CURRICULUM VITAE
PERSONAL INFORMATION:
Name: Daniel Feszty, PhD., Ing., P.Eng.
Rank & position: Associate Professor
Institute: Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Carleton University
Room 3207 Canal Building
1125 Colonel By Drive
Ottawa, ON, Canada
dfeszty@mae.carleton.ca
(613) 520-2600 ext. 5783
(613) 520-5715 (fax)
EDUCATION:
1997 - 2001 PhD. in Aerospace Engineering,
University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, U.K.
1991 – 1996 Ing. (Dipl. Engineer) in Aerospace Engineering,
Brno University of Technology, Brno, Czech Republic
1986 – 1990 Technical High School,
Komárno, Slovakia
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:
2016 – present Visiting Professor
Department of Whole Vehicle Development
Audi Hungaria Faculty of Automotive Engineering
Széchenyi Istvan University
Győr, Hungary
2003 – present: Associate Professor
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Carleton University, Ottawa, ON
within this:
2015-16 academic year (20 May 2015 – 27 May 2016):
sabbatical year within Audi Hungária Motor Kft. in Győr, Hungary, as
Expert, Whole Vehicle Development
Responsibilities:
- leading an industrial project related to gearbox noise
- proposition of diagnostics methods
- design and coordination of a test rig based and road tests
- supporting the activities of the Audi Hungaria Department of Whole Vehicle Engineering at Széchenyi University, Hungary:
- advising on academic and research matters
- preparing English-Hungarian course material and teaching the Computational Fluid Dynamics course
- participation in research projects
- mentorship of Formula Student project
- co-Supervision of 4 MSc theses
- setup and support of international collaborations
2001 – 2003: Postdoctoral Research Associate
Dept. of Aerospace Engineering
University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, U.K.
1997: Mi – 17 helicopter technician
Compulsory military service
Slovak Air Force, Slovakia
1996 - 1997: Aircraft Design Engineer
Evektor Ltd. Kunovice, Czech Republic
RESEARCH AREAS:
SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS:
Author or co-author of about 50 scientific publications and a patent in the above areas. Please see the Publications menupoint for full list.
RESEARCH GRANTS:
Have won close to 3 million CAD worth of government and industry research grants as principal or co-investigator, from which my share is more than 1.2 million CAD. Please see Appendix B for full list of research grants won.
MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL AND SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES:
2016 – present: Member
Wind Energy Technical Team
American Helicopter Society (AHS)
2013 – present: Founder and Faculty Advisor
American Helicopter Society’s Student Chapter at Carleton University, - (attracts about 20 new members each year).
2008 – present: Professional Engineer (P.Eng.),
i.e. a licenced Engineer in the province of Ontario, Canada.
2003 – present: American Helicopter Society (AHS) - member
1999 – present: American Aeronautics and Astronautics Institute (AIAA) - member
h) AWARDS:
Apr 2016 Runner-up: world finals (of 7 regional winners)
AHS (American Helicopter Society) Lichten competition
For the best scientific publication co-authored by a new researcher
(for Ref. 19 in Appendix A)
Apr 2016 Best Presentation Award
Ricardo User Conference Europe, Ludwigsburg, Germany
(for Ref. 49 in Appendix A)
Dec 2014 1st place: Ottawa-Montreal Chapter finals AHS (American Helicopter Society) Lichten competition
For the best scientific publication co-authored by a new researcher
(for Ref. 1 in Appendix A)
Jul 2012 Honorable Mention (of the Smart Rotor Systems start-up I have presided)
Entrepreneurial Challenge, Sikorsky Aircraft, United States
i) OTHER ACADEMIC/PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:
2003 – present: Co-founder and co-leader
Rotorcraft Research Group
Carleton University, Ottawa, ON
Co-founded Canada’s first and largest helicopter research group, which purpose is to support the Canadian helicopter industry’s R&D activities, and which graduated more than 40 PhD and MSc students in the past 12 years.
2012 – 2015: Director & co-founder
Aerospace Research Unit of Carleton University, which concentrates 30 aerospace professors throughout the campus (www.carleton.ca/aerospace), which is one of Canada’s largest academic aerospace research institute
2009 – 2015: President and co-founder
Smart Rotor Systems Ltd.
www.smartrotorsystems.ca
an R&D – focussed spin-off company taking key research results to higher TRL (Technology Readiness Level) as well as providing opportunity to new graduates to gain experience.
