DR. THOMAS E. MCLAUGHLIN
Director, Aeronautics Research Center
DEGREES:
PhD, Aerospace Engineering Sciences, University of Colorado-Boulder, 1992
MS, Electrical Engineering, Air Force Institute of Technology, 1986
BS, Electrical Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 1982
YEARS SERVICE ON THIS FACULTY: 15
Research Professor of Aeronautics: 2006
Associate Professor: July 2005
Assistant Professor: November 1994
Date of Original Appointment: December 1986
OTHER RELATED EXPERIENCE (Teaching/Industry/etc):
Contracted Research Associate, USAFA, June 1999- July 2004
Chief Engineer, Air Force Phillips Laboratory High Altitude Balloon Experiment, September 1992-November 1994
Nuclear Electromagnetic Pulse Research Engineer, Air Force Weapons Laboratory, January 1983-May 1985
PRINCIPAL PUBLICATIONS (of the last five years):
•Fagley, C., Seidel, J, McLaughlin, T., Feedback Control of a Shear Layer for Aero-Optic Applications, International J. of Flow Control (3) #1, 1-18, January 2012.
• Seidel, J., Fagley, C. & McLaughlin, T. Structure Identification in Turbulent Flows for Feedback Flow Control , Phys. Scr., 2010, 142, 014008
• J. Seidel, S. Siegel, C. Fagley, K Cohen, T. McLaughlin, Feedback Control of a Circular Cylinder Wake, J. Aerospace Engineering, 2009. Winner, Aerospace Industries Division’s 2010 Kenneth Harris James prize awarded by Institute of Mechanical Engineers (UK)
• C. Porter, A. Abbas, K. Cohen, T. McLaughlin, and C. L. Enloe, Spatially Distributed Forcing and Jet Vectoring with a Dielectric Barrier Discharge Plasma Actuator, AIAA J. (47) 1368-1378, June 2009.
• S. Siegel, J. Seidel, C. Fagley, K. Cohen, D. Luchtenburg, T. McLaughlin, Low Dimensional Modeling of a Transient Cylinder Wake Using Double Proper Orthogonal Decomposition, J. Fluid Mech (610), August 2008
• J. Seidel, S., K. Cohen, and T. McLaughlin, Feedback Control of a Circular Cylinder Wake, Proc IMechE PtG, Journal of Aerospace Engineering - "Integration" Special Issue
• C. Enloe, M. McHarg, T. McLaughlin, Time Correlated Force Production Measurements of the DBD-Plasma Aerodynamic Actuator, JR07-4795, Accepted for Publication in J. Appl. Phys.
• C. Porter; J. Baughn; T. McLaughlin; C.L. Enloe; G. Font, Plasma Actuator Force Measurements, AIAA J. (45), 1562-1570, July 2007
• S. Gordeyev; M. L. Post; T. McLaughlin; J. Ceniceros, E. Jumper, Aero-Optical Environment Around a Conformal-Window Turret, AIAA J. (45), 1514-1524, July 2007
SCIENTIFIC AND PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), Associate Fellow
Eta Kappa Nu (Electrical Engineering Honorary)
Tau Beta Pi (Engineering Honorary)
HONORS AND AWARDS:
2004 National Academies Research Advisor
2002 Associate Fellow, AIAA
2001 Honorable Mention, Seiler Award for Faculty Research Excellence
1997 USAFA nominee for American Society of Engineering Educators Outstanding Teaching Award
1986 Distinguished Graduate, Air Force Institute of Technology
1982 Distinguished Graduate, University of Nebraska
Numerous military outstanding achievement awards
INSTITUTIONAL AND PROFESSIONAL SERVICE (in the last five years):
Director, Aeronautics Research Center
Discipline Director, Experimental and Computational Investigations
Research proposal reviewer for Air Force Office of Scientific Research
Instructor for USAFA “First Year Experience” course in 2007-12
Academic Advisor, Class of 2006, 2009, 2013
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITES IN THE LAST FIVE YEARS:
Member of AIAA Fluid Dynamics Technical Committee June 2005-May 2011.
Journal article reviewer for AIAA Journal, AIAA Journal of Aircraft, Experiments in Fluids
Fluid Dynamics Technical Chair for 2009 AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, Orlando, FL
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