Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech), Blacksburg, Va.

• Doctor of Philosophy - Aerospace Engineering. May, 1993.
• Master of Science - Aerospace Engineering. December 1989.
• Bachelor of Science - Aerospace and Ocean Engineering, June 1986.

January 2001 - Present - Swales Aerospace
March 1999 - December 2000 - Federal Data Corporation
Senior Engineer at NASA Langley, Hampton, Virginia.

• Performed preliminary design of advanced space vehicles.
• Developed vehicle weight estimation strategies and tools including “Wingsizer” and “HSLoad”.
• Created automatic FEM generation tool, "Loft," for launch vehicles and aircraft.
• Created conceptual animations for advanced vehicle and operations concepts.
• Managed a 6 task, 15 employee group.

November 1998 - Present
Research Consultant (part time) with various companies.

• Performed structural response analysis of athletic equipment
• Consulted, installed, and set up computers including custom Linux networks.

July 1996 - February 1999
Research Scientist with MCAT, Inc. at NASA Ames, Moffett Field, California.

• Wrote ENSAERO-FE, the parallel substructure based finite element analysis module for ENSAERO
• Interfaced high fidelity parallel finite element structural code with CFD for high performance aeroelastic analysis.
• Received a Space Act Software Release Award from the NASA Commercial Technology Office

September 1993 - June 1996
National Research Council Research Associate at the Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio.

• Researched modeling of viscoelastic materials and application to the structural analysis of aircraft tires.
• Developed custom preprocessor for finite element analysis of composite sandwich structures.
• Performed optimization of composite sandwich structures.

Summer 1989 - Spring 1993
Graduate Research Assistant on NASA contract at Virginia Tech.

• Researched sensitivity of wing aeroelastic response for the Interdisciplinary Research Office, NASA, Langley Research Center, Hampton, Virginia.
• Designed and implemented multidisciplinary analysis capability.

June 1987 - September 1988
Federal Highway Administration Research Fellowship, McLean, Virginia.

• Researched "Computer Simulations of Air Flow Around Bridge Structures."
• Designed and implemented graphical aerodynamic analysis capability

Summer 1986
Wind Tunnel Technician - Bihrle Applied Research.

• Mounted models, ran tests, collected and plotted data in NASA, Langley's Spin tunnel.

• October 2004, NASA Turning Goals Into Reality (TGIR) award for NGLT Systems Analysis Project Team
• National Research Council Research Associate
• April 2002, NASA Space Act Software Release Award for ENSAERO team
• July 2000, SAERS Contract Employee of the Month
• Marshall Hahn Engineering Scholarship
• Gamma Beta Phi - National Honor Fraternity member
• Dean's List
• VPI Honors Program
• Eagle Scout
• Winner 1985 VPI AIAA model rocketry contest "Most Original Flyable Design".

• Numerical Analysis, scientific visualization
• I-DEAS, Hypersizer, NASTRAN, ASTROS, ENSAERO, MPI, Elfini, Dytran
• High Performance computing on parallel computers
• Two and three dimensional graphics and animation production and programming
• Linux and home/small office LAN operation
• Extensive computer experience with a wide variety of microcomputers, workstations, mainframes, operating systems, programming languages, engineering analysis packages and productivity programs.
• Workstations - PC, Silicon Graphics, DEC
• Mainframes - IBM (SP-2, 3090), SGI (Origin 2000), Cray, Digital (VAX)
• Languages - Fortran, C, Visual Basic
• AIAA - Senior Member
• Virginia EIT certificate # 0402012570T

Eldred, L.B., Kapania, R.K., Barthelemy, J.-F. M. "Sensitivity Analysis of Aeroelastic Response of a Wing Using Piecewise Pressure Representation," Journal of Aircraft, Vol. 24, No. 4, July-August 1996, pp 803-807.

Eldred, L.B., Baker, W.P., Palazotto, A.N. "Numerical Application of Fractional Derivative Model Constitutive Relations for Viscoelastic Materials," Computers & Structures, Vol. 60, 1996, pp 875-882.

Baker, W.P., Eldred, L.B., Palazotto, A.N. "Viscoelastic Material Response with a Fractional Derivative Constitutive Model," AIAA Journal, Vol. 34, No. 3, March 1996, pp 596-600.

