Jose is currently completing a Ph.D. at the Georgia Institute of Technology’s Aerospace Systems Design Laboratory (ASDL) and conducts research for the FAA COE Partnership for Air Transportation Noise and Emissions Reduction (PARTNER) under the direction of Drs. Dimitri Mavris and Michelle Kirby.  At the age of five, Jose moved with his family from Lima, Peru to the U.S., and he became a U.S. citizen in 2002.  He received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering in 2008, capping his undergraduate studies by flying a microgravity experiment on NASA's microgravity research vehicle.  Jose accepted a Research Assistantship, received an OMED Tower Award for academic excellence, and a Goizueta Foundation Fellowship award at Georgia Tech where he completed his M.S. degree in Aerospace Engineering in 2009.        

Jose's doctoral thesis is entitled "Formulating and Implementing a Generic Fleet-level Noise Methodology" and his COE research in this topic is supported through the FAA Office of Environment and Energy in Washington, DC.   His work is closely related to fleet-level noise, expanding on the research previously conducted in this area.   The goal of this thesis is to provide capabilities to simply and rapidly analyze a multitude of operational, technological, and policy scenarios with respect to noise at the fleet level, while providing proper tools, methods, and metrics to analyze and compare results, thus improving the ability to select noise mitigation strategies.  In addition to his academic and research capabilities, Jose has demonstrated significant leadership ability while responsible for organizing and directing graduate research assistants, overseeing aspects of the generic noise research, and contributing toward the completion of various COE research tasks.  

Jose will be honored for this achievement at the Council of University Transportation Centers awards ceremony during the Transportation Research Board winter meeting in Washington, D.C.

To read more about the FAA’s announcement of DOT FAA COE Outstanding Students of the Year 2012, go to http://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters_offices/ang/offices/management/coe/

For more information about The Georgia Institute of Technology and the Aerospace Systems Design Laboratory, contact Kara Kelch at Kara.Kelch@asdl.gatech.edu or go to www.asdl.gatech.edu.