Riccardo Bevilacqua, Ph.D., is the Principal Investigator for the project. He is an Assistant Professor in the Mechanical Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering
Department at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York.
Dr. Bevilacqua holds a M. Sc. in Aerospace Engineering and a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from University of Rome, Sapienza, Italy. He was a National Research Council Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Naval Postgraduate
School of Monterey, CA, before joining RPI. (updated Sept. 2013)
David Guglielmo is
a Ph.D. candidate in the Mechanical Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering
Department at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York.
David is currently working on designing the
hardware and a control system for an autonomous satellite.
In 2012, David
received his M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from RPI for work in modeling the
ultrasonic bonding process for PEM fuel cells.
He also received a B.S.
Mechanical Engineering degree from RPI in 2010 with a concentration in manufacturing.
David is a member of ASME and AIAA. (updated Sept. 2013)
Grace Tilton is a senior undergraduate pursuing a dual degree in aerospace
and mechanical engineering.
She has been a member of the ADAMUS lab
since 2011, assisting with a variety of projects related to
spacecraft
simulation and design as well as participating in multiple varsity
sports and Tau Beta Pi National Engineering Honor Society.
She maintains
a high level of academic success and these efforts have been recognized
with the
2011 RPI Founders award and 2013 Barry Goldwater Scholarship.(updated October 2013)
Seth Robinson is currently a junior dual majoring in aerospace and mechanical engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
He began working with the ADAMUS lab in the summer of 2013 and has been involved in the design and building of the PADDLES prototype.
Seth is also a competitive motorcycle racer and has nearly five years of experience as a CAD technician prior to his return to RPI to further his education.
He is also a member of Tau Beta Pi and Sigma Gamma Tau, and has several extracurricular engineering projects relating to his passion of racing motorcycles.(updated October 2013)
Rosemary Huang is a native of Southern California, originally from the
city of Laguna Hills in Orange Country. After graduating from Laguna Hills High School, she went on to attend
the University of California, Berkeley, where she earned a Bachelor of Science
degree in Mechanical Engineering in May of 2000. Following the completion of her undergraduate
education, she continued her studies at Berkeley, earning a Master of Science
degree, also in Mechanical Engineering, in August of 2003. She then moved across the country to Indiana,
to pursue a Ph.D. at Purdue University in West Lafayette. She completed her Doctorate in Aeronautical
and Astronautical Engineering in 2012.
Rosemary is now the ADAMUS lab manager, and despite not being officially under the ONR grant, she is kindly providing her support and expertize to support the PADDLES design. (updated Sept. 2013)
Steve Lentine is finishing his Masters of Engineering degree in Mechanical Engineering at RPI, having earned a Bachelors of Science in Applied Physics, also at RPI. Steve has spent the past 2 summers interning at NASA’s Goddard Spaceflight Center, and looks forward to applying that experience and that of PADDLES to a career in the aerospace industry. Steve is currently working on designing and modeling solar panels for PADDLES. (updated Oct. 2013)
Adam Mistretta is in his fifth year pursuing a joint Master's/Bachelor's Degree in Aerospace Engineering with a focus in spaceflight. He came to Rensselaer in 2009 with a strong interest in spaceflight, leading him to become an undergraduate researcher in the ADAMUS Laboratory, as well RPI's Combustion and Energy Systems Laboratory. He is also a Certified Private Pilot Adam is working to analyze the available solar energy for the PADDLES project, as well as access windows to navigation satellites. He plans to work in the commercial or government space programs after graduation in May. (updated November 2013)