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AIAA Lifetime Achievement Award Presented to Dr. Jan Roskam
Dr. Roskam accepting the award
The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) presented Dr. Jan Roskam with the 2007 AIAA Aircraft Design Award on October 16, 2007, at Wichita Kansas.
The AIAA Aircraft Design Award was established in 1968 and is presented annually to a design engineer or team for the conception, definition, or development of an original concept leading to a significant advancement in aircraft design or design technology.
Dr. Roskam received the award for his lifetime achievement in airplane design, airplane design education, configuration design, flight dynamics education; specifically authoring eleven textbooks on airplane design, flight dynamics, aerodynamics and performance.
Dr. Roskam joins a distinguished group of recipients of the Aircraft Design Award, including Ben Rich, Lockheed Skunk Works; Burt Rutan, Scaled Composites; Team Raptor, Lockheed Martin; and Robert Liebeck, The Boeing Company.
Dr. Jan Roskam has authored ten books on airplane flight dynamics and airplane design. He co-authored Airplane Aerodynamics and Performance with Dr. CT. Lan. He has written more than 160 papers on these topics and authored the popular Roskam's War Stories. He has actively participated in more than 36 major airplane programs.
In 2003 Dr. Roskam retired as Ackers Distinguished Professor of Aerospace Engineering at The University of Kansas (KU) where he taught airplane design, stability and control.
In 2004, Dr. Jan Roskam retired as President of DARcorporation, a position he held since 1991, when he founded the company with Dr. Willem A.J. Anemaat. Dr. Roskam continues to offer technical guidance for consulting contracts, and seves as DAR's Project Advisor.
Dr. Roskam being presented the award by Dr. Vicky Johnson
Relevant Experience
Dr. Roskam has industry experience with major aircraft companies and has been involved in the design and development of more than 37 aircraft programs.
He is the author of a two-volume text entitled Airplane Flight Dynamics and Automatic Flight Controls and an eight volume text called Airplane Design. He has co-authored (with Dr. C. Edward Lan) a text named Airplane Aerodynamics and Performance. These texts are used by over fifty universities and multiple aerospace companies in the United States and abroad. In addition he has authored or co-authored over 150 papers, articles and technical reports.
Dr. Roskam is a Fellow in the AIAA (American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics) and a Fellow in the SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers) as well as an Associate Fellow in the Royal Aeronautical Society (England).
Before joining K.U. in 1967, Dr. Roskam had twelve years of experience working for Aviolanda Aircraft Co. (The Netherlands), for Cessna Aircraft Co. (in Wichita, Kansas) and for The Boeing Company (Wichita, Kansas and in Seattle, Washington). He received his MSAE (1954) from the Delft University of Technology (The Netherlands) and his Ph.D. in Aeronautics and Astronautics (1965) from The University of Washington at Seattle.
Before founding DARcorporation, Dr. Roskam was a consultant to companies in the USA and Europe and also served as a consultant to NASA, USAF and DARPA. Dr. Roskam has been actively involved in the design and development of the following aircraft: Aviolanda AT-21, Cessna T-37, Boeing TFX design, Boeing SST design, Learjet Models 25, 35/36 and 55, Cessna Citation I, SIAI Marchetti S-211 and Piaggio 180-Avanti, managing the low speed and transonic speed windtunnel programs for the latter two.