Control Surface Freeplay

Jeet Panchal acquired his PhD in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Rutgers University in 2022. He has strong research background in nonlinear dynamics, aeroelasticity, control theory, computational methods, probabilistic methods, and aviation safety. Presently, Jeet is employed at Boeing as a Guidance, Navigation, and Control Engineer. His primary interests are in the advancement of current complex aerospace engineering problems and communicating such knowledge to audiences of wide-ranging technical backgrounds. Haym Benaroya earned his BE from The Cooper Union in New York, and his MS and PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. He worked as a consulting engineer for eight years after his PhD before joining Rutgers University. He is the author of almost 100 scholarly refereed papers generally in nonlinear dynamics and vibration, probabilistic mechanics, concepts for lunar habitat structures, fluid-structure interaction dynamics, including vortex-induced oscillations. Prof. Benaroya is also the author of two textbooks, research monographs on space exploration, lunar habitats, wave forces on offshore structures, and vortex-induced oscillations, as well as several edited works on the topics of space, and aircraft. He has mentored and worked with twelve graduate students to their PhDs, as well as about twice that many to their master's degrees. He has also mentored many dozens of undergraduates in research.