Sandusky Selected for 2006 Aircraft Design Award

Mr. Robert R Sandusky Jr., President of Belcan Corporation, Yorktown, VA has been selected to receive the AIAA 2006 Aircraft Design Award.  The award is presented to a design engineer or team for the conception, definition, or development of an original concept leading to a significant advancement in aircraft design or design technology.

The citation for the award reads as follows: “ First named inventor of the F-20 Tigershark and YF-23A Advanced Tactical Fighter Prototype, Chief Engineer of the YF-23 and for significant involvement in the development of the YF-17.”  The award consists of an engraved bronze medal, a certificate of citation, and a rosette pin.

Korte and Lin received Regional Special Service Citation

Congratulations to Dr. John J. Korte and Dr. John C. Lin, who each received an AIAA Special Service Citation on May 23, 2006.  Dr. Korte was recognized for “ for outstanding service to the Hampton Roads Section by seeking to recognize members for their technical accomplishments as well as going to extraordinary means to upgrade members .”  Dr. Lin was cited for “ for outstanding service to the Hampton Roads Section by providing leadership in the areas of communication, career enhancement, and as liaison to other engineering organizations.”

2006 Allan H. Taylor Memorial Award

(Our Section's highest service honor given to members “in recognition of many years of sustained and significant volunteer contributions to the AIAA Hampton Roads Section"):

Dr. Paresh Parikh, NASA Langley Research Center

Congratulations to the Winners of the 2006 Laurence Bement Young Professionals Paper Competition:

1st Place:

Christopher D. Karlgaard, for the paper titled “Hyper-X Post-Flight-Trajectory Reconstruction”

2nd Place:

Luis G. Crespo, for the paper titled “Reliability-Based Control Design for Uncertain Systems”

3rd Place:

Eric J. Nielsen, for the paper titled “Efficient Construction of Discrete Adjoint Operators on Unstructured Grids by Using Complex Variables”

2006 “Futures in Aerospace” Scholarship Winners

Alexander M. Crowell

Cape Henry Collegiate School, Virginia Beach

Stephanie Marie Brown

Warwick High School, Newport News

2006 Fellow Upgrade (for persons of distinction in aeronautics or astronautics, and have made notable valuable contributions to the arts, sciences, or technology thereof):

Dr. Thomas F. Brooks, NASA Langley Research Center (LaRC)

Dr. Robert M. Jones, Virginia Tech (retired)

Horvath Chosen as HRS Engineer of the Year

The AIAA HRS is proud to announce the selection of Mr. Thomas J. Horvath of the Aerothermodynamics Branch, Research & Technology Directorate, at NASA Langley Research Center as the winner of its "2006 Engineer of the Year" award. Mr. Horvath is a nationally/internationally renowned aerothermodynamicist. He is being honored for his outstanding technical contributions to the Columbia Accident Investigation (CAI) via aerothermodynamic testing, as well as for his significant accomplishments on numerous planetary reentry projects over the last several years. AIAA HRS will present Mr. Horvath with the Engineer of the Year Award at its Annual Award Banquet in May 2006. Mr. Horvath will also be presenting the Annual Axel T. Mattson Lecture in April 11, 2006.

McClinton Selected for 2006 Dryden Lectureship in Research

Mr. Charles McClinton of the HyperX Program Office at NASA Langley Research Center, has been selected for presentation of the 2006 Dryden Lectureship in Research on January 9 at Reno, NV. Mr. McClinton was invited to give the lecture entitled "Hypersonic Flight: Recent Successes and Future Opportunities". The Dryden Lectureship in Research emphasizes the great importance of basic research to the advancement in aeronautics and astronautics and is a salute to research scientists and engineers. The award consists of an engraved medal, certificate of citation, and a rosette pin symbolizing technical excellence.

Rich received Regional Special Service Citation

Congratulations to Lee Rich, AIAA HRS Public Policy Chair, who received a Special Service Citation from AIAA Region I for “Arranging numerous successful public policy meetings between aerospace companies, NASA, community/organizational leaders, and Congressional representatives to inform AIAA members and to advocate in their interest.”

