Umberto Saetti
Assistant Professor
Alfred Gessow Rotorcraft Center
Aerospace Engineering
Maryland Robotics Center
3182 Glenn L. Martin Hall
saetti@umd.edu
https://umbertosaetti.com/
Aerospace Engineering
Maryland Robotics Center
3182 Glenn L. Martin Hall
saetti@umd.edu
https://umbertosaetti.com/
EDUCATION
- Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering with a minor in Computational Science (Pennsylvania State University)
- M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering (Pennsylvania State University)
- M.Sc. in Aerospace Engineering (Pennsylvania State University)
- B.Sc. in Aerospace Engineering (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
HONORS AND AWARDS
- 2025 Vertical Flight Society (VFS) François-Xavier Bagnoud Award
- 2024 Aerospace Control and Guidance Systems Committee (ACGSC) Dave Ward Memorial Lecture Award
- 2024 Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP) Award
- 2022 Office of Naval Research (ONR) Young Investigator Program (YIP) Award
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
- Associate Editor, Journal of the Americal Helicopter Society
- Rotary- and flapping-wing vehicles
- Modeling, simulation, and order reduction
- Flight dynamics and control
- Aeromechanics
- Rotorcraft handling qualities
- System identification
- Time-periodic systems
- Human-machine interaction
- Virtual, augmented, and extended reality (VR/AR/XR)
ENAE 635 - Helicopter Stability and Control
ENAE 432 - Control of Aerospace Systems