AIAA committee presents de Weck with outstanding service award

May 17, 2007

The AIAA Multidisciplinary Design Optimization (MDO) Technical Committee (TC) recently presented Olivier de Weck, Associate Professor of Astronautics and Aeronautics and Engineering Systems, an outstanding service award for his contributions to the AIAA TC from 2002-2006.

The citation noted that he served as technical chair for the first AIAA MDO Specialist Conference in 2005, and as General Chair in 2006. During this time he was able to successfully co-organize and run both conferences and increase participation by 58% over previous MDO participation at the Structures, Structural Dynamics and Materials conference.

The citation also noted de Weck’s service as a reviewer, session chair, and co-chair for special sessions and panels at the Multidisciplinary Analysis and Optimization Conference (MAO 2004). He has promoted MDO as a review editor of the journal “Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization”, by his teaching activities at MIT with emphasis on graduate courses, infusing MDO in undergraduate design and capstone courses and by making these teaching materials available to a broad community via OpenCourseWare.