Category: Awards

  • RELEASE 12-09-2022: Gupta Elected National Academy of Inventors Fellow

    The National Academy of Inventors (NAI) has elected Prof. Mool C. Gupta as an NAI Fellow. Election as an Academy Fellow is the highest professional distinction awarded to academic inventors and is a tribute recognizing the benefits their inventions bring to society.

  • 2019 Recipients

    2019 Award Recipients Recipient Award Swee Balachandran, Marco Feliú, Brendan Duffy, Andrew Peters, Kyle Smalling The Association for Unmanned Vehicles Systems International (AUVSI) presented its AUVSI XCELLENCE award — 2nd Place in the Category of Detect and Avoid Solutions – to NIA Research Engineer Dr. Swee Balachandran, recognizing research performed by a team which included NIA Research Scientist Marco Feliú,…

  • Hiroaki Nishikawa Named AIAA Region 1 Engineer of the Year

    Hiroaki Nishikawa Named AIAA Region 1 Engineer of the Year Congratulations to Dr. Hiroaki Nishikawa for being named AIAA Region 1 Engineer of the Year for 2020! Nishikawa will be inducted into the AIAA Region I Engineer of the Year Honor Society as a 2020 Distinguished Member. Dr. Nishikawa is an internationally acclaimed and accomplished researcher in…

  • National Institute of Aerospace Associates Receives 2019 Best of Hampton Award

    The Hampton Award Program is an annual awards program honoring the achievements and accomplishments of local businesses throughout the Hampton area. Recognition is given to those companies that have shown the ability to use their best practices and implemented programs to generate competitive advantages and long-term value.

  • RELEASE 12-02-2019: Professor Mool Gupta Named IEEE Fellow

    Mool Gupta, University of Virginia Langley Distinguished Professor at the National Institute of Aerospace (NIA), has been named an IEEE Fellow, effective Jan. 1, 2020. He is being recognized for contributions to laser material interactions.

  • Nishikawa Chosen as AIAA HRS Engineer of the Year

    Nishikawa Chosen as AIAA HRS Engineer of the Year Dr. Hiroaki “Hiro” Nishikawa, NIA Associate Research Fellow Congratulations to Dr. Hiroaki “Hiro” Nishikawa of the National Institute of Aerospace (NIA) for his selection by the Hampton Roads Section of AIAA for the 2020 AIAA HRS Engineer of the Year Award. Dr. Nishikawa is an internationally…

  • 2018 Recipients

    Recipient Award Drs. Yi Lin and Jae-Woo Kim NASA 2018 NASA Langley H. J. E. Reid Award Dr. Li Wang AIAA Hampton Roads Section 2018-2019 Engineer of the Year“For development and demonstration of a high-fidelity, computationally-efficient, multidisciplinary analysis and adjoint-based optimization tool for rotorcraft applications.” Jill Brown and Zachary Johns (Consultant) NASA Group Achievement Award– Autonomy Incubator“Demonstrating…

  • 2017 Recipients

    2017 Award Recipients Recipient Organization Award Tian-Bing Xu R&D 100 Award Finalist “Hybrid Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting Transducer (HYPEHT)” Ronald Krueger American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Region 1 Engineer of the Year Melike Nikbay American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Associate Fellow Nelson De Carvalho ASTM International ASTM Emerging Professional Ross Burns Best Paper Award:…

  • 2016 Recipients

    Organization Award Recipient AIAA Hampton Roads Section Engineer of the Year Dr. Ronald Krueger AIAA Region I Engineer of the Year Honor Society Dr. Ronald Krueger AIAA Election of Researcher as AIAA Associate Fellow Dr. Hiroaki Nishikawa 45th International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP) Best Paper Award for paper titled: “Parallel Two-Dimensional Unstructured Anisotopic Delaunay Mesh…

  • 2015 Recipients

    Organization Award Recipient ASME Best Paper Award: Structures; “Design and Optimization of a Contact-Aided Compliant Mechanism for Passive Bending” Dr. James Hubbard* Dr. Aimy Wissa** AIAA HRS 1st Place Laurence J. Bement Young Professional Paper: “Modeling Delamination Migration in Cross-ply Tape Laminates” Dr. Nelson Carvalho AIAA HRS: The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Hampton…