Drew Landman, Ph. D., P.E.

Education:

Doctor of Philosophy, Aerospace Engineering, Old Dominion University, May 1998, focus: Experimental Fluid Mechanics and Aerodynamics - Wind Tunnel Test Techniques.Dissertation topic: Experimental Geometry Optimization Techniques for Multi-Element Airfoils.

Master of Science, Mechanical Engineering, Lehigh University, December 1984, focus: Mechanical Design for Automation and Computer Aided Design. Thesis topic: Design and Testing of a Robot End Effector Exchange Mechanism.

Bachelor of Science, Mechanical Engineering, Lehigh University, June 1983.

Experience:

January 2006 - Present: Manager and Chief Engineer LFST, see below

June 2002-Dec 2005: Assistant Manager LFST, administrative duties in addition to Chief Engineer (see below)

1998-Present: Associate professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering, Old Dominion University, responsible for teaching experimental fluid mechanics course, Co-teaching Design of Experiments and Response Surface Methods for wind tunnel applications. Responsible for undergraduate/masters courses, introduction to aerodynamics, ground vehicle aerodynamics.Graduate student supervision, Co-PI Center for Experimental Aeronautics.

May 1996-Present: Langley Full-Scale Tunnel, As Chief Engineer and later Manager I helped develop the mothballed NASA LaRC 30 X 60 into the Langley Full Scale Tunnel, a self sufficient Enterprise center of ODU. Projects include the development of a new automotive balance, full-scale balance refurbishment and calibration, modifications for heavy truck testing, and a data acquisition system with custom software.Project and lead test engineer on countless race car test entries in NASCAR, Grand-Am, ALMS.Lead engineer on Design of Experiments based - wind tunnel testing.UAV lead test engineer including the X-48B Blended Wing Body. Devloped new Automotive, 6 DOF, modular balance system for NASA LaRC 14 x 22 wind tunnel - ODU now leads all automotive tests at this facility.See Photographs in Gallery

Aug 1987-May 1998: Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering Technology, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA.Courses taught: mechanical design, computer aided design and drafting, dynamics, and fluid mechanics.Part time support of LFST began in May 1996.

1985-87: Mechanical Design Engineer, Equipment R & D, Motorola Inc., Mesa, AZ - Research and design of high speed automated handling and marking machines for integrated circuit packages.

Research Projects:

June 1996-present: Langley Full-Scale Tunnel, As Chief Engineer and later Manager I helped develop the mothballed NASA LaRC 30 X 60 into the Langley Full Scale Tunnel, a self sufficient Enterprise center of ODU. Projects include the development of a new automotive balance, full-scale balance refurbishment and calibration, modifications for heavy truck testing, and a data acquisition system with custom software.Project and lead test engineer on countless automotive race car entries.Lead engineer on Design of Experiments - wind tunnel testing.UAV lead test engineer including the X-48B Blended Wing Body. Devloped new automotive, 6 DOF, modular balance system for NASA LaRC 14 x 22 wind tunnel - ODU now leads all automotive tests at this facility. Over $6 M research income. See Photographs in Gallery

June 1999-present: Center for Experimental Aeronautics, Colin Britcher PI, Drew Landman Co-PI, development of coursework and teaching facility upgrades in support of the NASA LaRC Wind Tunnel Engineering effort.Primarily responsible for 3 course sequence in Design of Experiments and Response Surface Methods in cooperation with Dr. Jiames Simpson of Florida State University $1M.

Jan 2004- Jan 2005: "DOE Balance Calibration with Restricted Randomization," NASA LaRC,

Co-PI with Dr. James Simpson. Continued work with heavy load strain gage balance calibration. $50 K.

Jan 2003-Oct 2003: "Design of Experiments in Traditional Dead Weight Calibration of Strain Gauge Balances," NASA LaRC, Co-PI with Dr. James Simpson, heavy load strain gage balance calibration using DOE/RSM methods $30K

Jan 1996-Aug 1996: NASA Task Order, Multi-Element Airfoil Optimization, wind tunnel testing for NASA Langley Multi-Disciplinary Design and Optimization Branch. Lift was optimized on a two-dimensional three-element airfoil with remotely actuated flap (RAF) using surrogate optimization algorithms. (technical monitor Dr. John Otto). $10K

May 1995-Aug 1995: ASEE Summer Faculty Fellow at NASA Langley (Subsonic Aerodynamics Branch), development of instrumentation and programming for Remotely Actuated Flap Multi-Element wind tunnel model. $10K

Jan 1994-May 1994: NASA Langley (Experimental Flow Physics Branch), Remotely Actuated Flap multi-element wind tunnel model fabrication and testing.$45K

May 1993-Aug 1993: ASEE Summer Faculty Fellow at NASA Langley (Experimental Flow Physics Branch), RAF wind tunnel model design.$10K

Research Areas

Aerospace and ground vehicle low speed aerodynamics, race car aerodynamics, wind tunnel test techniques including Design of Experiments as applied to wind tunnel testing, experimental fluid mechanics and instrumentation, experimental optimization techniques

Graduate Student Opportunities:

Aspiring graduate students that are US citizens or citizens of NATO countries and interested in the research areas listed below should feel free to contact me at any time about opportunities at the Langley Full-Scale Tunnel www.lfst.com (email: dlandman@odu.edu) located on the Langley Air Force Base in Hampton, VA.

