RESEARCH

GRANTS

2009-14   “Structures, Propulsion, Aerospace, and Control Engineering", NASA URC Center, $5,000,000, Director

2003-08    “Structures, Propulsion, Aerospace, and Control Engineering", NASA URC Center, $6,000,000,   Senior Co-PI.

2003-06  NASA Minority University and College Education and Research Partnership Initiative in  Space Science (MURCERPI), $795,000, Co- PI.

2003-       “Strengthen Education in Engineering and Research” STEER, NSF, $150,000, PI.

2003-08    “The Design of The Next Generation Space Telescope”, TRW/NASA, $550,000, PI.

2003-04     “Neural Network Control Design for Segmented Telescopes”, Parsons Foundation, $50,000, PI.

2002-03   “The Use of Lyapunov Theory to Develop Learning Framework for FNN’s”, NASA/Dryden, $30,779, PI.

1994-02   “The Use of Decentralized Control in Design of A Large Segmented Space Reflector”, NASA,  $5,300,000, PI.

2002-05   “CSULA/USC Collaborative to Integrate Research and Education”, National Science Foundation, $600,000, PI.

2001-04   “Multidisciplinary Analysis and Control of High Performance Air Vehicles”, US Air Force, $800,000, Co-PI.

1996-00   “Identification Techniques for Large Spaceborne Optical Systems”, Lockheed-Martin, Student Research Fellowships, $30,000, Faculty Advisor.

1996         “MATLAB”, Lottery Funds, $3,500

1991-94   “Decentralized Control of Large Spaceborne Optical Systems” NASA/JPL, $434,701, PI

1991        “Women in Engineering", ECSE Program, $10,500, PI.   

I am the Professor and the Director of the SPACE NASA University Research Center, California State University, Los Angeles.

SPACE Center 

   The Structures, Propulsion, And Control Engineering (SPACE) University Research Center (URC) was established in 2003 at the California State University, Los Angeles (CSULA) with NASA funding of $6 million. The Center recently received a NASA award of $5 million to continue research for the next five years. The URC is composed of two laboratories: the Structures Pointing and Control Engineering (SPACE) laboratory and the Multidisciplinary Flight Dynamics and Control (MFDC) laboratory. The SPACE University Research Center (URC) works in partnership with Dryden Flight Research Center (DFRC) as the lead NASA center, and JPL (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) as the secondary NASA center. In addition, the URC has a close collaboration with Boeing Company and Northrop Grumman Corporation. The major areas of research in the URC are directly related to the missions of the Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate (Uninhabited Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), and Combustion) and Exploration Systems Mission Directorate (James Webb Space Telescope), addressing and supporting some of these missions’ key challenges.

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