State University Social Science/Psychology Psych 175, Management Psychology, Section 1, Spring 2014 people -> YiChang Shih people -> Marios S. Pattichis image and video Processing and Communication Lab (ivpcl) people -> Peoples Voice Café History people -> Sa michelson, 2011: Impact of Sea-Spray on the Atmospheric Surface Layer. Bound. Layer Meteor., 140 ( 3 ), 361-381, doi: 10. 1007/s10546-011-9617-1, issn: Jun-14, ids: 807TW, sep 2011 Bao, jw, cw fairall, sa michelson people -> Curriculum vitae sara a. Michelson people -> Curriculum document state board of education howard n. Lee, C people -> A hurricane track density function and empirical orthogonal function approach to predicting seasonal hurricane activity in the Atlantic Basin Elinor Keith April 17, 2007 Abstract lsankar -> A renewed Spirit of Discovery: The President’s Vision for U. S. Space Exploration presidentgeorge w. Bush janua ry 1 4, 2 0 0 4 Background Download 433.92 Kb. Share with your friends:
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