GRC NEWS RELEASE 00-024



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April 24, 2000



Pamelia Caswell
Media Relations Office
(216)433-5795
p.caswell@grc.nasa.gov


<h3>NASA Glenn Honors Its Innovators</h3> 

The NASA Glenn Research Center has announced the year 2000 winners of 
its most prestigious Center-level awards, given to researchers and 
technicians for their extraordinary innovation in carrying out 
Glenn's projects and research.



The recipient of the Abe Silverstein Medal is Bruce Steinetz, a 
mechanical engineer whose high-temperature braided rope seals are 
being used to solve industrial as well as aerospace sealing problems. 
Steinetz conducts seals research for use in future space 
transportation engines and advanced aircraft turbine engines. The Abe 
Silverstein Medal commemorates the long and fruitful career of the 
former director of Glenn.



The Craftsmanship Award recognizes excellence in craftsmanship and 
innovation by its skilled technicians, model makers, machinists, 
electronics technicians and other trades persons who support testing 
at Glenn. For 2000 two selections were made, one for assembly and the 
other for manufacturing:



Robert Roman for his contributions to the development of the NSTAR 
(NASA Solar Technology Applications Readiness) ion engine and the 
manufacture and assembly of the flight engine that is now propelling 
the Deep Space 1 spacecraft.



Kenneth Guinta, Jesus Lopez, Jerome Priebe and Robert Walter for their 
manufacture of high precision stainless steel instrumentation blades, 
which will be used to measure temperatures and pressures inside an 
operating aircraft turbine engine.



The 1999 Distinguished Publication Award went to materials researchers 
Phillip Abel, Guillermo Bozzolo (Ohio Aerospace Institute), John 
Ferrante (retired), Brian Good, Frank Honecy and Ronald Noebe for the 
paper entitled, "Surface Segregation in Multicomponent Systems: 
Modeling of Surface Alloys and Alloy Surfaces." The paper, which 
appeared in the journal Computational Materials Science, describes a 
physics-based mathematical model for predicting the behavior of 
alloys with many constituents. The research team developed the model 
to speed the search for materials that can withstand the high 
temperatures and stresses of advanced aircraft and space 
transportation engines.



The Steven V. Szabo Engineering Excellence Award went to Steven 
Bauman, James Bridges, Raymond Castner, Gail Perusek, Timothy Roach 
and Reza Zinolabedini (Dynacs Engineering Co.) for their work in 
designing a moveable microphone array for measuring jet engine noise. 
The microphones ride a 150-foot track mounted along the ceiling of a 
domed testing facility. Because the microphones can be precisely 
placed, noise tests of new engine designs can be completed more 
quickly and more accurately. The Szabo Engineering Excellence Award 
was established to honor the memory of Steven V. Szabo, Jr., director 
of engineering at Lewis Research Center from1986 to 1993.



The recipients will be presented with their medals or plaques at the 
Center's annual awards ceremony later this year.



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