Board Members & Meetings

Current Members

• Dr. Lester Lyles (Chair) (NAE) The Lyles Group
• Dr. Ella M. Atkins, University of Michigan
• Ms. Amy L. Buhrig, Director of Enterprise Technology Strategy, Boeing
• Mr. Inderjit Chopra, Aerospace Engineering, University of Maryland
• Dr. John-Paul B. Clarke, associate professor, School of Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
• Dr. Ravi B. Deo, EMBR
  Dr. Vijay Dhir, (NAE) UCLA
• Dr. Earl H. Dowell, (NAE) Duke University
• Dr. Mica R. Endsley, Founder and President, SA Technologies
• Mr. David Goldston, Visiting Lecturer, Center for the Environment, Harvard University
• Dr. John Hansman, Professor, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Mr. John B. Hayhurst, Senior Vice President, Boeing Company (ret.)
  Dr. William L. Johnson, (NAS/NAE) California Institute of Technology
• Mr. Richard Kohrs, Independent Consultant
• Dr. Ivett Leyva, Senior Aerospace Engineer, Air Force Research Laboratory
• Dr. Elaine S. Oran (NAE), Senior Scientist for Reactive Flow Physics, Naval Research Laboratory
• Capt. Alan G. Poindexter, Naval Postgraduate School
• Dr. Helen R. Reed, Texas A & M University
• Dr. Eli Reshotko (NAE), Kent H. Smith Professor Emeritus of Engineering, Case Western Reserve University
• Capt. Edmond Soliday, United Air Lines (ret.)

EX OFFICIO MEMBER: Vice Chair, Space Studies Board

Dr. John Klineberg, Space Systems/Loral (Retired)
 

For information about past and upcoming meetings go to the Board's meetings page
 

Biographies

Lester Lyles, USAF (RET.) (NAE), Chair, is a consultant with The Lyles Group. He retired from the U.S. Air Force (USAF) in 2003 as commander of the Air Force Material Command at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (AFB). General Lyles entered the USAF in 1968 as a distinguished graduate of the Air Force ROTC program. He served in various positions, including program element monitor of the Short-Range Attack Missile at USAF Headquarters (USAF/HQ), special assistant and aide-de-camp to the commander of Air Force Systems Command (AFSC), chief of the Avionics Division in the F-16 Systems Program Office, director of Tactical Aircraft Systems at AFSC headquarters, and as director of the Medium-Launch Vehicles Program and Space-Launch Systems offices. General Lyles became the AFSC headquarters assistant deputy chief of staff for requirements in 1989 and deputy chief of staff for requirements in 1990. In 1992, he became vice commander of the Ogden Air Logistics Center at Hill AFB. He served as commander of the center until 1994, when he was assigned to command the Space and Missile Systems Center at Los Angeles AFB. In 1996, General Lyles became the director of the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization. In 1999, he was assigned as vice chief of staff at USAF/HQ. He served on the NASA Advisory Council (NAC), and since becoming Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board chair, is now an (ex officio) member of the NAC. His numerous awards include the Defense Distinguished Service Medal, the Astronautics Engineer of the Year from the National Space Club, the National Black Engineer of the Year Award, Honorary Doctor of Laws from New Mexico State University, and NASA's Distinguished Public Service Medal for serving on the President's Commission on Implementing the U.S. Space Exploration Policy. In 2009, General Lyles served on the Augustine Space Committee for developing the agenda for NASA’s human space flight missions. He received his B.S. in mechanical engineering from Howard University and his M.S. in mechanical and nuclear engineering from the Air Force Institute of Technology Program. He is a member of the NRC Air Force Studies Board and served as chair of the Committee on the Rationale and Goals of the U.S. Space Program and as a member of the Committee on the NASA Technology Roadmap.

