Dr. Feszty Dániel

Head of Department, Associate Professor

Summary:

Dr. Feszty is a Senior Manager at Audi Hungaria’s Department of Whole Vehicle Development in Győr, Hungary, as well as an Associate Professor and Head of Department at Széchenyi University in Győr. He also holds an Adjunct Professor status at the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Carleton University in Canada. Dr. Feszty has research expertise in vibroacoustics and CFD, with applications to road and air vehicles. His expertise involves structure-borne noise for cars, helicopter aerodynamics, vibration and noise control, as well as high-speed unsteady flows. He has published more than 70 scientific papers in these fields and has graduated over 40 MSc and PhD thesis students in the above fields since 2003. He is the leader of the MTA-SZE Lendület Vehicle Acoustics Research Group at Széchenyi University in Győr, Hungary, which is jointly supported by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and Audi Hungaria. Prior to this, Dr. Feszty was co-founder and first Director of one of the largest academic aerospace Research Centers in Canada – Carleton Aerospace, - which involves more than 30 professors conducting research in aerospace engineering at Carleton University. He also co-founded the Rotorcraft Research Group at Carleton University, as well as Canada’s first Student Chapter of the American Helicopter Society (AHS), which he served as Faculty Advisor between 2012 - 2017. He has mentored several award winning students, including the Runner-Up prize in the American Helicopter Society’s Lichten competition for that year’s best new scientific paper. Since 2017, Dr. Feszty serves as Head of the Department of Whole Vehicle Engineering at the Audi Hungaria Faculty of Automotive Engineering at Széchenyi University in Győr, Hungary. Dr. Feszty is an accomplished educator, who has won a Best Paper award in the Engineering Design Education section of the 2017 AIAA Aviation Forum in Denver, Colorado. 

Career:

2017 – present: Senior Manager, Whole Vehicle Development, Audi Hungaria, Győr, Hungary, as well as Associate Professor and Head, Department of Whole Vehicle Engineering, Széchenyi University, Győr

2017 – present: Adjunct Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada

2015 – 2016: Expert, Whole Vehicle Development, Audi Hungaria, Győr, Hungary (on sabbatical year from Carleton University)

2003 – 17: Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada

2003 – 17: co-founder and co-leader of the Rotorcraft Research Group at Carleton University, Canada’s largest research group on helicopter technologies, which has graduated more than 30 MASc and PhD thesis students and published about 50 papers since its foundation

2012 – 15: Director, Aerospace Research Unit, Carleton University, one of the largest academic aerospace research centers in Canada, with more than 30 professors as members

2012 – 17: co-founder and Faculty Advisor, Student Chapter of the American Helicopter Society (AHS), Carleton University (Canada’s first AHS Student Chapter with more than 20 student members in any year)

2010 – 15: President and co-founder, Smart Rotor Systems Ltd., a spin-off company focussing on commercializing a novel active vibration and noise control technology for helicopters

2001 – 03: Research Associate, Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Glasgow, Scotland, U.K.

1997: Trained as Mi-17 helicopter technician during compulsory military service

1996-97: Aircraft Design Engineer, Evektor Ltd., Kunovice, Czech Republic

Education:

PhD. (Aerospace Engineering), University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, U.K., 1997 - 2001

Ing. (Aerospace Engineering), Technical University of Brno, Brno, Czech Republic, 1991 - 1996

Research interest:

- vibroacoustics 

- aerodynamics

- Computational Fluid Dynamics

- noise and vibration control

- helicopter and wind turbine rotor design