2018 NASA Engineering and Safety Center Honor Awards

NESC Director’s Award

Honors individuals for defending a technical position that conflicts with a Program or Organization’s initial or prevailing engineering perspectives and for taking personal initiative to foster clear and open communication and resolve controversial issues.

David S. Dawicke

In recognition of clear, composed defense of technical risk associated with the Boeing Commercial Crew Program Propellant Tank Safe-Life Analysis

Lawrence D. Huebner

In recognition of outstanding achievement in upholding the guiding principles of the NASA Engineering and Safety Center in leading the Boeing Commercial Crew Program Aerosciences Peer Review Team

NESC Leadership Award

Honors individuals for sustained leadership excellence demonstrated by establishing a vision, developing and managing a plan, and building consensus to proactively resolve conflicts and achieve results. 

Robert C. Youngquist

In recognition of outstanding technical leadership in support of the NASA Engineering and Safety Center’s assessment on the feasibility of ultrasonic level sensors for propellant quantity determination

NESC Engineering Excellence Award

Honors individuals for making significant engineering contributions, developing innovative approaches, and ensuring appropriate levels of engineering rigor are applied to the resolution of technical issues in support of the NESC mission.

Martin S. Annett

In recognition of engineering excellence in the development of the frangible joint LS-DYNA model morphing process that enabled rapid processing of hundreds of analysis cases to describe frangible joint response in multi-variable design space

Jonathan E. Austin

In recognition of engineering excellence and dedication in conducting extensive LS-DYNA analysis for the United Launch Alliance two-plate and Boeing SureSep frangible joint designs

Eric H. Baker

In recognition of engineering excellence and innovation in structural mechanics modeling crucial in understanding the test data and the most likely failure scenario for the composite overwrap pressure vessel failure in densified liquid oxygen

Jacob M. Brodnick

In recognition of engineering excellence to the Space Launch System Program through analysis of propellant slosh damping

Andrew L. Glendening

In recognition of engineering excellence in the development and application of NASA materials engineering standards and guidelines

Benjamin Greene

In recognition of engineering excellence and attention to detail that enabled the NASA Engineering and Safety Center’s assessment team to explain the mechanism of swelling affecting chemical oxygen generators

Edwin E. Henkel

In recognition of engineering excellence and innovative implementation of modeling techniques to inde-pendently evaluate the Space Launch System stacked pre-loaded liftoff configuration

Jacob D. Hochhalter

In recognition of engineering excellence in the development of innovative test and analysis techniques for evaluation of linear elastic fracture mechanics

Gregory A. Jerman

In recognition of engineering excellence in the failure analysis support provided to multiple NASA Engineering and Safety Center assessments

Arya Majed

In recognition of engineering excellence for technical expertise and innovative implementation of modeling techniques to independently evaluate the Space Launch System stacked pre-loaded liftoff configuration

Mark B. McClure

In recognition of engineering excellence in the innovative design and rigorous test implementation for material susceptibility to environmentally assisted cracking in hypergolic propellants

Mika L. Myers

In recognition of engineering excellence in the test execution for material susceptibility to environmentally assisted cracking

Craig L. Streett

In recognition of engineering excellence in unsteady aerodynamic prediction and analysis of aeroacoustics and buffet on the Space Launch System leading to unprecedented physical understanding of these environments

John C. Thesken

In recognition of engineering excellence and structural mechanics leadership crucial to the interpretation of the structural model results for the Densified Liquid Oxygen Composite Pressure Vessel Failure Investigation

NESC Administrative Excellence Award

Honors individual accomplishments that contributed substantially to support the NESC mission.

William F. Cann

In recognition for exceptional contracting support to the NASA Engineering and Safety Center on the Technology, Engineering, and Aerospace Mission Support (TEAMS) 3 and The Aerospace Corporation contracts contributing to the overall success of the NESC mission

Amanda L. Honer

In recognition for outstanding professionalism, attention to detail, and ability to seamlessly integrate into the management of NASA Engineering and Safety Center workflow

Sandra M. Snow

In recognition for exceptional project leader support in administering NASA Engineering and Safety Center task orders on The Aerospace Corporation contract contributing to the overall success of the NESC mission

NESC Group Achievement Award

Honors a team of employees comprising government and non-government personnel. The award is in recognition of outstanding accomplishment through the coordination of individual efforts that have contributed substantially to the success of the NESC mission.

Boeing Commercial Crew Program (CCP) Aerosciences Peer Review Team

In recognition for exceptional diligence, perseverance, and technical rigor in the review of the Boeing Commercial Crew Program aerosciences databases

Commercial Crew Program (CCP) Load & Go Assessment Team

In recognition for outstanding dedication and innovative analytical technique development to assess the risks to flight crew during a Commercial Crew Partner’s pre-flight propellant servicing process

Fractional Thermal Runaway Calorimeter Development

In recognition of outstanding contributions in the design and development of a Fractional Thermal Runaway Calorimeter to measure the energy yield of lithium-ion cells during thermal runaway