AE Emeritus Professor Harry H. Hilton
The award will be presented annually at the AIAA Structures, Dynamics and Materials Conference (SDM) for the best paper submitted by a graduate student. The award consists of a commemorative plaque and a prize derived from the fund’s income. Students whose structures papers were accepted for presentation at this year’s SDM conference April 12-15 in Orlando, Florida, should watch for AIAA announcements of this award.
Hilton received BS and MS degrees in aeronautical engineering from New York University and a PhD in theoretical and applied mechanics with a minor in mathematics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Since 1949, he has held several academic positions at Illinois, including the AE department head from 1974 to 1985 and during the 1989 and 1990 summers, he was an assistant dean of engineering. From 1997 to 2001, he was appointed Charles E. Schmidt Distinguished Visiting Professor at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Rotan.
He has extensive analytical and computational research experience and is internationally recognized for his pioneering work in deterministic and stochastic linear and nonlinear viscoelasticity. Hilton's other active research areas are creep buckling, solid propellant structural integrity, linear and nonlinear viscoelastic finite element analysis, random material properties and characterization, damping, flutter and divergence of inelastic lifting surfaces, aerodynamic noise, stochastic failure analysis, viscoelastic crack propagation, piezo-viscoelasticity, structural control, electronic packaging, composites, structural survivability, computational structural mechanics and numerical analysis.
Hilton is an AIAA fellow and a director of Sigma Gamma Tau, the national aerospace honorary society and is on the Editorial Board of a book series entitled Advances in High-Performance Computing. He also has been employed as a consultant by several large aerospace companies.
Since his retirement in August 1990, he has remained active in teaching, research and in professional and public services. Since retirement, he has taught one 400 or 500 level AAE or TAM course each semester as well as numerous individual special problem courses and continues to advise MS and PhD thesis and minority program students. During his retirement, he has published or had accepted for publication in archival journals or proceedings over 170 research papers. He and Professor Sung Yi (Portland State University) are also writing an advanced graduate book entitled Anisotropic Viscoelasticity with Applications to Composites and Damping.
He also remains very active with his professional and public services. On campus he is a member of the UIUC Senate and its Executive Committee as well as the Chair of its Honorary Degree Committee, and is active in the AAUP and Sigma Xi. He continues to be involved in student activities as faculty advisor to two student organizations. Off campus, he is a member of two national and two international scientific committees, which are in the process of organizing professional conferences for 2005 and 2006, past member and chair of the City of Champaign Human Relations Commission, of the steering committee of the Champaign County ACLU Chapter and past treasurer of A Woman's Fund Foundation board of directors.
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