8/98 - present Assistant Professor, University of South Alabama, College of Engineering, Mechanical Engineering Department, Mobile, AL.  Establishing a research program in biomedical engineering studying the fluid dynamics of flows through artificial heart valves, heart pumps, and other heart and lung assist devices. Undergraduate classes taught: Statics.

9/96 - 8/98 Assistant Professor, The University of Texas at San Antonio, College of Sciences and Engineering, Division of Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, San Antonio, TX. Tried to establish a research program in biomedical engineering for the simulation of flows through artificial heart valves, heart pumps, and other heart and lung assist devices. Member of the Graduate Council admission committee. Member of the ME curriculum committee. Advised one MS student; on the thesis committees for three more MS students. Undergraduate classes taught: Propulsion (new class), Fundamentals of Thermal Sciences, Computer Applications in Mechanical Engineering, Applied Engineering Analysis. Graduate classes taught: Boundary Layer Theory, Computational Fluid Dynamics. Participated in the F. Carroll Dougherty

Expanding Your Horizons Workshop (career guidance for 6-12th grade girls) by conducting a hands-on engineering lab.

9/94 - 7/96 Visiting Associate Scholar/Scientist, Supercomputer Computations Research Institute, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL. Investigated computational and experimental simulation of pulsatile flows through artificial heart valves. An incompressible Navier-Stokes code was coupled with the Chimera scheme to model the complex flows through two artificial valves, the Medtronic-Hall tilting disk valve and the St. Jude Bileaflet valve. The Particle Imaging Velocimetry technique was to be used experimentally to evaluate the unsteady flows through the heart valves.

9/94 - 7/96 Visiting Assistant Professor, Florida A&M University - Florida State University College of Engineering, Mechanical Engineering Department, Tallahassee, FL. Member of the department Curriculum committee. Redesigned the Numerical Methods class for the new curriculum. Supervised three undergraduate RA’s. Classes taught: Numerical Methods.

8/90 - 9/94 President, Chimera Research, Del Rio, TX. Continued the development of unsteady, three-dimensional Euler and Navier-Stokes codes coupled with the Chimera scheme, an overset multiple mesh scheme. Applications included: store separation, hypersonic and supersonic vehicles, and blowing jets. Worked on the development of educational manipulatives in math and science for 2nd-8th graders. Participated in three Expanding Your Horizons Workshops (career guidance for 6-12th grade girls) by conducting three different hands-on engineering labs. Company inactive at present.

8/90 - 6/94 Adjunct Professor, The University of Texas at San Antonio, Mechanical Engineering Division, San Antonio, TX. Was member of the three-woman team awarded a $3.8 Million NASA Institutional Research Award for Minority Universities for the proposal entitled, "Research in Advanced Aerospace Propulsion Systems." Undergraduate classes taught: Computer Applications in Mechanical Engineering, Control Theory, Thermal Systems Design I, Fluid Dynamics, Fundamentals of Thermal Sciences, Engineering Mechanics, Graduate class taught: Gas Dynamics.

8/92 - 8/93 Center Academic Advisor and Full-time Faculty Member,

8/93 - 8/94 Part-time Faculty Member, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, College of Continuing Education, Laughlin AFB, TX. Reviewed faculty, assisted in class planning. Reader for Graduate Research Projects. Graduate courses taught: Aircraft and Spacecraft Development, Management of Research and Development in the Aviation/Aerospace Industry Undergraduate courses taught: Introduction of Computers in Aviation, College Mathematics for Aviation I, College Mathematics for Aviation II.

8/90 - 8/93 Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO. Supervised two Ph.D. students. Students graduated 5/93 and 8/93.

8/86 - 8/90 Assistant Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO. Continued development of the unsteady, three-dimensional Euler and Chimera codes. Added viscous capability by coupling scheme with Navier-Stokes code. Applied codes to store separation, hypersonic vehicles, and V/STOL aircraft. Maintained approximately $95,000/yr funding with NASA Ames, NASA Langley, and

AFOSR. Graduated 11 Masters students and 1 Ph.D. student. Continued supervision of 2 Ph.D. students. Participated in the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program as both reviewer and student supervisor. Two undergraduate students in the program working for me presented papers at the AIAA student conferences. One student won his region and competed at the Winter Aerospace Sciences Meeting (1989). Member of department Teaching and Curriculum and Graduate committees. Taught 3 graduate classes: Compressible Fluid Dynamics, Computational FluidDynamics, and Transonic Computational Fluid Dynamics (new class). Taught 4 undergraduate classes: Fluids I, Fluids II, Computational Fluid Dynamics, and Propulsion.

6/79 - 7/86 Research Scientist, NASA Ames Research Center, Applied Computational Fluids Branch. Upgraded a transonic full potential code,TAIR, from a research code to a production code. Wrote and published a users manual for TAIR code; code was accepted by Cosmic in 1981. Developed a multiple overset grid technique, the Chimera scheme, with Steger and Benek to expand the applications of finite-difference methods to complex configurations. Wrote a two-dimensional incompressible stream function code to test the concept of multiple meshes. Expanded the capabilities of the multiple mesh code to include multiple, moving bodies in two dimensions. Coupled the expanded code with an unsteady, two-dimensional Euler code. Technical monitor for contract pertaining to project. Began work to couple a three-dimensional, multiple moving grid scheme with an unsteady, three-dimensional Euler flow solver. Project leader, Technical monitor.

5/76 - 6/79 Engineering Trainee, NASA Johnson Space Center, Guidance and Propulsion Systems Branch.

8/76 - 6/79 Undergraduate Assistant, Department of Freshman Engineering, Department of Aeronautical/Astronautical Engineering, Purdue University.

CONSULTING

9/87 - 4/88 Kennedy Aeronautics, Boulder, CO. Analyzed report regarding computational vortex simulation for aircraft litigation.

6/95 - present Cislunar Aerospace, Inc., Napa, CA. Coordinating the careers section of an aeronautics textbook on the web. Contacting potential interviewees and taking the interviews. Writing the introduction, developing the job descriptions, and writing the interviews. K8AIT is designed for kindergarten through eighth grade teachers to use as a supplement in the classroom. It is designed to interest children in math and science and encourage them to pursue technical careers. Co-author of aerodynamics, structures, propulsion, and controls sections for teacher’s instruction manual.