5th International Conference and Exhibition on Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering October 02-04, 2017 Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

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

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

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

Timothy Sands completed his PhD at the Naval Postgraduate School and postdoctoral studies at Stanford University and Columbia University. He is Dean and Senior Military Professor at the Air Force Institute of Technology. He has published research in archival journals, conference proceedings, a book chapter, in addition to keynote and invitational presentations.

Nuclear Deterrence, Command and Control Communications, Korean Affairs, Chinese, Defense Systems Acquisitions, Guidance and Control, Space Systems, Astronautics, Aerospace, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Electronic Warfare

Jalal Torabzadeh is a Professor and the Chair of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and the Coordinator of the Mechanical and Petroleum Engineering programs at CSULB. Torabzadeh received his B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering from Abadan Institute of Technology in Iran and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Southern California. He taught and conducted research at USC for two years before joining CSULB in 1986. He has worked as a Reservoir Engineer with National Iranian Oil Company, as a Research Engineer for Chevron Oilfield Research Company, and as a Consultant for several national and international companies and government agencies. Torabzadeh is an active member of several professional and honor societies including: ASEE, SPE, SPWLA, SCA, Sigma Xi, Tau Beta Pi, Pi Epsilon Tau, and Pi Tau Sigma. He is the recipient of CSULB College of Engineering Outstanding Teaching Award, the TRW Excellence in Teaching Award, the Associated Engineering Student Body Distinguished Faculty Award, OCEC Outstanding Engineering Educator Award, SPE Distinguished Service Award, OCEC Distinguished Engineering Educator Award. He is a SPEI Distinguished Member, a Fellow of the Institute for the Advancement of Engineering, and a member of the Board of Directors of LASPE and LACES.

Thermodynamics, heat transfer, transport processes in porous media, hydrocarbon reservoir engineering and characterization, enhanced oil and gas recovery processes and thermal/fluid laboratory methods

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.

Bruce Chehroudi has accumulated years of technical and leadership experiences in different capacities and organizations. This includes such positions as President at Advanced Technology Consultants, Principal Scientist and Group Leader appointment at the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) ERCInc, a Chief Scientist at Raytheon STX, a Visiting Technologist at Ford’s Advanced Manufacturing Technology Development (AMTD) center, a tenured Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Kettering University and University of Illinois, and served as a Senior Research Staff/Research Fellow at Princeton University. Chehroudi directed numerous multi-million dollar interdisciplinary projects in areas involving chemically reacting flows, combustion and emission of pollutants, sustainable and alternative energy sources, distributed ignition, material/fuel injection, advanced pollution reduction technologies, propulsion concepts, gas turbine and liquid rocket engines, combustion instability, laser optical diagnostics, spectroscopy, supercritical fluids and applications in environmental and propulsion systems, advanced composites, MEMS, nanotechnology, and micro fluidics.

chemically reacting flows, combustion and emission of pollutants, sustainable and alternative energy sources, distributed ignition, material/fuel injection, advanced pollution reduction technologies, propulsion concepts, gas turbine and liquid rocket engines, combustion instability, laser optical diagnostics, spectroscopy, supercritical fluids and applications in environmental and propulsion systems, advanced composites, MEMS, nanotechnology, and micro fluidics.

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

Stephen A. Whitmore. is a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Utah State University. He joined USU after 28+ years working for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Dr. Whitmore's recent research focus at USU is on the development of piloted simulation models for lunar-return lifting reentry vehicles, with an emphasis of developing high-precision low-dispersion footprint techniques for lifting aero-capture and aero assist. He is supporting the NASA and Lockheed CEV Entry, Descent, and Landing EDL team. Dr. Whitmore is director of the Chimaera Hybrid Rocketry program at USU. Experience gained with the Chimaera rocket program has recently spun off a series of research topics focusing on the characterization and modeling of medium-scale experimental hybrid rocket motors. Dr. Whitmore teaches classes in compressible fluids, propulsion systems, and mechanical measurements at USU.

Propulsion Systems

Baskaya holds BSc in Mechanical Engineering and PhD in 2011 from Faculty of Aeronautics and Astronautics of Istanbul Technical University (ITU). He carried out his early research in cavitation and buble dynamics at ITU. Dr. Baskaya specializes in computational fluid dynamics and is also interested in applications of these numerical methods to various engineering problems, including Quasi-one-dimensional nozzle flows and Unsteady cavitating flows. He has published papers in reputed journals and is a member of NFPA and ASME. Dr Baskaya has also power industry experience that covers thermodynamic cycles, heat transfer and fluid flows. Dr. Baskaya is Chief Engineer at Unit Investment N.V and has more than fifteen years of engineering and applications expertise in the power plants.

computational fluid dynamics, Quasi-one-dimensional nozzle flows, Unsteady cavitating flows, Heat Transfer, Space Engineering Research and Space Science