2014 February: Steering Committee Member
France – Canada Aerospace Summit (FRACAS)
Carleton University, Ottawa, ON
2014 January: Organizer
AHS (American Helicopter Society) Montreal-Ottawa Chapter evening, with the Canadian Aerovelo Team – the first team to achieve human powered helicopter flight in the world, as speakers
2012 October: Committee Member & Site Visitor
Canadian Engineering Accreditation Board (CEAB) for accrediting the University of Toronto’s Engineering Science program (responsible for auditing the “Aerospace Concentration” of the program)
2011 May: Main organizer
AHS (American Helicopter Society) Montreal-Ottawa Chapter evening, with Prof. Inderjit Chopra of University of Maryland as main speaker
2010 Sep: Steering Committee Member
Canada – Italy Aerospace Summit, Parliament Hill, Ottawa, ON
27 Sep 2010
2007 Member of Organizing Committee, ICAST 2007
18th International Conference on Adaptive Structures and Technologies , 3-5 October 2007, Ottawa, ON
2005 – 2009: Consortium leader (of 8 universities from Canada and EU)
CESAer (Canada–EU Student Exchange in Aerospace Eng.)
2004 – 2005 Associate Chair (for graduate studies)
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Carleton University, Ottawa, ON
2003 – present: Departmental committees:
j) INVITED PRESENTATIONS/APPERANCES:
June 2016 Keynote Speaker
24th SVSFEM ANSYS User’s Conference, Dolni Morava, Czech Republic
“Challenges in the simulations of rotary wings”
May 2016 Szegedi Tudományegyetem (Szeged University), Hungary
“Towards understanding the invisible – parellels between aerospace and automotive research in the light of Fluid Mechanics”
Apr 2016 Automotive Industry 2016 conference, Budapest, Hungary
“State-of-the-art technology in vehicle development at Audi Hungaria”
Apr 2016 Óbudai Egyetem (Óbuda University), Budapest, Hungary
“The interaction of Stress Analysis and Fluid Mechanics in the research of helicopter active noise and vibration control”
Feb 2015 Parliament of the Province of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
“Leading Canada: Aerospace Engineering and Research at Carleton University”
May 2014 Audi Department of Whole Vehicle Engineering
Széchenyi University, Győr, Hungary
Talk on the potential parallels between noise- and vibration reduction technologies in the helicopter and automotive sectors
Apr 2013 Featured on Discovery Channel’s Daily Planet show in a 7 minutes-long documentary on our recent achievements on active vibration control research for helicopters
Dec 2012 9th IDGA Military Helicopter Summit (“Helicon 2011”)
Baltimore, MD, United States
Nov 2010 7th IDGA Military Helicopter Summit (“Helicon 2009”)
Huntsville, AL
Dec 2004 “Canadian Hypersonics Research for Defense” Symposium
DRDC (Defense Research Development Canada), Valcartier, QC
k) TRAINING OF GRADUATE STUDENTS:
Canada: I have supervised or co-supervised 28 graduate research students in the past 12 years, among them 5 PhD students (5-years training with 4 years of thesis work) and 23 Master’s students (2-year training with 16 months of thesis work). In Canada, the tuition fee and research salary is paid not by the state but from the professor’s research grants. In my case, I have landed a total of 3 million CAD worth of research grants (please see App. B for full details)
Hungary: In the past 1 year, I have co-supervised the MSc Thesis of 4 Hungarian students at the Audi Department of Whole Vehicle Engineering at Széchenyi University in Győr, Hungary.
Many of my students have won prestigious awards, such as Konstyantyn Khomutov the $100,000 worth Martin Walmsley Fellowship from the Ontario Center of Excellence (OCE) and Daniel Gosselin, who has won the American Helicopter Society’s Ottawa/Montreal Chapter’s Lichten competition as the best new research paper.
Name: Daniel Feszty, PhD., Ing., P.Eng.
Rank & position: Associate Professor
Institute: Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Carleton University
Room 3207 Canal Building
1125 Colonel By Drive
Ottawa, ON, Canada
dfeszty@mae.carleton.ca
(613) 520-2600 ext. 5783
(613) 520-5715 (fax)
EDUCATION:
1997 - 2001 PhD. in Aerospace Engineering,
University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, U.K.
