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

CONGRATULATIONS! Rajnish Sharma successfully defended his PhD dissertation. He has accepted a faculty position at The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa beginning Fall 2008.

Dodgers 368, Astros 1. (Binary). Catarina and Paul; DodgersJuly02

CONGRATULATIONS! Kevin Brink has been awarded a SMART scholarship. Kevin has also been awarded the Sandia National Laboratories Excellence in Engineering Fellowship. Unfortunately he will be unable to accept this. Please join me in congratulating him.

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

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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 ...

See Lulu Collection here

A Kinematics and Kinetics Primer

Available from Lulu.com (Aug 2008)

J.E. Hurtado

(preview)

A guide for AERO310, junior-level dynamics

Problem Set: A Kinematics and Kinetics Primer

Available from Lulu.com (Aug 2008)

J.E. Hurtado

(preview)

Kinematic and Kinetic Principles

Available from Lulu.com (Jan 2007)

J.E. Hurtado

(preview)

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

Applied Dynamic Programming for Optimization of Dynamical Systems

SIAM (2005)

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

(preview)

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).

In preparation

Higher Dimensional Rotational and Theoretical Mechanics

(A research monograph)

J.E. Hurtado and A.J. Sinclair

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 (the ratings for spring 07 are clearly outside 3s)

graduate-level d&c offerings

Research collaborators

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

:: 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.

:: Lesley Weitz, Methods of cooperative control (2007 AIAA GN&C Graduate Student Award, 2004-2007 NSF Fellowship; 2005-2006 Amelia Earhart Fellowship; 2004-2005 Amelia Earhart Fellowship; 2004 Tau Beta Pi Spencer Fellowship; 2004 Texas Space Grant Consortium Fellowship; 2004 Langley Aerospace Research Summer Scholar).

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

:: 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).

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

M.S.

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

:: Clark Moody (Co-advised w/ Dr Valasek)

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

:: Kristen Holmstrom, robotics (Undergraduate Research Scholars Program, SEI undergraduate researcher; former intern at JSC and GSC)

:: 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 (22)

Advisement (16) (see OGS Degree Plans)