J.F. Woodward completed a Ph.D. in history (of science) at the University of Denver in 1972 after obtaining bachelors and masters degrees in physics at Middlebury College and New York University in the 1960s. Retired in 2005, he is emeritus professor of history and adjunct professor of physics at California State University Fullerton where he continues to do experimental work on advanced propulsion and the enigmatic sciences (gravity manipulation). Noting that inertia in general relativity is a gravitational phenomenon where local objects are seemingly instantaneously coupled to distant matter in the universe, he has elaborated a way that transient phenomena can be used to perform said manipulation. This, and other material related to this talk, can be found in his recent book: Making Starships and Stargates: the Science of Interstellar Propulsion and Absurdly Benign Wormholes published by Springer Verlag in 2013. His work is supported by the exotic propulsion initiative of the Space Studies Institute.

advanced propulsion and enigmatic sciences

Ephraim Suhir is Distinguished Member of Technical Staff (ret), Bell Laboratories, Basic Research, Physical Sciences and Engineering Research Division, Murray Hill, NJ. He is currently on the faculty of the Electrical Engineering Dept. University of California, Santa Cruz, CA. He is also Visiting Professor, Mechanical Engineering Dept., University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and Guest Professor, Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi’an, China. He is Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the American Physical Society (APS), the Institute of Physics (IoP), UK, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers(ASME), and the Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE).

Dynamic Response of Materials and Structures to Shocks and Vibrations, Automotive and Aerospace Electronics and Vehicular (Aerospace, Maritime, etc.) Missions Success and Safety

Richard W. Longman is professor of mechanical and civil engineering, Columbia University, and was Distinguished Romberg Guest Professor, University of Heidelberg, Germany. He received a 50,000 Euro Award for lifetime achievement in research from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, and the Dirk Brouwer Award from the American Astronautical Society (AAS) for contributions to spaceflight mechanics. He is Fellow of AAS and AIAA. He served the AAS as Vice President - Publications, VP Technical, First Vice President, and Member Board of Directors. His doctorate is from the University of California, San Diego, under Prof. R. E. Roberson who did the first study of satellite attitude control in 1951, 6 years before the first satellite. Professor Longman has coauthored approximately 450 publications.

Space Robotics: Dynamics and Control,Satellite Attitude Dynamics. - See more at: http://mechanical-aerospace.conferenceseries.com/2015/organizing-committee.php#sthash.22SMEUBz.dpuf

Shaaban Abdallah, a professor of Aerospace Engineering, has been at the university of Cincinnati since 1989. He obtained his PhD in Aerospace Engineering at the university of Cincinnati in 1980. Dr. Abdallah joined Penn State University from 1981 to 1988. His research interests include Computational Fluid Dynamics, nano fluids, Turbo-machines, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and Medical devices. Abdallah has two US patents on centrifugal compressors and three disclosures with university of Cincinnati on medical devices.

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, Nano fluids and Computational Fluid Dynamics

Michael Keidar is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at The George Washington University. He is Director of The George Washington Institute for Nanotechnology a consortium of laboratories which includes the MpNL.Michael is a Senior Member of The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), and an Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) and a founding member of the International Society of Plasma Medicine (ISPM), and a member of AIAA Electric Propulsion Technical Committee (EP).

Aerospace engineering; Biomedical engineering; Fluid mechanics, thermal science and energy; Mechanical engineering; Nanotechnologies; Propulsion

Shawn Boike has consulted & lead teams for professionally worked in, managed, lead teams & consulted for the Technological leaders of fortune 50; PPG Aerospace, Honeywell, HCL Aerospace, Boeing, AAR, General Dynamics, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, GM, FORD, NASA and McDonnell Douglas, the USAF’s IMIP. With over 29 industrious years experience engineering in Aerospace & Product Development, (17+ Aircraft) on the B2 Bomber, USAF One, F20, F18, C17, MD11, T45, MD90, MRUAV, 777. 787, 747-8, Apache helicopter, 3 Rocket ships; ALS, Atlas II, Atlas IIAS, Manager on EV's; GM-EV1, Samsungs EV4, India’s Mina REVA and many other high tech programs.He is Founder of American Industrial Consultants & Solution Vehicles Co., Author and gained a BSME from MSU and a MBA from San SDSU.

