DRYDEN ENGINEER FETED NAVARRO GETS HONORED FOR CONTRIBUTIONS.Byline: Daily News EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE Edwards Air Force Base, U.S. military installation, 301,000 acres (121,805 hectares), S Calif., NE of Lancaster; est. 1933. It is one of the largest air force bases in the United States and has the world's longest runway. - An aerospace engineer at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center The Dryden Flight Research Center (DFRC), located inside Edwards Air Force Base, is an aeronautical research center operated by NASA. On March 26, 1976 it was named in honor of the late Hugh L. has been named the recipient of the National Society of Mexican American Engineers and Scientists' top award for 2005. Robert Navarro, currently project manager for flight experiments on the Altair unmanned aircraft system Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) is the term introduced by The United States Department of Defense (DoD) and adopted by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to replace the term Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV). at NASA NASA: see National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA in full National Aeronautics and Space Administration Independent U.S. Dryden, was honored with the MAES Medalla de Oro (Gold Medallion) award for outstanding technical contributions and educational outreach to the Latino community. Navarro was one of three Latino engineers who received the honor in November at the black-tie La Medalla do Oro banquet held in connection with the organization's 31st annual symposium in San Jose. The event is intended to honor professional members of MAES, industry supporters and representatives of academia for outstanding achievement, technical contribution and service to the Mexican American community. In addition to the award, a $4,000 scholarship was presented in Navarro's name to Maria Hernandez, an engineering student at the University of New Mexico The University of New Mexico (UNM) is a public university in Albuquerque, New Mexico. It was founded in 1889. It also offers multiple bachelor's, master's, doctoral, and professional degree programs in all areas of the arts, sciences, and engineering. . The MAES Padrino/Ahijada (godfather/godchild) scholarship pairs a professional with a student member to provide guidance and serve as a role model. Navarro has been a member of MAES since he was an engineering student at California State University, Fullerton California State University, Fullerton, commonly known as CSUF, CSU Fullerton, or Cal State Fullerton, is a part of the California State University system. The University is located in the city of Fullerton, California, in northern Orange County. . He has presented technical papers at their conferences and has also conducted motivational workshops, as well as serving as a keynote speaker at various activities of regional MAES chapters. After obtaining his bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering in 1989, Navarro joined NASA at the Glenn Research Center The Glenn Research Center (more correctly, the NASA John H. Glenn Research Center at Lewis Field) is a NASA center, located in Cleveland, Ohio between Cleveland Hopkins International Airport and the Rocky River Reservation (part of the Cleveland Metroparks). in Ohio as a gas and fluids engineer. He worked on a variety of projects, including serving as principal engineer on three thermal and fluids experiments flown on space shuttle missions <onlyinclude> This is a list of missions flown by space shuttles. As of 2006, only the United States has flown human spaceflight shuttle missions, in the Space Shuttle program, while the Soviet Union flew one unmanned flight of the Buran. . After transferring to NASA Dryden in 1995, Navarro was involved in a number of engineering roles. He served as principal investigator for a series of experiments on the F/A-18 systems research aircraft and as chief engineer for that aircraft and the Helios solar-electric flying wing. More recently, he served as project manager for a short series of research flights by the Pathfinder-Plus solar aircraft earlier this year that acquired data to improve aeroelastic analytical tools for flexible-structure aircraft. In his present position, Navarro is responsible for management of earth science missions using General Atomics Aeronautical Systems' Altair unmanned aircraft system (UAS). CAPTION(S): photo Photo: (color) Dryden engineer Robert Navarro was honored and college student Maria Hernandez was given a scholarship in his name at the Mexican American Engineers and Scientists symposium. NASA |
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