Alumnus honored with NASA's Outstanding Leadership Medal
Alumnus Jim Luckring (BSAAE ’73, MSAAE ’74) was honored by NASA with the Outstanding Leadership Medal.
The medal was awarded for “vision and leadership to advance theoretical, experimental, and computation aerodynamics for separated flows, numerical uncertainty quantification, and CFD validation,” according to NASA.
Luckring has spent his 44-year career directing and conducting aerodynamic research pertinent to a wide range of fixed-wing aircraft concepts at NASA Langley Research Center.
Luckring also has made scientific contributions and provided leadership to numerous NATO activities over a 39-year period, has 18 years of experience teaching graduate-level courses in aerodynamics, and is the author or co-author or over 100 scientific publications for NASA, AIAA, SAE, STO (formerly AGARD), and ICAS.
"The education I received at Purdue had a far-reaching impact,” he says.
Luckring is an AIAA Associate Fellow.