Simon Watkins
Professor
Mechanical and Automotive Engineering
RMIT University
Australia
Biography
Professor Simon Watkins is responsible for undergraduate courses in Thermo-fluids and Vehicle Aerodynamics and is involved with many final year and postgraduate research projects in aerospace and automotive engineering.Professor Watkins was the originator and architect of the first automotive engineering degree in Australia and also set up RMIT Racing in 2000. RMIT Racing is one of 200+ teams from universities around the world that design and build open-wheel racing cars, winning the FISITA Formula Student World Cup in Silverstone UK in 2007 and the American FSAE event in Detroit in 2006. He now supervises the design, build and testing of all electric FSAE cars. He also leads a Micro Air Vehicles (MAV) Group at RMIT (see later) with funding from the USAF supporting several PhD students.
Research Interest
Aerospace
Publications
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An anemometer for UAS-based atmospheric wind measurements
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Investigation of the dynamics of leading edge control surfaces for MAV flight
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Acoustic signature measurement of small multi-rotor unmanned aircraft systems
