Faculty — by Research Area
Aerodynamics
- A. Alexeenko
- Professor; Ph.D., Penn State, 2003; computational rarefied gas dynamics, vacuum gas dynamics, direct simulation Monte Carlo techniques, microscale gas flows, coupled thermal-fluid analysis of microdevices, high-altitude aerothermodynamics.
- S. Bane
- Assistant Professor; Ph.D. Caltech, 2010; Investigating the process of spark ignition of flammable mixtures and quantifying the risk of accidental explosions, especially as it relates to aircraft safety; wide range of topics in experimental fluid mechanics and reacting flow, including combustion of alternative fuels and flow control for improved flight.
- G. A. Blaisdell
- Professor; Ph.D., Stanford, 1991, computational fluid mechanics, transition and turbulence.
- S. H. Collicott
- Professor; Ph.D., Stanford, 1991, experimental fluid mechanics, low-gravity fluid dynamics, optical diagnostics, applied optics.
- M. C. Jischke
- President Emeritus; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1968.
- A. S. Lyrintzis
- Adjunct Professor; Ph.D., Cornell, 1988, computational aeroacoustics, aerodynamics, with applications to rotorcraft and jet flows.
- S. Macheret
- Professor; Ph.D., Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, 1985; plasmas and electric discharges, plasma actuators for active aerodynamic control, microplasmas, plasma RF antennas and switches, nonequilibrium and rarefied gas dynamics, molecular and atomic processes in high-enthalpy gases and plasmas.
- J. Poggie
- S. P. Schneider
- Professor; Ph.D., Caltech, 1989. Focuses on hypersonic and supersonic laminar-turbulent transition. Experimental research includes the development of the Boeing/AFOSR Mach-6 Quiet Tunnel and associate instrumentation.
- A. Shashurin
- Generation, diagnostics and applications of cold plasma; advanced spacecraft propulsion; nanosecond repetitive plasma discharges for flow control; laser-induced plasma.
- T. Shih
- Professor and AAE Head; Ph.D., The University of Michigan, 1981; CFD, modeling and simulation of problems in aerodynamics and propulsion.
- J. P. Sullivan
- Professor; Sc.D., MIT, 1973, experimental aerodynamics laser instrumentation, luminescent sensors for temperature and pressure measurements.
- M. H. Williams
- Professor Emeritus; Ph.D., Princeton, 1975, aerodynamics, computational fluid mechanics.
Aerospace Systems
- D. Andrisani
- Associate Professor; Ph.D., SUNY at Buffalo, 1979, Estimation, Control, Dynamics.
- B. Caldwell (By Courtesy)
- Professor of Industrial Engineering; Ph.D., University of California-Davis, 1990; Human factors engineering; Distributed human supervisory control; Team coordination and performance using information technology
- W. A. Crossley
- Professor; Ph.D., Arizona State, 1995, optimal design methods, genetic algorithms and aerospace applications, aircraft and rotorcraft conceptual design, composite and smart structure design.
- D. DeLaurentis
- Professor; Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology, 1998; Design Methods, Aerospace Systems and Flight Vehicles; System-of-Systems.
- D. Dumbacher
- Professor of Practice, Systems of Systems
MS Business Administration, University of Alabama, 1984
BS Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University, 1981 - M. Grant
- Adjunct Assistant Professor; Ph.D. Georgia Institute of Technology, 2012; Hypersonic Aerodynamics, Atmospheric Flight Mechanics, Guidance Design, Trajectory Optimization, Multidisciplinary Design Optimization, Mission Design.
- I. Hwang
- Professor; Ph.D., Stanford University, 2004; hybrid system theory, information inference of complex dynamical systems, safety verification, and their application to the control of multiple-vehicle systems, especially air traffic surveillance and control.
- S. Landry (By Courtesy)
- Associate Head in Industrial Engineering and Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering; Ph.D., Georgia Tech, 2004
- K. Marais
- Associate Professor; Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005, safety and risk analysis, financial modeling of engineering systems, environmental impacts of technology.
- J. P. Sullivan
- Professor; Sc.D., MIT, 1973, experimental aerodynamics laser instrumentation, luminescent sensors for temperature and pressure measurements.
- D. Sun
- Associate Professor; Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley, 2008; modeling, simulation and optimization of large scale networked systems, control and optimization, studies for National Airspace Systems, air traffic control, intelligent transportation systems
- T. A. Weisshaar
- Professor Emeritus; Ph.D., Stanford, 1971, aircraft structural mechanics, aeroelasticity, integrated design.
