Agarwal to receive John J. Montgomery Award for Distinguished Innovation in Aerospace
The award from ASME honors outstanding contributions to the aerospace industry
Ramesh Agarwal, the William Palm Professor of Engineering in the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, will receive the 2025 John J. Montgomery Award for Distinguished Innovation in Aerospace from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) in May 2025.
The Montgomery Innovation Award recognizes the outstanding contribution of an individual engineer in the international community who has researched, designed and/or developed new technologies or equipment for the aerospace industry, such as propulsion, aerospace structure/materials, and stability and control. Recipients are chosen for having significantly contributed to aeronautics and astronautics and to the larger engineering community. Awardees have demonstrated originality, forward-thinking and a thirst for innovation and have helped to revolutionize the industry and open the door for greater progress in the field.
Agarwal will receive the Montgomery award at the upcoming ASME SSDM Conference May 5-7 in Houston.
Prior to joining WashU in 2001, Agarwal was chair of the aerospace engineering department at Wichita State University from 1994 to 1996 and the executive director of National Institute for Aviation Research from 1996 to 2001. From 1994 to 2001, he was also the Bloomfield Distinguished Professor at Wichita State University.
Previously, Agarwal worked in various scientific and managerial positions at McDonnell Douglas Research Laboratories in St. Louis, at NASA Ames Research Center and at Rao and Associates.
Agarwal has worked in computational fluid dynamics (CFD), computational magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) and electromagnetics, computational aeroacoustics, multidisciplinary design and optimization, rarefied gas dynamics and hypersonic flows, bio-fluid dynamics, and flow and flight control.
He is the author and coauthor of more than 600 publications and four books on diverse engineering subjects in aerospace, energy and environment, and serves on the editorial board of more than 20 journals. Agarwal serves on many professional, government and industrial advisory committees and is a Fellow of 32 professional societies.