2005 Allan H. Taylor Memorial Award
(Our Section's highest service honor given to members “in recognition of many years of sustained and significant volunteer contributions to the AIAA Hampton Roads Section"):

Mr. Laurence “Larry” D. Leavitt, NASA Langley Research Center

Desai Chosen as Winner of the Hampton Roads Section 2005 Engineer-of-the-Year Award

 

The AIAA HRS is Proud to announce the selection of Dr. Prasun Desai of the Exploration Systems Engineering Branch, Systems Engineering Directorate, at NASA Langley Research Center as the winner of its “2005 Engineer of the Year” award.  Dr. Desai is being honored for his recent outstanding contributions to the Mars Exploration Rover (MER) Spirit and Opportunity missions, as well as to a number of major agency planetary science flight projects over the last several years.  He played a major role in the MER missions throughout every phase such that several of his ideas ultimately shaped the overall mission and the Lander designs.  Dr. Desai is an internationally recognized and sought after planetary entry flight dynamics expert.  He has led the flight dynamics and guidance and control development efforts for a wide variety of planetary flight mission studies and flight projects.  He continues to lead similar efforts for upcoming future planetary flight missions.  Dr. Desai is an AIAA Associate Fellow and is currently serving his second term on the AIAA Astrodynamics Technical Committee (1999-2002, and 2003-present).

 

 

Prinzel Received 2005 Doug Ensor Award from the Peninsula Engineers Council

 

Dr. Lawrence (Lance) J. Prinzel, III was named the 2005 Doug Ensor Award recipient for Young Engineer of the Year by the Peninsula Engineers Council (PEC).  Dr. Prinzel works in the Crew Systems & Operations Branch, Research & Technology Directorate, at NASA Langley Research Center.  He was recognized for his efforts in research to develop countermeasures to the psychological challenges of long-duration space flight.  He led several teams to conduct scientific research on understanding the etiologies of human error in aerospace operations and on system design to enhance human-automation interaction in the cockpit and air traffic control.  As a senior researcher under the NASA Synthetic Vision Systems (Aviation Safety and Security Program), he designs, develops, and evaluates synthetic vision and enhanced vision cockpit displays.  He is also a co-investigator to design advanced automation and human monitoring technologies under the NASA Office of Exploration Systems Human & Robotic Technology program.  Dr. Prinzel is active in several professional societies, including AIAA and the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES).

 

 

2005 Fellow Upgrade (for persons of distinction in aeronautics or astronautics, and have made notable valuable contributions to the arts, sciences, or technology thereof):

 

Dr. Robert E. Lindberg, National Institute of Aerospace

 

 

2003-2004 AIAA National Section Awards

Very Large Section Category

 

First Place                               

(Lee Rich, Public Policy Officer)

 

Second Place                          

(Kurt Severance, Young Professionals Officer)

 

 

2004 Laurence Bement Young Professionals Paper Competition

 

1^st Place:

Brian H. Mason, for the paper titled "Variable complexity design of composite fuselage frames by response surface techniques"

 

2^nd Place:

William A. Wood, for the paper titled "Exploring XP for Scientific Research"

 

3^rd Place:

Michael J. Doty, for the paper titled "Acoustic and mean flow measurements of high-speed, helium-air mixture jets"

 

 

2004 Fellow Upgrade (for persons of distinction in aeronautics or astronautics, and have made notable valuable contributions to the arts, sciences, or technology thereof):

 

Dr. Michael W. Hyer, Virginia Polytechnic Institute

 

 

Schur Received Hampton Roads Section 2004 Engineer-of-the-Year Award

 

The AIAA HRS is Proud to announce the selection of Dr. Willi W Schur of NASA Balloon Programs Office, Wallops Flight Facility as the winner of its “2004 Engineer of the Year” award.  Dr. Schur is recognized for his approaches to the unique challenges associated with the analysis and design of pneumatic envelops thin films.  These approaches, which including techniques and models to performed structural analysis as well as software and structural/material testing, have been ground breaking, innovative, and have set standards for the field.  His research contributed to the development of NASA’s Ultra Long Duration Balloon (ULDB).  ULDB is a super-pressure pumpkin shaped balloon capable of carrying large scientific payloads (up to 2700 kg) while keeping altitude (33.5 km) for a period of up to 100 days. 

