We are pleased to announce that Prof. Dr. Ruxandra Botez has been appointed Editor-in-Chief of the newly established Section “Vehicle Engineering Design” in Designs (ISSN: 2411-9660).

Name: Prof. Dr. Ruxandra Botez
Email: [email protected]
Affiliation: Department of Automated Production Engineering, ETS, 1100 Notre Dame West, Montreal, QC H3C 1K3, Canada
Homepage: www.etsmtl.ca/Professeurs/rbotez/Accueil
Interests: advanced engine technology; engine control strategy; fuel spray; chemical reaction mechanism; machine learning; data analysis

Dr. Ruxandra Botez obtained her Aerospace Engineering degree from the Faculty of Aerospace Design in Bucharest, Romania, in 1984. Ruxandra obtained her Master’s degree in Applied Sciences from École Polytechnique in 1989, and her Ph.D. degree from McGill University in Montreal, Canada, in 1994. She worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Auburn University until 1995. Dr. Botez has Aerospace Engineering experience acquired in two Aerospace companies: IAR-Brasov in Romania (1984–1987), and Bombardier Aerospace in Montreal, Canada (1995–1997). Dr Ruxandra Mihaela Botez has been a Full Professor since 1998 at the École de technologie supérieure ÉTS in Montreal, Canada. Ruxandra has also been the Founder and Head of the Laboratory of Applied Research in Active Controls, Avionics and AeroServoElasticity LARCASE since 2003, and the Canada Research Chair Tier 1 Holder in Aircraft Modeling and Simulation Technologies since 2011 at the ÉTS. Within her research projects, more than 264 Bachelor’s internship students, 128 Master’s in Engineering students and 20 Ph.D. Students taught by Dr. Botez have graduated. She is an Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) and Canadian Aeronautical Society Institute (CASI), and Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society (RAeS) and the International Association of Advanced Materials (IAAM).

Dr. Botez and her team work in collaboration with Aerospace companies, research institutes and universities in Canada (Bombardier Aerospace, Bell Helicopter Textron, CAE Inc., CMC Electronics-Esterline, IAR-NRC), in Italy (the University of Naples, University of Bologna, and CIRA), in Romania (INCAS, Military Technical Academy), in Mexico (Hydra Technologies), in Brazil (UNESP), in the USA (NASA) and other countries. Dr. Botez is Editor-in-Chief of the INCAS Bulletin, edited by the National Institute for Aerospace Research Elie Carafoli INCAS in Romania. She and her team have published more than 500 scientific publications, including 162 journal papers, 300 conference proceedings papers and 7 book chapters; they have won more than 50 awards, and their research was mentioned in more than 100 media articles.

The following is a short Q&A with Dr. Ruxandra Botez, who shared with us her vision for the journal and her views of the research area and open access publishing:

1. What appealed to you about the journal that made you want to take on the role of its Section Editor-in-Chief?
My expertise is related to Vehicle Design Engineering, more precisely to Airplanes Design, Modeling, and Simulation based on Flight and Wind Tunnel Tests. My role as Section Editor-in-Chief will be to encourage the publication of a maximum number of original papers written in areas related to this Vehicle (aircraft, automotive, trains, etc.) Design Engineering field. In this way, the research and development in this area will advance on an international scale.

2. What is your vision for the Section?
In this Section, recent research in the multidisciplinary areas of vehicle design engineering will be published. In this way, important contributions will be available internationally in this field, that will conduct to high advancements and real applications in these areas at the academic level, as well as at the industrial level.

3. What does the future of this field of research look like?
The Vehicle Design Engineering has an important place in the future as it will be developed with the ecological and economical aims to reduce fuel consumption and green gas emissions by use of various technologies applied on vehicles and their systems.

4. What do you think of the development of Open Access in the publishing field?
I believe that the development of Open Access in the publishing field is very important as it gives opportunities to researchers to be informed on all original contributions (numerical and experimental) in fields related to vehicle systems design engineering.

We warmly welcome Dr. Ruxandra Botez in taking up her role as Section Editor-in-Chief, and we look forward to her leading Designs to many more milestones.