AAE Courtesy Professor named College of Engineering University Faculty Scholar

Professor Son joined the School of Mechanical Engineering in 2006 and is a ‘By Courtesy’ faculty member of AAE. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1993. Upon graduating he accepted the J. Robert Oppenheimer Fellowship at Los Alamos. Prior to Purdue University he was a Project Leader and Technical Staff Member at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) in New Mexico leading a world-recognized research effort.

His research is primarily in the field of combustion with an emphasis on energetic materials, nanoenergetics, microenergetics, heterogeneous combustion, reactive materials, combustion synthesis, advanced propellants, explosive blast loading, and explosives safety. His work includes experimental and theoretical studies. He is currently an associate editor of American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Journal of Propulsion and Power.

The University Faculty Scholar program was established in 1998 and recognizes outstanding faculty who are achieving academic distinction at an accelerated rate in addition to leadership, academic distinction, and national and international recognition of faculty members who hold the rank of associate or full professor.