Mr. Huidong Gao, doctoral student in Engineering Science and Mechanics (ESM), has received a 2005 American Society for Nondestructive Testing (ASNT) Fellowship Award for the nondestructive testing research of "An Optimized Sensor Grid for Structural Health Monitoring of Modern Aircraft". Mr. Gao received B.S. and M.S. degrees from Nanjing University, China. His current research focuses on ultrasonic guided wave based structural health monitoring technologies and is being performed in the Engineering Science and Mechanics Department's Non Destructive Evaluation (NDE) Laboratory under the direction of Professor Joseph Rose.

Mr. Gao will be recognized during the Annual Awards Banquet during the ASNT 2005 Fall Conference and Quality Testing Show in Columbus, Oh, October 17-21, 2005.