Kameron Eves is a Ph.D. student in the aerospace engineering department. He graduated from Brigham Young University (BYU) with a B.S. degree in mechanical engineering. He also received minors in mathematics and business. At BYU, Kameron worked in the Multiple Agent Intelligent Coordination and Control (MAGICC) laboratory. At the VSCL, Kameron fills a variety of roles. He spent two years designing, building, and testing a 50 lb multirotor unmanned air vehicle (UAV) for the army to use in autonomous reconnaissance. Kameron was responsible for the software, embedded systems, and dynamic analysis of this UAV. Kameron’s dissertation topic is Adaptive Control for Multiple Time Scale Systems with specific application to hypersonic aircraft. Kameron’s research interests are theoretical and computational dynamics and control of aerospace systems. Additionally, he is interested in engineering teaching methods in higher education. Professionally, he plans to join academia and teach at a university.
Cassie-Kay McQuinn
Cassie-Kay McQuinn graduated with her Bachelor of Science degree in Aerospace Engineering with Engineering Honors, and a M.S. in Aerospace Engineering both from Texas A&M University. In addition to completing Engineering Honors, she is a Presidential Endowed Scholar and has earned a certificate of Holistic Leadership in Engineering through completion of the Zachry Leadership Program. Her Masters thesis, titled “Online Near-Real Time Open-Loop System Identification from Closed-Loop Flight Test Data“, investigated identifying linear dynamic models onboard a vehicle in near-real time with and without an active controller. This work was performed for a small Unmanned Air System (UAS) utilizing low cost, commercial-off-the-shelf components. She is currently pursing a Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering.
Cassie-Kay joind VSCL in Fall of 2021 and is currently the Flight Testing Operations Lead for the team. She is a reciepiant of the Stanger Endowed Fellowship and the Doctoral Research Excellence Assisstantship. Additionally, she is a member of the AIAA Intelligent Systems Technical Committee. While in graduate school, she has interned with Sandia National Labs and the Air Force Research Lab Autonomous Capabilities Team (ACT3). Most recently, while working with ACT3, she was hosted by the Air Force Test Pilot School (TPS) to support space test research and collaborations to enhance TPS’ Space Test Course (STC). Cassie-Kay’s current work investigates applying run time assurance algorithms for safety critical system. Her interests are in the implementation of trusted autonomy, flight testing, and aircraft dynamics.
Hannah Lehman
Hannah Lehman graduated in May 2020 with a Bachelor’s degree from the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Texas A&M University. She has accepted a Graduate Research Fellowship and has joined the Ph.D. program in aerospace engineering starting summer 2020. Dr. John Valasek serves as her research Advisor and Chair of dissertation committee. As a Graduate Research Assistant Hannah researches Tightly Integrated Navigation and Guidance for Multiple Autonomous Agents, which is sponsored by Sandia National Laboratory. She is also participating in a remote 2020 summer internship at Sandia National Laboratory.
Hannah has been an active member of VSCL since Fall 2017, focusing on human-machine interaction and the control of UAS with Machine Learning. She graduated with the B.S. degree in aerospace engineering as a University Scholar, University Honors, and Engineering Honors in May 2020. She has been awarded the 2020 Graduate Merit Fellowship, 2019/2020 AIAA Foundation Cary Spitzer Digital Avionics Scholarship, the 2019 Gathright Phi Kappa Phi Outstanding Junior in the College of Engineering, and placed 1st in the 2018 AIAA Region IV Student Paper Conference.