john e hurtado

John E. Hurtado

Associate Professor
Department of Aerospace Engineering
Texas A&M University

Current interests, The past, Publications, Animations, Teaching, Collaborators, Students, Snapshots & Albums, Other, Columnists

ESC. A new Lulu book is ready! "Elements of Spacecraft Control" is my latest writing project. See it here.

CONGRATULATIONS! Lesley Weitz successfully defended her PhD dissertation and graduated in May. She has accepted a research position with the MITRE Corporation beginning in the fall of 2009.

SPRING BREAK 2009. PA (Philadelphia, Gettysburg, Fallingwater, & Hershey).

COOL. Lowriders! And Cisco and Catarina rappelled Kyle Field.

Current interests

Theoretical Mechanics, Structural Dynamics, Games, Controls, & Dynamics

The past

Summary

Ph.D. Aerospace Engineering, TAMU, 1995. Some New Methods for Optimal Control of Constrained Dynamical Systems. Advised by J.L. Junkins.

Publications & presentations

Conference Papers, Journal Articles, In Review & In Preparation

Invited presentations:

@JSC (07.07.2004) Some aspects of N-Dim ...

@Cornell (11.15.2005) The lowdown on motion of ...

@TAMU (04.18.2006) A new dimension to ...

@Sandia (07.26.2006) Coordinate choices in ...

Self-Published Lecture Notes & Books. (See Lulu Collection here)

Elements of Spacecraft Control

Available from Lulu.com (May 2009)

J.E. Hurtado

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A guide for AERO628, graduate-level spacecraft control

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Kinematic and Kinetic Principles

Available from Lulu.com (Jan 2007)

J.E. Hurtado

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A guide for AERO622, graduate-level dynamics. (Updated in Dec 2007.)

A Kinematics and Kinetics Primer

Available from Lulu.com (Aug 2008)

J.E. Hurtado

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A guide for AERO310, junior-level dynamics

Problem Set: A Kinematics and Kinetics Primer

Available from Lulu.com (Aug 2008)

J.E. Hurtado

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Applied Dynamic Programming for Optimization of Dynamical Systems

SIAM (2005)

(with R.D. Robinett III, D.G. Wilson, & G.R. Eisler)

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In preparation

Higher Dimensional Rotational and Theoretical Mechanics

(A research monograph)

J.E. Hurtado and A.J. Sinclair

Book Chapter

Appendix H, Hamel Coefficients for the Rotational Motion of a Rigid Body, in H. Schaub and J.L. Junkins, Analytical Mechanics of Space Systems, AIAA (2003).

Animations

D&See

Teaching

AERO211 Aerospace Engineering Mechanics

AERO310 Aerospace Dynamics

AERO622 Spacecraft Dynamics and Control

AERO627 Principles of Structural Dynamics

AERO628 Advanced Spacecraft Dynamics and Control

AERO6xx AAD, AERO6yy HDM

thecourses

history

ratings

graduate-level d&c offerings

Research collaborators

:: Dr. Andrew J. Sinclair (Post Doctoral Visiting Research Scientist, Summer 2005; now Assistant Professor at Auburn)

:: Dr Rajnish Sharma (Assistant Professor at Univ of Alabama)

:: Dr Lesley Weitz (Researcher at the MITRE Corporation)

:: Dr Rush D. Robinett III (Sandia National Laboratories SNL)

:: Dr James D. Turner (Formerly of Dynacs; Director of CASS)

:: Dr Shaun M. Immel (Director of Engineering, ITW Ride Quality Products)

Students

Ph.D.

:: Julie Parish, Direct linearization of PDEs (2008-2009 Amelia Earhart Fellowship; 2005-2008 NSF Fellowship; 2005-2008 NDSEG Fellowship; Department of Homeland Security National Fellowship; 2004 Benjamin and Deanna Smith Scholarship, National Merit Scholar).

:: Carolina I Restrepo, Spacecraft reentry controls and analysis (2008-2009 Amelia Earhart Fellowship; 2005-2008 NSF Fellowship).

:: Kevin Brink, Higher-order methods and algorithms (NSF GK-12 Mentor, SMART scholarship recipient, Sandia National Laboratories Excellence in Engineering Fellowship).

M.S.

:: Clark Moody (Co-advised w/ Dr Valasek) (Boeing Fellowship Award for Summer 2009)

:: Kurt Cavalieri (Co-advised w/ Dr Junkins)

:: Kristen Holmstrom

:: Davis Castillo (2007-2008 Texas A&M Graduate Diversity Fellowship)

:: NASA Micro-Gravity Team (Travis Cagle, Nathan Cunningham, Lianne Netardus, and Daniel Seitz), experiments to observe the effect that a liquid inside a rotating prism will have on the stability of its rotation about its major, minor, and intermediate axis. We all know about the stability of near pure spin states for a rigid body (fixed mass distribution), but the experiment intends to observe how this well-known behavior will be affected by a variable mass distribution. See http://people.tamu.edu/~tcagle/Site/Team.html

Completed Students (23)

Advisement (16) (see OGS Degree Plans)

Fellowship & Scholarship Programs