Saetti, Umberto
Assistant Professor
Alfred Gessow Rotorcraft Center
Aerospace Engineering
Maryland Robotics Center
Aerospace Engineering
Maryland Robotics Center
3182 Glenn L. Martin Hall
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
- 2026 American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Associate Fellow
- 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 (JAHS)
- Chair, VFS Handling Qualities Technical Committee
- Member, AIAA Modeling and Simulation Technical Committee
- Member, Aerospace Control and Guidance Systems Committee (ACGSC)
- 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
Four Aerospace Engineering Faculty Named AIAA Associate Fellows
Barbee, Healy, Otte, and Saetti named to AIAA class of 2026 Associate Fellows.Saetti Recognized with ACGSC 2024 Dave Ward Memorial Lecture Award
Award recognizes significant contributions by young members in the development of flight dynamics, control, and guidance system technologies.- Associate Fellow