Bodony Recognized as AE Teacher of the Year

From left, Joel Houston and Ryan Palmer, 2009-10 and 2010-11 presidents, respectively, of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics student chapter, present AE Assistant Prof. Daniel J. Bodony with the AE Teacher of the Year Award.

Since joining the AE Department in 2006, Bodony has made a tremendous impression upon AE students. In addition to the AIAA teaching awards, he has been included on the Lists of Teachers Ranked as Excellent for five of the past six recorded semesters.

Bodony previously had been honored as a Boeing Company Scholar (1996), Department of Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellow (1998-2001), AFRL Graduate Research Fellow (1998), and ARCS Scholar (2003-2004).

He came to Illinois after spending two years working at the Center for Turbulence Research at Stanford University. Bodony received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in aeronautics and astronautics from Purdue University in 1997 and 1999, respectively. He earned a PhD in aeronautics and astronautics from Stanford in 2004.

Bodony’s research areas are aeroacoustics, computational fluid dynamics and combustion