Tom I-P. Shih

Tom I-P. Shih is professor and head of the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Purdue University. Prior to joining Purdue, he was professor and chair of the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Iowa State University (2003-09). He has also held faculty positions at Michigan State University (1998-2003), Carnegie Mellon University (1988-98), and the University of Florida (1983-88) and was a mechanical engineer at NASA – Lewis (now Glenn) Research Center (1981-82). Shih started his undergraduate education at West Virginia University but completed his B.S. degree at the National Cheng Kung University in 1976. He received his M.S.E. and Ph.D. degrees from The University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1977 and 1981, respectively. Shih’s research is in the area of computational fluid dynamics and heat transfer with application to aerodynamics, propulsion, and power. Shih is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA).