Mon, Dec 11, 2006
Will Be Honored Next Month At Reno, NV Conference
The American Institute of
Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) told Aero-News Monday the
following awards will be presented during the 45th Aerospace
Sciences Meeting and Exhibit, to be held January 8-11, 2007 at the
Grand Sierra Resort in Reno, NV. All recipients will be honored in
a public ceremony hosted by AIAA President Roger Simpson on January
9.
- The 2006 Elmer A. Sperry Award, co-sponsored
by AIAA, IEEE, ASME, SNAME, SAE, and ASCE, will be presented to
Antony Jameson, Thomas V. Jones Professor in the School of
Engineering at Stanford University in Stanford, CA for seminal and
continuing contributions to the modern design of aircraft through
the development of his flo, syn and airplane series of
computational fluid dynamic codes.
- The 2006 J. Leland Atwood Award, co-sponsored
by AIAA and ASEE, will be presented to William Garrard, Professor
and Head, Department of Aerospace and Director of the Minnesota
Space Grant Consortium at the University of Minnesota in
Minneapolis, MN for advancing the discipline of aerospace
engineering through effective and creative research and consulting,
and for distinguished leadership in the development of enhanced
programs of instruction and research.
- The 2006 AIAA Foundation Orville and Wilbur Wright
Graduate Awards will be presented to the following
graduate students participating in research endeavors as a part of
their engineering/science graduate studies: Patrick Biltgen and
Karen Feigh at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Ryan Kobrick of
the University of Colorado at Boulder and Praveen Shankar of Ohio
State University.
- The 2007 Excellence in Aerospace Standardization
Award will be presented to Macgregor S. Reid, former
Technical Executive Assistant to the Director at the Jet Propulsion
Laboratory in Pasadena, CA for contributions to the space community
which have resulted in an internationally recognized standards
program in AIAA and two ISO subcommittees for space
standardization.
- The 2007 Faculty Advisor Award will be
presented to Donna S. Gerren, Senior Instructor, Aerospace
Engineering at the University of Colorado at Boulder in Boulder, CO
to recognize her outstanding and sustained commitment and
enthusiasm for student education and involvement in the AIAA
Student Branch at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
- The 2007 Gardner-Lasser Aerospace History Literature
Award will be presented to Richard Hallion, Senior Advisor
for Air and Space Issues at the US Air Force Headquarters in
Washington DC. Dr. Hallion will be honored for his book, "Taking
Flight: Inventing the Aerial Age From Antiquity Through The First
World War."
- The 2007 History Manuscript Award will be
presented to Thor Hogan, Assistant Professor of Political Science
in the Department of Social Sciences at the Illinois Institute of
Technology in Chicago, IL for his manuscript, "Mars Wars."
- The 2007 Losey Atmospheric Sciences Award will
be presented to Mark Potapczuk, Aerospace Engineer at NASA Glenn
Research Center in Cleveland, OH, for outstanding contributions to
aviation safety through technical expertise and leadership in the
development of aircraft icing technology, including knowledge of
the fundamentals of ice-accretion physics and the resulting changes
in aerodynamics.
- The 2007 Pendray Aerospace Literature Award
will be presented to Alexander Smits, Professor, Department of
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Princeton University in
Princeton, NJ for outstanding and significant contributions to the
aerospace literature, especially in the area of high Reynolds
turbulent flows and for his dedicated service as an editor and
associate editor of many fluid dynamics journals.
- The 2006 Willy Z. Sadeh Graduate Student Award In Space
Engineering and Space Sciences, will be presented to John
Christian of the Georgia Institute of Technology.
- The 2007 Space Processing Award will be
presented to Paul Concus, Senior Scientist Emeritus at Lawrence
Berkeley National Laboratory and Adjunct Processor of Mathematics
(Retired) at the University of California-Berkeley in Berkeley, CA
for outstanding fundamental contributions to the understanding of
gravitational effects on liquid/vapor interface behavior.
- The 2007 Lawrence Sperry Award will be
presented to Amy R. Pritchett, David S. Lewis Associate Professor
in the School of Aerospace at Georgia Institute of Technology in
Atlanta, GA for advancing the science of human cognition and
applying it to engineer important aerospace applications.
- The 2006 Summerfield Book Award will be
presented to Robert E. Ball, Distinguished Professor Emeritus in
the Department of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering at the
Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA. Dr. Ball will be honored
for his book, "The Fundamentals of Aircraft Combat Survivability
Analysis and Design, Second Edition."
- The 2006 Abe Zarem Award For Distinguished
Achievement will be presented to John Crane of the Georgia
Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia and Frederick Leve of
the University of Florida in Gainesville, FL.
- The 2006 Abe Zarem Educator Award will be
presented to Norman Fitz-Coy of the University of Florida in
Gainesville, FL, and Ben Zinn of the Georgia Institute of
Technology in Atlanta, GA to recognize their mentorship and
guidance to the recipients of the Abe Zarem Award for Distinguished
Achievement.
In addition, the 2007 AIAA Associate Fellows will be honored in
a special evening ceremony on January 8th.
AIAA advances the state of aerospace science, engineering, and
technological leadership. Headquartered in suburban Washington, DC,
the Institute serves over 35,000 members in 65 regional sections
and 79 countries.
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