Rate My Professor Hans DeSmidt

His research specializations encompass structural dynamics and vibration, dynamical systems and controls, analysis and control of time-varying systems, mechatronics and active structures, rotordynamics, and gossamer space structures. DeSmidt has earned the NSF Career Award in 2008, ASME Dynamics and Control Division Rudolf Kalman Best Paper Award in 2009, UTK Quest Scholar of the Week in January 2010, American Helicopter Society Annual Forum Propulsion Sessions Best Paper Award in 2011, and contributed as Co-Investigator to the NASA Agency Honor Award in 2018 for the Revolutionary Vertical Lift Technology Advanced Propulsion Team's exceptional contributions to rotary-wing aircraft technologies. Notable publications include 'Coupled Torsion-Lateral Stability of a Shaft-Disk System Driven Through a Universal Joint' in ASME Journal of Applied Mechanics (2002), 'Stability of a Segmented Supercritical Driveline with Non-Constant Velocity Couplings Subjected to Misalignment and Torque' in Journal of Sound and Vibration (2004), and 'On the Robust Stability of Segmented Driveshafts with Active Magnetic Bearing Control' in Journal of Vibration and Control (2005). His scholarly work focuses on vibration control of rotorcraft drivelines and related dynamical systems.