AME professor Fokion Egolfopoulos has been elected Associate Fellow in the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). Associate Fellows are members who have accomplished or been in charge of important engineering or scientific work, or have done original work of outstanding merit, or have otherwise made outstanding contributions to the arts, sciences, or technology of aeronautics or astronautics.

Newly elected Associate Fellows are feted at a special dinner at the annual AIAA Aerospace Science Conference to be held this year on January 4, 2011, in Orlando, Florida, where they receive their Associate Fellows certificates and silver AIAA Associate Fellows lapel pins.

Geoffrey Spedding, chairman of the AME Department, commented "We heartily congratulate Fokion for his continued distinguished contributions." We all join Professor Spedding in congratulating Professor Egolfopoulos on his receipt of this honor.