In-Person | March 15-17, 2022 | Pasadena, California
Digital Summit | March 22-24, 2022 | Online
Wednesday, March 16, 2022; 3:30PM
J. Cordell Breed Award for Women Leaders
Amy Grace, Director, F135 Digital Strategy, Pratt & Whitney
Amy truly embodies the spirit of the J. Cordell Breed Award. She has demonstrated her exceptional ability to successfully balance her rising career while mentoring young engineers, raising her family, and excelling within her chosen career path. Over her 33-year career with Raytheon Technologies, Amy’s passion has been applying new analysis techniques to deliver products with a measurable impact to customer satisfaction. She began her career as a Systems Engineer with Pratt & Whitney in West Palm Beach, supporting development of 5th Generation fighter engines. In 2016, Amy transitioned from P&W to lead analytics development for the Collins Aerospace Prognostics and Health Management (PHM) initiative. Amy was inducted into the Collins Fellows Program in 2018 as Fellow, Applied Data Science and returned to Pratt & Whitney and her Military Engines roots in 2020. In her current role, Amy leads development and implementation of cutting-edge solutions and services to deliver safe, affordable readiness across the F135 lifecycle.
James M. Crawford Executive Standards Committee Outstanding Achievement Award
Kevin Walsh, Technical Fellow, The Boeing Company
Kevin is an aeronautical engineer with many years of international experience in in aircraft design, stress and certification. He specializes in seats across a broad range of platforms including general, business and commercial aircraft as well as head of state completions. Kevin found his engineering passion when the crash test requirements for aircraft seats were published in 1988 and he has become an expert in seat design, installation, occupant kinematics, head injury potential and knowledge of the loads applied to the occupant’s body in an emergency landing. He has led the SAE Aircraft Seat Committee since 2019, and while participating since its inception, Kevin has contributed to the creation of many standards. He was document sponsor for the creation of standards for angled seats (oblique facing) that have become prevalent in business class layouts over the last ten years.
James M. Crawford Executive Standards Committee Outstanding Achievement Award
Thomas Dwenger, Aircraft Tire Subject Matter Expert, ES3, Incorporated
After graduating with a Mechanical Engineering Degree from Indiana Institute of Technology, Thomas joined Goodyear. His career began in Aircraft Tire Development and he dedicated 43 years to his craft within that area. Most of his career was spent in the Akron Ohio Tech Center, while 5 years were spent in the Goodyear Luxembourg Tech Center in Europe after setting up an Aircraft Tire Engineering Development department there. Thomas has been involved in the design of nearly every type of Aircraft Tire and served many years as Chief Engineer/Team Leader. He served as a representative on the Tire and Rim Association on the Aircraft Tire Subcommittee, the American National Standard Institute and was the American Representative to the International Standards Organization on Aircraft Tires. Thomas became the 1st SAE A-5C Aircraft Tire Committee Chairman in 1988 and served as the Chairman for 13 years and Vice-Chairman for 10 years. He joined ES3, Inc (Engineering and Software Systems Solutions) after retirement from Goodyear.
Cliff Garrett Turbomachinery Engineering Award/Lecturer
Dr. Ramesh K. Agarwal, The William Palm Professor of Engineering, Washington University
Over a period of 45 years, Professor Agarwal has worked in Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), Computational Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) and Electromagnetics, Computational Aeroacoustics, Multidisciplinary Design and Optimization, Rarefied Gas Dynamics and Hypersonic Flows, Bio-Fluid Dynamics, and Flow and Flight Control. More recently, he has devoted some of his efforts in nanotechnology and renewable energy systems - in particular wind, solar and biomass. He is the author and coauthor of over 600 publications and serves on the editorial board of more than 20 journals. He has given many plenary, keynote and invited lectures at various national and international conferences in over 60 countries worldwide. Professor Agarwal continues to serve on many professional, government, and industrial advisory committees.
Forest R. McFarland Award
Andrew Wallington, Senior Systems Engineer, Boeing Commercial Aircraft
For over 25 year, Andrew’s career has focused on work in the mobility industry, spanning the development of Electronic Warfare systems in naval, ground-based and airborne applications to the certification of civil transport category commercial aircraft. Today he works for Boeing Commercial Aircraft as a Senior Systems Engineer within the Displays and Crew Alerting team. He has been a supporting member of SAE for 20 years and is currently the document sponsor for ARP4754B, Guidelines for the Development of Civil Aircraft and Systems, Safety and Security Committee Chair for SAE AeroTech and an associate editor for SAE Aerospace Journal.
Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award
Dr. Trevor Elliott, Associate Professor, University of Tennessee
Trevor is a UC Foundation Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC). He is an active member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Solid Rockets, and Hybrid Rocket Technical Committees (HRTC) and is currently serving as Vice-Chair of and Co-Technical Discipline Chair (TDC) for the HRTC. At UTC he serves as Faculty Advisor for the UTC Racing Mocs, Baja SAE competition teams, SAE Chapter, the UTC Rocket Mocs, NASA USLI competition teams, the Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (SEDS) competition teams, and co-advisor for the Tau Beta Pi Chapter. His research interests include Additive Manufacturing, Alternative Energy, Automotive Design, Combustion Stability, Compressible Flow, Engineering Design, Fluid Mechanics, Propulsion, Smart Control, Spectral Theory, and Turbomachinery.
SAE Undergraduate Scholarship
Sophya Mizra, Freshman, Mechanical Engineering Major, University of California, Berkley
While Sophya is earning her degree in Mechanical Engineering, she is also earning a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration through Berkeley’s Management, Entrepreneurship, & Technology Program and hopes to next year add a minor in Aerospace Engineering. She has great ambitions as a first-generation female and person of color, to break barriers in the Aerospace industry by becoming the first American with an Iranian and Pakistani heritage to become an astronaut and start her own commercial aerospace manufacturing company. In addition to her studies, Sophya is immersed in extensive research work and becoming active in industry related societies and scholars’ programs.