UTA engineering professor earns lifetime achievement award from ICCES

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The International Conference on Computational and Experimental Engineering and Sciences honored Kenneth Reifsnider of the UTA Research Institute for lifetime achievement.
Reifsnider is the director of the Institute for Predictive Performance Methodologies at UTARI and a member of the prestigious National Academy of Engineering. ICCES specifically recognized Reifsnider’s pioneering contributions to science and applications of composite materials. He received his award at the organization’s conference in Madeira, Portugal, in June.



Kenneth Reifsnider, director of the Institute for Predictive Performance Methodologies at the UTA Research Institute, was recently honored for lifetime achievements by the International Conference on Computational and Experimental Engineering and Sciences.

“It is an honor to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award from ICCES,” Reifsnider said. “After a career spent developing, testing and applying composite materials for use in dozens of applications from fuel cells to airplanes, it is gratifying to be recognized by an international group for my contributions to innovation, education and knowledge in the field.”
Reifsnider, who joined UTA in 2015 as a Presidential Distinguished Professor, has joint appointments at UTARI and in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. He is an international expert on composite materials and has pioneered their development and application to aerospace structures, fuel cells, jet engines and turbines. Reifsnider’s lab, IPPM, specializes in developing polymer, metal and ceramic-based composites for structural, electrochemical, chemical processing, nuclear fuels and nuclear waste storage and chemical processing applications.
Reifsnider is emeritus director of the South Carolina SmartState Center for Solid Oxide Fuel Cells at the University of South Carolina, where he was credited with leading South Carolina’s fuel-cell initiative and the state’s effort to develop solid oxide fuel cells for applications in society. He has also held chaired faculty positions at the University of Connecticut and Virginia Tech, and visiting positions at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and the University of Bristol, ...

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