Associate Professor & Coordinator of Graduate Studies                   8/01 -  present
Assistant Professor                                                                        8/96 -  7/01
Visiting Assistant Professor                                                             8/95 -  7/96
Research Associate/Adjunct Assistant Professor                               5/93 -  7/95

Teaching

• Undergraduate and graduate courses in Fluid Mechanics, Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer and Experimental Methods in Thermal Sciences. List of courses taught.
• Actively involved in developing a new integrated curriculum in mechanical engineering which also utlizes the rapidly developing multimedia technology in enhancing the learning experience.

Research

• Experimental research in fluid mechanics and gas dynamics with an emaphais on compressible flows, e.g. aeordynamic and acoustic properties of high speed jets and their control; turbulent shear flows; microflows.  
• Current Research Projects (as of Fall 2002) include: 
• Supersonic impinging jets and their control via Supersonic Microjets.
• Supersonic Microjets - Properties and Applications.
• Separation Control in diffuser and S-ducts.
• Supersonic Cavity Flows and their Control.
• Trust Vector Control via Counterflow.
• Current Projects sponsored by AFOSR, NASA, DARPA and BOEING.
  
• Developing and using optical diagnostic techniques. Experienced in the use of conventional and modern experimental diagnostic techniques, especially optical techniques such as schlieren, shadowgraphy, LDV and PIV.

Administrative & Other

• Coordinator of graduate studies, dpeartment of Mechanical Engineering.  (8/01 - present)
• Faculty advisor, ASME student chapter.  (Fall '00 - Spring '01)

 

Adjunct Assistant Professor                                                    1/93 - 5/93

Research Assistant - Penn State Gas Dynamics Laboratory     6/88 - 12/92
Teaching Assistant                                                               1/88-5/88

Reviewer for the following journals:
Physics of Fluids,  Journal of Fluid Mechanics,  Experiments in Fluids,  Journal of Propulsion and Power, AIAA Journal, Journal of Sound and Vibration, Journal of Fluids Engineering.

Professional Memberships:
•  American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
•  American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
•  American Physical Society.

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