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Sedwick, Ray

Sedwick, Ray

Keystone Professor
Aerospace Engineering
Maryland Energy Innovation Institute
3242 Kim Engineering Bldg

EDUCATION

  • B.S., Penn State University (Aerospace Engineering)
  • S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Aeronautics and Astronautics)
  • Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Aeronautics and Astronautics)

HONORS AND AWARDS

  • NSF CAREER Award
  • Raymond Bisplinghoff Teaching Fellowship (MIT)
  • NASA MSFC Summer Faculty Fellowship
  • NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts Fellow
  • Bepi Columbo Prize (University of Padua, Italy)
  • AIAA (UMD Chapter) Best Mentor Award (2009-2010, 2010-2011)
  • AIAA (UMD Chapter) AIAA Best Professor Award (2012-2013, 2013-2014)
  • AIAA (UMD Chapter) Broken Propeller Award (2014-2015)

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

  • American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Associate Fellow
  • Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Senior Member
  • American Astronautical Society (AAS)
  • American Physical Society (APS)

  • American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE)

Professional Services

  • Reviewer for: AIAA Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics, AIAA Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, AIAA Journal of Propulsion and Power, Journal of Astronautical Sciences.
  • Associate Editor, AIAA Journals of Spacecraft and Rockets
  • Vice Chair, AIAA Nuclear and Future Flight Technical Committee
  • Deputy Director for Education, AIAA Region I

Consulting

  • AST SpaceMobile
  • Payload Systems
  • NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
  • Lockheed Martin Corporation
  • Axis Engineering Technologies
  • AeroAstro
  • Draper Laboratories

 

ENAE 457 / ENAE 457H / ENAE 662: Space Propulsion and Power

ENAE467 / ENAE 667: Advanced Space Propulsion and Power

ENES232: Thermodynamics

 

Rudolph Awarded Women in Defense Scholarship

WID awards support high-performing women pursuing careers in fields that contribute to U.S. national security.

Flatau Named UMD AE Chair

Alison Flatau has been named the new chair of aerospace engineering at UMD.

Ezra Bregin Takes First Place, AIAA Region 1 Student Conference

Winning student paper demonstrates alternative to GPS in UAS swarm navigation.

Celebrating Women in Aerospace Engineering: Elaine Petro

Inspired by NASA rocket launches as a child, Petro now directs Cornell’s ASTRA Lab.

Celebrating Black Aerospace Engineers: Jarred Young ('09, M.S. '13, Ph.D. '17)

Inspired at an early age to become a propulsion engineer, Young is helping a new generation of engineers achieve their dreams.

Congratulations to the 2020 Aerospace Engineering Honors Class

Students complete final presentations to earn “Honors Citation.”

Three Graduate Students Win Fellowships

Petro and Shumway awarded Ann G. Wylie Dissertation Fellowship; Frizzell receives NSF Graduate Fellowship. 

Students Shine at AIAA Region 1 Student Conference

Twelve students won awards for their papers, and seven were from UMD.

Four Aerospace Students Receive Society of Satellite Professionals International Scholarships

Frizzell, Kaptui Sipowa, McCullum and Shannon receive awards to support research efforts.

Petro Named MWC/ARCS Scholar

Aerospace engineering Ph.D. student Elaine Petro selected for 2017-2018 MWC/ARCS award.

Four UMD Aerospace Engineering Students Named Penton Aviation Week Network’s 20 Twenties

Free, Kumar, Ng and Weinstein recognized as tomorrow’s engineering leaders.

Sedwick Receives 2016 A. James Clark School Engineering Faculty Service Award

Aerospace Engineering Associate Professor Raymond Sedwick recognized for contributions to his field, the school, and his students.

University of Maryland Center for Orbital Debris Education and Research Announces Keynotes & Event Sponsor OrionAST

OrionAST sponsors second workshop to connect academia, industry and government to address critical issues in orbital debris policy, management and mitigation. 

