Undergraduate Student Projects

Selected Undergraduate Student Projects Supervised

• 2011 Page 7, AIAA Design Build Fly Competition
  Josh Butterworth, Alexander Haskin, Gilberto Hernandez, Jerry Lee, Aaron Mazzulla, Zack Pirkl
  13th place / 88 teams; 8th in flight competition
• 2010 Design of a Very Large Luxury Airship
  Abraham Rademacher, Ben Nikaido, Kartavya Patel, I-Chiang Wu
  3^rd Place-Team, AIAA Region VI Student Conference
• 2009 Design of a Micro-Scale Deployable Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
  Vincent Alioto, Josh Buttita, Austin Epps, Duy-Bao Nguyen, Amir Yahaghi
  3^rd Place-Team, AIAA Region VI Student Conference
• 2008 Spartan Phoenix Fire Surveillance Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
  Luis Casas, Jon Hall, Sean Montgomery, Hiren Patel, Sanjeev Samra, Joe Si Tou
  3^rd Place-Team, AIAA Region VI Student Conference
• 2007 Design of a Heavy-Lift Remotely Controlled Aircraft
  Linda Contreras, George Franco, Omar Quijano, Joel Tambaoan, Ivan Tan, Namgyal Tesur
  SAE AutoDesk Inventor Award & 3^rd Place-Team, AIAA Region VI Student Conference
• 2007 Design of a 3-Surface Aircraft for the Open-Class SAE Aero Design West Competition
  Matthew Boeckman, Tim Tull, Anthony Ragano, Zion Young
  Award of Excellence, SAE Aero Design West Competition