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Ella M.Atkins is an associate professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Michigan, where she is director of the Autonomous Aerospace Systems Laboratory. She previously served on the Aerospace Engineering faculty at University of Maryland, College Park. Dr. Atkins' research focuses on the integration of strategic and tactical planning and optimization algorithms to enable robust operation in the presence of system failures and environmental uncertainties. She has collaboratively pursued challenging autonomous flight applications for manned aircraft and unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), including the Flying Fish autonomous unmanned seaplane and an emerging flexible wing platform. Dr. Atkins also studies the optimization of and safety analysis in congested airspace, with early efforts in simultaneous non-interfering terminal area airspace planning for runway-independent aircraft and small UAS safety assessment based on maintaining acceptable risk to people and property. Current research is underway to adapt lightweight aerodynamic sensors for small flapping wing micro-air vehicles and to feed back post-stall aerodynamic forces for more precise fixed-wing UAS flight control. Her research has been funded under multiple grants from NSF, NASA, DARPA, and DOD. She is author of more than 75 journal and conference publications and serves as an associate editor for the AIAA Journal of Aerospace Computing, Information, and Communication. She is a member of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Deep Space Mission System program review, for which she serves as board chair. Dr. Atkins is past chair of the AIAA Intelligent Systems Technical Committee, an associate fellow of AIAA, and a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). She is also a small, public airport owner/operator (Shamrock Field, Brooklyn, Michigan), a private pilot (Airplane, Single Engine, Land), and an Academy of Model Aeronautics pilot (radio/control). Dr. Atkins holds B.S. and M. S. degrees in aeronautics and astronautics from MIT and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science and engineering from the University of Michigan. She has served on the NRC NASA Aviation Safety Program Review and the NRC Decadal Survey of Aeronautics (Panel E).

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Amy L. Buhrig is the vice president of IT Business Partners, Amy Buhrig is responsible for coordinating all IT support to all major Boeing businesses including Boeing Commercial Airplanes and Boeing Defense, Space & Security. She was named to this position in February 2011 and reports to Kim Hammonds, Boeing’s Chief Information Officer.Buhrig was previously the vice president of Enterprise Technology Strategy for the company where she developed a companywide strategy for determining critical technologies and has invested hundreds of millions of dollars into key research and development areas to maximize yield and technology readiness throughout the company. In this role she was responsible for leading eight company-wide technology domain teams focused on next generation products and systems. These teams worked to ensure the company’s commercial, military and space businesses have the necessary technologies to compete and, when appropriate, ensure new technologies are replicated and leveraged across the company to improve quality and reduce costs.Additionally, she is the executive sponsor of the Technical Fellowship Program, which promotes technical excellence and innovation, and offers a technical career path to the company’s top scientists and engineers. She also oversees the company’s involvement with more than 200 external technical affiliations.Buhrig was also previously the director of Technology for Boeing Commercial Airplanes where was responsible for leading the definition of technology required to enable future commercial airplanes products and services, and focusing investments to reduce cost, improve value to customers, and grow the business.Before joining Boeing Commercial Airplanes, Buhrig held several positions in Boeing Research & Technology (then known as Phantom Works). She was responsible for defining the technology strategy for structural technologies, understanding companywide technology needs to leverage venture capital investments, and pursuing contracted research for the Mathematics and Computing Technology organization.Buhrig joined The Boeing Company in 1981, first working for Boeing Defense & Space, where she researched artificial intelligence techniques in support of space system operations. After earning her master’s degree in Business Administration, she worked on a number of special studies including, strategic assessments of pre-merger aerospace companies, the benefits of investing in novel design methods used on the Boeing 777 and F-22 aircraft to low-production-rate space systems, and the assessment of company strengths applicable to the commercial space market.From 1993 through 2001, Buhrig was an integral part of the team that created what became one of industry’s most innovative commercial satellite launch systems, Sea Launch. Responsible for developing the market entry strategy and leading the company’s marketing and sales efforts as vice president of Marketing and Sales for Sea Launch Company, Buhrig and her team successfully brought this unusual international venture into the commercial space marketplace.Buhrig earned her bachelor’s degree in Computing Science from Texas A&M University, and a master’s degree in Business Administration from the University of Washington in Seattle. She serves as a member on the National Academics Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board.

