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Eric Ruggiero received his Ph.D. from Virginia Tech in Mechanical Engineering in 2005 and currently works as a research engineer at GE Global Research in the Performance Technologies Laboratory, located near Albany, New York. Eric’s primary research areas are fiber optic sensing systems and advanced sealing designs and concepts. In his current role, Eric is the technical lead on seal designs as well as on sensor programs supporting GE Aircraft Engines, GE Energy, and GE Oil and Gas centrifugal compressors.
Eric is a National Science Foundation graduate research fellow. He has published over 30 peer-reviewed manuscripts, primarily in the fields of gossamer spacecraft technology and non-metallic brush seals. He is a member of the American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), the American Society for Mechanical Engineers (ASME), and the Adaptive Structures Technical Committee. He was the recipient of the 2004 AIAA Adaptive Structures Graduate Student Award, and the 2006 ASME Adaptive Structures and Material Systems Technical Committee Best Paper Award. In 2001, Eric was honored as Virginia Tech’s Man of the Year, and more recently, in 2008, selected as a runner-up for the ASME Old Guard Young Engineer’s Award. Eric has been a member of ASME since 1999.
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