AE Alumnus Bruce T. Goodwin has been awarded the UIUC College of Engineering Alumni Award for Distinguished Service. Goodwin earned a BS in Physics at City College of New York in 1972, an MS in AAE at UIUC in 1978, and a PhD in AAE at UIUC in 1982. As Associate Director for Defense and Nuclear Technologies at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Bruce T. Goodwin is responsible for executing the nuclear weapons activities comprising LLNL’s stockpile program.
Goodwin has received the Award of Excellence for Significant Contribution to the Nuclear Weapons Program from the Office of Military Application, Department of Energy (DOE) three times and has received the Distinguished Achievement Award from the Physics and Space Technology Directorate, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. He has also received the Aviation Week and Space Technology Magazine Year 2000 Aerospace Laurels Honor in the Government/Military Category for significant contributions to the global field of aerospace.
Most recently, Goodwin was awarded the Department of Energy E.O. Lawrence Award the DOE’s highest award for scientific contributions for his theoretical work on equations of the state of plutonium under extreme pressures. Goodwin received the AE Department’s Distinguished Alumni Award in 2000 and has served on the Department of Aerospace Engineering Alumni Advisory Board at Illinois since 1998.