Princeton University
D-202 Engineering Quadrangle
Princeton, NJ 08544
Dr. Stengel will teach Aircraft Flight Dynamics (MAE 331) during the Fall 2008 term. He is engaged in a collaboration to correlate epithelial cancer with gene expressions portrayed by DNA microarray data, New Methods for Cancer Detection. Team members come from Princeton's Department of Molecular Biology, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Rockefeller University, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, and Weizmann Institute of Science. The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation recently supported research on Optimal Control of Disease Processes, in which optimal control theory and mathematical models of the immune system are used to suggest therapeutic protocols for enhancing immune response, with a particular emphasis on HIV.
During the Spring 2005 term, Professor Stengel was on sabbatical leave as a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study. He was affiliated with the Simons Center for Systems Biology in the School of Natural Sciences. While on sabbatical leave in 1998, Professor Stengel was a Visiting Professor/Scholar at Duke University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Cambridge, Delft University of Technology, Imperial College of Science, Medicine, and Technology, University of California at San Diego, and Stanford University. From 1994 to 1997, he served as the Engineering School's Associate Dean for Academic Affairs. During that time, he initiated new programs of graduate study and undergraduate computer education, and he developed an innovative approach to teaching engineering freshman seminars. As Director of Princeton's Flight Research Laboratory from 1977 to 1983, Stengel, his students, and staff conducted pioneering experimental research on digital flight control systems, flight computer networking via fiber-optics, aircraft flying qualities, and aerodynamic system identification. This research used Princeton's two fly-by-wire, variable-stability aircraft and a specially instrumented sailplane. Prior to joining the Princeton faculty in 1977, Dr. Stengel was with The Analytic Sciences Corporation, Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, the US Air Force, and NASA. At the Draper Laboratory (1968-73), he was principal designer of the Apollo Project Lunar Module manual control logic used for all moon landings, and he contributed to Space Shuttle guidance and control system design. There, he also initiated a project to develop a Bedside Biomedical Computer for the analysis of cardiovascular data. His work at TASC (1973-77) included optimal-control modeling of the human pilot and resulting interactions with aircraft dynamics, fuel-optimal flight paths for jet transports, digital control of high-performance aircraft and helicopters, submarine dynamics and control, and statistical assessment of the effects of electric powerplant waste water on biologically indigenous populations. While serving as an Air Force lieutenant (1960-63), he was a Range Safety Officer at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility .
Dr. Stengel received the S.B. degree in Aeronautics and Astronautics from M.I.T (1960) and M.S.E., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees in Aerospace and Mechanical Sciences from Princeton University (1965, 1966, 1968). He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He has received the John R. Ragazzini Education Award of the American Automatic Control Council (2002) and the AIAA Mechanics and Control of Flight Award (2000). Together with R. John Hansman, MIT, and Robert Lilley, Ohio University, he is the recipient of the FAA's 1997 Excellence in Aviation Award. Recent advisory assignments include membership on the AIAA Review Panel for Highly Reusable Space Transportation Systems, the ASME Workshop Committee for Aeronautics and Aviation Technologies, and the National Research Council Committee for Naval Forces' Capability for Theater Missile Defense.
Princeton University
D-202 Engineering Quadrangle
Princeton, NJ 08544