Three UMD Students Take Top Honors at SSPI Engineering Student Competition

Three aerospace engineering students excel at 2016 SSPI Engineering Student Competition in Space Systems.

Shishika and Petro Selected for 2016 Future Faculty Program

Aerospace Engineering Ph.D. students Daigo Shishika and Elaine Petro selected for Clark School Future Faculty Program.

Aerospace Engineering Students and Alumni Receive NSF Fellowships

Students Brown and Free, and alumni Mills awarded National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships.

Two UMD Faculty Receive NASA Early Stage Innovations Awards

Aerospace Engineering professors Hartzell and Sedwick receive NASA awards to foster high priority space technology.

UMD Students Win Poster Session at NASA's Thermal and Fluids Analysis Workshop

Graduate students Allison Porter (Aerospace Engineering) and David Squiller (Mechanical Engineering) placed second and third at 2015 NASA TFAW poster session.

Three UMD Students Receive Zonta International Amelia Earhart Fellowships

Aerospace Engineering graduate students Camli Badrya, Elaine Petro and Elena Shrestha receive Zonta International Amelia Earhart Fellowships.

Aerospace Students Excel at 14th AIAA YPSE Conference

UMD students placed in both presentations and paper categories at the 14th AIAA YPSE Conference.

UMD CODER Announces Keynote Speakers from Across Industry, Government and Academe for Inaugural 2014 Orbital Debris Workshop

UMD Center for Orbital Debris Education and Research (CODER) announces speakers and panelists for inaugural 2014 Orbital Debris Workshop.

University of Maryland Orbital Debris Education and Research Center to Host Inaugural Workshop

First academically led center will lead workshop to connect academe, industry and government to address critical issues in orbital debris policy, management and mitigation.

Sedwick Made Senior Member of IEEE

Aerospace Engineering Associate Professor Raymond Sedwick has been made a Senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

University of Maryland Establishes Orbital Debris Research Center

First Academically-Led Center to Address Critical Threats to Orbiting Satellites and Space Activities

Aerospace Engineering Faculty Honored at University Celebration of Scholarship and Research

15 Aerospace Engineering faculty were recognized for their research and scholarly achievements.

Shrestha and DeVries Win 2014 Graduate Student Research Awards Competition

Elena Shrestha and Levi DeVries win Department of Aerospace Engineering Graduate Student Research Awards Competition.

Aerospace Engineering Student Named ARCS Scholar

Bernadette Cannon was selected as the ARCS 2014-2015 Wanda M. Austin Undergraduate Scholar.

Aerospace Faculty Recognized at 15th Annual Research Leaders Luncheon

15 Department of Aerospace Engineering's faculty honored for successful research funding efforts.

UMD Propulsion Technology Offers New Possibilities for Satellite Positioning, Space Exploration

Electromagnetic propulsion could exponentially expand satellite capabilities by providing a propellant-less formation flight technology.

Marcus and Sloane named NSF Fellows

Matt Marcus and Josh Sloane were selected as NSF Graduate Research Fellows.

Jones and Sedwick Win DURIP Instrumentation Awards

Two Aerospace faculty members won Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP).

AE Faculty Honored at Research Leaders Luncheon

10 AE Faculty Represent Department at Research Leaders Luncheon

John Vitucci Awarded NSTR Fellowship

Second-year Aero Grad Student Awarded NASA Research Fellowship

Two Aero Faculty Selected as Associate AIAA Fellows

AIAA Membership Upgrades for Flatau and Sedwick

Sedwick Awarded 2009 NSF Career Award

Dr. Ray Sedwick has been awarded the 2009 NSF Career Award

Sedwick interviewed on WUSA9

WUSA 9 featured Dr. Sedwick on a recent segment on satellites

Dr. Sedwick joins aerospace faculty

Dr. Ray Sedwick joins the aerospace faculty in Fall 2007