The following is from a press release issued by the Naval Undersea Warfare Center.

Daniel Perez, of Tiverton, a mechanical engineer at the Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) in Newport, was named the winner of the Science Spectrum Trailblazer Award, sponsored by U.S. Black Engineer and Information Technology magazine. “Trailblazers” are identified as minority men and women actively creating new paths for others in science, research, technology and development.

Perez began his career at NUWC in 2001 as a co-op student from the University of Puerto Rico (UPR) and at that time also submitted his first patent disclosure.  In his 10 years at NUWC Newport, he has made numerous contributions to the Navy’s field of underwater sensor and weapon systems. As the principal technologist in charge of the Navy’s large aperture bow array modeling effort for submarines, Perez demonstrated a methodology to predict self-noise and array performance through physics-based modeling that has been independently confirmed with at-sea tests.

Perez will be presented his award at the 26^th Black Engineer of the Year Science Technology Engineering and Math conference on Feb. 16 in Philadelphia, PA.