Edward Crawley: Biographical Sketch

Edward F. Crawley is professor and department head of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), a MacVicar Faculty Fellow and a member of the National Academy of Engineering. He is also a member of the NASA Technology and Commercialization Advisory Committee (TCAC). He is conversant in Russian, and has spent time as a visitor at the Moscow Aviation Institute and the Beijing Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He was a finalist in the NASA Astronaut selection in 1980, is an active pilot, and was the 1990 and 1995 Northeast Regional Soaring champion. Dr. Crawley has served as the Chairman of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), International Gas Turbine Institute (IGTI), Structures and Dynamics Technical Committee, and serves as Chairman of the Soaring Society of America (SSA) Structures and Materials Panel. He is a Fellow of the AIAA. In 1987, Dr. Crawley was an advisor to the National Academy of Engineering Committee on Space Station, and in 1993 was a member of the Presidential Advisory Committee on the Space Station Redesign. Dr. Crawley received an SB (1976) and an SM (1978) in Aeronautics and Astronautics, and an ScD (1980) in Structural Dynamics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He is the author of over 50 journal publications in the AIAA Journal, the ASME Journal, the Journal of Composite Materials, and Acta Astronautica. Dr. Crawley's current research interests include, the design of spacecraft and space systems, the development of intelligent structures with embedded actuators, sensors and processors and the architecture of large engineering systems.