 

 

Jordan Received both 2004 AIAA Lawrence Sperry Award and 2004 PEC Doug Ensor Award

 

Congratulations to AIAA HRS member Dr. Jeffrey Jordan.  Dr. Jordan is the winner of the 2004 AIAA Lawrence Sperry Award, which is a National award recognizing outstanding contributions to the field of aeronautics or astronautics by an engineer under 35 years of age.  In addition, Dr. Jordan is also the recipient of the 2004 Doug Ensor Award by the Peninsula Engineers Council (PEC).  The award — sometime referred to as the Young Engineer of the Year Award — was instituted in 1999 to recognize young engineers of the Virginia Peninsula for their significant technical accomplishments, leadership, contribution to the profession, and community involvement.

 

Dr. Jordan works in the Advance Sensing and Optical measurement Branch in Aerodynamics, Aerothermodynamics, and Aeroacoustics Competency at NASA Langley Research Center.  He is an internationally recognized expert in the area of advanced measurement diagnostics for aerospace applications, with particular emphasis on advanced pressure sensitive paint (PSP) formulations.  Dr. Jordan leads a team whose efforts have produced a suite of advanced PSP formulations that are recognized world-wide, coupled with measurement strategies that provide quantitative surface pressure distributions under conditions that range from cryogenic to hypersonic with high effective bandwidth (above 1 kHz).  He also led the development of sensors and actuators using the unique properties of carbon nanotubes (CNTs), including imaging and optical sensing devices, as well as a concept prototype for a structural health-monitoring sensor.  In addition to his measurement work, Dr. Jordan and his team are also involved with adapting previous research in oxidation catalysts for space-based lasers to the development of a cost effective, three-way catalyst for automotive catalytic converter applications.

 

 

2004 Allan H. Taylor Memorial Award (in recognition of many years of sustained and significant volunteer contributions to the AIAA Hampton Roads Section):

Dr. Karen R Credeur, NASA Langley Research Center

 

 

2004 “Futures in Aerospace" Scholarship Winners:

 

Babita Panigrahi

Ocean Lakes High School, Virginia Beach

 

Sai Kiran Mukkamala

Princess Anne High School, Virginia Beach

 

2002-2003 AIAA National Section Awards

Very Large Section Category

 

Second Place              

(Lee Rich, Public Policy Officer)

 

Second Place                          

(Kurt Severance, Young Professionals Officer)

 

 

DeLoach Received Hampton Roads Section 2003 Engineer-of-the-Year Award

 

The AIAA HRS is proud to announce the selection of Mr. Richard DeLoach of the Instrumentation Systems Development Branch, Aerodynamics, Aerothermodynamics, and Aeroacoustics Competency, at NASA Langley Research Center (LaRC) as the winner of the HRS “2003 Engineer-of-the-Year.”  Mr. DeLoach is being honored for the introduction of formal experiment design methods in aerospace research at Langley and within the AIAA testing community.  This method is called “Modern Design of Experiment” (MDOE) which is an integrated design, execution, and analysis process that emphasizes knowledge rather than data collection in aerospace testing.  This results in less data points per test and a tremendous cost savings to the programs testing in the facilities — permitting substantial productivity gains.  To date, over 40 major MDOE experiment have been conducted at NASA LaRC.  Mr. Deloach has also incorporated quality assurances measures into MDOE to ensure accurate results are achieved.  He is a member of AIAA, ASQ, and ASA.

 

 

Hilburger Received 2003 Doug Ensor Award from the Peninsula Engineers Council

 

The Peninsula Engineers Council (PEC) named Dr. Mark Hilburger the 2003 Doug Ensor Award recipient for Young Engineer of the Year.  Dr. Hilburger works in the Advance Sensing and Optical Measurement Branch in Structures and Materials Competency at NASA Langley Research Center.  Dr. Hilburger is recognized for his outstanding original and significant contributions to the structural mechanics discipline, addressing critical technologies related to high-fidelity, hierarchical analysis methods; structural scaling laws for strength and stiffness; and reliability-based methods for composity structural design.  He was also selected to serve on NASA Langley’s American Airlines Flight 587 Failure Investigation Team. 

 

 

2003 “Futures in Aerospace" Scholarship Winners:

 

Eric Reed Nielsen

M.L.Walker Governor's School, Richmond

 

Thomas Reed Reppert

Atlee High School, Mechanicsville

 

 

Richard Campbell Received AIAA 2002 Aerodynamics Award

 

Congratulations to AIAA HRS member Richard Campbell of NASA Langley Research Center, who was named as the winner of the AIAA 2002 Aerodynamics Award.  The award is presented for meritorious achievement in the field of applied aerodynamics, recognizing notable contributions in the development, application, and evaluation of aerodynamic concepts and methods.

