Schroers Award for Outstanding Rotorcraft Research

Given to an individual or group for significant contribution to rotorcraft technology.

Schroers Award Recipients

  • 2023: NASA/Army HVAB Rotor Test Team
  • 2022: ARTIC VMS Simulation Test Team (Tom Berger and Emily Lewis)
  • 2021: Alex Stoll
  • 2020: Mars Helicopter Development Team (Larry Young)
  • 2019: Brian Fujizawa
  • 2018: Wayne Johnson
  • 2017: Degraded Visual Environment Mitigation (DVE-M) Team – MAJ Joseph S. Minor, MAJ Zachariah G. Morford, Richard W. Huber, Zoltan P. Szobozslay, Brian T. Fujizawa, Jeffery A. Lusardi, Nathan L. Mielcarek, John Archdeacon, and Michael J. Irish
  • 2016: AH-56 Cheyenne Hub Drag Team (Robert Vocke, Gerardo Nunez, and Donald Morr)
  • 2015: UH-60 MCLAWS/PAFCA Team (Brian Fujizawa, Ernesto Moralez, Carl Ott, Joe Minor, Doug Greaves, Casey Blaskowski, David Bui, and Juan Saucedo)
  • 2014: Rohit Jain
  • 2013: HELIOS Development Team (Roger Strawn, Jay Sitaraman, Andy Wissink, Mark Potsdam, Nick Burgess, Buvana Jayaraman, Anubhav Datta, Rohit Jain, Dimitri Maviplis, Bob Meakin, Aaron Katz, Venke Sankaran)
  • 2012: Christina Ivler
  • 2011: Thomas Norman, Patrick Shinoda, Justin McLellen
  • 2010: Mark Potsdam
  • 2009: IBC Test Team – Tom Norman and Rick Shinoda
  • 2008: Jeffery Lusardi and Luigi Cicolani
  • 2007: PALACE Team – Colin Theodore, Matt Whalley, Greg Schulein, Marc Takahashi
  • 2006: Luigi Cicolani
  • 2004/2005: Autonomous Rotorcraft Project Team, Matt Walley – Project Manager
  • 2003: UH-60 PAFCA Team
  • 2002: Comanche HMD Simulation team: R. Jay Shively, Terry Turpin, Susan Dowell, Robert Morrison, Shelly Larocca and Dan Wilkins
  • 2001: Rotorcraft Aircrew Systems Concepts Airborne Laboratory (RASCAL) team
  • 2000: Mark Betzina, Robert Fong, and the XV-15 Tilt Rotor Noise Reduction Program Team
  • 1999: TRAM DNW Test Team
  • 1998: CONDUIT Team: Mark B. Tischler, Jason Colbourne, Kenneth Cheung, Prof. William Levine, Chad Frost
  • 1997: Mark B. Tischler, Jay W. Fletcher, M. Hossein Mansur
  • 1996: 2GCHAS Team / Wayne Johnson
  • 1995: UH-60 Airloads Program Team
  • 1994: William G. Bousman
  • 1993: Jim McCroskey, J. Baeder, R. Strawn, E. Duque