November 28, 2022: Lloyd Eldred, NASA Langley Research Center, 4:00 pm in 100 McBryde Hall, "Working at NASA"

• 4:00 p.m.
• 100 McBryde Hall 
• Lloyd Eldred, NASA Langley Research Center
• Faculty Host: Dr. Rakesh Kapania

Abstract: Dr. Lloyd B. Eldred will present a talk titled “Working at NASA”. The presentation will cover what NASA is, what it does, and where it does it. Details on the multidisciplinary design work that he has performed on low-boom supersonic aircraft, hypersonic vehicles, launch vehicles and lunar landers will be presented. The talk will include a look at the innovative parametric finite element creation tool, “Loft”, that he created, a discussion of NASA’s hypersonic research facilities, some adventures that he has had with NASA, and how someone can find employment with NASA.

Bio: Dr. Lloyd B. Eldred is a 1986 graduate of Virginia Tech’s Aerospace and Ocean Engineering Department. He received his Ph.D. from the department in 1993. For nearly 30 years he has worked as a NASA contractor and civil servant at multiple NASA centers. His work at NASA has focused on multidisciplinary systems analysis of aerospace vehicles including subsonic, supersonic, and hypersonic aircraft as well as launch vehicles, entry vehicles and surface landers. This work has largely been at the conceptual design level where he creates vehicle designs and models and predicts structural masses for multiple possible design concepts. He created and is releasing for public use the parametric automated finite element model generation program “Loft.” He served for four years as a subproject manager on NASA’s Advanced Composites Program (ACP) where he was in charge of the Accurate Strength and Life Prediction technical challenge.