Assessing NASA's University Leadership Initiative (2021)

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C Committee and Staff Biographical Information PETER SHANNON, Chair, is a managing director at Radius Capital. He is an investor focused on advanced aerial mobility and its application toward positive impact for transportation across the economy. Mr. Shannon is active in the aviation community around regulatory and technology issues critical to enabling high-scale adoption of aerial mobility systems. He co-authored a national strategy for advanced aerial mobility as a member of the Committee on Urban Air Mobility Research and Technology through the Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board (ASEB) of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. He is also a member of the National Academies NASA Aeronautics Research and Technology Roundtable. Earlier, he was at Firelake Capital and Atlas Venture, investing in transportation and sustainability technologies. He has an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business. DIANNE CHONG retired as vice president of research and technology in the Boeing Engineering, Operations and Technology organization, leading special projects that impacted processes and program integration for the Boeing Enterprise. Before this, Dr. Chong was the vice president of materials, manufacturing, structures, and support, and responsible for the development and support of manufacturing processes and program integration. She has also served as director of Materials and Process Technology for Boeing Commercial Airplanes. Dr. Chong was previously director of strategic operations and business for IDS Engineering, where she was the lead director defining and implementing a solid strategy for all Boeing Engineering. She has served as the St. Louis representative to Military Handbook 5, where she chaired the aerospace users’ group and titanium casting group. She has been a member of the National Materials Advisory Board and the ASM International board of trustees and was president of ASM International. She is a member of the National Academy of Engineering; the Minerals, Metals & Materials Society; American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA); ASM International; Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME; where she serves on the board of directors); Society of Women Engineers; Beta Gamma Sigma; and Tau Beta Pi. In addition to being a fellow of ASM International and SME, Dr. Chong has been recognized for managerial achievements as a diversity change agent. She has received numerous technical and diversity awards. She received a B.S. in biology and psychology, an M.S. in physiology and metallurgical engineering, and a Ph.D. in metallurgical 34 

APPENDIX C 35 engineering, all from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She also completed an executive master of manufacturing management at Washington University. LENORE L. DAI is a professor and the director of the School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy at Arizona State University (ASU). She oversees degree and research programs in aerospace engineering, chemical engineering, materials science and engineering, mechanical engineering, and the professional science master’s program in solar energy engineering and commercialization. At ASU, she served as the program chair of chemical engineering. She worked for PPG Industries, Inc., prior to joining the Department of Chemical Engineering at Texas Tech University. Dr. Dai is a recipient of the Fulton Exemplar Faculty Award, ASU Parents Association Special Recognition Award, American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE)-ASU Professor of the Year Award, Top Five Percent Faculty at the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering Award, National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award, Whitacre Engineering Research Award, Lockheed Martin Engineering Teaching Award, Texas Tech Alumni Association New Faculty Award, AIChE Professor of the Year Award, 3M Nontenured Faculty Award, University of Illinois Young Alumnus Award, and Racheff Award. She has also been recognized as an Elite Expert (EliteXpertTM) and an ASU Advanced Leadership Initiative Fellow. Dr. Dai received her Ph.D. in materials science and engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. LISA M. FREHILL is a senior analyst with Energetics Technology Center. She is also the senior statistician at the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Dr. Frehill has worked in academic, nonprofit, and government organizations. In addition to teaching research methods, statistics, and program evaluation at New Mexico State University, she has more than two decades of experience deploying qualitative and quantitative research on the connections between education and labor market outcomes. Her work on science and engineering human resources, especially in the areas of diversity, inclusion, and policy issues, has been supported by grants from NSF, the Department of Energy (DOE), and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Dr. Frehill received her Ph.D. in sociology with a minor in systems and industrial engineering from the University of Arizona. DANIEL E. HASTINGS is professor of aeronautics and astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He was also the director of the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART). Dr. Hastings was an associate professor and later full professor for the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT. He was also the associate department head of research. He took a leave of absence to be the Chief Scientist of the U.S. Air Force. Dr. Hastings was asked to direct the Technology and Policy Program at MIT as well as serve as associate director and co-director of the Engineering Systems Division and later became its director. Dr. Hastings became the dean for undergraduate education and then the chief executive officer and director of SMART. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering. Dr. Hastings earned his B.A. at Oxford University and his S.M. and Ph.D. degrees at MIT. RODWARD L. HEWLIN, JR., is an assistant professor of mechanical engineering technology at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte, where he teaches engineering technology and construction management. His research areas include animal flight morphology, biological flows, computational fluid dynamics, electromagnetics and medical drug delivery, and heat and mass transport, among others. He has a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University. MICHAEL J. HIRSCHBERG is executive director of the Vertical Flight Society (founded in 1943 as the American Helicopter Society). He represents the international vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) technical community and advocates for the advancement of vertical flight research and technology. In this position, he leads cooperative and collaborative efforts among industry, academia, and government personnel and organizations to promote VTOL research and developments, including helicopters, advanced rotorcraft, electric VTOL (aka Advanced Air Mobility) aircraft, and other forms of vertical 

