IEEE AESS Judith A. Resnik Space Award

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The Judith A. Resnik Space Award is an annual AESS award to recognize candidates that have provided outstanding contributions to space engineering in the AESS Fields of Interest; i.e. “the organization, systems engineering, design, development, integration, and operation of complex systems for space, air, ocean, or ground environments.”

The candidate does not have to be an IEEE/AESS member, but given everything else being equal, a member will be given preferential consideration. The Space achievement has to be deemed to have made a particularly noteworthy contribution in the AESS Field of Interest.

Please use this Nomination Form to nominate a candidate for the AESS Judith A. Resnik Space Award.

Nomination Deadline: 1 December

Prize:

$2,000 Honorarium (shared equally between multiple winners) and a Plaque for each winner.

Funding:

Funded by the IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society.

Eligibility:

Basis for Judging:

Importance of “space” contributions in the AESS Field of Interest.

Presentation:

At a convenient IEEE or AESS conference.

Azad M. Madni

2021 - "For leading the development of Model Based Testing Methods and Software for Shuttle Navigation System and sustained excellence in aerospace systems research and education."

Margaret H. Hamilton

2020 - "For leading the successful development of the Apollo Guidance, Navigation & Control (GN&C) system software and helping to create the field of software engineering."

Walter Delashmit

2018 - "Apollo Space Program Pre- and Post-Flight GNC Analysis and Early Skylab Program"

Robert D. Briskman

2017 - "“Development of Civilian Satellite Communications and Broadcast Systems” "

Richard Scott Erwin

2016 - "Outstanding Contributions to Spacecraft Vibration Isolation Technologies and Ultra-Precision Pointing of Large Flexible Space Platforms"

Maruthi Akella

2015 - "“Sustained outstanding contributions in nonlinear dynamics, adaptive attitude control of complex space systems and scholarship and education in the field of aerospace guidance and control” "

Field of Interest

“The field of interest shall be the organization, systems engineering, design, development, integration, and operation of complex systems for space, air, ocean, or ground environments. These systems include but are not limited to navigation, avionics, mobile electric power and electronics, radar, sonar, telemetry, military, law-enforcement, automatic test, simulators, and command and control."