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Citation
(1999), "NASA Award", Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology, Vol. 71 No. 2. https://doi.org/10.1108/aeat.1999.12771bab.026
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 1999, MCB UP Limited
NASA Award
NASA Award
Keywords ALGOR, Awards, Software
Bergaila Engineering Services Inc. (BES) in Houston, Texas, was recently awarded NASA's prestigious Goldin-Stokes Mentor Protégé Award for sustained exceptional achievement. Many of the BES' NASA projects utilized the mechanical engineering software of Pittsburgh-based ALGOR Inc.
Based on ALGOR stress analysis results, BES engineer Mark Gray adapted the design of the International Space Station's 7-A airlock for use in the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory training module. Ross Bozeman, engineering manager at Bergaila Engineering Services, used ALGOR to design and analyze a potential flight hardware component for the International Space Station. In addition, he conducted linear dynamic response analyses on other existing flight hardware components. The results of these analyses helped engineers at Johnson Engineering Corporation, a NASA prime contractor, determine the net effects of launch- and crew-induced vibrations.
As a result of their accomplishments, BES and Johnson Engineering were named as corecipients of the Goldin-Stokes Mentor Protégé Award for 1998. The award is named in honor of NASA Administrator Dan Goldin and Congressman Louis Stokes, two individuals who have provided national support for the NASA Mentor Protégé Program. The NASA Mentor Protégé program was established in 1995 to encourage NASA prime contractors to foster long-term associations with smaller high-technology businesses for NASA contracts and subcontracts.