Astrodynamics and Space Applications
- D. Filmer
- Adjunct Professor; Ph.D., Wisconsin, 1961, satellite design, ground station design for acquisition of satellite data
- C. Frueh
- Assistant Professor; Ph.D. University of Bern, Switzerland, 2011; Space Situational Awareness (satellites, debris and near earth objects), Space Object Characterization, Satellite Guidance, Navigation and Control, Astrodynamics, Sensor Tasking, Low Observability Systems, Information Quantification and Retrieval.
- J. L. Garrison
- Associate Professor; Ph.D., University of Colorado at Boulder, 1997, Earth remote sensing, Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS), bistatic radar, signals of opportunity.
- M. Grant
- Adjunct Assistant Professor; Ph.D. Georgia Institute of Technology, 2012; Hypersonic Aerodynamics, Atmospheric Flight Mechanics, Guidance Design, Trajectory Optimization, Multidisciplinary Design Optimization, Mission Design.
- K. C. Howell
- Hsu Lo Distinguished Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics; Ph.D., Stanford, 1983, orbit mechanics, spacecraft dynamics, control; trajectory optimization.
- J. M. Longuski
- Professor, Ph.D., Michigan, 1979, spacecraft dynamics, orbit mechanics, control, orbit decay and reentry.
- B. Marchand
- Ph.D. Purdue University, 2007
- H. Melosh (By Courtesy)
- Distinguished Professor EAS/Physics, Ph.D. Caltech 1972, Ramifications of impact cratering, Planetary Tectonics, Physics of earthquakes and landslides
- D. Minton (By Courtesy)
- Assistant Professor of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences; Ph.D., University of Arizona, 2009
- D. Spencer
- Associate Professor; Ph.D. Georgia Institute of Technology, 2015; mission design, spacecraft relative motion, aeroassist technologies, mission operations, small satellite applications.
Dynamics and Control
- D. Andrisani
- Associate Professor; Ph.D., SUNY at Buffalo, 1979, Estimation, Control, Dynamics.
- M. J. Corless
- Professor; Ph.D., Berkeley, 1984, dynamics, systems, control.
- D. DeLaurentis
- Professor; Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology, 1998; Design Methods, Aerospace Systems and Flight Vehicles; System-of-Systems.
- D. Filmer
- Adjunct Professor; Ph.D., Wisconsin, 1961, satellite design, ground station design for acquisition of satellite data
- A. E. Frazho
- Professor; Ph.D., Michigan, 1977, Control Systems.
- M. Grant
- Adjunct Assistant Professor; Ph.D. Georgia Institute of Technology, 2012; Hypersonic Aerodynamics, Atmospheric Flight Mechanics, Guidance Design, Trajectory Optimization, Multidisciplinary Design Optimization, Mission Design.
- I. Hwang
- Professor; Ph.D., Stanford University, 2004; hybrid system theory, information inference of complex dynamical systems, safety verification, and their application to the control of multiple-vehicle systems, especially air traffic surveillance and control.
- S. Mou
- Assistant Professor; Ph.D. Yale University, 2014; Distributed Control of Multi-Agent Networks, Distributed Optimization, UAVs Design and Collaboration.
- D. Sun
- Associate Professor; Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley, 2008; modeling, simulation and optimization of large scale networked systems, control and optimization, studies for National Airspace Systems, air traffic control, intelligent transportation systems
Propulsion
- W. Anderson
- Professor; Ph.D. The Pennsylvania State University 1996. Chemical propulsion and design methodologies
- T. Fisher
- Professor - UCLA
Nanoscale Transport Research Group - J. Gore
- Vincent P. Reilly Professor of Mechanical Engineering; Ph.D., The Pennsylvania State University, 1986, combustion, turbulent reacting flows and pollutant reduction, radiation heat transfer, biomedical heat transfer and fluid flows.
- S. D. Heister
- Raisbeck Engineering Distinguished Professor for Engineering and Technology Integration; Ph.D., UCLA, 1988, rocket propulsion, liquid propellant injection systems.
- N. Key (By Courtesy)
- Professor of Mechanical Engineering; Ph.D., Purdue University, 2007; Aerothermal aspects of turbomachinery, Axial and radial compressor performance, Experimental methods in fluid mechanics
- R. Lucht
- Ralph and Bettye Bailey Professor of Combustion in Mechanical Engineering; Ph.D., Purdue 1981, Laser diagnostics, Diode-laser-based sensors, Gas turbine and internal engine combustion, Materials processing and synthesis, Combustion science, Fluid mechanics and heat transfer.
