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Meeting	ACGS Committee Meeting 98 - Williamsburg - October 2006
Agenda Location	4 GENERAL COMMITTEE TECHNICAL SESSION 4.2 Research Institutions, Industry and University Reports 4.2.1 Universities 4.2.1.6 UC Irvine
Title	UC Irvine
Presenter	Ken Mease
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Abstract	In the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department, two new faculty members were added over the summer, one of these in guidance, navigation and control. There is an ongoing search for 4 more aerospace faculty: two in structures, one in space propulsion and one in aerospace systems. In the Flight Dynamics and Control Lab, three research projects are in progress. Model Decomposition for Multiple Time-Scale Nonlinear Dynamical Systems is funded by NSF. In this project, Lyapunov exponents and vectors are used for nonlinear systems for purposes similar to those for which eigenvalues and eigenvectors are used for linear time-invariant systems. Entry Guidance for Mars Landing, a collaborative project with JPL engineers, is funded by JPL. Entry and aerocapture guidance laws are being developed and tested to support future Mars missions. Flight Control via Internal Moving Mass is a collaborative project with Optimal Synthesis, Inc., funded by an STTR from MDA. The UCI Rocket Project, involving a team of 25 students with the speaker serving as the faculty advisor, successfully designed, built and launched a 12 foot rocket that reached an altitude of almost 10,000 feet. The speaker has also been involved in the COSMOS summer program for high school students, an in-residence 4 week program in which top California high school students attend lectures about aircraft aerodynamics and flight mechanics and control and build and fly R/C airplanes.