David K. Schmidt, professor emeritus, College of Engineering and Applied Science, recently received the 2016 American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Pendray Aerospace Literature Award.
Schmidt accepted the award at a recognition luncheon in January, in conjunction with the AIAA Science and Technology Forum and Exposition 2016 in San Diego, California.
The award honored Schmidt’s “sustaining and influential contributions to aerospace literature in the area of aerospace vehicle dynamics and control, including the comprehensive textbook, “Modern Flight Dynamics.”
Schmidt’s career spanned 40 year and concentrated on the areas of flight dynamics and control. He is the author of more than 200 research publications, and has given numerous lectures in those areas as well. In 2012, AIAA’s Atmospheric Flight Mechanics Technical Committee named his paper “On the Flight Dynamics of Aeroelastic Vehicles,” published in 1986, as one of the most significant papers of the 1980s.
AIAA is the world’s largest aerospace professional society, serving a diverse range of more than 30,000 individual members from 88 countries, and 95 corporate members.
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