George Lesieutre awards

American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Fellow, 2008.
AIAA Sustained Service Award, 2008.
AIAA Zarem Educator Award, 2001.
Penn State Engineering Society (PSES) Outstanding Research Award, 2000.
UCEA Mid-Atlantic Program and Activities Award, for the "Pennsylvania Wind Energy Symposium 2008: Power for the Future."
Best Paper, Adaptive Structures, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Aerospace Division. For "Stress Relief In Contact-Aided Cellular Compliant Mechanisms," with Prof. Mary Frecker and advisee Vipul Mehta, 2008.
Hirschorn IAC Best Paper Prize, Institute of Noise Control Engineering, 2007. For "Development of a Design Curve for Particle Impact Dampers," with Profs. Steven Hambric and Gary Koopmann, and advisee Mike Yang.
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 Prof. Daniel Inman and advisee Razvan Rusovici.
Best Paper, Adaptive Structures 1999, 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.
3rd place (masters), USATF 50-mile championship, 2009.

Wolk Award for Best Senior Thesis in Aerospace Engineering, to advisee Aimy Wissa, for "Damage Detection in Aluminum Plates using the Electro-Mechanical Impedance Method," 2009.
NASA Graduate Student Research Program fellowship, to advisee Jeff Kauffman, for "Reduction of High-Cycle Fatigue in Integrally Bladed Rotors through Piezoelectric Vibration Damping and Control," 2008.
NASA Graduate Student Research Program fellowship, to advisee Mike Thiel, for "Actuation of an Active Gurney Flap for Rotorcraft Applications," 2004.
AHS Mid-East Lichten Award, Conor Marr, 2008, for "Nonlinear, Temperature-Dependent, Fluidlastic Lead-Lag Damper Modeling."
Penn State Alumni Association Dissertation Award, to advisee Jacob Loverich, for "High Power Density Piezoelectric Motor with Hybrid Clamps," 2004.
Best Student Paper in Engineering Acoustics, Acoustical Society of America, to advisee Julien Bernard, for "The Design Of Actively-Tuned Flexural Piezoceramic Bar/Disk Transducers," 2000.
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."

Fellow, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), 2008. (Member since 1979)
Member, American Helicopter Society (AHS).
Member, American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE).
Sigma Xi, 1990.
Tau Beta Pi, 1981.