Professor of Aerospace Engineering
University of Michigan
B.S. Engineering Physics, Cornell University
Ph.D. Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, Princeton University
Supersonic Combustion within Scramjet Experiments
Rocket Combustion (H2-O2) for NASA’s Project Constellation Center at Michigan
Nitric Oxide Formation in General Electric TAPS Jet Engine Combustors
Fundamental Studies of Turbulent Combustion
Lean Premixed Prevaporized Combustion/Acoustics in Gas Turbine Engines (GE, NAVY, DOE projects)
Fundamental Studies of Partially Premixed Turbulent Combustion (NSF project)
Supersonic Combustion for Scramjets (NASA Hypersonics project)
Reduced Order Model of Unmanned Hypersonic Vehicles for MDO / Control (AFRL project)
Shock-Boundary Layer Interactions in Supersonic Inlets (AFRL project)
| Editor, Combustion and Flame, 2003 - 2009 |
| Board of Directors, The Combustion Institute |
| Fellow, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2005 |
| Technical Program Co-Chair, 28th Symposium on Combustion, Edinburgh, 2000 |
| The Silver Medal of the Combustion Institute (1998) for the outstanding paper of the Twenty-Sixth International Symposium on Combustion, Naples, Italy, 1996 (with co-authors C. Mueller, M.C. Drake, D. Reuss) |
| Distinguished paper award, 2006 Symposium on Combustion, Heidelberg, with co-author Jeffrey Sutton |
| AIAA Best Paper Award - in the area of Propellants and Combustion, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1994 |
| AIAA Best Paper Award - in the area of Propellants and Combustion, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2009 |
| One on the Ten Most Cited Articles in Combustion and Flame 2005-2008, Certificate Issued by Elsevier Pub., January 2009 |
| The Research Excellence Award - Department of Aerospace Engineering, 1993 |
| Outstanding Faculty Member Award for 1982, College of Engineering Class of '38 Award |
| Service Award, College of Engineering, Univ. of Michigan, 2007 |
| AIAA Service and Leadership Award, 1990 |
| Tau Beta Pi, elected in 1969 |
| Interim Chair, Department of Aerospace Engineering, 2003-2005 |