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Inderjit Chopra is the Alfred Gessow Professor of Aerospace Engineering and director of the Alfred Gessow Rotorcraft Center at the University of Maryland. His studies include work on various fundamental problems related to aeromechancis of helicopters including aeromechanical stability, active vibration control, modeling of composite blades, rotor head health monitoring, aeroelastic optimization, smart structures, micro air vehicles, and comprehensive aeromechanics analyses of bearingless, tilt-rotor, servo-flap, compound, teetering and circulation control rotors. Prior to teaching, Mr. Chopra spent over four years at NASA Ames/Stanford University Joint Institute of Aeronautics & Acoustics working on the development of aeroelastic analyses and testing of advanced helicopter rotor systems. Mr. Chopra served on the NRC Panel C: Structures and Materials of the Steering Committee on Decadal Survey of Civil Aeronautics.

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John-Paul B. Clarke is an Associate Professor in the School of Aerospace Engineering and Director of the Air Transportation Laboratory at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His research and teaching in the areas of control, optimization, and system analysis and design are motivated by his desire to simultaneously maximize the efficiency and minimize the societal impact (especially on the environment) of the global air transportation system. He has made seminal contributions in the areas of air traffic management, aircraft operations, and airline operations – three key elements of the air transportation system – and has been recognized globally for developing, among other things, the analytical foundations for the Continuous Descent Arrival (CDA) and novel concepts for robust airline scheduling. His research has resulted in significant changes in engineering methods, processes and products – most notably the development of new arrival procedures for four major US airports and one European Airport, and changes in airline scheduling practices. Dr. Clarke is an Associate Fellow of AIAA and a member of AGIFORS, INFORMS, and Sigma Xi. He serves or has served on several national and international committees including the AAA Air Transportation Systems Technical Committee and the AIAA Technical Committee on Management. He was the first director of PARTNER, the Center of Excellence for Aviation Noise and Aircraft Emissions Mitigation, and is a researcher in PARTNER and NEXTOR, the Center of Excellence for Aviation Operations Research. Dr. Clarke was awarded the AIAA/AAAE/ACC Jay Hollingsworth Speas Airport Award in 1999, the FAA Excellence in Aviation Award in 2003, and was selected as a Gilbreth Lecturer by the National Academy of Engineering in 2006.

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Ravi Deo, is founder and principal of EMBR, a small business specializing in the design and manufacturing technology development of composite structures. He has worked as a program and functional manager for government sponsored projects on Cryotanks, Integrated System Health Management, Aerospace Structures, Materials, Subsystems, Avionics, Thermal Protection Systems, and software development. He has extensive experience in road mapping technologies, program planning, technical program execution, scheduling, budgeting, proposal preparation, and business management of technology development contracts. Among his significant accomplishments are the NASA funded SLI, NGLT, OSP, and High Speed Research programs where he was responsible for the development of multidisciplinary technologies. Dr. Deo is the author of over 50 technical publications and is the editor of one book. He served on the NRC Panel C: Structures and Materials of the Steering Committee on Decadal Survey of Civil Aeronautics and the Panel J: High-Energy Power and Propulsion and In-space Transportation of the Committee for the Review of NASA's Capability Roadmaps. He has also served on the Scientific Advisory Board to the Air Force Research Laboratories. He retired from his position as Director, Technology, Space Systems Market Segment at Northrop Grumman Corporation's Integrated Systems Sector in 2008.

