Awards
2009 MIT Institute Graduate Student Council Teaching Award for the School of Engineering
"This award is given each year to one professor or teaching assistant from each school, for excellence in teaching a graduate level course"
Graduate Student and Postdoc Supervision (see the ADRL's website for more info)
Current Doctoral Students
- A. Dorsey, Aerospace Engineering, University of Southern California - since 08/2018
- A. Cajal, Mechanical Engineering, University of Southern California - since 08/2016
- J. Croughan, Mechanical Engineering, University of Southern California - since 08/2016
- M. Kruger, Aerospace Engineering, University of Southern California - since 08/2016
- T. Xie, Aerospace Engineering, University of Southern California - since 08/2016
Graduated Doctoral Students
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S. Byahut, Aerospace Engineering, University of Southern California - PhD 05/2021
Thesis: "Modeling and Analysis of Propulsion Systems and Components for Electrified Commercial Aircraft"
Current position: Postdoctoral Scholar and Part-Time Instructor at USC
Graduated Master Students with Theses
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Y.K. Chen, Co-advised with Professor Edward Greitzer (MIT)
- M.S. 05/2017
Aeronautics & Astronautics, Massachusetts Inst. of Technology
Thesis: "Topics on Conceptual Design of the D8 Aircraft: Fuel Burn Uncertainty Estimate and BLI Propulsor Loss Modeling" -
C. Casses, Co-advised with Professor Edward Greitzer (MIT)
- M.S. 09/2015
Aeronautics & Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Thesis: "Aerodynamic Benefits of Boundary Layer Ingestion for the D8 Double-Bubble Aircraft" -
N. Siu, Co-advised with Professor Edward Greitzer (MIT)
- M.S. 02/2015
Aeronautics & Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Thesis: "Evaluation of Propulsor Aerodynamic Performance for Powered Aircraft Wind Tunnel Experiments" -
M. Lieu, Co-advised with Professor Edward Greitzer (MIT)
- M.S. 02/2015
Aeronautics & Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Thesis: "Quantification of the Boundary Layer Ingestion Benefit for the D8-Series Aircraft Using a Pressure Rake System"
Courses
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Instructor
- AME 460 Aerodynamic Theory - Spring semesters
- AME 535a Introduction to Computational Fluid Dynamics - Fall semesters
MITx on edX, online MOOC
- Co-Instructor on first course offering
- 16.110x Flight Vehicle Aerodynamics - 07/2013 to 06/2014 - edX course page
- 16.101x Introduction to Aerodynamics - 03/2013 to 11/2013 - edX course page
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Teaching Assistant
- 16.930 Advanced Topics in Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations - Spring 2009
- 2.097J/6.339J/16.920J Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations - Fall 2007, Fall 2008
University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
- Teaching Assistant
- Mech295 Fundamentals of Engineering 2 - Summer 2006
- Mech443/Mech541 Advanced Thermodynamics - Spring 2006
- Mech220 Mechanics of Solids 1 - Summer 2005
- Mech345 Mechanics of Fluids 1 - Spring 2005
Euro American Institute of Technology, Sophia Antipolis, France
- Teaching Assistant
- MAE2081 Applied Mechanics: Statics - Summer 2003
- PHY2091 Physics Laboratory 1 - Summer 2003