Woodrow Whitlow Jr.

Dr. Woodrow Whitlow Jr. is the director of the NASA Glenn Research Center in Cleveland Ohio.

Whitlow earned Bachelor of Science (1974), Master of Science (1975), and Doctor of Philosophy (1979) degrees in Aeronautics and Astronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and began his professional career in 1979 as a research scientist at the NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, before moving on to positions at NASA Lewis (now Glenn) Research Center and NASA Kennedy Space Center, where he was deputy director before returning to NASA Glenn to serve as director. He has received numerous awards, including U.S. Black Engineer of the Year in Government, NASA Exceptional Service Honor Medal, NASA Equal Opportunity Honor Medal, the (British) Institution of Mechanical Engineers William Sweet Smith Prize and the Presidential Rank of Meritorious Executive. The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics named him an associate fellow in 1993.

External links

* [http://www.nasa.gov/centers/glenn/about/bios/whitlowbio.html Biographical summary from NASA Glenn Research Center]
* [http://www.nasa.gov/centers/kennedy/about/biographies/whitlow.html Biographical summary from NASA Kennedy Space Center]
* [http://www.bamit.org/ Black Alumni/ae of MIT]