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Crespo Named AIAA Hampton Roads Young Engineer of the Year |
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NIA News Release 2007-05
February 27, 2007
(HAMPTON, Va) - Dr. Luis G. Crespo has been named the Hampton Roads Section Young Engineer of the Year by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). Crespo is being recognized as the inaugural recipient of this award, given for significant technical accomplishment made by a young person to the advancement of aeronautics and astronautics. The award will be presented at the AIAA Hampton Roads section annual banquet in May 2007.
Crespo has been a Research Scientist at the National Institute of Aerospace (NIA) since 2003. His research, sponsored by NASA Langley Research Center, focuses on the development of tools for uncertainty management, i.e., characterization, propagation, decomposition and accommodation in the verification and validation of engineering solutions. By using probabilistic uncertainty models, solutions that consider the worst-case scenario but favor the most likely ones are pursued while avoiding excessive conservatism. The strategies developed have been applied to probabilistic robust controls, reliability-based design and aircraft conceptual design.
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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