- Commencement ceremony on December 17, 2016 – Ryan and Tracie will be walking.
- Ryan and Tracie successfully defended their PhD dissertations on December 9 and 13 respectively. Ryan goes back to Raytheon and Tracie will begin her dream job with NASA Ames. We wish them the best.
- Upcoming Defense dates: Ryan Sifford (PhD ME, December 9, 2016); Tracie Conn (PhD AE, December 13, 2016)
- ASL Thanksgiving Dinner on Nov 21, 2016. Laura, Pavan, and Alok joined us. This was the largest group yet.
- Papers accepted: AIAA SciTech 2017 – 3 (Pengkai (Bryce) Ru, Ziad); AAS Spaceflight Mechanics Meeting 2017 – 3 (Siddharth, Paul, Ameya, Murali)
- Paul presented two papers at the AIAA SPACE conference, Long Beach, CA, September 2016
- Paul and Ziad receive AFRL Space Scholars Fellowships to go to Kirtland AFB and Eglin AFB respectively for summer 2016
- April 2016, Dr. Subbarao was awarded an AFRL grant to study cooperative control of space systems subject to time delays.
- Tracie’s NASA Fellowship was renewed for 2016-17
- Dr. Subbarao was presented the Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company Excellence in Teaching Award (2016) at the Engineering Banquet.
- Siddharth Nair from IIT Mumbai and Ivan Doria from Sao Paolo, Brazil did their summer internships at ASL.
- Nazmus Sakib (UTA Junior) did his summer internship at ASL.
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