{"498701":{"#nid":"498701","#data":{"type":"news","title":"GT-AE Prof. Dewey Hodges Selected for ASME Spirit of St. Louis Medal","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) has announced that GT aerospace engineering professor Dr. Dewey H. Hodges has been chosen to receive the 2015 Spirit of St. Louis Medal.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA longtime Fellow of ASME, AIAA, AHS and AAM, Hodges will formally receive the medal and a $1,000 honorarium during ceremonies to be held at the group\u0027s Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, to be held in Texas this November.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Spirit of St. Louis Medal was established in 1929 by Philip D. Ball, ASME members and citizens of St. Louis. It is awarded for meritorious service in the advancement of aeronautics and astronautics.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn announcing Hodges as its 2015 medal recipient, ASME praised him for \u0022developing the the theory and methodology for modeling the dynamics and aeroelasticity of composite helicopter rotor blades, highly flexible slender aircraft wings and wind turbine blades; and its implementation in the VABS software used extensively in research and industry.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHodges joined Georgia Tech\u0027s aerospace engineering faculty in 1986, following a 16-year stint as a research scientist at the U.S. Army Aeroflightdynamics Directorate at Ames. He was also a guest lecturer at his alma mater, Stanford University, during that time.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs the 2015 Spirit of St. Louis Medal recipient, Hodges is in rarified company. Past winners include Daniel\u0026nbsp;Guggenheim, Charles Draper, Neil Armstrong, and Robert Loewy, among others.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELast year, Hodges was selected to give the much-coveted Nikolsky Lecture by the American Helicopter Society. Find out more about\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.dhodges.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EDr. Dewey Hodges.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The AMSE has announced that GT-AE professor Dr. Dewey H. Hodges has been chosen to receive the 2015 Spirit of St. Louis Medal."}],"uid":"30502","created_gmt":"2016-02-10 16:00:10","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:20:42","author":"Sapna Mistry","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-05-07T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2015-05-07T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"407831":{"id":"407831","type":"image","title":"Dr. Dewey Hodges","body":null,"created":"1449254168","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 18:36:08","changed":"1475895134","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:52:14","alt":"Dr. Dewey Hodges","file":{"fid":"202161","name":"hodges-at-desk.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/hodges-at-desk_1.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/hodges-at-desk_1.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":119010,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/hodges-at-desk_1.jpg?itok=g7k1bRoz"}}},"media_ids":["407831"],"groups":[{"id":"1239","name":"School of Aerospace Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"136","name":"Aerospace"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"}],"keywords":[{"id":"1325","name":"aerospace"},{"id":"2728","name":"asme"},{"id":"127101","name":"Dewey Hodges"},{"id":"126111","name":"GT-AE"},{"id":"171693","name":"Spirit of St. Louis Medal"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":["kathleen.moore@ae.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}