Contact: Jim Gardner, Executive Director of University Communications, (973) 596-3433

NEWARK--Monday, January 12, 1998--The Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) has named Nadine Aubry, Professor and Jacobus Chair in Mechanical Engineering, a recipient of the 1998 Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award.

"The credentials and standards of excellence in education of this year's candidates were extremely high and brought about very keen competition. Dr. Aubry's outstanding contributions have distinguished her as one of the nation's top engineering educators," according to SAE. A committee of academic and industry personnel selected the awardees based on their education, teaching ability, contributions to education and research, leadership in student activities, and participation in engineering society activities.

The award includes an expense-paid trip to attend the World Aviation Congress planned for fall 1998 in Los Angeles, where Aubry will receive a plaque during the awards ceremony.

As a feature of the award program, one of the leading aerospace corporations is "host-for-a-day" to an awardee. The companies' engineering and research departments arrange specialized tours and sessions where new technologies are demonstrated and discussed. This is an opportunity for Professor Aubry to meet and exchange views with practicing engineers.

Aubry, a resident of Metuchen, N.J., earned a Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from Cornell University, an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the Scientific University of Grenoble (France), and a B.S.M.E from the National Polytechnic Institute of Grenoble.

She is renowned for her research in predicting and controlling turbulence, as it applies to commercial and military aircraft flights. The issues involved are safety, fuel consumption, and noise and vibration reduction. In addition, her work has application to many issues of environmental and industrial importance, in oceanography and meteorology, in turbo-machinery, and in medicine.

At NJIT, she is the director of the Computational Fluid Dynamics Laboratory and conducts research for the National Science Foundation, the U.S. military, and New Jersey industries. She is the founder and advisor to the NJIT American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) student chapter.

Aubry also has received a National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award recipient.

NJIT is a public research university enrolling nearly 8,200 undergraduate, graduate and doctoral students in 76 degree programs through its five colleges: Newark College of Engineering, School of Architecture, College of Science and Liberal Arts, the School of Management and the Albert Dorman Honors College. Research initiatives include manufacturing, microelectronics, transportation, computer science, solar astrophysics, environmental engineering and science, and architecture and building science. U.S. News and World Report's 1998 Annual Guide to America's Best Colleges ranked NJIT among the top 175 national universities. Money Magazine's Best College Buys 1998 rated NJIT as the sixth best value among U.S. science and technology schools.

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