Introduction

I received my B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Tehran Polytechnic , and Masters and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from University of California Berkeley. Prior to joining the department of Mechanical Engineering at California State University, Los Angeles (Cal State LA) in 1981, I was an academic visitor for one year at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Imperial College of Science and Technology, London. Currently I am a professor and chairman of the Mechanical Engineering Department and director of the Multidisciplinary Flight Dynamics and Control Laboratory (MFDCLab), which is funded by multi-year grants by NASA and Air Force Office of Scientific Research. I received a NASA award for development of innovative software in 1986, the University Professional Promise Award in 1992, and the University 2003-2004 Outstanding Professor Award in 2004. I am a senior member of American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), a member of American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), a member of American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE), and a member of Pi Tau Sigma, the Mechanical Engineering honor society. I am an instrument-rated private pilot with over five hundred hours of flying small single-engine and light twin aircraft. I am a member of Aircraft Owners and Pilot Association (AOPA).

Research Interests

My current research interest is in multidisciplinary approach to modeling, simulation, analysis, and control of airbreathing hypersonic flight vehicles.
I am also involved in the development of a proprietary fuel cell powered autonomous UAV for environmental research.

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Multidisciplinary Flight Dynamics and Control Laboratory


In the past ten years I have also been involved in design and development of a 2.4 focal meter precision segmented reflector testbed, a project funded by NASA which is housed in the Structure, Pointing, and Control Engineering (SPACE) Laboratory at Cal State LA.

• Clark, A., Wu, C., Mirmirani, M., Choi, S., "Development of an Airframe Integrated Generic Hypersonic Vehicle Model," AIAA Aerospace Conference and Exhibit, Reno, Nevada, January 2006
• Xu, H., Ioannou, P. A., Mirmirani, M., "Adaptive Control of a Class of Large-Scale Nonlinear Systems," International Journal of Control, Vol.78, No. 17, 20 November 2005, pp 1359-1377
• Mirmirani, M., Wu. C., Clark, A and S. Choi, Colgren, R. "Modeling for Control of a Generic Airbreathing Hypersonic," AIAA, Guidance Navigation and Control Conference and Exhibit, San Francisco, CA, August 2005
• Keshmiri, S. Colgren, R., Mirmirani, M., "Development of an Aerodynamic Database for a Generic Hypersonic Air Vehicle," AIAA, Guidance Navigation and Control Conference and Exhibit, San Francisco, CA, August 2005
• Mirmirani, M., Wu, C., Clark, Andrew, Fidan, B., "Airbreathing Hypersonic Flight Vehicle Modeling and Control, Review, Challenges, and a CFD-Based Example," Workshop on Modeling and Control of Complex Systems, Ayia Napa, Cyprus, June 30, 2005
• Xu, H., Mirmirani, M., and Ioannou, P. A., "Adaptive sliding mode control design for a hypersonic flight vehicle", AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, Vol. 27, No 5, 2004.
• Huo, Y., Mirmirani, M., Ioannou, P. A., and Colgren, R., "Adaptive Linear Quadratic Design with Application to F-16 Fighter Aircraft," AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference and Exhibit, August 2004, Providence, Rhode Island
• Keshmiri, S. Mirmirani, M. D. and Colgren, R. D., "Six-DOF Modeling and Simulation of a Generic Hypersonic Vehicle for Conceptual Design Studies," AIAA Modeling and Simulation Technologies Conference, August 2004, Providence, Rhode Island
• He, C., Choi, S., Mirmirani, M., and Wu, C.,"CFD-based Aeroelasticity Analysis in Transonic Flow Regime," ASME 2004 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and RD&D Expo, November 2004, Anaheim, California