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Brian M. Argrow |
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Associate Dean for Education Alfred and Betty Look Professor Director, Research and Engineering Center for Unmanned Vehicles |
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Brian Argrow is the Alfred and Betty Look Professor of Aerospace Engineering Sciences, Associate Dean for Education of the College of Engineering and Applied Science, and cofounder and director of the Research and Engineering Center for Unmanned Vehicles at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Dr. Argrow received PhD in aerospace engineering from the University of Oklahoma in 1989, where he was a NSF Graduate Research Fellow. His current research includes small autonomous UAS design and the integration of these aircraft into the National Airspace System. He has other research focused on rarefied gas dynamics and satellite drag. He has received numerous teaching and education awards including the 1995 W.M. Keck Foundation Award for Excellence in Engineering Education, and in 2000 he was named a University of Colorado President’s Teaching Scholar. In 2008 he was co-chair of the first Symposium for Civilian Applications of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (CAUAS), and since 2008 he has co-chaired three workshops on research directions for the integration of UAS into the National Airspace System, sponsored by NSF, FAA, DHS, AIAA, and AUVSI. He is associate fellow of the AIAA and currently chairs the AIAA Unmanned Systems Program Committee, co-chairs the FAA Research Advisory Group, and last year completed four years of service on the USAF Scientific Advisory Board. He has also served on several NASA and NOAA advisory and review boards.
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Professor Argrow and Assistant Professor Eric Frew lead the UAS Team for the VORTEX2 field deployment 1 May – 15 June 2010, the largest effort ever made to understand tornadoes. The UAS team is composed of RECUV faculty, students, and researchers partnered with meteorology faculty and students led by Assistant Professor Adam Houston from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. |
