Industry experience at The Aerospace Corporation

Lael Fisher, a recent PhD from Northwestern University, has found a professional home in the Navigation and Geopositioning Systems Department at The Aerospace Corporation in Los Angeles, California. Recently, Chad Topaz had the opportunity to ask Lael about her transition, which includes a switch from fluid dynamics to orbital dynamics and a switch from individual research to a team environment. Lael discusses the scientific and career development aspects of her recent experiences in this Q&A interview.

Airbus, nonlinear dynamics, and the A380

Over the past decade Airbus' Landing Gear Systems Group has been increasing its use of computer-based modeling and simulation technologies. The use of dynamical systems theory is playing an increasingly important role in identifying stability boundaries very quickly and efficiently. Etienne Coetzee, an employee at Airbus, Bristol, is a key driver of this development. Hinke Osinga talked to him on location at Airbus in Bristol to find out more about this exciting direction of research and how he got involved in it.

Dynamical Systems in Jet Engines: A Symmetry-Based Approach

Prashant Mehta, Gregory Hagen and Andrzej Banaszuk explain how dynamical systems theory is used in the design of jet engines at United Technologies Research Center.

Challenges and Dynamics at Dynetics

Bryan Rasmussen gives us some insight about his research activities on dynamical systems at the engineering company Dynetics.

Industrial experience at Philips Research Eindhoven

From May 2000 till March 2002 Gerton Lunter worked in the video signal processing group at Philips Natuurkundig Laboriatorium in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. He talked to Hinke Osinga for DSWeb Magazine about what it was like to work in such a commercial research environment.