Hagop Panossian (Ph.D.) was a Technical Fellow at Boeing (Retired) and a past Fellow of the Advancement in Engineering and the AIAA. He has been awarded the Engineer of the Year and the President’s Award from Rocketdyne and the Lifetime Achievement Awards from the Armenian Engineers & Scientists of America (AESA), the organization he founded in 1983. Dr. Panossian was honored by the 100th Anniversary Central Committee of the Musa Dagh Resistance, in 2016 in his hometown of Anjar, Lebanon. He has patents in vibration control and hydraulic actuators and has won several awards for his innovations. He received his BS from theAmerican University of Beirut, Masters from USC and Ph.D. from UCLA. He is the author of over 80 technical articles and chapters in books on Control Systems, Failure Detection and Vibration Control. He is the founder of the ARPA Institute and has been its president since its inception in 1992. Hagop was elected as a Furbright Exchange Scientists in 1987 and spent a semester in Armenia, with his family, teaching control systems in the Polytechnic and the Yerevan State Universities. Dr. Panossian was also elected a Diaspora Member of the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia and has received proclamations from the LA City Council and the California Assembly, as well as from the Western Diocese of the Armenian Church for his significant contributions to the community.