Bruce Chehroudi, PhD

 

Dr. Chehroudi  has accumulated years of technical and leadership experiences in different capacities and organizations. This includes such positions as Professor and Department Head, Mechanical Engineering Department at Arkansas Tech University and Interim Head for the Electrical Engineering Department at Arkansas Tech University, Managing Director at Advanced Technology Consultants, Principal Scientist and Group Leader at the Engineering Research Consultants Inc (appointed at Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL)), Chief Scientist at Raytheon STX, Visiting Technologist at Ford’s Advanced Manufacturing Technology Development (AMTD) center, tenured Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Kettering University and University of Illinois, and served as a Senior Research Staff/Research Fellow/Post-doctorate at Princeton University.

Dr. Chehroudi directed numerous multimillion dollar interdisciplinary projects in areas involving chemically reacting flows, combustion and emission of pollutants, sustainable and alternative energy sources, distributed ignition, material/fuel injection, advanced pollution reduction technologies, propulsion concepts, gas turbine and liquid rocket engines, combustion instability, laser optical diagnostics, spectroscopy, supercritical fluids and applications in environmental and propulsion systems, advanced composites, MEMS, nanotechnology, and micro fluidics. 

 He has won many merit and leadership awards by such prestigious organizations as the,

 Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE):

American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA): 

 Air Force Research Laboratories (AFRL) and Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)

 Institute of Liquid Atomization and Sprays Systems (ILASS):

 Liquid Propulsion Sub-committee of Joint Army-Navy-NASA-Air Force (JANNAF):

 2nd International Symposium on Turbulence and Shear Flow Phenomena: