Guillermo C. Gaunaurd
GUILLERMO C. GAUNAURD (M’82- SM’83) received the B.A. (mathematics), B.S.M.E, M.S., and Ph.D. (physics/acoustics) degrees from Catholic University, Washington, DC, in 1964, 1966, 1967, and 1971, respectively.
He is a Senior Research Physicist at the Carderock Division of the Naval Surface Warfare Center (N.S.W.C.), Bethesda, MD, where he is currently a Group Leader in the Weapons Materials Department. He has been with N.S.W.C. since 1971, specializing on the scattering interaction of acoustic, electromagnetic, and elastic waves with materials and structures. His research over the years has mainly dealt with radiation and scattering problems of classical physics, mechanics of deformable media, fluid-structure interactions, electromagnetic theory, and applied mathematics. He is the author/coauthor of more than 120 scientific journal articles and more than 300 other publications and/or presentations at professional societies, congresses, symposia, and government reports. He has delivered scores of invited papers/keynote lecturers at scientific meetings and universities. He has organized/chaired dozens of special technical sessions and entire scientific conferences. He lectured intermittently (part time) at the Engineering School of the University of Maryland, College Park. He holds four patents.
Dr. Gaunaurd has won a number of awards including the Washington Academy of Sciences “Scientific Achievement Award” (1989), the Nadonal Defense Preparedness Society Bronze Medal (1991), and others within N.S.W.C. His professional biography is listed in American Men of Science, Who’s Who in America, and a dozen other such books. He has been a Guest Editor of the IEEE Journal Of Oceanic Engineering and since 1992 has been an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions On Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics And Frequency Control. He is a member of several scientific societies. including the New York Academy of Sciences, Sigma Xi, The American Academy of Mechanics, Washington’s Society of Engineers, and the International Union of Mathematical Physics. He is a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and the Washington Academy of Sciences.
Dr. Gaunaurd is an active contributor to the journals and activities of three IEEE. Societies, namely, the Oceanic Engineering Society, the Antennas and Propagation Society and the Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control Society. For these and other contributions he was elevated to the rank of Fellow of the IEEE. on November 1998. The citation chosen for this honor was: “For contributions to the direct and inverse scattering interaction of Acoustic, Elastic and Electromagnetic waves with matter”.