The Meir Hanin Awards Ceremony and Seminar

The Meir Hanin Awards Ceremony:

• The Meir Hanin International Aerospace Prize awardee: Prof. Wei Shyy
• The Meir Hanin Young Researchers scholarships awardees:
  • Assistant Professor Alexandros Terzis – Aerospace Engineering Faculty Member
  • Joel Van-Der-Lee, PhD student

The ceremony will be followed by a seminar by Prof. Wei Shyy, winner of the International Hanin Award.

Seminar Titel: Low Reynolds number flight vehicles: scaling and aerodynamics

Abstract: Some of the most interesting areas in aerospace science and technologies are on either higher, faster and larger systems or lower, slower and smaller flying capabilities. In this talk, recent efforts in developing small, fixed and flapping wing flight vehicles are discussed. As the vehicle sizes vary, non-proportional scaling between areas and weight, and, accordingly, shifting dominance of physical mechanisms create different operating parameters and technical requirements. In this seminar, examples drawn from both canonical cases as well as developed flight vehicles will be presented. Unsteady aerodynamics via wing motion and softer materials under uncertain flight environments are some of the main focus of the talk.

About Professor Wei Shyy:
Professor Wei Shyy is a Chair Professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou). He was President of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and Chair Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. Prior to joining HKUST in 2010, he was Clarence L. “Kelly” Johnson Collegiate Professor and Chairman of the Department of Aerospace Engineering of the University of Michigan.
He was the Principal Investigator of several multi-institutional research projects, funded by the US Government and industries, on future space transport, bio-inspired flight, and computational aero-science. He is General Editor of the Cambridge Aerospace Book Series published by the Cambridge University Press; and Co-Editor-in-Chief of Encyclopedia of Aerospace Engineering, a major reference work published by Wiley-Blackwell.

Professor Shyy is an elected member of Academia Sinica (Taipei), an agenda contributor of the World Economic Forum, and Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). He has received awards for his research and professional contributions, including the AIAA 2003 Pendray Aerospace Literature Award, the ASME 2005 Heat Transfer Memorial Award, and The Engineers’ Council (Sherman Oaks, CA) 2009 Distinguished Educator Award. In 2021, the French Government made him an Officer of the Legion of Honor. In 2023, the International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences (ICCES) honored him the Satya N. Atluri Award.