AAE Assoc. Prof. William Anderson will serve as Director of the Global Engineering Program during the 3 year research leave of its current director, Rabi Mohtar.

The GEP Team are the advocates of the global engagement, learning and discovery initiatives within their schools or units and campus wide. GEPT (Global Engineering Program Team) members work with the GEP office to increase their school's faculty and student involvement in the global engagement, learning and discovery activities offered by the College of Engineering and by other campus units. GEPT members will work to maximize the impact of the faculty, student and community involvement in Engineering's global programs.

William E. Anderson is Associate Professor in the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He joined Purdue in 2001, following ten years of experience as a practicing engineer in industry and at NASA and previous service as Associate Director of the Propulsion Engineering Research Center at Penn State. Professor Anderson conducts research in the general areas of propulsion and combustion.  His experiments in combustion instability are internationally recognized and are being used to benchmark some of the world’s most advanced computational models of high-pressure combustion. He is an Associate Fellow of AIAA, is the co-author of three Best Paper awards from AIAA, and received the C.T. Sun Research Award from the Purdue School of Aeronautics and Astronautics in 2005. He has served as the AAE representative to the Global Engineering Program since GEP's inception and has led study abroad courses to Brazil and Germany.  He has a Ph.D in Mechanical Engineering from Penn State, an M. S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Arizona, and a B.S. in Chemistry from Arizona State University.

For more on the Global Engineering Program, please visit the GEP website.