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美國愛荷華州立大學航空工程系系主任、本校機械系65級傑出校友及成大校長校際諮議小組成員石怡平博士近日被普渡大學聘任為航空工程學院院長，普渡大學的航空工程院為美國頂尖的系所之一，石怡平博士將於2009年8月17日正式上任。

恭喜石怡平校友!!

石怡平博士 (Tom Shih)

現任

愛荷華州立大學航空工程學系 教授兼系主任(2003~)
美國機械師工程學會(ASME) 會士
美國航空暨太空學會(AIAA) 副會士

學歷

國立成功大學機械系 學士(1976)
密西根大學安娜堡分校機械系 碩士(1977)
密西根大學安娜堡分校機械系 博士(1981)

經歷

密西根大學 教授(1998-2003)
卡內基美倫大學 教授(1988-1998)
佛羅里達大學 教授(1983-1988)
NASA Lewis研究中心 工程師(1981-1982)

Tom I-P. Shih Announced as New Head, School of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Dean Leah H. Jamieson, John A. Edwardson Dean of Engineering, College of Engineering, Purdue University, announced that Tom I-P. Shih, currently Professor and Chair, Department of Aerospace Engineering at Iowa State University, will become the next head of the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics effective August 17, 2009. Please join us in welcoming Professor Tom I-P Shih to our school.

Tom Shih is currently professor and chairperson of the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Iowa State University, a position that he has held since 2003. Prior to joining ISU, he was a professor at Michigan State University from 1998 to 2003, at Carnegie Mellon University from 1988 to 1998, and at the University of Florida from 1983 to 1988. He was a mechanical engineer at NASA – Lewis (now Glenn) Research Center from 1981 to 1982. Shih received his B.S.E. from National Cheng Kung University in 1976, and his M.S.E. and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1977 and 1981, respectively – all in mechanical engineering. Shih is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and an Associate Fellow of American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA).

Shih has served as chair of AIAA’s Committee on Standards for CFD (2003-05), chair of the Aerospace Department Chair Association (2005-06), a member of NASA’s Council of Deans (2005), chair of the Universities Space Research Association’s nominating committee (2008-09), and associate editor of AIAA’s Journal of Propulsion and Power (2001-2006). Currently he is the Section Editor on Air-Breathing Propulsion for Wiley-Blackwell’s Encyclopedia on Aerospace Engineering and serves on the editorial boards of several journals, including the International Journal of Atomization and Sprays and Acta Sinica Mechanica.

Shih’s research centers on computational fluid dynamics (CFD) – both in developing and improving it as a tool and in using it to study physical problems. He and his students have developed a number of algorithms and codes for studying reacting and non-reacting, compressible and incompressible flows. Algorithms and codes have also been developed for automatic/knowledge-based grid generation and estimating errors in CFD solutions. In using CFD, Shih and his students have studied a wide range of problems in energy, power, and propulsion systems. In these endeavors, Shih has authored and co-authored more than 200 technical papers in journals and conferences; presented over 150 invited seminars, lectures, and workshops; and served as PI or Co-PI for research with grants exceeding US$15 million.