36 ASSESSING NASA’S UNIVERSITY LEADERSHIP INITIATIVE flight, for both manned and unmanned applications. Mr. Hirschberg is the publisher of all society publications, including Vertiflite, the Journal of the American Helicopter Society, and the Annual Forum Proceedings. Prior to his selection in 2011, he worked for 20 years in the aerospace industry, primarily in vertical flight serving the interests of the federal government. He was previously a principal aerospace engineer with CENTRA Technology, Inc., providing technical and program management support for more than 10 years to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the Office of Naval Research on advanced aircraft and rotorcraft concepts. Prior to this, Mr. Hirschberg worked from 1994 to 2001 in the Joint Strike Fighter Program Office, supporting the development of the X-32 and X-35 vertical flight propulsion systems. He holds a B.S. in aerospace engineering from the University of Virginia (1991), a master of mechanical engineering from Catholic University of America (1996), and a master of business administration from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech; 2013). He is an associate fellow of the AIAA and a fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society. YUANWEI JIN is currently chair and professor of electrical engineering with the engineering and aviation sciences department at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore (UMES), which is a historically black institution. As department chair, he oversaw a steady increase in the enrollment and graduation of students in the engineering and aviation science programs in his department, thus turning his department into a catalyst for upward social mobility by graduating students from low-income and often under- prepared backgrounds to become competitive science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) professionals such as engineers, professional pilots, airport managers, and so on. As a professor, Dr. Jin is passionate about undergraduate student research and innovation. He holds five U.S. patents and has authored more than 90 peer-reviewed technical papers published with his students and collaborators. Prior to joining UMES, he was a research scientist with the electrical and computer engineering department at Carnegie Mellon University. Dr. Jin is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. He was a recipient of the 2010 Air Force Summer Faculty Fellowship Award. He received a STEM-Innovator Award and the Special Recognition Award for educational leadership at the Black Engineers Years Award-STEM Conference in 2019 and 2016, respectively. He holds a Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from the University of California, Davis. MARY ANN LEUNG is the founder and president of Sustainable Horizons Institute, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to cultivating a diverse STEM workforce prepared to be leaders and add new dimensions to innovation. She heads up a variety of programs aimed at diversifying the DOE National Laboratory workforce as well as catalyzing change in the broader professional community to normalize inclusion. In addition to programmatic work, the organization provides recommendations on workforce development and diversity and inclusion. This work includes the evaluation of national laboratory workforce data for a variety of STEM disciplines; workforce development practices including internships, fellowships, and leadership development initiatives; and comparisons with national data on workforce availability. Dr. Leung led the highly competitive DOE Computational Science Graduate Fellowship (CSGF) program. During her tenure in this role, the program achieved an unprecedented level of recruitment, and fellow and alumni engagement, through a strategic, multifaceted integration of online, regional, professional society, and annual conference activities. As a result of her efforts, in 5 years, DOE CSGF doubled the number and overall quality of applicants, including doubling and in some cases quadrupling the number of underrepresented minority applications. A computational chemist by training, Dr. Leung is an experienced author and researcher. Her research interests include the development of scalable, parallel, scientific codes for the investigation of quantum mechanical phenomena as well as STEM education, workforce development, and diversity and inclusion. She graduated with honors from Mills College, earning a B.A. in chemistry with a mathematics minor. Dr. Leung holds Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in computational physical chemistry from the University of Washington. SEAN P.R. NOLAN is an engineer within the Compressor Systems Aero Group at Pratt & Whitney. During his 10 years at Pratt & Whitney, he has been involved in product design, testing, and field support 