Vijay K. Dhir (NAE) is dean of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science. He also leads the Boiling Heat Transfer Laboratory, which is involved in the study of flow boiling, microgravity boiling, and nuclear reactor thermal hydraulics. Prior to joining UCLA, he worked for a short period in industry as an engineer. For the past 30 years he has been a consultant for numerous organizations, including GE Corporation, Rockwell International, Hughes Aircraft, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and the Los Alamos and Brookhaven National Laboratories. Dr. Dhir has served as vice chair and chair of the UCLA Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and as the school's associate dean for academic and faculty issues. In 2006, he was elected to NAE for his work in boiling heat transfer and nuclear reactor thermal hydraulics and safety. He is a fellow of ASME and the American Nuclear Society. Dr. Dhir has received the following awards: the 2004 Max Jakob Memorial Award, the ASME Heat Transfer Memorial Award in the science category, the Donald Q. Kern Award from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, and the Technical Achievement Award of the Thermal Hydraulics Division of the American Nuclear Society. He was inducted into the University of Kentucky’s Engineering Hall of Distinction and was recently chosen to give the Thurston Lecture of ASME. Dr. Dhir has served as senior technical editor and associate editor for ASME’s Journal of Heat Transfer and is a former assistant editor of Applied Mechanics Review. He is author or co-author of almost 300 papers published in archival journals and proceedings of conferences. Dr. Dhir received his B.S. degree from Punjab Engineering College in Chandigarh, India, his M.T. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur, India, and his Ph.D. from the University of Kentucky. He is a member of the NRC Decadal Survey on Life and Physical Sciences in Space Steering Committee.

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Earl H. Dowell, (NAE) is the William Holland Hall Professor and Dean Emeritus in the Edmund T. Pratt, Jr. School of Engineering at Duke University. He is a consultant to government, industry, and universities in science and technology policy and engineering education as well as on the topics of his research—aeroelasticity, nonsteady aerodynamics, and nonlinear dynamics. Currently he serves on boards of visitors at Carnegie Mellon University, Georgia Institute of Technology, Princeton University, University of Illinois, and the University of Rochester. Before serving as dean of the School of Engineering at Duke, he taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Princeton. He has also worked with the Boeing Company. He is the author of more than 200 research articles and four books. Dr. Dowell is an elected member of NAE, an honorary fellow of AIAA, and a fellow of the American Academy of Mechanics (AAM) and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). He served as vice president for publications for AIAA and as a member of the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors of the AIAA, the U.S. Air Force Scientific Advisory Board, the Air Force Studies Board, and the AGARD (NATO) advisory panel for aerospace engineering. Dr. Dowell has also served as president of AAM, chair of the U.S. National Committee on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, and chair of the National Council of Deans of Engineering. From AIAA he has received the Structure, Structural Dynamics and Materials Award, the Von Karman Lectureship, and the Crichlow Prize; from the ASME he has received the Spirit of St. Louis Medal and the Den Hartog Award; and he has also received the Guggenheim Medal, which is awarded jointly by the AIAA, ASME, AHS and SAE. Dr. Dowell received his B.S. degree from the University of Illinois and his S.M. and Sc.D. degrees from MIT. Dr. Dowell has served on 22 different NRC studies and activities and is currently a member of the Board on Army Science and Technology and the Panel on Air and Ground Vehicle Technology, and he chairs the Aerospace Engineering Section if the NAE.

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Mica R. Endsley is recognized as a pioneer and world leader in the study and application of situation awareness in advanced systems, including air traffic control systems. Dr. Endsley is the author of over 200 scientific articles and reports on situation awareness. She is the co-author of Designing for Situation Awareness (2003) and speaks extensively at conferences. As founder and president of SA Technologies, Dr. Endsley leads a team of researchers, designers, and engineers, providing research, advanced system design, and seminars in situation awareness. Dr. Endsley served on the NRC Army Research Laboratory Technical Assessment Board Panel on Soldier Systems and the Committee on Human-Systems Integration Panel on Human Factors in the Design of Tactical Display Systems for the Individual Soldier.

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David Goldston is a visiting lecturer in Center for the Environment at Harvard University. Prior to joining the Center, he was a visiting lecturer in the in the Science, Technology and Environmental Policy Program at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. He also writes the monthly column "Party of One" on Congress and science policy for Nature, and he is serving on a number of panels preparing reports on science policy issues, including a study by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences on grantmaking and a study by the American Physical Society on energy efficiency. Mr. Goldston was chief of staff of the U.S. House Committee on Science (2001-2006) where he oversaw a committee that has jurisdiction over most of the federal civilian research and development budget, including programs run by NASA, NSF, DOE, DOC, and EPA. Prior to becoming staff director, Mr. Goldston was legislative director for Congressman Sherwood Boehlert (R-NY), who became chair of the Science Committee in January, 2001. As legislative director, Mr. Goldston was Congressman Boehlert’s top environmental aide and also oversaw the legislative and press operations of the office. Mr. Goldston came to Capitol Hill in 1983 as Boehlert’s press secretary. From 1985 to 1994, he served on the Science Committee as the special assistant on the Subcommittee on Science, Research and Technology where he oversaw the programs of NSF and NIST. In 1994 and 1995, Mr. Goldston was project director at the Council on Competitiveness, a private sector group with members from industry, labor and academia. He directed work on the report, Endless Frontier, Limited Resources: U.S. R&D Policy for Competitiveness.

