Dilip Ballal, UD Engineering Professor, to Receive National AIAA Award for 2000
Dilip R. Ballal, a distinguished professor at the University of Dayton, has been chosen to receive the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Propellants and Combustion national award for 2000. The award will be presented Tuesday, July 18 at the annual conference in Huntsville, Ala.
Ballal is professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the University of Dayton and leader of the combustion and fuels group in the UD Research Institute. He also serves as the first Hans von Ohain Distinguished Professor in UD's School of Engineering.
Nominated by colleague Jamie S. Ervin, associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at UD, Ballal is being recognized "for outstanding fundamental contributions to combustion science and jet fuel technology relevant to gas turbine engines." He will receive an engraved bronze medal as well as a certificate of citation.
Ballal has spent more than 30 years in researching gas turbine combustion, fuel technology, fluid mechanics, heat transfer and laser diagnostics, and his experience spans academia and industry. He is the principal investigator for a five-year, $15 million U.S. Air Force contract on advanced, integrated fuel-combustion systems and directs the work of 20 researchers.
Ballal graduated with a bachelor of science degree in mechanical engineering in 1967 from the College of Engineering in Bhopal, India. He earned a master of science degree in 1968 and his doctorate in mechanical engineering in 1972 from the Cranfield Institute of Technology in Cranfield, England, which also awarded him a doctor of science degree in 1983 for his "original and outstanding research contributions." Prior to coming to UD, Ballal held positions at the General Motors Research Laboratories, Purdue University and the Cranfield Institute of Technology.
He received the National Energy Systems Award in 1993 from the AIAA for outstanding research in gas turbine combustion. He was elected an American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) fellow in 1992 and an AIAA fellow in 1993. He is a member of the board of directors of ASME-International Gas Turbine Institute, the International Combustion Institute (Central States Section) and NASA combustion research and development committee.
July 6, 2000
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