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Luke Dillard

Ph.D.
Mechanical Engineering
West Lafayette
Email:  dillardl@purdue.edu
Luke graduated in December 2021. Following his degree completion, he joined Rolls-Royce. Luke completed his Bachelors of Science and Masters of Engineering at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. He spent a year working as a lab assistant at Cornell assisting with student project teams. He won a UTSR Fellowship his senior year and spent a summer working at Solar Turbines doing research on land based gas turbines. He started his Ph.D. in the Fall of 2017 in the School of Mechanical Engineering at Purdue. His research focused on hot surface ignition that seeks to improve fire safety.