Eric Frew

Dr. Eric W. Frew is a professor in the Ann and H.J. Smead Aerospace Engineering Sciences Department. He received his B.S. in mechanical engineering from Cornell University in 1995 and his M.S and Ph.D. in aeronautics and astronautics from Stanford University in 1996 and 2003, respectively. Dr. Frew has been designing and deploying uncrewed aircraft systems for over twenty-five years. His research efforts focus on autonomous flight of heterogeneous uncrewed aircraft systems (UAS), guidance and control of uncrewed aircraft in complex atmospheric phenomena, optimal distributed information-gathering by autonomous robot teams, miniature self-deploying systems, and field robotics. Dr. Frew was co-leader of the team that performed the first-ever sampling of a severe supercell thunderstorm by an uncrewed aircraft. He is currently the Center Director for the National Science Foundation Industry / University Cooperative Research Center (IUCRC) for Autonomous Air Mobility and Sensing (CAAMS).