• Dr. Samantha Magill
  • Honda Aircraft Company
  • 104D Surge Building
  • 4:00 p.m.
  • Faculty Host: Dr. Rakesh Kapania

Presentation Outline:

  1. "Oh the places you will go" - Sam Magill post Virginia Tech 
  2. Honda/Honda Aircraft Company overview & timeline 
  3. HA420/HondaJet: General & technical overview 
  4. Some short videos within the presentation 
  5. Based on audience and purpose, I will discuss the relationship between flight test/engineering/certification, i.e. some real-world R&D scenarios. 

Biography:

Dr. Samantha Magill has been with Honda Aircraft Company Inc. since 2010, and has had several roles: Technical Marketing and Sales Engineering; Flight Sciences’ Stability & Control Engineer; and mostly recently she has been tapped to lead a new department, Academic Affairs and Diversity & Inclusion.

Dr. Magill completed her M.S. and Ph.D. in aerospace engineering at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and a B.S. in aerospace engineering at Auburn University.  After her academic career, she moved to Southern California to work with AeroVironment, Inc. on Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (SUAV). Samantha continued her aviation career in Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, where she collaborated within the Dornier-Fairchild legacy on a ‘start-up’ designing and marketing a new light jet.

Dr. Magill has published several technical papers as well as spoken on behalf of Honda Aircraft and women in aviation as a guest speaker and panelist. She is very active in the community locally and within the industry. She has the honor to serve on many board of directors, advisory councils and committees, a few are: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Rotary Youth Leadership Program; United Way of Greater Greensboro; North Carolina Aerospace Initiative, Piedmont Aero Club; Junior League of Greensboro; and The International Civil Rights Center & Museum.  

Dr. Magill resides in downtown Greensboro and enjoys visiting family as well as training and competing in triathlons.