Congratulations YPSE 2022 conference participants, we hope to see you all back next year!

We would like to thank everyone who attended and presented at the 2022 AIAA Region 1 Young Professionals, Students, and Educators conference – each of you did an excellent job!

Thank you to all of the presenters who were willing to share and celebrate their work. Thank you to all of the attendees who engaged with our aerospace community. Thank you to all of the speakers who graciously took the time out of their busy lives to talk with us. Thank you to the volunteers who served as session chairs and as judges for the technical sessions. Everyone’s support helped ensure we had a successful conference.


Congratulations to our 2022 Top Presentations!

We would like to recognize and congratulate the following individuals and groups who earned top honors at the conference.

High School:

Honorable Mention - Logan SmithPerkins - The Effect of High Forces at Launch on the Deformations of a Protected Object

Top Presentation - Khoi Dinh ; Alan Hsu - TJREVERB: Novel Communications and Radio Configuration for Educational CubeSat Missions

Undergraduate:

Honorable Mention - Jerry Liu ; Kaylyn Song - Finding the Scaling Law for Pulsejet Engines

Top Presentation - Matteo Cerasoli - Ionospheric Propagation Measurement Through the Use of Sounding Rockets

Graduate:

Honorable Mention - Abenezer Taye ; Peng Wei - Scalable Real-Time Trajectory Planning Framework for Urban Air Mobility

Top Presentation - Jorge Ahumada Lazo - Characterization of recirculating structures in the near field of underexpanded swirling jets

Young Professional:

Honorable Mention - Erin Sutton - Preliminary Use of System Identification to Validate Models of Dragonfly’s Octocopter

Top Presentation - Georgios Kyriakou - Additively Manufacturing Electronics: From Lab to Outer Space

Educator:

Top Presentation - Michelle Ming - Exposure Deficit


We hope everyone enjoyed the conference and we look forward to seeing you all on November 17th-18th, 2023 for next year's conference!