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Guimond’s expertise recognized with DOD computing award

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  • By Raquel March
  • Arnold Engineering Development Complex Public Affairs
Arnold Engineering Development Complex scientist and engineer Stephen Guimond recently received the 2016 Hero Award for Up and Coming within the Department of Defense High Performance Computing Modernization Program, or HPCMP.

The award recognizes outstanding individuals who conduct and support research that contribute to the overall mission of the DOD and the program. The name of the award, “Up and Coming,” reflects the type of personnel chosen for the award, who are computational engineers with less than two years of experience in the area of DOD HPCMP computational engineering.

Guimond is recognized for his contributions to the design and replacement of rotor blades for the AEDC Propulsion Wind Tunnel 16-foot Transonic Wind Tunnel compressor using the Computational Research and Engineering Acquisition Tools and Environments Program software, also known as CREATE™. The HPCMP CREATE™- AV Kestrel product is a computational science and engineering tool used for acquisition programs.

His nominators, engineers Bonnie Heikkinen and Jason Klepper, stated that his outstanding contributions were essential to meeting the project's goals and schedule.

Guimond’s background is in mechanical engineering. While earning his bachelor’s and master’s degrees at the University of Central Florida, he worked with computational fluid dynamics in biomedical engineering and aerospace engineering.

He began working at AEDC in 2015 and currently works under the AEDC Technical and Management Advisory Services Range Task Order contract.