COLLEGE OF ENGINEERINGAEROSPACE ENGINEERING

CLASS OF 2020

CONGRATS GRADUATES!

DEAR AEROSPACE GRADUATES OF THE CLASS OF 2020:

On behalf of the faculty and staff of the department, I want to offer a heartfelt congratulations on your accomplishments. We would be proud of you for successfully completing what we know is a challenging degree program under any circumstances, but you deserve a special pat on the back for finishing your degree in a semester unlike any other. In a normal year, I would be on stage congratulating each of you in person at commencement; I am sorry to have to do so by email this year. Please know that we consider you part of the Michigan Aero family, and look forward to your keeping us apprised of your progress through the years. You should also know that our desire to help you in your careers does not end with your graduation from the program.

It has been an honor and a pleasure to teach you. Congratulations, good luck, and Go Blue!

—Ken Powell, Undergraduate Chair

Jacob T AckenhusenEytan J AdlerLiam Andre Alexis Divyang Mayank AminJames AndersonHariprasad AnnamalaiMike BakerTyler James BakerRalf BejkoChristopher E BesslerAlexander E BrudererEvan Patrick BunkerKrissian Itzel CaizaAlex Takuya CarrollAndrew John CaulkinsMarc ChattrabhutiAlex H ChenSpencer X ChenYuxin ChenZhibo ChenSae Hyun CheonKellyn E ClinkAlexander W CoppeansGuilherme Costa NascimentoJacob S CrouchAlexander George Cucos

Naomi EndresJoshua T FagerlinSahil A FarishtaCameron L FishBenjamin J FosterDuncan S FujiiCole Smith GibbsGregory P Gicewicz JrEva M GnegyMax A GreenbaumAdam C HaukeClaire A HerlacheRobert J HermanoffFernando HernandezKelsey Anne HiteBenjamin H HwangKevin M JacobsStefan N JohnsonAdam Henry KellyKamal KhanDavid L KoelzerMarc Anthony KoerschnerRobert T KohringAvery J KressTyler LamiratoTony LiChun Liu

Shuheng LiuBrendan G MacklemTrevor William MaesDan MaguireOwen R MarrAlexander Shih-Ning MarshalekAntony MiranghiJin NamgoongJakob M NezkiXavier Joel NucklesConor O’DonnellSabrina OlsonRus PangilinanGeoff ParkesPriyank Ashishkumar PatelBjorn L PearsonRonnie Frank Pires StoneBruce Joseph PortnoffReid D PringleEthan T ProberBrandon J RayShawn G RobertsDrake David RundellHelen M SaggesHiren SaravanaJustin Schachter

Max Harrison SchererAlexander J SchwedtFrank Anthony ScolaHarry SoodBrian Matthew SpanglerNoah S SpringerJames M StieberShigemitsu SuzukiSean Aaron TimbsDiego ToralTrevor A TorosRyan N TupperDeimante TuskenyteRicardo G Van ZantenJack VecchioAlexander J VigneauKangjin WangTingkang WangAdam J WassermanJames Joseph Wich JrAustin Logan WolfgramAndrew K WongRichard YangDavid YoonDean YuanZixiao Zhang

Undergraduate Student Remarks from Ken Powell

Dear Aerospace graduates of the Class of 2020:

On behalf of the faculty and staff of the department, I want to offer a heartfelt congratulations on your accomplishments. We would be proud of you for successfully completing what we know is a challenging degree program under any circumstances, but you deserve a special pat on the back for finishing your degree in a semester unlike any other. In a normal year, I would be on stage congratulating each of you in person at commencement; I am sorry to have to do so by email this year. Please know that we consider you part of the Michigan Aero family, and look forward to your keeping us apprised of your progress through the years. You should also know that our desire to help you in your careers does not end with your graduation from the program.

It has been an honor and a pleasure to teach you. Congratula-tions, good luck, and Go Blue!

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN ENGINEERING

William Michael BentzDissertation: Dynamic Coverage Control and Estimation In Collaborative Networks of Human-Aerial/Space Co-RobotsDissertation Chair: Professor Dimitra Panagou

Ethan Thomas DaleDissertation: Investigation of the Hall Thruster Breathing ModeDissertation Co-Chairs: Professor Alec D. Gallimore and Benjamin Alexander Jorns

Brittany Corinne EssinkDissertation: Design and Implementation of Mechanical MetamaterialsDissertation Chair: Daniel J. Inman

Ayoub Gouasmi Dissertation: Contributions to the Development of Entropy-Stable Schemes for Compressible FlowsDissertation Chair: Professor Karthik Duraisamy

John JasaDissertation: Multidisciplinary Design Optimization of an Aircraft Considering Path-Dependent PerformanceDissertation Co-Chairs: Professor Joaquim R.R.A. Martins and Dr. Charles Mader

Dominic Martin Liao-McPhersonDissertation: Variational and Time-Distributed Methods for Real-Time Model Predictive ControlDissertation Chair: Professor Ilya Vladimir Kolmanovsky

DEAR STUDENTS:

Congratulations on your graduation this semester! When you started graduate school, you probably did not imagine

finishing under such circumstances. However, you have adapted and completed your degree successfully, and for

this you should be proud. Although the faculty cannot congratulate you in person this term, please know that we

are certainly impressed by your accomplishments. We look forward to having you come back to campus in the future

so that we can see you again in person. It was a pleasure teaching you, and we wish you all the best in wherever life

takes you next!

—Chris Fidkowski, Graduate Chair

Zachary ChambersLiqiang ChenJason ContiWeiming DingWilliam FangOscar Gonzalez GallegoPeyton HookerAustin HuffmanGanghyeok ImRunda Ji

Koray KacharShruthi KameshYash KapoorJustin KerrSeung Jun KiBradford KnightAlice Le BiannicBrendan LenhardtStephen LisiusMurtaza Lokhandwala

Travis MillarAswath Mohanan Ashish Suraj Kumar NairDennis ParkMihir PatelDario PotterRahul RameshShivani SakriTeng TengSteven van Leeuwen

Nicholas VandykeMalik WaliYe WangZhu WangJohn WiegandJoshua WilhelmYufei ZhuGarrett Zuck

MASTER OF SCIENCE IN ENGINEERING

DOCTORATE OF PHILOSOPHY IN AEROSPACE ENGINEERING

DEAR AERO STUDENTS:

Congratulations! You now join the world’s largest Alumni body and you do so at a time unlike any other that we have witnessed! Your ability to rise

up to the challenge of leaving campus, yet settling down and finishing your classes this semester is testimony to the true Blue grit! As a Michigan alumni, the faculty and staff are very proud of your accomplishments and

all of us have enjoyed interacting with you, teaching you and learning from you. We are confident that whatever career path you choose, you now have the tools to succeed. You will always be a part of the UM Aero family which started in 1914 and continues to this day. Please stay in touch with the Aero

department. We will be happy to send you our newsletters and invite you back to campus regularly!

My best wishes for your continued success! Congrats and GO BLUE!

—Tony Waas, Department Chair

MESSAGE FROM DEPARTMENT CHAIR