- T. Pourpoint
- Associate Professor, Ph.D., Purdue University, 2005; aerospace propulsion systems, rocket engine combustors, liquid propellant injection systems, hypergolic propellants, high pressure and hydrogen storage systems.
- L. Qiao
- Associate Professor; Ph.D., University of Michigan, 2007; Combustion and propulsion (low and high speed), experimental flow dynamics, micro-scale power generation, alternative fuels, fire research, environmental impact of combustion.
- J. J. Rusek
- Adjunct Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Case Western Reserve, 1983, Propulsion, Energy Conversion, Power Generation.
- C. Slabaugh
- Research focus on multi-physics fluid mechanics at extreme conditions, including turbulent, high pressure, multi-phase, and reacting flows. Experimental techniques to characterize the chemistry and physics of complex flows are also emphasized. Applications include rockets, gas turbines, high-speed propulsion systems, and detonation-based engines.
- S. Son (by courtesy)
- Professor of Mechanical Engineering; Ph.D., University of Illinois, 1993; Multiphase combustion, particularly related to propellants, explosives, and pyrotechnics; Nanoscale composite energetic materials; Advanced energetic materials; Microscale combustion.
- H. Wang
- Assistant Professor; Ph.D. Cornell University, 2010; Turbulence and combustion modeling; Computational fluid dynamics; High-performance computing;
- K. Yerkes
- Adjunct Professor; Ph.D., University of Dayton, 1994
Structures & Materials
- W. Chen
- Professor; Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, 1995, Mechanical Response of Solids and Structures under Extreme Conditions, Microstructural Effects on Mechanical Behavior, Fatigue Behavior of Engineering Materials, Experimental Solid and Structural Mechanics.
- W. A. Crossley
- Professor; Ph.D., Arizona State, 1995, optimal design methods, genetic algorithms and aerospace applications, aircraft and rotorcraft conceptual design, composite and smart structure design.
- A. Da Silva Mello Junior
- Ph.D. - University of Texas at Austin, 2003; Topics of interest: Physics of fatigue crack initiation; microscale plastic strain accumulation; fatigue under aggressive environment; digital image correlation; damage tolerance analysis; aircraft fatigue life extension; experimental mechanics.
- J. F. Doyle
- Professor; Ph.D., Illinois, 1977, structural dynamics, experimental mechanics, inverse problems, wave propagation.
- J. Goodsell
- A. F. Grandt
- Former Raisbeck Engineering Distinguished Professor for Engineering and Technology Integration; Ph.D., Illinois, 1971, damage-tolerant structures and materials, fatigue and fracture, aging aircraft.
- P. Imbrie
- Adjunct Associate Professor; Ph.D., Texas A & M, 2000, Piezo-spectroscopy, Thermal Barrier Coatings, Constitutive modeling, Experimental Mechanics.
- R. Pipes
- John L. Bray Distinguished Professor of Engineering; Ph.D., University of Texas, 1972; application of nanotechnology to engineering disciplines including aerospace, composite materials, and polymer science and engineering.
- M. Sangid
- Assistant Professor; Ph.D. University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana, 2010; Physical basis of failure mechanisms (fatigue, fracture, etc.); Coupled simulations and in situ experiments for model validation; Accelerated qualification of structural materials (including additive manufacturing); Location specific life analysis and property tailoring of components; Digital manufacturing and lifecycle management (digital twin)
- F. Semperlotti
- Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering; Ph.D., The Pennsylvania State University, 2009
- C. Sun
- Neil A. Armstrong Distinguished Professor; Ph.D., Northwestern, 1967, composites, fracture and fatigue, structural dynamics, smart materials and structures.
- T. Tallman
- Assistant Professor; PhD, University of Michigan, 2015; multi-functional materials, nanocomposites, smart structures, structural health monitoring, distributed sensing, inverse mechanics, and tomographic imaging.
- V. Tomar
- Professor; PhD Georgia Tech-December 2005; Microstructure Dependent Fracture and Fatigue Failure of Materials, Multifunctional Materials and Systems, Bio-inspired and Bio-enabled Materials, Nanomechanical Raman Spectroscopy, Data Science and Machine Learning Aided Sensing
- T. A. Weisshaar
- Professor Emeritus; Ph.D., Stanford, 1971, aircraft structural mechanics, aeroelasticity, integrated design.
- W. Yu
- PhD, Georgia Tech, 2002. Technical area: structural mechanics and micromechanics; application area: advanced structures and materials