Selected Publications (Chronological):

"Efficient Methods for Complex Aircraft Configuration Aerodynamic Characterization using Response Surface Methodologies," Landman, D. et. al.,AIAA paper 2006-0922, presented at the AIAA ASM, January 2006

"A High Performance Aircraft Wind Tunnel Test using Response Surface Methodologies," Landman, D. et. al.,AIAA paper 2005-7602, presented at the AIAA/Airforce T and E Days, December 2005

"An Assessment of Drag Reduction Devices for Heavy Trucks Using Design of Experiments and Computational Fluid Dynamics", I. Bayraktar, D. Landman, W.K. Cary, R. Wood, J.Flamm, C. Hunter, Overviews, Multiple Trailer-Mounted Devices; Tires, Splash and Spray and Emissions; Full Scale Assessments, SP-1985, pp. 53-64, SAE International, ISBN 0-7680-1696-7. (also to appear in 2006 SAE Transactions)

"Evaluation of the Wright 1902 Glider Using Full-Scale Wind-Tunnel Data,"Kochersberger,K ; Landman, D; Player, J. L.; Hyde, K.W., AIAA Journal of Aircraft, Vol. 42, No. 3, May-June 2005

"Particle Image Velocimetry Measurements to Evaluate the Effectiveness ofDeck-Edge Columnar Vortex Generators on Aircraft Carriers," Landman, D.; Lamar, J.; Swift, R.,RTO MP AVT-124 No. 8., Presented at the AVT Symposium, April, 2005

"Experimentation with Randomization Restrictions: Targeting Practical Implementation," Simpson, J.R., Kowalski, S.M., Landman, D.; Journal of Quality and Reliability Engineering International 2004; Vol 20, pp 1-15

"Manual Balance Calibration using Designed Experiment Methods," Simpson, J.; Landman, D.; Rhew, R.; Giroux, R.; and Hall, B; Fourth International Symposium on Strain Gauge Balances, San Diego CA, May 10-14, 2004

"Ground Influence on External Ground Vehicle Aerodynamics", Bayraktar, I., Landman, D., 2003, IMECE2003-41224, 2003 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and R&D Exposition, Washington, DC.

"Design of Experiments Enhances Race Car Performance," Kowalski, S., Landman, D., Simpson, J., Scientific Computing and Instrumentation, June 2003

"Evaluation of the Wright 1901 Glider using Full-Scale Wind-Tunnel Data," Kochersberger, K., Ash, R., Britcher, C., Landman, D., AIAA Journal of Aircraft, Vol. 40, No. 3, May-June 2003

"Performance Automotive Application of Pressure-Sensitive Paint in a Full-Scale Wind Tunnel," Lee, S.Y., et al.,

SAE 2002 Transactions: Journal of Passenger Cars, V 111-6pp.2233-2244

"Use of Designed Experiments in Wind Tunnel Testing of Performance Automobiles," Landman, D., et al., SAE 2002 Transactions: Journal of Passenger Cars,V 111-6pp.2339-2346

"Experimental and Computational Investigation of Ahmed Body for Ground Vehicle Aerodynamics," by Ilhan Bayraktar, Drew Landman, and Oktay Baysal, SAE 2002 Transactions: Journal of Commercial Vehicles, Vol. 110, Section 2, pp.613-626.

"Propeller Performance of Wright Brothers' "Bent End" Propellers," R.L. Ash, S.J. Miley, and D. Landman,

AIAA Journal of Aircraft, Vol. 39, No. 2, March-April 2002

"Wind Tunnel Testing of the Wright Brothers' Model B Airfoil," by Drew Landman, et al, AIAA Journal of Aircraft, Vol. 39, No. 1, January-February 2002

"Test Section Flow Quality Surveys of the Langley Full-Scale Tunnel" by Julian J. Alvarez and Drew Landman, AIAA paper 2002-0739, Presented at the AIAA 2002 Aerospace Sciences Meeting, January 2002

"Ground Testing: The Year In Review," by Drew Landman, Aerospace America, December 2001

"Experimental Investigation of Multi-Element Airfoil Lift Hysteresis due to Flap Rigging," by Drew Landman and Colin P. Britcher," AIAA Journal of Aircraft, Vol. 38, No. 4, July-August 2001

"Ground Testing: The Year In Review," by Drew Landman, Aerospace America, December 2000

"Road Simulation for NASCAR Vehicles at the Langley Full Scale Tunnel," by Drew Landman, SAE Paper 00MSV31, Presented at the 2000 SAE Motorsports Conference and Exposition, published in the proceedings, November 2000

"Experimental Optimization Methods for Multi-Element Airfoils," by Drew Landman and Colin P. Britcher, AIAA Journal of Aircraft, Vol. 37, No. 4, July-August 2000

"An Improved Method for Determining Pitch and Roll Angles using Accelerometers", by Robert Marshall and Drew Landman, AIAA paper 2000-2384 presented at the AIAA Advanced Measurement and Ground Testing Conference, June 2000.

"Ground Testing: The Year In Review," by Drew Landman, Aerospace America, December 1999

"A Power On Wind Tunnel Test of a UAV", by Drew Landman and Colin Britcher, AIAA paper 99-3156, presented at the AIAA Applied Aerodynamics Conference, June 1999.

"Development of Race Car Testing at the Langley Full-Scale Tunnel," by Drew Landman and Colin Britcher, SAE paper 98MSV21, presented at the Motorsports Engineering Conference and Exposition, published in the proceedings, November, 1998.

"Use of Surrogates for Experimental Optimization of a Multi-Element Airfoil," by John Otto and Drew Landman, presented at the AIAA | USAF| NASA | ISSMO Symposium on Multidisciplinary Analysis and Optimization, September 1996

Professional Registration, Societies, Committees:

Professional Engineer Registration (PE) in VA, Senior Member American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), member Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE), member of American Society of Mechanical Engineers, licensed glider pilot

Interests:

Sailing, woodworking, photography

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