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R. John Hansman Jr. is a professor in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he is head of the Humans and Automation Division. He is also director of the International Center for Air Transportation. In addition to teaching, Dr. Hansman conducts research in several areas related to air transportation, flight vehicle operations and safety. His current research activities focus on information technology applied to air transportation systems, air traffic control, integrated human-automation systems, advanced vehicles, and advanced cockpit information systems. He is also an internationally recognized expert in aviation meteorological hazards such as icing and windshear. Dr. Hansman served on the NRC Committee to Identify Potential Breakthrough Technologies and Assess Long-Term R&D Goals in Aeronautics and Space Transportation Technology and the Committee on the Effects of Aircraft-Pilot Coupling on Flight Safety.

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John B. Hayhurst retired in 2004 as senior vice president of the Boeing Company and president of Boeing Air Traffic Management after 33 years at Boeing. Mr. Hayhurst joined Boeing in 1969 as a customer support engineer. He held positions of increasing responsibility related to commercial airplanes and in 1987 was promoted to vice president of marketing. In this position, he played a significant role in the launch of the Boeing 777. Subsequently, he was responsible for leading teams planning the design, development, and manufacture of aircraft larger than the Boeing 747. In addition to the previously noted Boeing positions, Mr. Hayhurst also served as vice president of business development for the Commercial Airplane Services business unit of Boeing Commercial Airplanes Group (BCAG); vice president and general manager of 737 programs; general manager of the BCAG production site in Renton, Washington; and vice president-general manager of the Boeing 747-500X/600X program. Mr. Hayhurst is a fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society. His most recent NRC membership service includes the Committee for the Evaluation of NASA's Fundamental Aeronautics Research Program and the Organizing Committee for the Workshop on Assessing the Research and Development Plan for the Next Generation Air Transportation System.

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William L. Johnson (NAS/NAE) is the Ruben and Donna Mettler Professor of Materials Science at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). He spent two years at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center prior to joining the faculty at Caltech. Dr. Johnson's research interests are centered on non-equilibrium thermodynamic systems. He, along with Ricardo Schwarz, discovered solid-state amorphization, leading to many years of fruitful research. His research accomplishments include the first studies of superconductivity in metallic glasses, pioneering studies of crystal to glass transformations. This work was followed by the synthesis of nanocrystalline and amorphous materials by high energy ball milling, and the discovery of bulk metallic glasses. Dr. Johnson has pioneered the discovery, characterization and science of bulk metallic glass forming alloys and their use as engineering materials. His recent work has involved the development of a theory that establishes fundamental physical principles governing flow in amorphous materials. His research has lead to commercial success, too. He is an inventor on over 25 issued patents. He is a cofounder of Liquidmetal Technologies, in Lake Forrest California, which commercialized one of Dr. Johnson's BMG alloys for golf club heads (under the company name "LiquidMetal Golf"). Dr. Johnson served on the editorial board of the Journal of Rapid Solidification, and serves as an associate editor for Journal of Applied Physics, and Applied Physics Letters. He was a principal editor of the MRS Journal of Material Science. He is author or co-author of over 360 publications in the scientific literature, and has contributed chapters to seven books. He has held numerous consulting positions for the Department of Energy, NASA, and corporations. Over the past two decades, he has been a consultant and on numerous advisory panels for the U.S. Department of Energy, NASA, the National Science Foundation, and the National Academy of Engineering. He received his B.A. in physics from Hamilton College and his Ph.D. in applied physics from Caltech. Previous NRC service includes the Committee on Materials Needs and R&D Strategy for Future Military Aerospace Propulsion Systems.

