ASE/EM Welcomes New Faculty for 2012-13
The Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics welcomes two new faculty members beginning with the 2012-13 academic year.
Behcet Acikmese
Assistant Professor
Behcet Acikmese joined the Cockrell School of Engineering from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), where he worked as a technologist. He was also a lecturer in California Institute of Technology’s Division of Engineering and Applied Science, Aerospace Engineering.
What are your favorite hobbies outside of work?
Playing sports (basketball and volleyball), cinema, fine dining and music.
Efstathios Bakolas
Assistant Professor
Efstathios Bakolas joined the Cockrell School of Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology’s School of Aerospace Engineering. His research uses optimal control and differential game theory to address steering, task assignment and decision making problems involving autonomous vehicles based on analytical and/or computationally tractable models.
What are your favorite hobbies outside of work?
I like traveling, trying new restaurants, spending time outdoors, watching movies and reading.