Curators' Distinguished Professor
271 Toomey Hall
Guidance, stability, control and estimation, pattern recognition, stochastic processes, optimization, neural network applications to control, numerical methods and design.
Curators' Distinguished Professor
573-341-4587 | chandra@mst.edu |
188 Toomey Hall
Composite materials, smart structures, nanocomposites, biocomposites, structural dynamics, finite element analysis, damage monitoring, composite manufacturing and experimental characterization.
Curators' Distinguished Professor
573-341-6504 | dharani@mst.edu |
333 Toomey Hall
Aircraft structures, fracture mechanics, fatigue and failure analysis; micromechanics; composite materials and structures; process modeling of ceramic matrix composites; friction and wear of composites; and fracture of laminated glazing.
Professor
573-341-7239 | hosders@mst.edu |
290B Toomey Hall
Computational aerodynamics/aerothermodynamics, hypersonic flows and technologies, uncertainty quantification, planetary entry/descent/landing of spacecraft, computational fluid dynamics, aerodynamic shape optimization, robust design, numerical methods.
Professor
573-341-4604 | isaac@mst.edu |
233B Toomey Hall
Fluid dynamics, aero-structure interaction and control, active flow control, unmanned air vehicles (UAV), electrochemical magnetohydrodynamics-based microfluidics, CFD simulation of transport phenomena.
Assistant Professor
573-341-4543 | wmdnw@mst.edu |
337 Toomey Hall
Professor of Aerospace Engineering and Dean’s Educator Scholar
573-341-6749 | pernicka@mst.edu |
331 Toomey Hall
Astrodynamics, orbital mechanics, spacecraft design, spacecraft mission design, satellite attitude dynamics, nonlinear analysis, dynamics and control, optimization.
Associate Chair of Aerospace Engineering/Curators' Distinguished Teaching Professor
573-341-6684 | rigginsd@mst.edu |
184 Toomey Hall
Fluid dynamics, computational fluid dynamics, hypersonic propulsion systems, computational analysis of jet mixing, flow losses and mixing enhancement in combustors, aircraft gas turbine ramjet propulsion systems, and scramjet performance.
Assistant Professor
573-341-4337 | handao@mst.edu |
131 Toomey Hall
Plasma aerospace applications; Space propulsion; Plasma-material interactions; Plasma physics and rarefied gas dynamics; High-performance computing
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