Anthony Pucciarella received the
2019 Engineer of the Year Award.
Pucciarella served as the director of operations for the UMD Unmanned Aircraft Test Site, and was a member of the UAS Transport Team that took part in a successful first flight of an unmanned aircraft delivering a donor kidney to surgeons at the University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC) in Baltimore for successful transplantation into a patient with kidney failure.

The Engineer of the Year Award is presented to a local AIAA member who has made a recent individual contribution to the application of scientific and mathematical principles leading to a significant accomplishment or event worthy of AIAA’s national or international recognition.