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May, 2025
Prof Saxton-Fox was awarded funding from the Office of Naval Research! We are very grateful for the support from ONR, NSF, and AFOSR, which makes our research possible.
May, 2025
Congratulations to Mac Mack for graduating with a Master's degree!
April, 2025
Congrats to Marco Mattei for passing his preliminary exam!
November, 2024
Congratulations to Akhileshwar Borra for successfully defending his PhD thesis!
October, 2024
Congrats to Elizabeth Torres De Jesus for passing her preliminary exam!
February, 2024
Congrats to Professor Saxton-Fox on getting the NSF CAREER Award.
The Aerospace Department highlighted the achievement in this public-facing article.
December, 2023
Prof. Saxton-Fox was awarded funding by Department of Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP)
The Aerospace Department highlighted the achievement in this public-facing article.
August, 2023
The AE department highlighted our most recent paper (Parthasarathy & Saxton-Fox, 2023) in this public-facing article. Thanks to Debra Levey Larson for writing the article!
June, 2023
Congrats to Aadhy Parthsarathy on successfully defending her PhD thesis!
May, 2023
Congrats to Kuldeep Namdeo and Palash Waghmare for graduating with their Master's degrees, and to Zain Jamal for graduating with his bachelor's degree!
March, 2023
Congrats to Professor Saxton-Fox on being awarded a grant from the Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) Program of the Department of Defense!
The grant was awarded to 31 teams comprised of universities across the country, one of which includes a team composed of Professors Theresa Saxton-Fox, Andres Goza, and Phillip Ansell from the UIUC Aerospace Engineering Department with Professor Kathryn Matlack from the Mechanical Science and Engineering Department in collaboration with other faculty at California Institute of Technology, University of Pennsylvania, and Boston University. Read more here.
March, 2023
Congrats to Professor Saxton-Fox, Aadhy Parthasarathy, and Zain Jamal on their University awards!
Professor Saxton-Fox was awarded the 2023 College Award for Leadership or Institutional Impact on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (more here); Aadhy and Zain were awarded with the Aerospace Engineering Alumni Advisory Board Fellowship and the Lawrence Bergman Undergraduate Research Award respectively.
February, 2022
Theresa Saxton-Fox was featured in a Vox video about the aerodynamics of ski jumping!
June, 2021
Congratulations to Theresa Saxton-Fox on being awarded the Office of Naval Research's Young Investigator Program award! We are very grateful to the Navy, the National Science Foundation, and the Air Force for their financial support of our research.
April, 2021
Congratulations to Aadhy Sundarajan Parthasarathy for being awarded the Zonta International Amelia Earhart Fellowship! She wrote an excellent application based on her passion for aerodynamics and her PhD work on unsteady pressure gradient measurements. The Zonta International Amelia Earhart Fellowship is awarded to only 35 students globally per year.
March, 2021
Congratulations to Elizabeth Torres De Jesus on being awarded the National Science Foundation's Graduate Research Fellowship! She wrote an excellent research statement about her thesis project, studying the nonlinear interaction of large and small turbulent scales. The fellowship will provide financial support as she continues to progress through her PhD.
December, 2020
Congratulations to Jie Yang and Mark Bashqawi on graduating with their Bachelor's degrees from the Aerospace Engineering Department! We are very proud of Jie and Mark.
While in the Turbulent Dynamics Research Group, Jie designed an experiment to test the acoustics of rotorcraft blades as they changed their RPM in time. Jie presented his work at the American Physical Society Division of Fluid Dynamics in the fall of 2020.
While in the Turbulent Dynamics Research Group, Mark created a panel method to compute the forces on specific parts of an airfoil, allowing for the design of passively morphing airfoils that deform at particular angles of attack. He co-authored an abstract submitted to AIAA Aviation 2021 that is currently under review.
May, 2020
Congratulations to Jose Rodriguez on graduating with his Master's degree from the Aerospace Engineering Department! We are extremely proud of Jose, our first graduated graduate student!
While in the Turbulent Dynamics Research Group, Jose built a new boundary layer test section for the group, characterized the pressure gradients in the new test section, and wrote a thesis on his work. He has also worked on the design of a new experiment to study scale interaction in turbulent boundary layers. This summer he will measure the velocity field in the boundary layer.
Jose is now headed to Lockheed Martin, where he will be a Systems Engineer in an R&D group within the Aerodynamics Technology Center. We know that he will excel there, and wish him lots of fun and rewarding challenges in his career.
May, 2020
Congratulations to Himmat Singh on graduating with his Bachelor's degree from the Aerospace Engineering Department! We are very proud of Himmat, our first graduated undergraduate student!
While in the Turbulent Dynamics Research Group, Himmat designed and began the assembly of a system to rapidly pivot a large flap to study the boundary layer on the surface as it moves. He has also written a report and instructions on the design to enable the handover to other students.
April, 2020
Congratulations to Aadhy Parthasarathy for being awarded the Faculty Outstanding Graduate Student Award 2020!
The award recognizes outstanding contributions to the department's teaching and / or research missions.
April, 2020
Congratulations to Aadhy Parthasarathy and Siddhi Suri for getting an abstract accepted to the International Congress for Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (ICTAM) 2020+1!
January, 2020
Welcome to Akhileshwar Borra, who has joined the group as a new Masters student!
November, 2019
Jose Rodriguez, Aadhy Parthasarathy, and Theresa Saxton-Fox all went to the American Physical Society Division of Fluid Dynamics meeting.
Jose Rodriguez gave a presentation on enabling PIV in supersonic flows from his internship at the Air Force Research Lab.
Aadhy Parthasarathy presented a poster on a new experiment to generate highly unsteady pressure gradients in a wind tunnel.
Great job to both students!
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