Irving L. Ashkenas This is Me

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   Published on: 10/31/2006   Last Visited: 10/31/2006

   This has been documented in over 130 technical papers and seven books, including "Analysis of Nonlinear Control Systems" (Wiley, Dover, with Dunstan Graham) and "Aircraft Dynamics and Automatic Control" (Princeton, with Irving Ashkenas and Dunstan Graham). He has been involved with applications of these topics on over 50 aerospace and land vehicles, and has five patents on flight control and stability augmentation systems. He has also been a Regent's Lecturer at UC Santa Barbara and was the 1992-93 Hunsaker Professor at MIT.
   
   His past service on various government and professional society activities include terms as President of the American Automatic Control Council and as Chairman of the National Research Council Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board, the AIAA Technical Committee on Guidance and Control, and the SAE Aerospace Control and Guidance Systems Committee. He is an Honorary Fellow of the AIAA and a Fellow of the IEEE, SAE, AAAS, Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, and the California Council on Science and Technology. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a Lifetime Associate of the National Academies. Other honors include the California Institute of Technology Distinguished Alumni Award (1983), the NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal (1991) and Public Service Medal (2001), the AIAA Mechanics and Control of Flight Award (1970), the AIAA Aerospace Guidance Navigation and Control Award (2004), the Franklin Institute's Levy Medal (1960), and the SAE Aerospace Engineering Leadership Award (1998).
   
   Founder and Vice-Chairman
   
   Irving L. Ashkenas
   
   Irving L. Ashkenas, Co-Founder of STI, is noted for professional engineering experience since 1939 that includes extensive work in design aerodynamics at all levels in the areas of stability and control, performance, and aeroelasticity. He has had responsibility for, or made contributions to, over thirty aircraft and missiles. Since 1954 this experience has been extended to include activities in automatic flight control system research, development and application to specific aerospace vehicles; aerodynamics and handling of trucks, buses, and passenger cars pulling trailers; the dynamic analysis of human response; and the coalescence of these fields into the current vehicle handling theory and application state of the art.
   
   He was the technical/administrative manager of a long series of Navy sponsored contracts relating to the improvement of carrier aircraft launch and recovery performance and reliability.
   
   Other activities have included the specification of the display and dynamic requirements for advanced vehicle simulators, flight readiness reviews of the Shuttle Orbiter and of the X-29 experimental aircraft, control studies of flexible Supersonic and Hypersonic cruise aircraft, and analysis of improved performance potential of active-controlled all-wing aircraft.