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.

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