Anchal Goel

Background

Anchal Goel completed her BEng Hons Degree in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Hertfordshire, UK in 2016. One of her final year projects at the University involved performing an experimental study on the low velocity impact response of composite laminates. Additionally, she contributed to a final year group project as a propulsion engineer to design a strategic bomber aircraft.

During her degree, she joined GE Aviation Hamble as a Composites Manufacturing intern for a year. She worked on a variety of projects where she employed lean principles, liaised with customers, and provided manufacturing support for

A350-900/-1000 projects.

After graduating she joined GE Aviation Cheltenham on the Systems track of the Edison Engineering Development Programme. During this time she completed three rotations in the business along with technical assignments related to systems

engineering. In her first rotation she worked as a systems verification engineer on the 777X power distribution system. In her second rotation she created an automated test solution for a Gulfstream power distribution wiring harness. In her third rotation she performed a feasibility study on introducing advance additive technology for a propeller component

Following her graduate scheme she joined Dowty Propellers (a subsidiary of GE Aviation) as a lead manufacturing specialist. Here she provided composite technical support to the production environment of both the Original Equipment (OE) and

Repair and Overhaul (R&O) business units of Dowty Propellers. She also lead a team of manufacturing engineers and provided them with both technical and pastoral support.

After four years in the manufacturing department, her passion for aerodynamics prompted her to seek out a career change and she made an internal move to the Aero Performance team at Dowty Propellers. Here she is involved in various industrial projects related to understanding aero loads on propeller design and wind tunnel data post processing . While working in the Performance team she was inspired to complement her industry experience by starting a PhD in Aerospace at Cranfield University.

Current activities

Anchal's PhD project is on Aerodynamic modelling and flight control of a tiltrotor during the transition from VTOL to aircraft mode. The project involves analytical modelling and numerical methods to better understand the complex aerodynamics field during the transition phase, along with analyzing Propeller/Rotor slipstream effects. She will also be computing static and dynamic stability coefficients in both the lateral and longitudinal directions to be used for Flight Dynamics control. She is completing this PhD while continuing to work as Performance engineer at Dowty Propellers.