Graduate Student Projects

M.S. Student Projects and Theses Supervised

• 2015 Design of attitude determination software for a star tracker
  Adriana Fukuzato
• 2015 Numerical analysis and optimization of wing-tip designs
  Uram Kim
• 2015 Analysis and testing of gelled, high propulsive green propellant for small satellites in low earth orbit
  Stephen Lai
• 2015 Advanced airship design
  Istiaq Mahmud
• 2015 Liquid oxygen / liquid methane pressure-fed rocket engine
  Andrew Masterman
• 2015 Design and analysis of an in-flight breaking system
  Ashish Raichur
• 2015 Wing sail vs. traditional sail performance comparison
  Harrison Turner​
• 2014 Design of a Red Bull Flugtag aircraft
  Martin R. Sullivan & Jennifer E. Sutton
• 2014 SJSU Outstanding Research Award in Aeronautics
• 2014 Design of a high-subsonic wind tunnel
  Jordan Towles-Moore
• 2014 Design of a Supersonic Transport
  Seruvizhi Majarajan
• 2013 Pressure distribution on a swept wing in high-subsonic flow
  Anshul Amin
• 2013 Numerical analysis of bird strike damage on composite sandwich structure using Abaqus/Explicit
  Rahulkumar Mav
• 2013 Ultra portable and rapidly deployable rotorcraft platform for tactical compact communications relay
  Ben Nikaido
• 2013 Aero-Assist: A guide tool to aid in the generation of surface grids for CFD
  Omar Quijano
• 2013 Design of a 5-kg solar-powered unamanned airplane for perpetual solar endurance flight
  Sean Montgomery
• 2013 SJSU Outstanding Research Award in Aeronautics
• 2013 Video-guided, autonomous pollinator rotorcraft
  Tung X. Dao
• 2013 SJSU Outstanding Research Award in Aeronautics
• 2012 Design of a 4-seat general aviation aircraft
  Arvin Rajagopalan
• 2012 CFD modeling and analysis of an arc-jet facility using ANSYS Fluent
  Srikrishna Srinivasa
• 2012 High subsonic lifting fuselage transport
  Nicholas Nemirsky
• 2012 Solar-powered UAV: high-altitude, long endurance (HALE) applications
  Manish Bhatt
• 2012 Miniturization, integration, flight testing, and performance analysis of a scalable, autonomous. GPS guided parafoil system for targeted payload return
  Joshua Benton
• 2012 SJSU Outstanding Research Award in Aeronautics
• 2011 Airworthiness analysis of a modified KR-2 experimental aircraft
  Boris Bravo
  Presented at the 2012 AIAA Region VI Student Conference
• 2011 Design of a new stratotanker
  I-Chiang Wu
• 2011 Design of a small, solar-powered UAV
  Chris Hartney
  1^st Place, Masters Division, 2011 AIAA Region VI Student Conference
• 2011 SJSU Outstanding Research Award in Aeronautics
• 2011 HALE solar - powered aerial communicator
  Yaser Najafi
• 2011 VASIMR rocket design for a mission to Mars
  Mitesh Patel
• 2011 Design of a hoverwing aircraft
  Nita Shah
• 2011 Subsonic wind tunnel wall corrections on a wing with a Clark Y-14 airfoil
  Tommy Blackwell
• 2010 Propeller Design for a "Downwind, Faster than the Wind" Vehicle
  Shethal Thomas Kodiyattu
• 2010 CFD Wing Optimization for a 310 - Passenger / 120 - Ton Cargo Aircraft
  Kapil Chaitanya
• 2010 Design of a 50 - Seat Commuter Aircraft
  Rahail Ahmed.
• 2009 Design of an Advanced VTOL Dropship
  Dwayne E. Hickman Jr.
• 2009 Fly-by-Wire Flight Control System for Jet Transport Aircraft
  Deeptanshu Arnold
• 2009 Design of a 100 - Seat Regional Aircraft
  Praveen Kumar Morisetty
  Presented at the 2009 AIAA Region VI Student Conference
• 2007 Feasibility Study of the Effectiveness of High-Lift Devices on a Blended Wing Body Transport
  Mark Demann
  3rd Place, Masters Division, 2007 AIAA Region VI Student Conference
• 2007 SJSU Outstanding Research Award in Aeronautics
• 2007 Design of a Medium Range Blended Wing Body Transport
  Dave Matson
  1st Place, Masters Division, 2007 AIAA Region VI Student Conference
• 2007 Conceptual Design of a Small Hypersonic Transport
  John Candeias
• 2006 Design of an Annular Wing
  Ben Affleck
• 2006 Verification of Airworthiness of Modified KR-2 Aircraft
  Michael Nordin
• 2006 Formation Flying of Jet Transports
  Woon-Ho Cho
• 2006 Mechanical Integration, Testing & Delivery of the Large Area Telescope for the GLAST Program
  Eliazar Ortiz
• 2005 Design of a Hybrid Airplane
  Jim Colosimo
• 2005 Design of a Small UAV
  Jeremy Scheerer
• 2004 A User-Friendly, Interactive Program for the Design of Subsonic Jet Engine Compressors
  Sajesh Giri
• 2003 Three-Dimensional Image Registration
  Miki Sode
• 2003 Numerical Techniques Used in Modeling Species Concentrations & Evaporation Rates
  in a Multi-Component, Evaporating Droplet
  Robert Shearer
• 2002 Thermochemical Analysis of Hydrogen Peroxide with Applications to Rocket Design
  Robert A. Robles
• 1997 An Experimental Study of the Response of a Microphone Mounted in a Flat Plate
  Hedayat U. Hamid
• 1997 A 3-D Vortex Lattice Method Study of Delta Wings with and without Dihedral and Twist
  Akbar Sultan
• 1997 An Automatic Data Acquisition System for the SJSU Subsonic Wind Tunnel
  Spiros Agelopoulos
• 1997 An investigation of the flow over a flat plate at incidence with a vortex / sink combination
  Marcus Brooks
• 1996 Computational investigation of the low speed S1223 airfoil with and without a Gurney flap
  Edward Tejnil
• 1996 Pressure distribution on the underside of a flat bottom race car
  Alan Dezzani
• 1994 Experimental investigation of spanwise blowing on a 40-degree swept trapezoidal wing
  Stephane Couillaud