PRESS RELEASE 93-64

Immediate 
Linda S. Ellis
(Bus: 216/433-2900)
<h3>NASA Lewis Wins R&D Award</h3> Cleveland, OH -- NASA's Lewis 
Research Center is a winner in this year's Research and Development 
Magazine's R&D 100 awards.

The winning entry was awarded jointly to Peachtree Scientific, Inc., 
Cartersville, Ga., and NASA Lewis Research Center for development of 
a new fiber growth system which could become the catalyst for 
beginning new industries to help maintain U.S. competitiveness in 
terrestrial power generation and aerospace technology.

The Pioneer II Melt ModulationTM Fiber Growth System provides high 
temperature fiber researchers with the capability to experiment with 
a much wider variety of materials in the growth and evaluation of 
fibers for high temperature composite applications. 

"We are particularly proud of this award because it reflects our 
collaboration with industry, resulting in a new product in the 
marketplace," according to Ann Heyward, customer focal point for the 
Aerospace Technology Directorate at Lewis.

The flexibility of the process enables the creation and evaluation of 
new materials which would be difficult to produce by traditional 
techniques. 

Lewis awardees are Leonard Westfall, a materials research engineer in 
the Materials Division, and Dr. Ali Sayir, a resident research 
associate with Case Western Reserve University, assigned to the 
Materials Division at Lewis. Westfall resides in North Olmsted, Ohio, 
and Dr. Sayir, in Bay Village, Ohio.

This year's awards brings the total for the Center to 63 since the 
prestigious award was established by Research and Development 
Magazine in 1962. 

The award winners were honored recently at a banquet at the Museum of 
Science and Industry in Chicago.



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