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Hubbard, Jr., James E.

Hubbard, Jr., James E.

Glenn L. Martin Institute Professor
Samuel P. Langley Distinguished Professor
Professor Emeritus
Aerospace Engineering
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EDUCATION

  • B.S. , Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Mechanical Engineering)
  • M.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Mechanical Engineering)
  • Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Mechanical Engineering)

HONORS AND AWARDS

  • International Society for Optics And Photonics (SPIE) Smart Structures and Materials Lifetime Achievement Award, 2016
  • American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Fellow, 2015
  • February 2002 Black Engineer of the Year President’s Award
  • Featured in book, Technology and the Dream, MIT Press, January 2001
  • Awarded “The Key to the City” of Hometown, Danville, Virginia, June 2000 (Lifetime Achievements and Community Service)
  • Career Research in Smart Structures Highlighted in 2001 edition of SPIE, The International Society for Optical Engineering, Smart Structures “Milestone Series of Selected Reprints: Collections of outstanding papers from the world literature on optical and opto-electronic science, engineering, and technology”.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

  • New England Board of Higher Education Minority Mentors Program
  • Sigma Xi Honor Society
  • American Society of Mechanical Engineers
  • American Helicopter Association
  • National Technical Society
  • National Society of Black Engineers
  • American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
  • AIAA Aeroacoustics Sub-Committee

Alumna Rose Weinstein Receives NASA Early Career Achievement Medal

Award recognizes her contributions to NASA Langley’s flight vehicle dynamics research and digital transformation activities.

Hubbard to be Inducted as Hagler Institute Faculty Fellow

Dr. James E. Hubbard, Jr. is one of seven 2017–18 Faculty Fellows of the Hagler Institute for Advanced Study.

Four UMD Aerospace Engineering Students Named Penton Aviation Week Network’s 20 Twenties

Free, Kumar, Ng and Weinstein recognized as tomorrow’s engineering leaders.

Hubbard Elected to the National Academy of Engineering

Joins 23 other Clark-affiliated faculty

Hubbard Named SPIE 2016 Smart Structures and Materials Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient

Aerospace Engineering Professor recognized for contributions to the field of smart structures and materials.

Three Aerospace Engineering Faculty Receive 2015 DURIP Awards

Laurence, Hubbard and Yu receive over $1.2 million in combined funding through the Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP).

Hubbard Named ASME Fellow

Aerospace Engineering Samuel P. Langley Distinguished Professor James E. Hubbard, Jr. named an ASME Fellow.

Hubbard and Wissa Collaborators on ASME Best Paper in Structures

Professor James E. Hubbard, Jr. and Aerospace Engineering Alumna Aimy Wissa (Ph.D., '14) collaborate on winning ASME paper.

Hubbard Chosen for HistoryMakers Oral History Collection

Aerospace Professor James E. Hubbard, Jr. chosen for inclusion in HistoryMakers African American oral history collection.

U-Md. Morpheus Lab Establishes Alexander Brown Center for Adaptive Technology

The New Center Memorializes Alexander Brown in its Efforts to Innovate

Hubbard, Grauer Contribute to New Book on Morphing Aircraft

Morphing Aerospace Vehicles and Structures published by Wiley.

Hubbard Publishes New Book

James Hubbard, Jr., publishes new structures text.

James Hubbard Awarded Morphing Wing Grant

Air Force supports development of passively morphing wing for increased lift, agility.

$11 Million for Hubbard "Sky Walker" UAV

DARPA to fund James Hubbard's unmanned aeronautical vehicle (UAV).