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Richard Kohrs has over 50 years of experience in systems engineering and integration of NASA Apollo, Shuttle, Space Station, and Commercial Programs. He retired from NASA as director of Space Station Freedom where he had overall responsibility for development and operation of the program. He was deputy director for the space shuttle program where he managed the daily engineering processing, and operations activities. Earlier he led the systems integration of the Shuttle Program, with responsibility for vehicle integration of Orbiter, Main Engines, External Tank, Solid Rocket Boosters, and the Ground System. After retirement from NASA he served as vice president of International Activities for ANSER and director of International Aerospace Cooperation for ANSER. From 1997 to 2005, he served as chief engineer of Kistler Aerospace with overall responsibility for technical integration of the seven major subcontractors and systems engineering and integration of the Kistler reusable launch vehicle. From 2006 to 2007, he served as program manager of SAGES (Shuttle/Apollo Generation Expert Services) for SAIC. This activity provides the NASA Constellation Program access to retired senior personnel from Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, and Shuttle Programs.

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Ivett A. Leyva is a senior aerospace engineer in the Aerophysics Branch of the Space and Missile Propulsion Division of the Air Force Research Laboratory. There she focuses on the design of liquid rocket engines. She is an experimentalist, and currently studies the effects of acoustic fields on coaxial jets. She also works in the area of hypersonic boundary layer transition. Previously, she was a senior aerodynamicist at Microcosm, Inc. where she was responsible for the development of ablative chambers and also performed numerical/analytical studies of Microcosm’s launch vehicles’ subcomponents. Prior to Microcosm she was employed at General Electric’s (GE’s) Global Research Center where she led the design, development, and testing of several pulse detonation concepts. There, she coordinated joint projects with scientists from the former Soviet Union. Dr. Leyva holds several patents in the U.S. and Europe in the area of propulsion. She served on the NRC Committee on Air Force/Department of Defense Aerospace Propulsion and the Steering Committee on Decadal Survey of Civil Aeronautics.

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Elaine S. Oran (NAE) is the Senior Scientist for Reactive Flow Physics at the Naval Research Laboratory. As Senior Scientist, Dr. Oran's research includes development of numerical algorithms and the use of these algorithms in computerized models that describe a wide variety of complex fluid systems. These systems are used in research and applications ranging from microfluidics to astrophysics and cosmology. Her current work applies these simulation methods to design micron-sized devices for use in biosensors; design of micro-propulsion systems for use in air vehicles, space and planetary exploration; hazard reduction involved in the storage and handling of energetic materials including hydrogen fuels; basic physics of combustion processes involving flames; detonations and the transition to denotations; and explosions of supernovae. She was elected to the NAE for unifying engineering, scientific, and mathematical disciplines into a computational methodology to solve challenging aerospace combustion problems. She is a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and a Fellow of the American Physical Society.

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Alan G. Poindexter is dean of students and executive director of programs at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS). He is also a captain in the U.S. Navy and commanding officer of the Student Element. Prior to NPS, Captain Poindexter was a U.S. astronaut. Initially, he served in the Astronaut Office Shuttle Operations Branch performing duties as the lead support astronaut at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. Captain Poindexter served as a CAPCOM for several missions and is a veteran of two space flights. He has logged more than 669 hours in space. He served as pilot on STS-122 and was the commander of STS-131. Prior to serving in the astronaut corps, Captain Poindexter was a department head at Fighter Squadron 32, Naval Air Station Oceana in Virginia, and was a test pilot and project officer at the Naval Strike Aircraft Test Squadron (NSATS), Naval Air Station Patuxent River in Maryland. He is entitled to wear the following awards: Legion of Merit, Distinguished Flying Cross, Defense Meritorious Service Medal, NASA Flight Medal, the Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal with Combat V, and various other service and campaign awards. Captain Poindexter holds a B.S. in aerospace engineering from Georgia Tech and M.S. in aeronautical engineering from the Naval Postgraduate School. He has no prior NRC service.

