Best Paper Award

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the winners of the Aerospace 2020 Best Paper Award. All papers published in Aerospace in 2020 were considered for this award. After a thorough evaluation of the originality and significance of the papers, their number of citations, and their number of downloads, the three winning papers, which were nominated by the journal’s Award Committee, were selected as follows:

A Review of Concepts, Benefits, and Challenges for Future Electrical Propulsion-Based Aircraft
By Smruti Sahoo, Xin Zhao and Konstantinos Kyprianidis
Aerospace 2020, 7(4), 44; DOI: 10.3390/aerospace7040044

U-Space Concept of Operations: A Key Enabler for Opening Airspace to Emerging Low-Altitude Operations
By Cristina Barrado, Mario Boyero, Luigi Brucculeri, Giancarlo Ferrara, Andrew Hately, Peter Hullah, David Martin-Marrero, Enric Pastor, Anthony Peter Rushton and Andreas Volkert
Aerospace 2020, 7(3), 24; DOI: 10.3390/aerospace7030024

Large Constellations of Small Satellites: A Survey of Near Future Challenges and Missions
By Giacomo Curzi, Dario Modenini and Paolo Tortora
Aerospace 2020, 7(9), 133; DOI: 10.3390/aerospace7090133

Each award will consist of a certificate and the chance to publish an additional paper, with all publication fees waived, in open access format in Aerospace after the standard peer review procedure.

Please join us in congratulating the winners of the Aerospace 2020 Best Paper Award. We would also like to take this opportunity to thank all of our authors for your continued support of Aerospace.

 

Aerospace 2020 Best Paper Award

 

Eligibility and Requirements

– All papers published in Aerospace will be eligible (Both regular and Special Issue submissions).

 

Past Winners

 

Year: 

2021 2019 2018 2017

Winner

Kyriakos I. Kourousis

School of Engineering, University of Limerick, V94 T9PX Limerick, Ireland

Dr. Xavier Olive

ONERA DTIS, Université de Toulouse, Toulouse, France

Winner

Thien Nguyen

Thermal-Hydraulic Research Laboratory, Texas A&M University, College Station, USA

Sebastiano Fichera

School of Engineering, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, L69 3GH, United Kingdom

Manuel Pusch

Institute of System Dynamics and Control, German Aerospace Center (DLR), 82234 Weßling, Germany

Winner

Arvin Ebrahimkhanlou

Department of Civil, Environmental and Architecture, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, USA

Michael Schultz

Chair of Air Transport Technology and Logistics, Institute of Logistics and Aviation, TU Dresden, 01062 Dresden, Germany

Jichun Zhang

School of Aerospace Engineering and Applied Mechanics, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China

Winner

Rachel N. Hernandez

Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Alabama in Huntsville, OKT N274, 301 Sparkman Drive, Huntsville, AL 35899, USA

Babak Salamat

Institute of Networked and Embedded Systems, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Klagenfurt, Austria

Dean Ninian

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