 "Mapping
Two-Way Grids on to Free-Form Surfaces," by Sergio
Pellegrino and co-authors, has been selected as the
winner of the International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures
(IASS) Tsuboi Award
in the category of the most outstanding paper in the Proceedings
of the 2007 IASS Symposium. Pellegrino's co-authors are Peter
Winslow (research student at Cambridge) and Shrikant
Sharma of Buro
Happold. 8-25-08
 G. Ravichandran, John E. Goode Professor of Aeronautics and Mechanical Engineering, has been selected by his alma mater the National Institute of Technology (NIT), Trichy, India, to receive a Distinguished Alumni Award for Academic Excellence. The award was presented to him during Alumni Day on May 3, 2008. He has also been selected to receive the 2008 Charles Russ Richards Memorial Award. Pi Tau Sigma and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) established this award to recognize outstanding achievement in mechanical engineering by an engineer for outstanding achievements in mechanical engineering within ten to twenty years following graduation.. 5-30-08
 John
Dabiri, Assistant Professor of Aeronautics
and Bioengineering, has won
an ONR Young Investigator Award for work in "Optimal Propulsion
Methodologies for Hybrid Screw-based, Bio-inspired Systems".
The objectives
of the Young Investigator Program are to attract to naval research
outstanding new faculty members, to support their research, and to
encourage
their teaching and research careers. ONR announced 27 new awards
for 2008. 3-17-08
 A National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Center of Excellence will be established at Caltech, under the direction of Michael Ortiz, Dotty and Dick Hayman Professor of Aeronautics and Mechanical Engineering. This center, one of five new centers to be established, will develop not only the science and engineering models and software for large-scale simulations, but also methods associated with the emerging disciplines of verification and validation and uncertainty quantification. The goal of these emerging disciplines is to enable scientists to make precise statements about the degree of confidence they have in their simulation-based predictions. The center will be funded for $17 million over a five-year period. Read more... 3-07-08
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 GALCIT is celebrating its 80th Birthday from September 25 - 26, 2008. Festivities include an alumni symposium, banquet, and the Re-Opening of Guggenheim and the dedication of new labs...
Join us!
 Chiara
Daraio, Professor Aeronautics and Applied Physics,
has won the 2008 Richard von Mises Prize. This prize is awarded
each year by the International Association of Applied Mathematics
and Mechanics (GAMM) to a young scientist for exceptional scientific
achievements in the field of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics.
The prize will be awarded at the opening ceremony of the Annual
meeting of GAMM, 31 March 2008, in Bremen, Germany. 2-14-08
 Beverley McKeon, Assistant Professor of Aeronautics, has won an NSF CAREER Award for research on "Morphing Surfaces for Flow Control". The CAREER program offers NSF's most prestigious awards for junior faculty members. The level and 5-year duration of the awards are designed to enable awardees to develop careers as outstanding teacher-scholars. The minimum CAREER award is $400,000. 3-13-08
The jellyfish propulsion research work of John Dabiri, Assistant Professor of Aeronautics and Bioengineering, is featured as the cover story in Science News. 2-23-08
 Caltech alumnus and chair of the GALCIT Advisory Council, Alexis Livanos, had been elected to the National Academy of Engineering "for contributions to the development and insertion of advanced semiconductor technology for commercial and government space systems." Livanos currently serves as corporate vice president and president of Northrop Grumman Corporation's Space Technology sector. Caltech is also honoring Livanos with two of its highest awards: the International von Karman Wings Award, presented by GALCIT's Aerospace Historical Society, and the Distinguished Alumni Award. These awards further recognize Livanos's leadership in research and development that has resulted in unprecedented improvements in the capability of government and commercial space systems. He has pioneered innovations in microelectronics, high-power spacecraft buses, and advanced communications payloads. 2-14-08
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