NASA Announces First Lichten Internship Award Winner

March 30, 2007

J.D. Harrington
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-5241

RELEASE: 07-79

NASA ANNOUNCES FIRST LICHTEN INTERNSHIP AWARD WINNER

WASHINGTON - NASA's Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate, in
cooperation with the American Helicopter Society International (AHS),
selected Eric Greenwood II from the University of Maryland,
University Park, as its first NASA AHS Lichten Internship Award
winner.

Greenwood was selected based on his paper "Helicopter External Noise
Radiation in Turning Flight: Theory and Experiment," submitted to the
AHS International 2007 Robert L. Lichten Competition.

The award supports NASA's goal to enhance the educational experiences
of highly qualified U.S. engineering students in fields of interest
to the agency's aeronautics program. These fields include fundamental
research, particularly in subsonic rotary wing technologies.

Greenwood will receive an eight-week, NASA-sponsored internship to be
split between Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif., and
Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va. Both centers are active in
helicopter noise research as part of NASA's Subsonic Rotary Wing
Project. Greenwood will spend the summer immersed in NASA rotary wing
science and technology projects.

Greenwood graduated from the Rochester Institute of Technology,
Rochester, N.Y., with a Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical
engineering (aerospace option), in 2005. He has specialized in
rotorcraft acoustics for his graduate program in aerospace
engineering.

For more information about NASA's Aeronautics Research Mission
Directorate, visit:

http://www.aeronautics.nasa.gov

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