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Stanley Selected as Council's Engineer of the Year |
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December 19, 2006 - Dr. Douglas O. Stanley has been selected as the Peninsula Engineers Council (PEC) Engineer of the Year. He is being recognized for his outstanding technical leadership of NASA’s Exploration Systems Architecture Study (ESAS) of returning humans to the Moon and onto Mars and beyond. Dr. Stanley led the 400-person study to define the systems, schedule, programs, budgets and technologies required to reach this goal. As a result of this effort, he has also recently been named the AIAA Hampton Roads Section Engineer of the Year and received the NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal. Past PEC Engineers of the Year include Ian MacConochie, Robert Gunter and Dr. Bruce Holmes.
Dr. Stanley is currently serving as 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 the George Washington University.
NIA is a 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 air traffic systems, aviation safety, flight systems, materials and structures, space exploration, and atmospheric sciences. 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. The LARSS Program encourages high-caliber undergraduate students to pursue and earn graduate degrees and to enhance their interest in aerospace research by exposing them to the professional research resources and facilities of Langley Research Center.
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