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2013 Dave Ward Memorial Lecture Award
Presented to Brian P. Danowsky

2013 Ward Award Recipient Brian Danowsky

The 2013 Dave Ward Memorial Lecture Award was presented to Mr. Brian P. Danowsky on Oct. 16, 2013 at the ACGSC Meeting 112 in Annapolis, Maryland.

Mr. Danowsky received the award for outstanding contributions in developing computational tools for predicting adverse aeroservoelastic interactions with the flight control system, and developing a method to optimally suppress problematic lightly damped modes without degrading rigid body performance.

Mr. Danowsky is a Principal Research Engineer at Systems Technology Incorporated (STI), Hawthorne, California. He received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in Aerospace Engineering from Iowa State University in 2002 and 2004, respectively. Mr. Danowsky joined STI in January of 2007. His areas of expertise include dynamic modelling and simulation of air vehicles, flight control and guidance systems, robust stability and control, aeroelasticity, aeroservoelasticity and aerodynamic parameter estimation. He has served as the principal investigator for numerous programs in the areas of aeroelasticity and aeroservoelasticity for NASA, the Air Force, the Navy and the Army. Research objectives for these programs consist of incorporating active feedback control into very high fidelity coupled computational fluid dynamic and computational structural dynamic models, reduced order modelling capability, aeroelastic uncertainty analysis, adaptive aeroservoelastic suppression, nonlinear aeroservoelastic free-play analysis, and buffet load measurement. Mr. Danowsky is a Senior Member of the AIAA and is an active member of the AIAA Atmospheric Flight Mechanics Technical Committee. He is also a member of the Tau Beta Pi and Sigma Gamma Tau national honor societies.

From the left: Lou Knotts (Chair, ACGSC), Brian Danowsky, and Shawn Donley (Member, Ward Award Committee)

2013 Dave Ward Memorial Lecture Award Presented to Brian P. Danowsky

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2013 Dave Ward Memorial Lecture Award
Presented to Brian P. Danowsky