Purdue Aviation Experts
Purdue Aviation Experts- Has 20 years' airline management experience with Pan Am and Northwest airlines, including two airline acquisitions. Was member of airline team that responded to the crash of Northwest Airlines flight 255 in Detroit in August 1987.
- Teaches aviation meteorology and aviation operations to professional pilot students and others. Consultant and author in aviation meteorology and aviation operations, particularly corporate operations. Is an airline transport pilot. Has direct responsibility for all academic matters pertaining to the Purdue flight program and serves as pilot-in-command and flight instructor in Purdue's King Air and Diamond turbine aircraft.
- Research focuses on integrating active control systems with aircraft structural design. Research aims to combine variety of components and subsystems of differing form and function into a single aerospace vehicle, optimizing performance and safety.
- Expert on cockpit resource management. Teaches teamwork among pilots, crew and air traffic controllers.
- Is an expert in the area of aviation electronics, or avionics, including radar.
- Has extensive research and published articles on dynamics and control of helicopters.
- Research focuses on jet propulsion systems and design. Research includes computational fluid mechanics, a mathematical modeling system that helps predict factors such as fuel consumption, air flow, thrust and temperature inside jet engines.
- Is on board of Professional Aviation Maintenance Association. Can discuss routine maintenance procedures for commercial aircraft. Specializes in large aircraft and gas turbine engines. Has researched cabin noise reduction.
- Serves on a number of national committees on aircraft materials fatigue and fracture. Current research focuses on problems related to aging aircraft, especially on ensuring structural integrity and safety. Is former head of School of Aeronautics & Astronautics. Is an associate editor of Journal of Aircraft.
- Research includes pioneering work in impact damage and wave propagation in composite materials and failure mechanics for these materials in aircraft. Is involved with research using composite materials to solve structural problems in older aircraft. Is a fellow of American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
- Has published a textbook about air traffic control and has participated in panel discussions on the topic.
- Has extensive research and publishing in design and aerodynamics of bladed disk jet engines, such as those used in commercial jets and helicopters. Is an expert on air flow instabilities in engines. Has developed technology to help quiet jet engine noise. Is director of Purdue's Center for Bladed Disk Unsteady Aerodynamics Research and Technology.
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