 

Mr. Campbell’s most notable technical contribution is the development and implementation of the Constrained Direct Iterative Surface Curvature (CDISC) methodology for rapid aerodynamic design.  He has spent 27 years in applied aerodynamic research at Langley.  He is internationally recognized as an expert on computational fluid dynamic design methods and airfoil/wing design.  CDISC has been implemented in multiple flow solvers originating outside NASA, including SPITFLOW and FLO22.  The award, which was presented at the AIAA 20th

Applied Aerodynamics Conference in St. Louis, is inscribed: “For outstanding technical contributions toward advancement of rapid, high-fidelity aerodynamic design capability for complex aerospace configurations.”

 

 

2001-2002 AIAA National Section Awards

Very Large Section Category

 

Second Place              

(Lee Rich, Public Policy Officer)

 

Second Place              

(Steven X. S. Bauer, Membership Chair)

 

Second Place              

(Dr. Thomas E. Pinelli, Precollege Chair)

 

 

Third Place                              

(Kurt Severance, Young Professionals Officer)

 

Third Place                              

(Gautam H. Shah, Newsletter Editor)

 

 

2003 Fellow Upgrade (for persons of distinction in aeronautics or astronautics, and have made notable valuable contributions to the arts, sciences, or technology thereof):

Dr. Bernard Grossman, Virginia Polytechnic Institute

Daniel J. Inman, Virginia Polytechnic Institute

Charles G. Miller III, NASA Langley Research Center

 

 

2003 Allan H. Taylor Memorial Award (in recognition of many years of sustained and significant volunteer contributions to the AIAA Hampton Roads Section):

Dr. Frederick H. Lutze, Virginia Polytechnic Institute

 

 

2002 Allan H. Taylor Memorial Award (in recognition of many years of sustained and significant volunteer contributions to the AIAA Hampton Roads Section):

Dr. Stephen A. Rizzi, NASA Langley Research Center

 

 

2002 “Futures in Aerospace" Scholarship Winners:

Barbara H. Besal

First Colonial High School, Virginia Beach

 

Matthew D. Sievert

Chesterfield County Mathematics & Science High School at Clover Hill

 

 

 

Lynda J. Kramer, a Project Manager at NASA Langley Research Center, was named the 2001 Doug Ensor Award recipient for Young Engineer of the Year by the Peninsula Engineers Council (PEC). The"Doug Ensor Award" was instituted in 1998 by the PEC to recognize an individual's technical accomplishments, leadership, service to professional societies, and community service in the early phases of his/her career. Ms. Kramer was nominated by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), Hampton Roads Section (HRS).

Ms. Kramer has played a key role in crew-centered, flight deck design techniques for advanced display development under the NASA Aviation Safety Program (AvSP) and the High-Speed Research (HSR) Program. Over the last six years, she has conducted and/or led several experiments (simulation and flight) on human performance issues (e.g., conformality, field-of-view) to validate the eXternal Visibility System (XVS) component of the HSR Program. Most recently, over the last year, she has been the Level III Manager for the Commercial and Business Aircraft (CAB) Synthetic Vision Systems (SVS) element under AvSP, where she is responsible for providing technical leadership and guidance to the research teams. The SVS element emphasizes the cost-effective use of synthetic and enhanced vision displays, worldwide terrain databases, and GPS navigation to eliminate visibility-induced errors for all aircraft. She has organized and led over 180 government, industry, and foreign participants in two Synthetic Vision Workshops.

Ms. Kramer earned a B.S. degree in Aerospace Engineering from Auburn University in 1991; she also received a M.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering/Aeronautics from George Washington University in 1996. She has received over ten professional and scholastic awards from NASA, AIAA, and Auburn University, as well as being the AIAA HRS's nominee for the 2000 Lawrence Sperry Award. Ms. Kramer is a Senior Member of AIAA. She has been an active member since 1993 and served as the AIAA HRS's Regional Advisory Council (RAC) representative, Chair, Vice-chair, Secretary, Young Members Committee Chair, and as a member of the Scholarship Committee. In addition, Ms. Kramer has performed great volunteer service through leadership and mentorship roles for numerous educational and sport activities in the Peninsula.

Ms. Kramer will be presented the Doug Ensor Award on February 24, during National Engineers Week, at the PEC Annual Banquet.