AIAA SciTech Forum 2025
IDEAS Lab members and collaborators presented five papers at AIAA SciTech Forum 2025 in Orlando, Florida. The work spanned data-driven conceptual aircraft design, the Future Aircraft Sizing Tool (FAST), the SUSAN electrified aircraft concept, and model-based systems engineering.
Conference papers from the lab and collaborators included:
- Model-Based Systems Engineering Approach for a Systematic Design of Aircraft Engine Inlet - Swapnil Jagtap, Alexandra Strehlow, Maria Reitz, Steven Kestler, and Gokcin Cinar.
- Predicting Conceptual Aircraft Design Parameters Using Gaussian Process Regressions on Historical Data - Maxfield Arnson, Rawan Aljaber, and Gokcin Cinar.
- Aircraft Geometry and Propulsion Architecture Visualization for the Future Aircraft Sizing Tool (FAST) - Nawa Khailany, Paul Mokotoff, and Gokcin Cinar.
- FAST: A Future Aircraft Sizing Tool for Conventional and Electrified Aircraft Design - Paul Mokotoff, Maxfield Arnson, Yi-Chih Wang, and Gokcin Cinar.
- SUbsonic Single Aft eNgine (SUSAN) System Integration Analysis with the Future Aircraft Sizing Tool (FAST) - Yi-Chih Wang, Miranda Stockhausen, Paul Mokotoff, Maxfield Arnson, and Gokcin Cinar.
Together, these papers highlight the lab’s growing ecosystem of methods for early-stage aircraft sizing, conceptual design automation, and traceable systems engineering for future aircraft concepts.
IDEAS Lab students presenting FAST at the 2025 SciTech Forum. Left to right: Paul Mokotoff, Nawa Khailany, Maxfield Arnson, Yi-Chih Wang, Rawan Aljaber.
Maxfield Arnson presenting his paper.
Gökçin Çınar
Assistant Professor of Aerospace Engineering
Maxfield Arnson
PhD Student and Graduate Research Assistant
Maxfield Arnson is a graduate student research assistant in the IDEAS Lab at the University of Michigan.
Rawan Aljaber
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Rawan was an undergraduate senior when she held an active role in the IDEAS Lab. She studied Aerospace Engineering at the University of Michigan, and worked in the IDEAS Lab over the summer of 2023 through the SURE (Summer Undergraduate Research in Engineering) program.
Nawa Khailany
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Nawa Khailany was an undergraduate studying Aerospace Engineering at the University of Michigan (U-M). Since joining the IDEAS lab, Nawa has been involved in researching the operations of regional airliners.
Paul Mokotoff
PhD Student and Graduate Research Assistant
Paul Mokotoff is a graduate student research assistant in the IDEAS Lab at the University of Michigan.
Yi-Chih "Arenas" Wang
Research Associate
Arenas Wang is a research associate in the IDEAS Lab at the University of Michigan.
Miranda Stockhausen
PhD student and Graduate Research Assistant
Miranda is a PhD student in the Aerospace Engineering department at the University of Michigan.