1991 – 1996 Ing. (Dipl. Engineer) in Aerospace Engineering,
Brno University of Technology, Brno, Czech Republic
1986 – 1990 Technical High School,
Komárno, Slovakia
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:
2016 – present Visiting Professor
Department of Whole Vehicle Development
Audi Hungaria Faculty of Automotive Engineering
Széchenyi Istvan University
Győr, Hungary
2003 – present: Associate Professor
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Carleton University, Ottawa, ON
within this:
2015-16 academic year (20 May 2015 – 27 May 2016):
sabbatical year within Audi Hungária Motor Kft. in Győr, Hungary, as
Expert, Whole Vehicle Development
Responsibilities:
- leading an industrial project related to gearbox noise
- proposition of diagnostics methods
- design and coordination of a test rig based and road tests
- supporting the activities of the Audi Hungaria Department of Whole Vehicle Engineering at Széchenyi University, Hungary:
- advising on academic and research matters
- preparing English-Hungarian course material and teaching the Computational Fluid Dynamics course
- participation in research projects
- mentorship of Formula Student project
- co-Supervision of 4 MSc theses
- setup and support of international collaborations
2001 – 2003: Postdoctoral Research Associate
Dept. of Aerospace Engineering
University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, U.K.
1997: Mi – 17 helicopter technician
Compulsory military service
Slovak Air Force, Slovakia
1996 - 1997: Aircraft Design Engineer
Evektor Ltd. Kunovice, Czech Republic
RESEARCH AREAS:
- rotary-wing (helicopters, propellers, wind turbines) aeromechanics, vibration and noise
- active vibration and noise control technologies
- computational and experimental aerodynamics
- unsteady flows
- scaled helicopter rotor head and composite helicopter rotor blades design
- UAV helicopter performance enhancement
- wind turbine wake interference effects, wind farm layout optimization
- Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) development for the improvement of Discrete Vortex Methods
- Hypersonics of re-entry vehicles
SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS:
Author or co-author of about 50 scientific publications and a patent in the above areas. Please see the Publications menupoint for full list.
RESEARCH GRANTS:
Have won close to 3 million CAD worth of government and industry research grants as principal or co-investigator, from which my share is more than 1.2 million CAD. Please see Appendix B for full list of research grants won.
MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL AND SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES:
2016 – present: Member
Wind Energy Technical Team
American Helicopter Society (AHS)
2013 – present: Founder and Faculty Advisor
American Helicopter Society’s Student Chapter at Carleton University, - (attracts about 20 new members each year).
2008 – present: Professional Engineer (P.Eng.),
i.e. a licenced Engineer in the province of Ontario, Canada.
2003 – present: American Helicopter Society (AHS) - member
1999 – present: American Aeronautics and Astronautics Institute (AIAA) - member
h) AWARDS:
Apr 2016 Runner-up: world finals (of 7 regional winners)
AHS (American Helicopter Society) Lichten competition
For the best scientific publication co-authored by a new researcher
(for Ref. 19 in Appendix A)
Apr 2016 Best Presentation Award
Ricardo User Conference Europe, Ludwigsburg, Germany
(for Ref. 49 in Appendix A)
Dec 2014 1st place: Ottawa-Montreal Chapter finals AHS (American Helicopter Society) Lichten competition
For the best scientific publication co-authored by a new researcher
(for Ref. 1 in Appendix A)
Jul 2012 Honorable Mention (of the Smart Rotor Systems start-up I have presided)
Entrepreneurial Challenge, Sikorsky Aircraft, United States
i) OTHER ACADEMIC/PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:
2003 – present: Co-founder and co-leader
Rotorcraft Research Group
Carleton University, Ottawa, ON
Co-founded Canada’s first and largest helicopter research group, which purpose is to support the Canadian helicopter industry’s R&D activities, and which graduated more than 40 PhD and MSc students in the past 12 years.
2012 – 2015: Director & co-founder
Aerospace Research Unit of Carleton University, which concentrates 30 aerospace professors throughout the campus (www.carleton.ca/aerospace), which is one of Canada’s largest academic aerospace research institute
2009 – 2015: President and co-founder
Smart Rotor Systems Ltd.
www.smartrotorsystems.ca
an R&D – focussed spin-off company taking key research results to higher TRL (Technology Readiness Level) as well as providing opportunity to new graduates to gain experience.
