Dr. Mark D. Ardema
Summary of Qualifications and Experience
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Education
1. B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, University of California at Berkeley, 1964.
2. M.S. in Applied Mechanics, University of California at Berkeley, 1965.
3. Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, University of California at Berkeley, 1974.
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Permanent Positions
1. NASA Ames Research Center, 1965-1986, in a variety of research and management
positions.
2. Santa Clara University, 1986-present, as a professor and department chair.
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Temporary Appointments
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Visiting Lecturer, University of California, Berkeley, 1977.
Research Fellow, Twente University of Technology, the Netherlands, 1982.
Visiting Professor, University of California, Berkeley, 1983.
Visiting Professor, University of Stuttgart, Germany, 1999.
Research
1. Development of analytical methods for sizing structural elements for advanced aircraft
concepts. These methods are based on estimating vehicle loads and modeling aircraft wing
and fuselage structure as Euler beams, and are ideal for preliminary weight estimation. This
work has been incorporated into ACSYNT and other NASA computer codes and used to
estimate vehicle weight in vehicle design studies, including oblique wing aircraft, over the
last 35 years. (3 book chapters, 6 articles in archival journals, 15 technical conference
papers, 7 NASA reports.)
2. Aircraft conceptual design studies. Team member and occasionally team leader of
performance estimation studies of advanced aircraft concepts and designs. Aircraft types
have included airships; subsonic, transonic, supersonic, and hypersonic aircraft; launch
vehicles; and subsonic and supersonic wing-body and all-wing oblique wing aircraft. These
studies have been used to make vehicle design and development decisions over many years.
Most studies have been conducted with the aid of NASA vehicle synthesis codes such as
ACSYNT and HAVOC. (3 book chapters; 9 articles; 16 papers; 10 reports.)
3. Application of singular perturbation theory to optimal control and aircraft flight path
optimization. This work pioneered an important new method of solving difficult optimal
control problems and applied the method to flight path optimization. An optimal trajectory
routine based on energy state methods has been incorporated into ACSYNT and other NASA
computer codes. (8 books edited or chapters authored; 10 articles; 15 papers; 5 reports.)
4. Development of a new theory of combat differential games and application of pursuitevasion games to air combat. This work presented a new, more comprehensive theory of
conflict in dynamic systems, and extended 2-D pursuit-evasion results to 3-D maneuvering.
(2 book chapters, 10 articles, 13 papers, and 4 reports.)
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Textbooks
1. Newton-Euler Dynamics, Springer, 2004.
2. Analytical Dynamics – Theory and Applications, Kluwer, 2004.
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Leadership/Management Positions
1. Technical Manager of NASA’s Modern Airship Program, 1974-1980. A series of in-house
and contracted studies identified promising airship concepts and missions for further
development.
2. Research Assistant to the Director of NASA Ames Research Center, 1980-1982. Advised
the Director on research programs, transmitted the Center’s research plans to NASA
Headquarters and managed certain basic research programs.
3. Department Chairman, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Santa Clara University,
1986-1998. Responsible for administering an academic department of approximately eight
full-time faculty, several part-time faculty, three staff members, 130 undergraduate students,
and 60 graduate students. Inaugurated the Department’s Ph.D. program and introduced
several aerospace courses into the undergraduate and graduate curricula.
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Selected Honors, Awards, Professional Activities
1. Invited lecturer or speaker at over 75 seminars, symposia, and banquets all over the United
States and Europe.
2. Reviewer for over 18 journals.
3. Associate Fellow, AIAA.
4. Principal Government Spokesman, NASA Press Conference, Moffett Field, CA 1976.
5. Invited Witness, Hearings on Propelled Lighter-Than-Air Vehicles before the U.S. Senate
Subcommittee on Science, Technology and Space, 1979.
6. Charter Member, Ames Basic Research Council, 1980 - 1982.
7. Boeing Lectureship in the Mathematical Sciences, 1988.
8. Best Paper of Session Award, American Control Conference, Atlanta, GA 1988.
9. Associate Editor, Journal of Dynamics and Control, 1990 - 1999.
10. Member, Board of Directors, Silicon Valley Defense/Space Consortium, 1993-2000.
11. Researcher of the Year, School of Engineering, Santa Clara University, 1994-95.
12. Panelist, National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship Evaluations, 1995, 1996, and
1997.
13. Mentor, Valley Scholars Program, 1994-1996.
14. Principal author of a successful proposal to recognize the Gull of John Montgomery as an
International Mechanical Engineering Landmark, May 1996.
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Publications; Other Honors, Awards, and Professional Activities; Contracts and Grants;
Seminars and Lectures
Available upon request.
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