This month’s speaker
will be Dr. Suraj Rawal, who is the Senior Manager of the Advanced Material
and Structures of Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company. Dr. Rawal has over
25 years of experience in the advanced materials technologies and he has been
extensively involved in the development of innovative processing techniques,
and structure property relationships for advanced composites. He has been
program manager and principal investigator of several contract research and
development (CR&D) programs sponsored by AFRL, BMDO, DARPA, NASA, and
ONR. Dr. Rawal has extensive experience in the development, testing, and mechanical/thermophysical
property characterization of advanced composites.
Dr. Rawal is the Principal Investigator of the project titled “Lightweight Spacecraft Technologies”, which is directed to develop advanced composites components, nanotechnology, smart structures and mechanisms, inflatable concepts, and multifunctional structures technologies for next generation DoD/NASA spacecraft.
Dr. Rawal is a member of The, ASM International, the Sigma Xi (Professional Scientific Society), AIAA, and the Society of Advanced Materials and Process (SAMPE).
The Student Presentation will be from BYU.