Ms. Bonnie McBride has been involved in developing computer codes that use the laws of thermodynamics to model combustion processes. These codes have become useful tools for solving a wide range of problems in Chemistry and Engineering. They are used in Thermodynamic Analysis in the Aeronautics, Aerospace, and Commercial Communities as well as teaching tools in Universities worldwide. These tools have been made available as Chemical Equilibrium with Applications (CEA) from the CEA Web Site: http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/CEAWeb/ .

CEA has been incorporated into academic curricula worldwide and has been published in textbook form.

• Modern Chemistry: Laboratory Experiments by Tzimopoulo, 1993.
  Holt Rinehart and Winston, Inc., ISBN 0-030-14513-9
• Numerical Simulation of Reactive Flow by Elaine S. Oran, Jay P. Boris, 2001.
  Naval Research Laboratory, ISBN 0-0521-58175-3
• Principles of Combustion by Kenneth Kuan-uan Kuo, 1986.
  John Wiley & Sons, Inc., ISBN 0-471-09852-3

Ms. Bonnie McBride has received many awards thought the years for her dedications and contributions in NASA. The most recently awards are:

• 2005 Software Release Award for the Technology NASA Case No. LEW-17687-1 titled "Chemical Equilibrium for Applications (CEA) including Associated Software" .
• 2004 NASA Space Act Award as 1 of 18 exceptional achievements by the Agency among the 10 NASA Centers.

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