APPENDIX C 37 on multiple programs. He has also been involved with compressor rig testing done in collaboration with NASA Glenn Research Center. Dr. Nolan has a Ph.D. in aeronautics and astronautics. GBADEBO MOSES OWOLABI is a professor of mechanical engineering at Howard University and the director of graduate studies for the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Prior to joining Howard University, he was a visiting research scholar at Georgia Institute of Technology sponsored by the Government of Canada through the Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada fellowship. His recent research focuses on developing novel simulation-based strategies for predicting the formation and growth of small cracks in advanced materials and structures for numerous applications in large-scale industries, including aerospace, ship/marine structures, pressure vessels, and other applications where fatigue is a critical issue in reliability analysis. In the past 7 years, Dr. Owolabi has received research grant awards from the Department of Defense, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, the Army Research Office, NSF, and DOE to support his research activities in the area of fatigue and fracture mechanics at various scales, high strain rate testing and material characterization, structural integrity and health monitoring, and additive manufacturing. Dr. Owolabi is a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. He obtained his B.S. (first class honors) from the Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria, for mechanical engineering and his Ph.D. from the University of Manitoba, Canada. Staff DWAYNE A. DAY, Study Director, a senior program officer for the Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board (ASEB), has a Ph.D. in political science from the George Washington University. Dr. Day joined the National Academies as a program officer for the Space Studies Board (SSB). He served as an investigator for the Columbia Accident Investigation Board in 2003, was on the staff of the Congressional Budget Office, and worked for the Space Policy Institute at the George Washington University. He has also performed consulting for the Science and Technology Policy Institute of the Institute for Defense Analyses and for the U.S. Air Force. He is the author of Lightning Rod: A History of the Air Force Chief Scientist and editor of several books, including a history of the CORONA reconnaissance satellite program. He has held Guggenheim and Verville fellowships at the National Air and Space Museum and was an associate editor of the German spaceflight magazine Raumfahrt Concrete, in addition to writing for such publications as Novosti Kosmonavtiki (Russia), Spaceflight, Space Chronicle (United Kingdom), and the Washington Post. He has served as study director for more than a dozen National Academies’ reports, including 3-D Printing in Space (2013), NASA’s Strategic Direction and the Need for a National Consensus (2012), Vision and Voyages for Planetary Science in the Decade 2013-2022 (2011), Preparing for the High Frontier—The Role and Training of NASA Astronauts in the Post-Space Shuttle Era (2011), Defending Planet Earth: Near-Earth Object Surveys and Hazard Mitigation Strategies (2010), Grading NASA’s Solar System Exploration Program: A Midterm Review (2008), and Opening New Frontiers in Space: Choices for the Next New Frontiers Announcement of Opportunity (2008). COLLEEN HARTMAN is the director of the ASEB and the SSB. Dr. Hartman has served in various senior positions, including acting associate administrator, deputy director of technology and director of solar system exploration at NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, and deputy assistant administrator at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Dr. Hartman was instrumental in developing innovative approaches to powering space probes destined for the farthest reaches of the solar system, including in-space propulsion and nuclear power and propulsion. She also gained administration and congressional approval for an entirely new class of competitively selected missions called “New Frontiers,” to explore the planets, asteroids, and comets in the solar system. Dr. Hartman has built and launched balloon and spacecraft payloads, worked on robotic vision, and served as program manager for dozens of space missions, including the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE). Data from the COBE spacecraft gained two NASA-sponsored scientists the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics. Dr. Hartman earned a 

38 ASSESSING NASA’S UNIVERSITY LEADERSHIP INITIATIVE B.S. in zoology from Pomona College in Claremont, California, an M.P.A. from the University of Southern California, and a Ph.D. in physics from the Catholic University of America. She started her career as a Presidential Management Intern under Ronald Reagan. Her numerous awards include the Claire Booth Luce Fellowship in Science and Engineering, the NASA Outstanding Performance Award, and multiple Presidential Rank Awards, one of the highest awards bestowed by the President of the United States to senior executives.