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Stanley Receives AIAA's Regional Engineer of the Year Award |
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NIA News Release 2007-02
February 6, 2007
(HAMPTON, Va.) – Dr. Douglas O. Stanley has been selected by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) as the Region I Engineer of the Year. As the region’s recipient, he was nominated for the AIAA national Engineer of the Year Award and will be inducted into the Engineer of the Year Society as a 2007 Distinguished Member. Stanley is being recognized as an AIAA member who has made a recent individual contribution in the application of scientific and mathematical principles leading to a significant accomplishment or event worthy of AIAA’s national or international recognition. Region I includes the North East, from Virginia up to Maine.
Stanley led the 400-person Exploration Systems Architecture Study (ESAS) to define the systems, schedule, programs, budgets, and technologies required to reach NASA’s goal of returning humans to the Moon and onto Mars and beyond. As a result of this effort, he has also recently been named the Peninsula Engineering Council’s Engineer of the Year, AIAA Hampton Roads Section Engineer of the Year and received the NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal.
Stanley is a visiting professor on the faculty of Georgia Tech in residence at the National Institute of Aerospace (NIA). He spent the first ten years of his career in the Vehicle Analysis Branch at NASA Langley Research Center leading a variety of advanced space transportation studies and technology development efforts. He then served as the technical lead for the Reusable Launch Vehicle Program Office at NASA Headquarters and subsequently joined Orbital Sciences Corporation as program manager under NASA’s Space Transportation Architecture Study, Space Launch Initiative, and Orbital Space Plan Programs. He holds a Doctorate in Systems Engineering and a Masters degree in Astronautical Engineering from George Washington University.
NIA is a non-profit research and graduate education institute formed by a consortium of research universities to ensure a national capability to support NASA’s mission by expanding collaboration with academia and leveraging expertise inside and outside NASA. NIA performs research in a broad range of disciplines including space exploration, systems engineering, nanoscale materials science, flight systems, aerodynamics, air traffic management, aviation safety, planetary and space science, and global climate change. The institute’s graduate program offers M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in the fields of engineering and science through its university partners: Georgia Tech, Hampton University, North Carolina A&T State University, North Carolina State University, the University of Maryland, the University of Virginia, Virginia Tech, Old Dominion University, and the College of William & Mary.
For more information about the National Institute of Aerospace, visit our website at http://www.nianet.org.
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