Honors

Honors and Professional Activities

Professor Karagozian is a Member of the National Academy of Engineering and is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. She twice received the Decoration for Exceptional Civilian Service from the U.S Air Force (2001, 2010), and is a member of Tau Beta Pi, Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi, the Combustion Institute, and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. She is a Past Chair and Past Division Councillor of the American Physical Society/Division of Fluid Dynamics. Prof. Karagozian is also a Past Chair of the UCLA Academic Senate (2010-11). She is an alumna of the Defense Science Study Group (DSSG), sponsored by DARPA and the Institute for Defense Analyses, and is currently a DSSG Mentor.

Professor Karagozian is a Member of the Board of Trustees of the Institute for Defense Analyses, and chairs the Board’s Visiting Committee. She is also a member of the U.S. Air Force Scientific Advisory Board (SAB), having served previously from 1997 – 2001 and from 2002 – 2010, during which she was the SAB Vice Chair from 2005 – 2009. In 2010 she chaired an AF SAB study on the Future of Launch Vehicle systems for the Air Force; a publicly released abstract of the study’s findings and recommendations may be obtained from the SAB report website. Prof. Karagozian previously chaired SAB studies on Air Vehicle Fuel Efficiency (2006) and on Persistence at Near Space Altitudes (2005). The publicly-released Fuel Efficiency study report may be obtained from the SAB FE report website. Prof. Karagozian has also chaired panels for the SAB dealing with sensor technologies for Hard and Deeply Buried Targets (HDBTs) and with reviews of the Air Force Research Lab. She also chaired the External Advisory Board of Sandia National Labs’ Grand Challenge Laboratory Director’s R&D Project on Near-Real Time Sensing for HDBT Defeat.

Professor Karagozian has been an Associate Editor of the AIAA Journal (2002-5) and of the AIAA Journal of Propulsion and Power (1996-98). In 2001 she was co-organizer of an international meeting on the Manipulation and Control of Transverse Jets in Udine, Italy, sponsored by CISM (Centre International des Sciences Mecaniques), from which a Springer-Wein text is available. She is currently on the Executive Committee for the Western States Section of the Combustion Institute and has served on that for the American Physical Society/Division of Fluid Dynamics. She has also served as a member of the NASA Aero-Space Technology Advisory Committee (1995-2001) and the NASA Federal Lab Review Task Force (1994-5). She has served on technical panels for the National Academies Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board, Space Studies Board, Naval Studies Board, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Department of Energy, and the National Science Foundation. Prof. Karagozian also serves on the Board of Trustees of the American University of Armenia (AUA), which is affiliated with the University of California.