George Lesieutre awards

American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Sustained Service Award, 2008.
Hirschorn IAC Best Paper Prize, Institute of Noise Control Engineering, 2007. For "Development of a Design Curve for Particle Impact Dampers," with advisee Mike Yang and co-advisors Steven Hambric and Gary Koopmann.
AIAA Zarem Educator Award, 2001.
Penn State Engineering Society (PSES) Outstanding Research Award, 2000.
Best Paper, AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics and Materials Conference, 2000. For "Modeling of Shock Propagation and Attenuation in Viscoelastic Materials," with advisee Razvan Rusovici and co-Advisor Daniel Inman.
Best Paper, Adaptive Structures 1999, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Aerospace Division. For "An Actively-Tuned Solid State Piezoelectric Vibration Absorber," with advisee Chris Davis.
American Helicopter Society (AHS) Best AHS Forum Paper, Dynamics, 1995. For "Formulation and Validation of a Finite Element Model for Elastomeric Lag Dampers," with Prof. Ed Smith and advisees Mike Beale, Kiran Govindswamy, and Mike Vascsinec.

AHS Mid-East Lichten Award, Conor Marr, 2008, for "Nonlinear, Temperature-Dependent, Fluidlastic Lead-Lag Damper Modeling."
Penn State Alumni Association Dissertation Award, 2004, to advisee Jacob Loverich
Best Student Paper in Engineering Acoustics, 2000, Acoustical Society of America, to advisee Julien Bernard, for "The Design Of Actively-Tuned Flexural Piezoceramic Bar/Disk Transducers."
AIAA Zarem Award, to advisee Kristin Culler, January, 2001.
AHS Mid-East Lichten Award, Chad Hébert, 1998, for "Rotorcraft Blade Lag Damping using Highly Distributed Tuned Vibration Absorbers."
AHS Mid-East Lichten Award, Chris Brackbill, 1998, for "Formulation and Validation of a Thermomechanical Model for Elastomeric Materials."
1st place, AIAA Northeast Student Conference, Graduate Division, Kristin Culler, for "Isolation and Pointing of a Science Payload using Flextensional Piezoelectric Mounts."