Wed, Oct 26, 2005
NASA Administrator Michael Griffin
has named veteran scientist Lisa J. Porter as associate
administrator for the Aeronautics Mission Directorate. She will
lead the agency's aeronautics research efforts and continue to lead
NASA's efforts in the development of national aeronautics policy in
cooperation with other government agencies.
Porter most recently served as the NASA Administrator's senior
adviser for aeronautics. She came to the agency following her
service as senior scientist in the Advanced Technology Office of
the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency in Arlington, Va.
She created and managed several programs in diverse technical
areas ranging from fundamental scientific research to
multi-disciplinary systems- level development and integration
efforts. Two of her programs focused on developing physics-based
predictive design tools that leveraged advanced computational fluid
dynamics.
The Helicopter Quieting Program focused on developing the
capability to design quiet rotor blades that would not negatively
impact aircraft performance. The Friction Drag Reduction Program
focused on developing the capability to implement friction drag
reduction technologies on naval platforms.
Porter has a bachelor's degree in nuclear engineering from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass., and a
doctorate in applied physics from Stanford University, Calif. She
was a lecturer and postdoctoral research associate at MIT. She
received the Alpha Nu Sigma MIT Student Chapter Outstanding
Teaching Award in 1996. She has authored more than 25 publications
in a broad range of technical disciplines including nuclear
engineering, solar physics, plasma physics, computational materials
modeling, explosives detection and vibration control of flexible
structures.
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