Hiroaki Nishikawa Named AIAA Region 1 Engineer of the Year
Congratulations to Dr. Hiroaki Nishikawa for being named AIAA Region 1 Engineer of the Year for 2020! Nishikawa will be inducted into the AIAA Region I Engineer of the Year Honor Society as a 2020 Distinguished Member.
Dr. Nishikawa is an internationally acclaimed and accomplished researcher in the area of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) who has made numerous contributions to the CFD state-of-the-art. Previously Dr. Nishikawa was selected as the 2020 AIAA Hampton Roads Section Engineer of the Year.
The citation for Dr. Nishikawa reads: “For innovative, seminal contributions to the theory, implementation, and verification of novel computational approaches to the solution of aerodynamics equations in practical CFD codes.”
AIAA Region I Engineer of the Year Honor Society
The Engineer of the Year Award is a prestigious AIAA technical award presented to “A member of AIAA who, as a practicing engineer, has made a recent, individual contribution in the application of scientific and mathematical principles leading to a significant technical accomplishment.”
Region I established the Engineer of the Year Honor Society in 1992 to encourage the sections to submit their Engineer of the Year to the region. All nominees from the sections will be inducted as Members in the Honor Society. The Region I Engineer of the Year will join the society as a Distinguished Member.