Prof. Varghese holds the Stanley P. Finch Centennial Professorship in Engineering and served as the Department Chair from 2009 to 2012. He has an international reputation in the area of combustion diagnostics and non-equilibrium flows. He was awarded a Fulbright Grant in Fall 1993 to apply laser diagnostics to hypersonic wind tunnels in France. In summer 1998 he was awarded the Boeing-A.D. Welliver Faculty Fellowship by the Boeing Company, and in Fall 1999 he was appointed Director of the Center for Aeromechanics Research. He was a member of the National Technical Committee on Aerodynamic Measurement Technology of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics from 1994-2010. He received the Department Teaching Award in Spring 2001, the Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company Award for Excellence in Engineering Teaching in Spring 2003, and was elected to the … Read More
