Faculty - Aerospace Engineering - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Lambros Named ASME Fellow

Professor John Lambros makes the third AE faculty member this year to have achieved the status of Fellow within the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).

Sixty Years and Going Strong

Emeritus Prof. Harry H. Hilton reached a remarkable milestone in September 2009 — his 60th continuous year at the University of Illinois.

The university, college, and Department of Aerospace Engineering welcomed Colonel Lee J. Archambault, BS 82, MS 84 AE, a distinguished United States Air Force pilot and NASA astronaut, back to campus during the Foundation weekend Oct. 2-4.

AE undergrad wins National Student Role Model Award

AE undergraduate Joseph Gonzalez has been selected as the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers’ National Student Role Model of the Year

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Joanna M. Austin

Assistant Professor

jmaustin@illinois.edu

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Office address	Mailing Address	Research Group
311 Talbot Lab 217-333-3739	306 Talbot Lab 104 S. Wright St. Urbana, IL 61801	Compressible Fluid Mechanics Laboratory
Research Areas
Fluid mechanics, compressible flow, and combustion.

Education:

PhD, Aeronautical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, 2003
MS, Aeronautical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, 1997
BE, Mechanical and Space Engineering, University of Queensland, 1996
BSc, Mathematics, University of Queensland, 1996

Academic Positions:

Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, October 2003-present.

Honors and Awards:

Richard Bruce Chapman Award for distinguished research in hydrodynamics in the Engineering and Applied Science Division, Caltech, 2003
Russell R. Vought Scholarship, Caltech, 1997
George Washington University Scholarship for internship at NASA Langley, 1994
Australian Students Prize, 1990

Selected Publications:

Austin, J.M., Pintgen, F., and Shepherd, J.E. Reaction Zones in Highly Unstable Detonations. Proc. 30th Combustion Symposium (2004).
Wintenberger, E., Austin, J.M, Cooper, M., Jackson, S., and Shepherd, J.E. An Analytical Model for the Impulse of a Single-Cycle Pulse Detonation Engine. Journal of Propulsion and Power, 19:1, 22-38 (2003).
Pintgen, F., Eckett, C.A., Austin, J.M., and Shepherd, J.E. Direct Observations of Reaction Zone Structure in Propagating Detonations. Combustion and Flame 133:3, 211-229 (2003).
Austin, J.M., and Shepherd, J.E. Detonations in Hydrocarbon Fuel Blends. Combustion and Flame 132 :1-2, 73-90 (Jan 2003).
Cooper, M., Jackson, S., Austin, J.M., Wintenberger, E., and Shepherd, J.E. Direct Experimental Impulse Measurements for Detonations and Deflagrations. Journal of Propulsion and Power, 18:5, 1033-1041 (2002).

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