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- Structures (integrated multifunctional design, damage mechanics, nonlinear mechanics, radiation physics, loads and dynamics)
Critical Skills:
- Multifunctional design
- Damage mechanics
- Nonlinear mechanics
- Radiation physics
- Loads and dynamics
- Structures experimental techniques
- Materials (lightweight materials, multifunctional materials, computational design, environmental interactions, innovative processing)
Critical Skills:
- Light alloys
- High-performance polymers
- Multifunctional materials
- Advanced characterization methods
- Computationally guided materials design
- Extreme materials
- Microstructural analysis
- Materials testing
- Environmental effects modeling
- Near net shape fabrication
- Composites processing
- Facility/chemical safety
- Measurement Sciences (noninvasive measurement techniques and physics-based models of measurement methodologies)
Critical Skills:
- NDE detection systems
- Structural health monitoring
- NDE modeling
- RF/microwaves (antennas, RCS, radar)
- Laser sensing for wind tunnel atmospherics
- MEMS and nano sensing
- Optical materials and devices
- Chemical sensing
- Smart visual awareness
- Acoustics (source noise, system noise, structural acoustics, and psychoacoustics)
Critical Skills:
- Analytical aeroacoustics
- Experimental aeroacoutics
- Computational aeroacoustics
- Duct/liner acoustics
- System noise prediction
- Flight test
- Non-linear structural response
- Structural acoustics
- Psychoacoustic test/analysis
- Synthesis and simulation
- Aerodynamics (subsonic/transonic/supersonic aerodynamics, aeroelasticity and controls, fluid physics and modeling, flow control, computational methods, uncertainty)
Critical Skills:
- Unsteady aerodynamics
- Aeroelasticity
- Aeroservoelasticity
- Flow physics
- Flow control
- Turbulence and transition
- Advanced computational algorithms
- Code development
- Aerodynamic design and optimization
- Uncertainty quantification
- Applied aerodynamics
- Hypersonics (physics and chemistry modeling, aerothermodynamics, airbreathing propulsion)
Critical Skills:
- Physics and chemistry model development
- Numerical methods and code development
- Code application
- Experimental aerothermodynamics
- Experimental airbreathing propulsion
- Advanced non-intrusive diagnostics development/integration
- Vehicle configuration development and optimization
- Flight Dynamics and Controls (flight dynamics, control theory, systems identification, guidance and trajectory optimization, flying qualities)
Critical Skills:
- System identification
- Control theory, design, analysis, and implementation
- Uncertainty in dynamic systems
- Guidance and trajectory optimization
- Flying qualities
- Flight dynamic prediction and analysis
- Aerodynamic measurement and applied fluid mechanics
- Flight testing of sub- and full-scale vehicles
- Flight simulation
- Crew Systems and Aviation Operations (air traffic operations, flight deck interface, human automation integration, atmospheric hazards and wake turbulence)
Critical Skills:
- Aerospace modeling, simulation, and aero performance
- Air traffic operations and concepts
- En Route
- Terminal
- ATC
- ATOS
- Managing diverse vehicles (UAS/VLJ/GA)
- Flight deck interface technologies
- Human automation, functional allocation/integration
- Human operator performance assessment
- Avionics and flight management system
- Aviation atmospheric hazards and wake hazard character
- Experiment design with and without human test subjects
- System engineering and analysis
- Simulation validation and verification
- Certification methods for emerging technologies and operations
- Safety-Critical Avionics Systems (high confidence software-intensive systems)
Critical Skills:
- Software verification
- Software assurance
- Fault-tolerant systems
- Robust digital systems
- Experimental validation
- Health management
- Avionics systems
- EMI/HIRF/Lightning measurement
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