UTA aerospace engineering professor named AIAA Fellow

Faculty honorFrank Lu, a professor in the Aerospace Engineering Department at The University of Texas at Arlington, has been named a Fellow of the American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics. He is the first UTA faculty member to earn the honor. Lu, who is also a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineering and the Royal Aeronautical Society, was cited by AIAA for “sustained contributions in gasdynamics and detonation-based technologies, and development of novel experimental facility and measurement techniques.” He will be formally inducted at the organization’s