Aerospace Engineering and Product Development

Ramesh K. Agarwal is the William Palm Professor of Engineering and the director of Aerospace Research and Education Center at Washington University in St. Louis. From 1994 to 2001, he was the Sam Bloomfield Distinguished Professor and Executive Director of the National Institute for Aviation Research at Wichita State University in Kansas. From 1978 to 1994, he worked in various scientific and managerial positions at McDonnell Douglas Research Laboratories in St. Louis. He became the Program Director and McDonnell Douglas Fellow in 1990. Dr. Agarwal received Ph.D in Aeronautical Sciences from Stanford University in 1975, M.S. in Aeronautical Engineering from the University of Minnesota in 1969 and B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India in 1968. He is the author and coauthor of over 400 publications and serves on the editorial board of 20+ journals. He has given many plenary, keynote and invited lectures at various national and international conferences worldwide. Professor Agarwal continues to serve on many academic, government, and industrial advisory committees. Dr. Agarwal is a Fellow of sixteen societies including the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), American Association for Advancement of Science (AAAS), American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), American Physical Society (APS), American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), Royal Aeronautical Society and American society for Engineering Education (ASEE). He has received many prestigious honors and national/international awards from various professional societies and organizations for his research contributions.

Computational Fluid Dynamic,Flow Control,Computational Electromagnetics.

Elzbieta Jarzebowska is currently a professor at the Institute of Aeronautics and Applied Mechanics at the Power and Aeronautical Engineering Department, Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland. She received the B.S., M.S., Ph.D., and D.Sc. degrees in mechanical engineering, control and mechanics of constrained systems, from the Warsaw University of Technology. Her fields of research expertise and teaching include dynamics modeling and analysis of multibody systems, nonlinear control of multibody systems including nonholonomic, under actuated, UAV, and mobile robotic systems, and geometric control theory. Prof. Jarzębowska was involved in research projects for Automotive Research Centre and Engineering Research Centre for Reconfigurable Machining Systems at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI. Also, she gained valuable experience when worked for Ford Motor Company Research Laboratories, Dearborn, MI. She is the author and coauthor of five handbooks and a monograph in mechanics and control, and more than 100 publications. She is a member of ASME, IEEE, GAMM, IFToMM Technical Committee of Mechatronics, and International Society for Advanced Research – Italy based society and a scientific publisher.

Dynamics of multibody systems, Nonlinear control Theory of nonholonomic systems and Mechatronics. -

Khalil Khanafer has completed his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Ohio State University. He has several years of experience in modeling thermal and biomedical applications. He is the head of Mechanical Engineering Department at Australian College of Kuwait. He has published more than 40 peer-reviewed journals and has been serving as an Associate Editors for Journal of Porous media and Special Topics & Reviews in Porous Media: An International Journal, and in the editorial board of Annals of Vascular Surgery

Computational Fluid Dynamics, modeling thermal and biomedical applications

Yehia Abdel-Aziz is Full Professor of Space Flight Dynamics and Control at Solar and Space Research Department, NRIAG, Egypt. He was the Secretary General of the National Egyptian Committee of Space Research for COSPAR since February 2005 up to 2014. He is the founder of the Spacecraft Charging Laboratory at NRIAG, Egypt. He is leading two different teams working in orbital and attitude control, and Spacecraft charging. He received the B. Sc. Degree in Applied Mathematics (1991) and MSc. in Attitude Dynamics of spacecraft (1998) from Mansoura University, Egypt. In December 2002 he received his PhD in orbital Mechanics from Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland. He is also a Visiting Scholar at Laboratory of Spacecraft Environment Interaction Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology (KIT), Japan, UNESP, Brazil and CETP, Paris- France. He published more than 33 papers in reputable journals. His area of interest: Attitude dynamics and control of spacecraft, orbital mechanics, Formation Flying satellite, space Debris and spacecraft charging. He is the PI for three projects and member of other four projects.

Attitude dynamics and control of spacecraft, orbital mechanics, Formation Flying satellite, space Debris and spacecraft charging.