Assistant Professor

Department of Mechanical, Materials & Aerospace Engineering

Douglas W. Carter is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical, Materials and Aerospace Engineering at the Illinois Institute of Technology. He earned his bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of New Hampshire in 2014 and his masters and PhD in Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics from the University of Minnesota in 2017 and 2019, respectively. He held two postdoctoral positions, one at the University of Southampton and one at Sandia National Laboratories before he was appointed to his current role at Illinois Tech in August of 2024. His research interests encompass all experimental turbulent flows with recent emphasis on high-speed facilities and laser-based diagnostics. 

Outside of academics he enjoys time with his family, golf, skateboarding and league of legends.

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Email: dcarter10@iit.edu

Shreeju Banjade is a PhD student in experimental fluid dynamics in the Department of Mechanical, Materials and Aerospace Engineering at the Illinois Institute of Technology. She obtained her bachelor's degree in Aerospace Engineering from Tribhuvan University, Nepal in 2024. She gained her initial experience in experimental fluid dynamics at the Low Speed Aerodynamics Lab at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. Her research interests include experimental aerodynamics, with a strong focus on unsteady flow phenomena and flow visualization using laser-based diagnostic techniques such as Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV).  

Narayan Guragain is a PhD student in the Department of Mechanical, Materials, and Aerospace Engineering at the Illinois Institute of Technology. He earned his bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Kathmandu University, Nepal, completing his final year at the Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad. He was introduced to experimental fluid dynamics at IIT Hyderabad while working on his undergraduate thesis on cavitation and bubble dynamics. He used high-speed imaging and optical diagnostics to study two-phase flows induced by cavitation bubbles near curved boundaries. Since then, he has been interested in experimental fluid dynamics. His current research focuses on understanding turbulent flows through advanced experimental diagnostic techniques.

Outside academics, he enjoys playing football, reading novels, writing poems, and trekking in the mountains.