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Sukh Sidhu named University of Dayton Research Institute executive director John Leland, vice president for research, announced today that Sukh Sidhu has been named executive director of the University of Dayton Research Institute effective immediately. Sidhu, who currently serves as UDRI s director of research and development and is a distinguished researcher and faculty member, is especially known for leading multidisciplinary collaborations. Sukh s keen ability to connect with our customers, understand their needs and visions and, more so, help them achieve their goals is a highly sought but rare hallmark of success in our industry, Leland said. It is also one of several reasons he was promoted to director of business development in 2016, and again in 2019 to director of research and development, where he has been responsible for leading and growing sponsored programs in addition to developing new business.
John Mankins John C. Mankins, President of Artemis Innovation Management Solutions LLC is an internationally recognized leader in space systems and technology innovation, and as a highly effective manager of large-scale technology R&D programs. Mr. Mankins 25-year career at NASA and CalTech s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) ranged from flight projects and space mission operations, to systems level innovation and advanced technology research & development management. He is also well known as an innovator in R&D management. For example, building on the original NASA technology readiness level (TRL) scale for technology assessment (defined first with 6 or 7 levels in the 1970s), he extended the scale to flight systems and operations in the late 1980s (TRLs 8 and 9), published the first detailed definitions of the TRLs in 1995, and promoted the use of the scale by the US Department of Defense in the late 1990s.