{"596124":{"#nid":"596124","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Gebhardt Lecture Series presents: Prof. Vigor Yang","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EYou are invited to hear\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch2\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EVigor Yang\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EW.R.T. Oakes Professor \u0026amp; Chair\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nDaniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nGeorgia Insitute of Technology\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch2\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026quot;Space Propulsion: Enabling the Future of Space Transportation and Exploration\u0026quot;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGuggenheim 442 @ 3:30 p.m.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cstrong\u003EVigor Yang\u003C\/strong\u003E is the William R. T. Oakes Professor and Chair of the School of Aerospace Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology.\u0026nbsp; He has published 10 comprehensive volumes and numerous technical papers on combustion, propulsion and energetics.\u0026nbsp; He was the recipient of\u0026nbsp; the Air-Breathing Propulsion Award (2005), the Pendray Aerospace Literature Award (2008), the Propellants and Combustion Award (2009), and the von Karman Lectureship in Astronautics Award (2016) from the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA); the Worcester Reed Warner Medal (2014) from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME); and the Lifetime Achievement Award (2014) from the Joint Army, Navy, NASA, and Air Force (JANNAF) Interagency Propulsion Committee. Dr. Yang was the editor-in-chief of the AIAA \u003Cem\u003EJournal of Propulsion and Power\u003C\/em\u003E (2001-2009) and the JANNAF \u003Cem\u003EJournal of Propulsion and Energetics \u003C\/em\u003E(2009-2012). He is currently a co-editor of the Aerospace Book Series of the Cambridge University Press (2010-).\u0026nbsp; A member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering and an Academician of Academia Sinica, Dr. Yang is a fellow of the AIAA, ASME, and Royal Aeronautic Society (RAeS).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"\u0022Space Propulsion: Enabling the Future of Space Transportation and Exploration\u0022"}],"uid":"33975","created_gmt":"2017-09-18 20:14:25","changed_gmt":"2017-09-18 20:14:25","author":"Margaret Ojala","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2017-10-12T16:30:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2017-10-12T17:30:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2017-10-12T17:30:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2017-10-12 20:30:00","gmt_time_end":"2017-10-12 21:30:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2017-10-12 21:30:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1239","name":"School of Aerospace Engineering"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"2082","name":"aerospace engineering"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"78771","name":"Public"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"},{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}