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Helen L. Reed is a professor of aerospace engineering at Texas A&M University, having served as department head from 2004 to 2008. Her prior positions include faculty appointments at Stanford University (1982-1985), Arizona State University (1985-2004), and Tohoku University in Sendai Japan (1991-1992); and appointments at Sandia National Laboratories (1983) and NASA Langley Research Center (1977-1981). Dr. Reed has 18 years of experience in integrating small-spacecraft research, design-build-fly, and education, with particular emphasis in spaceflight, satellite design, and autonomous rendezvous and docking (AR&D) and 33 years in boundary-layer transition and laminar flow control, and hypersonics. She has 170 journal articles and refereed conference papers (41 invited), and 124 invited talks in these areas. She is a fellow of AIAA, APS, and ASEM. She was the recipient of the 2007 J. Leland "Lee" Atwood Award from the American Society for Engineering’s Education Aerospace Division and AIAA. Dr. Reed was inducted into the Academy of Engineering Excellence in 2008 and the College of Engineering “Committee of 100” in 2010 at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech). She has served on numerous advisory boards and committees, including NASA Headquarters aeronautics advisory committees, subcommittees, and task forces; the NASA Federal Laboratory Review Task Force of the NAC; and the NATO/AGARD Fluid Dynamics Panel. She was an associate editor for Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics from 1986 to 2000 and has served on numerous AIAA committees as well as the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics Executive Committee, the Society of Engineering Science board of directors; the USRA board of trustees and Space Technology Council (chair); the advisory board for National Institute of Aerospace; the National Space Grant Student Satellite Initiative (deputy co-chair), the Arizona Space Grant Consortium (associate director); the Aerospace Department Chairs’ Association (chair); and the Arizona Space Commission (governor-appointed member). Dr. Reed also served on the advisory committees for aerospace programs at New Mexico State University, the University of California, Irvine, the University of Washington, and Virginia Tech. She received her Ph.D. in engineering mechanics from Virginia Tech in 1981. She served on the NRC Aerodynamics Panel from 1990 to 1992.

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Eli Reshotko (NAE) is the Kent H. Smith Professor Emeritus of Engineering at Case Western Reserve University. His area of expertise is viscous effects in external and internal aerodynamics; two- and three-dimensional compressible boundary layers and heat transfer; stability and transition of viscous flows, both incompressible and compressible; and low-drag technology for aircraft and underwater vehicles. He has expertise in propulsion engineering, thermodynamics, aerodynamics, and aircraft propulsion. He is a fellow of the AIAA, ASME, the American Physical Society, and the American Academy of Mechanics, for which he served as president. He is co-author of more than 100 publications and is affiliated with many task forces, committees, and governing boards, and on several he served as chair. Dr. Reshotko currently serves as the NAE Section 1 liaison members chair and his NRC service includes membership on the Committee for the Evaluation of NASA's Fundamental Aeronautics Research Program, the Committee on Analysis of Air Force Engine Efficiency Improvement Options for Large Non-Fighter Aircraft, and the Committee on Assessment of Aircraft Winglets for Large Aircraft Fuel Efficiency.

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Edmond L. Soliday was employed by United Airlines for over 35 years as a pilot, human factors instructor, flight manager, and staff executive, serving the last eleven as vice president of safety, quality assurance and security. He has served on numerous aviation safety related advisory boards and commissions, and he has chaired the Commercial Aviation Safety Team, the Air Transport Association Safety Council, the Star Alliance Safety Committee, and the ATA Environmental Committee. Captain Soliday formerly served on the Executive Board of the Flight Safety Foundation. He currently serves on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Global Airline Industry Program Advisory Group and is an Indiana State Representative serving on the Transportation, Commerce, Energy, and Technology committees. Among his awards are the Bendix Trophy, the Vanguard Trophy, and the Laura Tabor Barbour International Air Safety Award. Capt. Mr. Soliday has previously served on four NRC study committees.

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