AIAA To Celebrate Achievements in Aerospace Sciences at its June Aviation and Aeronautics Forum and Exhibition Written 13 May 2016
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The honorees are:
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- Pieter Buning, an aerospace technologist at NASA’s Langley Research Center, Hampton, Virginia, will receive the
2016 AIAA Aerodynamics Award. The award recognizes Buning’s “exceptional leadership, innovation and expertise in the field of overset grip computational fluid dynamic methods and applications that are used internationally for wide-spread advancements in the aerodynamic design and development of air and space vehicles.”
- Pieter Buning, an aerospace technologist at NASA’s Langley Research Center, Hampton, Virginia, will receive the
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- Alan C. Eckbreth, management/engineering consultant, Glastonbury, Connecticut, will receive the
2016 AIAA Aerodynamic Measurement Technology Award. The award recognizes Eckbreth’s “seminal contributions to the emerging field of laser diagnostics for combustion, especially for his work in coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering spectroscopy.”
- Alan C. Eckbreth, management/engineering consultant, Glastonbury, Connecticut, will receive the
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- Moshe Matalon, Caterpillar Distinguished Professor, mechanical science and engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, will receive the
2016 AIAA Fluid Dynamics Award. The award recognizes Matalon’s “contributions to the development of combustion theory, for revolutionizing understanding of chemically reacting flows, and for work on the hydrodynamic theory of premixed flames.”
- Moshe Matalon, Caterpillar Distinguished Professor, mechanical science and engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, will receive the
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- Zonglin Jiang, professor, Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, People’s Republic of China, will receive the
2016 AIAA Ground Testing Award. The award recognizes Jiang’s “skillful leadership in conceiving, developing and successfully commissioning the world’s largest shock tunnel capable of true hypersonic flight simulation.”
- Zonglin Jiang, professor, Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, People’s Republic of China, will receive the
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- William L. Smith, professor emeritus and senior scientist, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences and Space Science and Engineering Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, and distinguished professor, atmospheric and planetary sciences, Hampton University, Hampton, Virginia, will receive the
2016 AIAA Losey Atmospheric Sciences Award. The award recognizes Smith’s “visionary and pioneering ultraspectral resolution sounding techniques used for current and future polar satellite advanced infrared sounding systems for improved weather forecasting.”
- William L. Smith, professor emeritus and senior scientist, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences and Space Science and Engineering Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, and distinguished professor, atmospheric and planetary sciences, Hampton University, Hampton, Virginia, will receive the
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- Eric J. Jumper, Roth-Gibson Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, will receive the
2016 AIAA Plasmadynamics & Lasers Award. The award recognizes Jumper’s “major contributions in the fields of aero-optics, chemical lasers, and laser supported detonation, and for the mentoring of young engineers and scientists.”
- Eric J. Jumper, Roth-Gibson Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, will receive the
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- George Cunnington, CEO, Cunnington and Associates, Palo Alto, California, will receive the
2016 AIAA Thermophysics Award. The award recognizes Cunnington’s “lifelong contributions to the development of thermal protection systems, multi-layer cryogenic insulation systems, and radiative heat transfer analysis techniques.
- George Cunnington, CEO, Cunnington and Associates, Palo Alto, California, will receive the
In addition, certificates of merit for best papers will be presented.
For more information about these awards, or about the AIAA Honors and Awards Program, please contact Carol Stewart at[email protected] or at 703.264.7538. For more information on AIAA AVIATION 2016, please contact Duane Hyland at [email protected] or at 703.264.7558.
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