Fall 2011 GRAM a Aeronewsletter for Alumni & Friends of the School of Aeronautics & Astronautics
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Fall 2011 GRAM A Aeronewsletter for alumni & friends of the School of Aeronautics & Astronautics Covering the 2010-2011 academic year ■ Thomas L. Maxwell BSAAE’69 & Gary E. Payton MSAAE’72 Distinguished Engineering Alumni ■ 2011 Outstanding Engineer Awards in this issue... From Professor Tom I-P. Shih - AAE Headlines Fall 2011 AAE Headlines . 2 Purdue, Neil Armstrong presented In this issue of the AeroGram, you ‘Hero of the Hudson’ with medal. 3 will also read about our distinguished Purdue Engineer builds Satellites faculty who garnered awards and that Saves Lives . 4 recognitions during the past academic Purdue’s Forty Under 40 . 4 year. Our faculty is dedicated to ensuring the very best possible education for Mark Anderson BSAAE’74 Test Pilot our students, and they continue the for 787 with Fire Onboard . 5 tradition of excellence in all that they Purdue Graduate Lt. Daniel Radocaj do in teaching, research, and service Makes History . 7 that Purdue is known for. During this New director takes the lead at past year, Dr. Tasos Lyrintzis was named National Museum of the U.S. Associate Head with responsibility for the Air Force . 7 Graduate program; Dr. Stephen Heister News About You. 8 was named the Raisbeck Engineering Development Updates . 10 Distinguished Professor for Engineering Gifts promise growth and challenge and Technology Integration and appointed others to give. 12 as the Director of the Maurice J. Zucrow Update on The George and Patricia I am honored and privileged to have Laboratories after a university-wide Palmer Undergraduate Scholarship served my second year at Purdue, and search; and Dr. Bill Anderson was Endowment and The George and it has been a year full of opportunities. appointed as the director of our college’s Patricia Palmer Teaching I continue to be incredibly impressed by Global Engineering Program. During the our outstanding students, faculty, and Assistantship Fund . 13 2011-12 academic year, we will welcome staff and the excellent work that they Charles Rolls and Henry Royce two outstanding new faculty members do. Also, I continue to be incredibly Purdue Memorial Lecture 2010 . 14 to our school in Dr. Sally Bane and impressed by our alumni as I learn U.S. News and World Report Dr. Michael Sangid. Dr. Bane started of their accomplishments that have Rankings 2010 – 2011 . 16 on August 15, 2011, and Dr. Sangid impacted the aerospace industry over One Small Step: The History of will start on January 2, 2012. the years. This issue of the AeroGram On behalf of the faculty and students, Aerospace Engineering at Purdue highlights events and accomplishments University . 16 I want to express our deepest thanks to that occurred both on campus and Dr. Terry Weisshaar who retired at the Distinguished Engineering around the country during academic end of the 2010-11 academic year for Alumni 2011 . 17 year 2010-11. his many years of tireless and dedicated 100th Anniversary of Purdue’s During this past academic year, we service to Purdue. I also want to thank connection with Aerospace. 17 celebrated several important recognitions Terri Moore, administrative assistant, William E. Boeing Distinguished of our alumni, including the honoring who retired on May 31st for her 31 years Lecture 2010 . 18 of seven alumni with the Outstanding of tender loving care of our school. We Purdue University and China's Aerospace Engineer Award on November are saddened that former AAE Head, Beihang University form joint 5, 2010 and the College of Engineering’s Dr. Harold M. DeGroff, Jr. passed away energy-research labs . 19 recognition of Thomas Maxwell and Gary at the age of 90 in October 2010. FAA Approves NEXTOR II aviation Payton with the Distinguished Engineer His obituary can be found on page 36. operations research contract . 21 Award in February 2011. Details of both As I travelled across the country to NASA’S Gravity Probe B events can be found on pages 24 and meet alumni and friends of the School Confirms Two Einstein 17, respectively. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Space-Time Theories. 23 We also welcomed Major General my impressions from last year were Outstanding Aerospace Charles F. Bolden, Jr. who was named confirmed in that the School enjoys NASA’s 12th Administrator in July 2009. Engineers Award . 24 tremendous support from our alumni. General Bolden presented the William Faculty News . 28 I am extremely grateful and look forward E. Boeing Distinguished Lecture on AAE’s 33rd & Purdue’s 45th to working and meeting with you to September 7, 2010 and met with team to fly on NASA’s continue the excellence of our School. numerous faculty and students. On “Vomit Comet” . 34 With very best wishes and regards October 21, 2011, Preston A. Henne, for the coming year. Purdue Space Day . 38 Senior Vice President of Programs, Congratulations to the Graduates . 42 Engineering, and Test of Gulfstream Student Awards . 