Anthony M. Waas

Positions Held At U-M

• Richard A. Auhl Department Chair of Aerospace Engineering (2018 to 2023)
• Professor Emeritus, Dept. of Aerospace Engineering (2014 – 2018)
• Professor, Dept. of Aerospace Engineering (2000-2014)
• Associate Chair, Dept. of Aerospace Engineering (2003-2004)
• Associate Professor, Dept. of Aerospace Engineering (1994-2000)
• Assistant Professor, Dept. of Aerospace Engineering (1988-1994)

Anthony M. Waas is the Felix Pawlowski Collegiate Chair in Aerospace Engineering at the University of Michigan. He is also a Professor of Mechanical Engineering. Prior to that he was the Richard A. Auhll Department Chair (2018-2023), and Boeing Egtvedt Endowed Chair Professor and Department Chair in the William E. Boeing, and Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the University of Washington (UW), Seattle (2015-2018). His current research interests are: robotically manufactured lightweight structures, including in-space manufactured structures, computational modeling of composite aerostructures, 3D printed lightweight structures, damage tolerance of composite structures, affordable textile composites, hydrogen storage for mobility, and data science applications in modeling of materials and structures. Professor Waas was the Felix Pawlowski Collegiate Chair Professor of Aerospace Engineering and Director, Composite Structures Laboratory at the University of Michigan, from 1988 to 2014, prior to joining UW in January 2015.

Professor Waas is a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), the American Society of Mechanical Engineering (ASME), the American Society for Composites (ASC), the American Academy of Mechanics (AAM) and the Royal Aeronautical Society, UK. He is a recipient of several best paper awards, the 2016
AIAA/ASME SDM award, the AAM Jr. Research Award, the ASC Outstanding Researcher Award, and several distinguished awards from the University of Michigan, including the Stephen S. Attwood award for Excellence in Engineering, one of the highest honors for an Engineering faculty member at the University of Michigan. He received the AIAA-ASME-ASC James H. Starnes, jr. Award, 2017, for seminal contributions to composite structures and materials, and for mentoring students and other young professionals. In 2017, Professor Waas was elected to the Washington State Academy of Sciences, and in 2018 to the European Academy of Sciences and Arts. He is the recipient of the AIAA ICME Prize, 2020, the ASME Warner T. Koiter Medal, 2020, and the AIAA Dryden Lecture in Research, presented at the International Scitech Conference, 2022. Recently, Prof. Waas was elected to the US National Academy of Engineering – Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board and was awarded the CT Sun Medal, American Society of Composites, 2023.