Associate Professor of Aerospace Engineering
About
Biography:
Professor Girard’s interests include the dynamics, control, and optimization of advanced, increasingly autonomous vehicles operating in space, air, ground or marine domains. She is a co-director of the Vehicle Optimization, Dynamics, Control and Autonomy Laboratory. In addition to modeling and control of the mechanical motions of such vehicles, Professor Girard, and the lab consider the related problems of trajectory optimization, increasing autonomy, optimal energy and heat management, and information collection. Recent applications include spacecraft, UAVs, fighter jets, autonomous cars and America’s Cup foiling catamarans.
Awards:
HONORS AND AWARDS
- Link Foundation Fellowship in Ocean Engineering and Instrumentation (2000- 2001)
- American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Best Student Paper Award, Ocean, Offshore and
- Arctic Engineering Division (May 2001)
- Visiting Summer Faculty Fellowship at AFRL, Summers (2005, 2006, 2007, 2008)
- National Academy of Engineering Frontiers of Engineering Participant (2007)
- AIAA Guidance, Navigation and Control Technical Committee (Elected) (2007-2011)
- Associate Member, AIAA (2008)
- Associate Fellow, AIAA (2015)
- Senior Member, IEEE (2014)
- Sigma Gamma Tau Silver Shaft Award (UM Teaching Award) (2013)
SOCIETY MEMBERSHIPS
IEEE, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