Eldred, L.B., Baker, W.P., Palazotto, A.N. "Kelvin-Voigt versus a Fractional Derivative Model as Constitutive Relations for Viscoelastic Materials," AIAA Journal, Vol. 33, No. 3, March 1995, pp 547-550.

Kapania, R.K., Eldred, L.B., and Barthelemy, J-F., M. "Shape Sensitivity Analysis of A Wing Aeroelastic Response," Journal of Aircraft, Vol. 30, No. 4, July-August 1993, pp 496-504.

Kapania, R.K., and Eldred, L.B., "Solution of nonlinear partial differential equations using the Chebyshev spectral method," Computational Mechanics, Vol. 8, No. 3, 1991, pp 173-179.

Eldred, L.B. , Kapania, R.K., and Bosch, H.R., "Preliminary Investigations on the Use of Spectral Methods for Flow Calculations," Sixth U.S National Conference on Wind Engineering, Houston, TX and Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics, October 1990, Volume 36, Nos. 1-3, Part 2, pp 1021-1027.

Eldred, L.B., Cerro, J. Martinovic, Z, “Conceptual Aerospace Vehicle Weight Estimation,” to be presented at a to-be-determined conference.

Cerro, J., Martinovic, Z., Su, P., Eldred, L., "Structural Weight Estimation for Launch Vehicles," 61st International Conference of Society of Allied Weight Engineers, Virginia Beach, VA. SAWE 3201 Cat 23, May 2002.

Eldred, L.B., "Parallel Finite Element Analysis for High Performance Aeroelasticity," October 1998. MCAT Inc. end of fiscal year progress report.

Eldred, L.B., Byun, C., Guruswamy, G.P., "Parallel Aeroelastic Analysis using ENSAERO and NASTRAN," NASA HPPCP/CAS Workshop, NASA Ames Research Center, August 1998.

Eldred, L.B., Byun, C., Guruswamy, G.P., "Integration of High Fidelity Structural Analysis into Parallel Multidisciplinary Aircraft Analysis," 39th AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics and Materials Conference, Long Beach, CA, AIAA 98-2075, April, 1998.

Byun, C., Eldred, L., Farhangnia, M. "High Performance Computational Methods for Multidisciplinary Analysis of High Speed Aircraft," October 1997. MCAT Inc. end of fiscal year progress report.

Eldred, L.B., "High Performance Structural Analysis," October 1996. MCAT Inc. end of fiscal year progress report.

Eldred, L.B., "Explosion Shockwaves," LightwavePro, Vol 3, No. 6, June 1995, pp. 6-7. Reprinted in The Best of Lightwave Pro and The Lightwave 3d Book: Tips, Techniques and Ready-To-Use Objects June 1997.

Eldred, L.B., Baker, W.P., Palazotto, A.N. "Application of Fractional Order Derivative Model Constitutive Relations for Viscoelastic Materials," 36th AIAA / ASME / ASCE / AHS / ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics and Materials Conference, New Orleans, LA, April 1995.

Eldred, L.B., "Sensitivity Analysis of the Static Aeroelastic Response of a Wing," February 1993, Ph.D. Thesis

Eldred, L.B., Homan, F.R., "FileID," A shareware computer image, archive, and other file analysis package. This portable C program gives extensive information about hundreds of different types of files including all GIF, TIFF, JPEG and IFF file types. Version 1.4 released June 18,1992.

Eldred, L.B. "Solution of Non-Linear Partial Differential Equations with the Chebyshev Spectral Method," October 1989, M.S. Thesis.

Eldred, L.B., Lacks, L.C. II, "James City County Residential Refuse Collection Study," James City County Public Works Department internal report, Virginia, September 9, 1986.

Howell, P.A, Garrett, F.E.Jr., Whitby, D.G., Eldred, L.B., DeWalt, D.V., "VT100 Supersonic Executive Aircraft", 1986 AIAA Aircraft Design contest entry, June 10, 1986.

Jeffery Cerro, Aerospace Engineer, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton VA, 23681

Dr. Guru P. Guruswamy, Senior Research Scientist, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA 94035

Dr. William P. Baker, Associate Professor of Mathematics, Air Force Institute of Technology, Graduate School of Engineering, Wright Patterson Air Force Base, OH. 45433

Dr. Rakesh K. Kapania, Professor, Aerospace and Ocean Engineering, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg Va. 24060