Congratulations to Dr. Bill Anderson, Dr. Alina A. Alexeenko and Dr. Tim L. Pourpoint on receiving promotion.
| Event Date: | April 13, 2012 |
|---|
Purdue University's board of trustees on Friday April 13 approved faculty promotions.
Dr. Bill Anderson has been promoted from Associate Professor to Professor. He received his Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University in 1996. He became the Director of Global Engineering Program in 2011. His areas of interest include Chemical propulsion and design methodologies.
Dr. Alina Alexeenko has been promoted from Assistant Professor to Associate Professor. She received her Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University in 2003 and her area of interests are Rarefied gas dynamics, deterministic and stochastic numerical methods for the Boltzmann and model kinetic equations, direct simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) techniques; High-altitude aerothermodynamics and micropropulsion; Gas-phase effects in N/MEMS sensors and actuators; Vacuum gas dynamics; Modeling, analysis and design of vacuum deposition systems (MBE, P/CVD, EBPVD) for nano/microfabrication; Vacuum freeze-drying for bio/pharmaceutical manufacturing.
Dr. Timothée Pourpoint has been promoted from Research Assistant Professor to Research Associate Professor. He received his Ph.D. from Purdue University in 2005. His areas of interest include Aerospace propulsion systems, Rocket engine combustors, Liquid propellant injection systems, Hypergolic propellants, and High pressure and hydrogen storage systems.
Congratulations to three outstanding faculty.