Momentum - The Magazine for Virginia Tech Mechanical Engineering Vol. 2 No. 4 Winter 2017 | Page 18

Sabbatical in France allows international
cooperation in vehicle research
Sandu looks at the
instrumentation of
a Renault equipped
with sensors for
data acquisition for
vehicle dynamics.
As Professor Corina Sandu
was on sabbatical, she was
able to work with colleagues
at the University of Technology
of Compiegne (UTC), in Comp-
iegne, France. An engineering
school with autonomous
training and pedagogy as well
as an innovation-intensive,
interdisciplinary technological
research program, UTC is part
of group known as the Sor-
bonne Universities.
While in France, Sandu has
been conducting join research
in the Heuristics and Diag-
nostics for Complex Systems
Laboratory (Heudiasyc), with
Prof. Alessandro
Victorino, Dr.
Pedro Castillo,
Researcher,
Assoc. Prof.
MOMENTUM
Jérôme De Miras, and UTC doc-
toral student, Angel Alatorre.
The Heudiasyc Lab leads
projects based on the synergy
between upstream, basic
research and finalized, applied
researc