Mr Don Winter
Vice President
Engineering and Information Technology
Phantom Works
Don Winter is vice president of Engineering and Information Technology for Boeing Phantom Works, the advanced research and development unit of The Boeing Company. Currently, he is overseeing engineers and scientists who are performing research in domains ranging from avionics to vehicle management systems to commercial aircraft. His responsibilities include the establishment and oversight of external research collaborations.Over the past three decades he has held systems engineering, project management, and leadership positions on a variety advanced technology programs. His background includes mission systems advanced design for the F-15, AV-8B and T-45 aircraft, and a variety of Tomahawk missile program assignments in system engineering,mission planning and electronic systems development. He founded and led a major thrust to developtechnologies to network-enable Boeing aerospace systems and products.Winter holds bachelor’s and master’s of science degrees in physics from the University of Missouri and amaster’s of business administration degree from Washington University.
Joachim Szodruch
Member of the Executive Board
DLR - German Aerospace Centre
Professor Dr Joachim Szodruch is the DLR Executive Board member responsible for the Center’s Aeronautics and for career development. He additionally serves on the steering committee for the German-Dutch Wind Tunnel (DNW) as well as on the supervisory board of the European Transsonic Wind Tunnel (ETW). Prof. Dr Szodruch is also responsible for the Federal Republic states of Lower Saxony and Baden-Württemberg.
Prof. Dr Szodruch was born 1945 in Ebingen and in 1971 completed studies in aerospace engineering at the Technische Universität (Technical University) Berlin. Following graduation, he completed a year of post-graduate studies at Cambridge University, England. He started his professional career in 1973 as a scientific assistant at the Aerospace Institute of the Technische Universität Berlin where he obtained his doctorate degree (Dr.-Ing.). In 1978 he received an Associateship from the US National Research Council and worked for two years at NASA’s Ames Research Center. From 1981 to 1990, he worked for MBB in the Civil Transport Division in Bremen where he conducted work in experimental aerodynamics on the Airbus A310 and other projects. Later he was manager responsible for all aerodynamic research and was named Assistant Chief Aerodynamicist. When the firm evolved into Airbus Industrie in 1990, he moved to Toulouse in the position of General Manager for R&D, a position he held until 1994.
From 1995 to 2000, Prof. Dr Szodruch was active as Vice President for Product Development and Technology at the DaimlerChrysler Aerospace Airbus Headquarters in Hamburg. With the formation of Airbus as an integrated company in mid-2000, he was appointed Vice President Research and Technology based in Toulouse.
He has published more than 60 articles and publications as author or co-author and manages an expert developmental programme in aircraft design.
Since August 2002, he has been a member of the DLR Executive Board in Cologne, specifically responsible for Aeronautics. Within this function he is also board member responsible for the two European wind tunnels DNW and ETW.
Joachim Szodruch is also an Associate Fellow of the AIAA (American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics) and currently President of the DGLR (German Society for Aeronautics and Astronautics). Presently he is Chairman of the External Advisory Group Aeronautics for the European Commission and co-chairman of ACARE (Advisory Council for Aeronautical Research in Europe).