By Beth Miller
Ramesh Agarwal, PhD, the William Palm Professor of Engineering in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, has received the 2013 Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) International Aerospace Engineering Leadership Award.
Agarwal received the award during the SAE 2013 AeroTech Congress and Exhibition in Montreal in October.
The award honors an individual at the corporate official level for outstanding contributions to the field of aerospace engineering through his or her leadership skills. It also recognizes an individual who has applied his or her leadership skills in aerospace engineering to make contributions leading to great positive impact on the aerospace community.
Earlier this year, Agarwal received the 2013 SAE International Leadership Citation.
He has been on the Washington University Engineering faculty since 2001, bringing with him two decades of industry experience at McDonnell Douglas Research Laboratories (now Boeing Co.), NASA Ames Research Center and National Institute for Aviation Research. His research focuses on flow control, bio-fluid dynamics, computational fluid dynamics and electromagnetics. He also focuses on nanotechnology, carbon capture and sequestration and renewable energy systems.
He has received numerous honors and awards for his research contributions including the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Charles Russ Richards Memorial Award, Royal Aeronautical Society Gold Award, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Aerodynamics Award, James B. Eads Award of Academy of Science of St. Louis, American Society for Engineering Education/AIAA John Leland Atwood Award, SAE Clarence Kelly Johnson Award, SAE Franklin W. Kolk Award and the AIAA Lindbergh Award, among others.
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