44 Aerospace Corporation gave the NASA Sponsored Two Purdue Charles Rolls and Henry Royce AAE Students to attend the Purdue Memorial Lecture. 61st International Astronautical Congress (IAC) . 47 Keep in Touch . 48 Purdue, Neil Armstrong presented ‘Hero of the Hudson’ with medal Purdue President France A. Córdova and Neil Armstrong board until all 155 passengers and crew were safely BSAE’55 presented Capt. Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger off the plane. with the university’s Neil Armstrong Medal of Earlier at a Back to Class lunch for the President’s Excellence on Nov 12, 2010. The honor is to recognize Council, Sullenberger received a Distinguished those who have “embodied the same pioneer spirit, Alumnus Award from the College of Liberal Arts, determination and dedication that distinguished Neil where he earned his master’s degree in industrial Armstrong’s exploration of space and his later roles psychology in 1973. Armstrong received a bachelor’s as a businessman and scholar.” degree from Purdue in aeronautical engineering in 1955 Just after takeoff from LaGuardia Airport on January and was awarded an honorary doctorate in engineering 15, 2009, a flock of geese disabled both engines on from Purdue in 1970. On July 20, 1969, Armstrong Sullenberger’s U.S. Airways airliner. He then set the became the first person to walk on the moon as plane down safely on the Hudson River and stayed on commander of Apollo 11. (Purdue University photo/Mark Simons) 3 Purdue Engineer Builds During Boeing satellite Chief Engineer Patrick Jasanis’s BSAAE’94 senior year at Purdue, a deadly tornado struck the Satellites area with little warning. When it was announced a few years later that Saves Lives that Boeing would be building next-generation weather satellites known as Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES), Jasanis knew that he wanted to be part of that mission. Jasanis joined a team of about 200 Boeing engineers who then went on to design, assemble and test three next-generation GOES satellites for NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). During his 12 year spell on the program, Jasanis rose from the test procedure development lead to chief engineer. GOES-13 has been activated to monitor the hurricane season over the Atlantic. GOES-14 and GOES-15, are in orbit and ready to replace older GOES satellites that will be decommissioned. Each spacecraft remains in a geostationary orbit more than 22,000 miles above the Earth. NASA oversaw the Boeing-led industry team that built the new GOES satellites and announced that all three spacecraft are working well. NOAA operates the satellites from a control station in Suitland, Md., near Washington, D.C. (L-R) Russel Taub, Delta IV chief engineer at United Launch Alliance; Andre Dress, GOES deputy project manager at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center; Patrick Jasanis, GOES chief engineer at Boeing; and Charles Maloney, GOES program manager at Boeing, stand in front of part of the launch vehicle for GOES-14, formerly designated GOES-O. GOES-14 was launched in 2009. Photo courtesy of boeing.com Tamaira Ross BSAAE’96, MSAAE’98, was Purdue’s chosen by the Purdue Alumni Association in July/August 2010 as 40 alums under the age Forty of 40 to highlight and honor. Tamaira is an aircraft systems designer Under at Boeing Corporation in Seattle, WA. and worked on preliminary design of aircraft and other vehicles, working in commercial aircraft design for several years before moving to the defense side. She also pursued further graduate work at the University of Washington MS- Mechanical Engineering, 2002, and Technology 40 Management MBA, 2008. Celebrating She has been recognized numerous times the best and in her career, including being named as an associate technical fellow at Boeing. The brightest fellowship recognizes technical leadership young and included approx 3% of Boeing engineering personnel at any time. Congratulations to Boilermakers Tamaira on this well deserved honor. 4 Alumni inducted into Purdue ROTC Hall of Fame Col. Douglas Joyce was inducted into the Purdue ROTC Hall of Fame in April 2011. He graduated from Purdue in 1967 as a Distinguished Military Graduate, earning his bachelor's degree in aeronautical and astronautical engineering. Purdue After earning a master’s degree from Purdue, he began a flying career for the Air Force that included License Plates two combat tours in support of the Vietnam War. He flew a combined 216 combat missions over two tours. Show your Purdue Pride After the Vietnam War, Joyce became a test pilot and was the first Air while helping to support Force pilot to fly the EF-111 prototype. His military career culminated as the University’s General vice commander of a highly classified test and evaluation unit in Nevada. Scholarship Fund. The Joyce then began a career in higher education. license plate program, which He led efforts to establish a professional pilot degree program at Daniel began in 1991, has raised Webster College in New Hampshire.