AIAA to Present Awards at AIAA Science and Technology Forum and Exposition Written 10 December 2014

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AIAA to Present Awards at AIAA Science and Technology Forum and Exposition
Awards Honor Achievements in Aerospace Design/Structures and Literary ExcellenceDecember 10, 2014 – Reston, Va. – The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) will present awards honoring achievements in aerospace design/structures or literary excellence at a noon awards luncheon on January 8, as part of the AIAA Science and Technology Forum and Exposition (AIAA SciTech 2015), January 5–9 at the Gaylord Palms Hotel and Convention Center, Kissimmee, Florida.

The awardees are:

• Satya N. Atluri distinguished professor, mechanical and aerospace engineering, the Henry Samueli School of Engineering, and director, Center for Aerospace Research and Education, University of California-Irvine, California, will receive the AIAA Walter J. and Angeline H. Crichlow Trust Prize. Atluri is being honored for his “lasting contributions to airframe structural integrity and durability analysis using novel computational methods (MLPG meshless methods) and micromechanics of materials genome.”

• Antony Jameson, Thomas V. Jones Professor of Engineering, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Stanford University, Stanford, California, will receive the AIAA Pendray Aerospace Literature Award. Jameson is being honored for his “seminal and high-impact research papers in the field of computational fluid dynamics and aerodynamics optimization.”

• Frederick Johnsen, former U.S. Air Force historian and director of the Air Force Flight Test Center Museum, Edwards Air Force Base, California, will receive the AIAA History Manuscript Award. Johnsen is being honored for his manuscript, Sweeping Forward.

• Margaret A. Weitekamp, curator, Space History Department, Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, Washington, D.C., will receive the AIAA Children’s Literature Award. Weitekamp is being honored for her book, Pluto’s Secret: An Icy World’s Tale of Discovery.

In addition to those awards, technical paper authors will receive a Certificate of Merit recognizing outstanding technical and scientific excellence.

For more information on these awards, or on the AIAA Honors and Awards program, please contact Carol Stewart at [email protected]or 703.264.7623. For more information on the AIAA Science and Technology Forum and Exposition, please contact Duane Hyland at [email protected] or 703.264.7558. Registration is complimentary for credentialed members of the press.

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