The IDEAS Lab is seeking a motivated Postdoctoral Researcher to contribute to transformative sustainable aviation technologies and advanced aircraft and propulsion systems design.

We are thrilled to announce the launch of the Future Aircraft Sizing Tool (FAST), an innovative, open-source MATLAB-based software for rapid aircraft design and analysis. Developed by the IDEAS Lab at the University of Michigan and funded by the NASA Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate and the Electrified Powertrain Flight Demonstration (EPFD) project, FAST supports conventional and electrified aircraft concepts with minimal input requirements.

This graduate level course examines advanced design methodologies applied to complex aerospace systems to analyze, understand, and optimize their behavior. Includes instruction in the design of experiments, surrogate modeling, machine learning, sensitivity analysis, and multicriteria decision-making techniques. Applications include sustainable aircraft systems design, such as electrified aircraft propulsion sizing and synthesis. Offers projects that allow students to address open-ended, real-world problems across a broad spectrum of sustainable aerospace system applications.

Prof. Cinar and her students will be speaking on panels and presenting papers, respectively, at the 2024 AIAA Aviation Forum, EATS, and ASCEND.

Dr. Çınar is an expert panelist for the National Academies Webinar ‘Sustainable Electrification of Transportation Systems’.

Prof. Cinar took the IDEAS Lab’s PhD students to lunch after Max and Paul passed their Preliminary Exam.

Lab member Paul taught fellow PhD Students Huseyin and Max to curl at the Detroit Curling Club.