Major International and National Awards
2006 - 2007

R&D 100 Award

• Quang-Viet Nguyen for High Speed Electro-Mechanical Shutter for Imaging Spectrographs

• Dongming Zhu, Robert Miller, and Narottam Bansal for Defect Clustering Thermal & Environmental Barrier Coatings (TEBCs) for Si-Based Ceramic Turbine Engine Components

• Felix Miranda, Afroz Zaman, Richard Lee, William Darby, Kevin Lambert for Antenna Near-Field Probe Station Scanner (ANFPSS)

American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Losey Atmospheric Sciences Award

• Dr. Mark Potapczuk

American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) 2006 Aerospace Power Systems Award  

• Dick Shaltens – Life -Time Achievement

VSJ (Visualization Society of Japan) - SGI 2007 Award

• N. Zhang (OAI) and D. F. Chao (GRC) received a monetary award for photographs in their article “Visualization of Capillary Flow in Sessile Drops and Detecting Spreading Stability by Laser Refracted Shadowgraphy,” which was published in the Journal of Visualization.  The authors were recognized for “Excellent Visualized Images.”

AIAA 2006 Aerospace Power Systems Best Paper Award at the 5th International Energy Conversion Engineering Conference (IECEC)

• Jeffrey Schreiber for his paper entitled, “Developmental Considerations on the Free-Piston Stirling Power Convertor for Use in Space.”

SPIE Rudolf Kingslake Medal and Prize

• Dr, Grigory Adamovsky (GRC), Dr. Sergey S. Sarkisov, Dr. Michael J. Curley, Ms. LaQuieta Huey, Dr. Aisha Fields, and Mr. Sergey S. Sarkisov, II have been named the 2006 recipients of the Rudolf Kingslake Medal in recognition of the most noteworthy original paper to appear in the Society’s official journal, Optical Engineering, on the theoretical or experimental aspects of optical engineering. Their paper was entitled, “Light-driven actuators based on polymer films”.

ASME Turbo Expo 2007 Best Paper Award - Ceramics Committee                                         

• Dr. James DiCarlo (GRC) and Mark van Roode (Solar Turbines) for their paper entitled, "Ceramic Composite Development for Gas Turbine Engine Hot Section Components”

3rd World Congress on Ultrasound - Silver Probe Award

• Dr. David Fischer (GRC), Dr. Mike Phelan (Cleveland Clinic), Dr. Jerry Myers (PTH), and Dr. Jeff Mackey (MK Optics) for their paper entitled “Non-invasively measuring acoustic attenuation and scatter in different concentrations of blood mimicking fluid using Doppler ultrasound.”

 2007 Women of Color Award

• Dr. Jennifer Xu  - Technology Achievement
• Nancy Hall -  Technology All-Star

Minorities in Research Science (MiRS) Award

• Carlos Morrison - Special Recognition

• Lancert E. Foster- Trailblazer

Major Local Awards
2006 - 2007

NASA GRC Abe Silverstein Award

• Kelly Carney

Cleveland Chapter of the National Technical Association (NTA)

• Dr. Mark David Kankam  received an Education Award for managing the Center's University Programs

AIAA Northern Ohio Section 2006 Best Young Professional Paper

• Amy Mielke (GRC), Kristie A. Elam (Jacobs Sverdrup), and Chih-Jen Sung (Case Western Reserve University) for their paper entitled, “Rayleigh Scattering Diagnostic for Measurement of Temperature, Velocity, and Density Fluctuation Spectra.”

Awards Prior to 2006