Stanley White
Stanley White was honored by Eta Kappa Nu on April 12, 2005, with the 2005 Vladimir Karapetoff Outstanding Technical Achievement Award, which he received for his inventions and work in advanced signal-processing technology, circuits, and systems for navigation, flight-control, and communications applications.
White spent his career at Rockwell International in southern California, where he designed key elements of the Minuteman I missile guidance system and co-developed the vibrophonocardiograph (VPCG) cardiac-output computer as part of a NASA astronaut-physiology-monitoring system (the VPCG was later released to the public and manufactured by four companies).
White also served as spacecraft systems project engineer for navigation and flight control on the Voyager program and designed the gust-alleviator for the XB-70 Mach-3 bomber flight-control system.
White retired in 1990 as senior/chief scientist of the Sensors and Aircraft Systems Division and founded Signal Processing and Controls Engineering Corp., an aerospace electronics R&D company. He retired again after a decade and acts as a consultant and writes encyclopedia entries for McGraw-Hill.