AAE alumnus Dr. David B. Doman named AIAA Fellow

Event Date: March 7, 2012
Dr. David B. Doman has been honored as Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). The distinction of Fellow is conferred by AIAA upon outstanding members of the Institute who have made notable and valuable contributions to the arts, sciences, or technology of aeronautics or astronautics.

Dr. David B. Doman has been honored as Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). The distinction of Fellow is conferred by AIAA upon outstanding members of the Institute who have made notable and valuable contributions to the arts, sciences, or technology of aeronautics or astronautics.

Dr. David Doman graduated Magna Cum Laude from WVU with a BSAE in 1991. He went on to earn an MS in Aeronautics and Astronautics from Purdue in 1993, and a Ph.D. from Virginia Tech in 1998. His dissertation topic was on the development of a fixed order optimal control model of human operator response. From 1991 to 1998 he was also employed at the Wright Laboratory of the U.S. Air Force as a Research Aerospace Engineer.

In 1998 Dr. Doman was promoted to Senior Aerospace Engineer at the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory. He was responsible for numerous research, development and flight demonstration programs, among which was the first-ever in-flight simulation-based demonstration of a fault tolerant autonomous landing system for a reusable launch vehicle.

In 2000 Dr. Doman was the co-recipient of the Courtland D. Perkins Award for work on fault tolerant control of reusable launch vehicles.  He has twice been the co-recipient of the General Benjamin D. Foulois Award, the top technical award in the Air Vehicles Directorate of the Air Force Research Laboratory, for his contributions to the topic of integrated adaptive guidance and control (2003), and for his work in the area of dynamics and control of micro air vehicles (2010). In 2008, Dr. Doman was awarded the Royal Aeronautical Society Silver Medal for his work on a controls-based modeling approach for airbreathing hypersonic vehicles.  He was awarded the 2011 John L. McLucas Award, the highest award presented by the U.S. Air Force for basic research, for contributions to the science of dynamics and control of micro air vehicles.

Dr. Doman is currently a Principal Aerospace Engineer at the Air Force Research Laboratory and serves as the Director of the Control Science Center of Excellence.  Dr. Doman has been the author or co-author of 140 papers, technical reports, and articles. He has also been awarded 3 U.S. patents. He served as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Guidance, Control and Dynamics for 9 years and he is serving as the Secretary and Chair-Elect of the AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Technical Committee.

AIAA is the world’s largest technical society dedicated to the global aerospace profession. With more than 35,000 individual members worldwide, and 90 corporate members, AIAA brings together industry, academia, and government to advance engineering and science in aviation, space, and defense.

Presentation of the new Fellows and Honorary Fellows will take place at the AIAA Aerospace Spotlight Awards Gala, Wednesday, May 9, 2012 at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center, in Washington, D.C.  In 1933, Orville Wright became AIAA’s first Honorary Fellow, and AIAA Honorary Fellows and AIAA Fellows continue to be the most respected names in the aerospace industry.