2014 February: Steering Committee Member
France – Canada Aerospace Summit (FRACAS)
Carleton University, Ottawa, ON
2014 January: Organizer
AHS (American Helicopter Society) Montreal-Ottawa Chapter evening, with the Canadian Aerovelo Team – the first team to achieve human powered helicopter flight in the world, as speakers
2012 October: Committee Member & Site Visitor
Canadian Engineering Accreditation Board (CEAB) for accrediting the University of Toronto’s Engineering Science program (responsible for auditing the “Aerospace Concentration” of the program)
2011 May: Main organizer
AHS (American Helicopter Society) Montreal-Ottawa Chapter evening, with Prof. Inderjit Chopra of University of Maryland as main speaker
2010 Sep: Steering Committee Member
Canada – Italy Aerospace Summit, Parliament Hill, Ottawa, ON
27 Sep 2010
2007 Member of Organizing Committee, ICAST 2007
18th International Conference on Adaptive Structures and Technologies , 3-5 October 2007, Ottawa, ON
2005 – 2009: Consortium leader (of 8 universities from Canada and EU)
CESAer (Canada–EU Student Exchange in Aerospace Eng.)
2004 – 2005 Associate Chair (for graduate studies)
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Carleton University, Ottawa, ON
2003 – present: Departmental committees:
- Aerospace curriculum committee (2013 - present) – Chair
- Regular oversight and suggestion of improvements for all aerospace engineering courses at Carleton
- High-school recruitment committee (2010 - present) – Chair
- Organizing and covering the department’s representation at all high-school recruitment and 1st year student events, including the Ontario University Fair, Saturday Engineering and Design Sessions, open days, etc.
- Staffing committee (2011) – member
- Contributing to the selection and hiring of new faculty members
- Fluids strand committee (2005) – Chair
- Regular oversight and suggestion of improvements for all Fluid Mechanics engineering related courses at Carleton
- Design strand committee (2005) – Chair
- Regular oversight and suggestion of improvements for all design related courses at Carleton
- “Stream C” Avionics review committee (2005) – member
- Review and suggestion of improvements for all design related courses at Carleton
j) INVITED PRESENTATIONS/APPERANCES:
June 2016 Keynote Speaker
24th SVSFEM ANSYS User’s Conference, Dolni Morava, Czech Republic
“Challenges in the simulations of rotary wings”
May 2016 Szegedi Tudományegyetem (Szeged University), Hungary
“Towards understanding the invisible – parellels between aerospace and automotive research in the light of Fluid Mechanics”
Apr 2016 Automotive Industry 2016 conference, Budapest, Hungary
“State-of-the-art technology in vehicle development at Audi Hungaria”
Apr 2016 Óbudai Egyetem (Óbuda University), Budapest, Hungary
“The interaction of Stress Analysis and Fluid Mechanics in the research of helicopter active noise and vibration control”
Feb 2015 Parliament of the Province of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
“Leading Canada: Aerospace Engineering and Research at Carleton University”
May 2014 Audi Department of Whole Vehicle Engineering
Széchenyi University, Győr, Hungary
Talk on the potential parallels between noise- and vibration reduction technologies in the helicopter and automotive sectors
Apr 2013 Featured on Discovery Channel’s Daily Planet show in a 7 minutes-long documentary on our recent achievements on active vibration control research for helicopters
Dec 2012 9th IDGA Military Helicopter Summit (“Helicon 2011”)
Baltimore, MD, United States
Nov 2010 7th IDGA Military Helicopter Summit (“Helicon 2009”)
Huntsville, AL
Dec 2004 “Canadian Hypersonics Research for Defense” Symposium
DRDC (Defense Research Development Canada), Valcartier, QC
k) TRAINING OF GRADUATE STUDENTS:
Canada: I have supervised or co-supervised 28 graduate research students in the past 12 years, among them 5 PhD students (5-years training with 4 years of thesis work) and 23 Master’s students (2-year training with 16 months of thesis work). In Canada, the tuition fee and research salary is paid not by the state but from the professor’s research grants. In my case, I have landed a total of 3 million CAD worth of research grants (please see App. B for full details)
Hungary: In the past 1 year, I have co-supervised the MSc Thesis of 4 Hungarian students at the Audi Department of Whole Vehicle Engineering at Széchenyi University in Győr, Hungary.
Many of my students have won prestigious awards, such as Konstyantyn Khomutov the $100,000 worth Martin Walmsley Fellowship from the Ontario Center of Excellence (OCE) and Daniel Gosselin, who has won the American Helicopter Society’s Ottawa/Montreal Chapter’s Lichten competition as the best new research paper.
