Alison Flatau, University of Maryland, Moderator, Part I

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Abstract: Round Table -Adaptive Structures in the 21st Century – A Big Tent: Mid- and Early-Career Researchers Chart Paths Forward, Part I

Bio: Alison Flatau is a Professor and Chair of the University Maryland’s Department of Aerospace Engineering. Her experience includes four years as a test engineer at the National Wind Systems Test Center (now NREL), faculty at Iowa State University, program director at the National Science Foundation, PI of an ONR MURI and a Dresden Fellow while on sabbatical at the Technical University of Dresden, Germany. Her teaching and research interests are in the areas of smart materials and structures, with emphasis on magnetostrictive actuator and sensor technologies and active flow control. Prof. Flatau received the Women in Aerospace (WIA) Aerospace Engineering Educator of the Year Award, the SPIE Smart Structures and Materials Lifetime Achievement Award, and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Adaptive Structures and Materials Systems Prize, and she is a Fellow of the ASME and the AIAA.