Tenure/Tenure Track Faculty
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Nikos J. Mourtos - Professor & Chair Phone: 408-924-3867 Email: nikos.mourtos@sjsu.edu Office: Online/Zoom Research interests: Aircraft design, learning theories and innovative pedagogies, course design and assessment, faculty development, complexity and systems thinking. |
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Periklis Papadopoulos - Professor Phone: (408) 924-7168 Email: periklis.papadopoulos@sjsu.edu Office: Online/Zoom Research interests: Space Transportation Vehicle Design; Computational Fluid Dynamics |
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Maria Chierichetti - Associate Professor & Associate Chair Phone: 408-924-4329 Email: maria.chierichetti@sjsu.edu Office: Online/Zoom Research interests: Structural dynamics and vibration testing; Inverse methods for Structural Health Monitoring and Digital Twin; Aeroelastic tailoring; Finite element methods |
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Xuanhong An - Assistant Professor Phone: (408) 924-3126 Email: xuanhong.an@sjsu.edu Office: Engr 272E Research interests: Modeling, optimization and control of fluid dynamic systems; Model reduction for high dimensional data sets; Unsteady fluid dynamics; Bio-inspired fluid dynamic systems; Active flow control; Experimental fluid dynamics; Computational fluid dynamics |
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Yawo Ezunkpe - Assistant Professor Phone: 408-924-3958 Email: yawo.ezunkpe@sjsu.edu Office: Online/Zoom Research interests: Thermo Fluids; Fluid-Structure Interaction; Biomedical Fluid Dynamics; Applied and Computational Mathematics; Microgravity Science |
Emeriti Faculty
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Richard Desautel - Professor First AE Department Chair 1987 - 1996 Email: dick.desautel@sjsu.edu |