Miele honored with conference
 Angelo Miele, research professor and Foyt Professor Emeritus of Aerospace and Mathematical Sciences in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, attended a workshop in Russia dedicated to him on the occasion of his 85th birthday.
The 14th International Workshop on Dynamics and Control will be held in May in Zdenigorov, a suburb of Moscow. The organizer was Prof. Felix L. Chernousko, director of the Institute of Problems in Mechanics of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Miele’s research focuses on various areas of flight mechanics, astrodynamics, applied aerodynamics, optimization theory, and numerical methods. “I became emeritus professor in 1993, but I still teach classes and I’m still working on algorithms to solve optimal control problems of interest in atmospheric flight and space flight,” Miele said.
He received degrees in civil engineering and aeronautical engineering from the University of Rome, and has taught for 43 years at Rice University. He is an Honorary Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, a Fellow of the American Astronautical Society, and a Member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering, the Russian Academy of Sciences, and the International Academy of Astronautics.
Miele has been principal investigator for more than 100 grants, and author and coauthor of some 250 journal articles and 400 technical reports and contributions to scientific meetings. He has been advisor to 85 graduate students and postdoctoral fellows in aero-astronautics. His book Flight Mechanics, published in 1962 and translated into Russian in 1965, has influenced a generation of aerospace engineers.
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