加州理工大学Christopher E. Brennen教授讲座通知

应我校机械工程学院訾艳阳教授邀请，加州理工大学Christopher E. Brennen教授(加州理工大学前副校长)将来我校进行学术交流，并为我校师生举办人才培养方面的讲座。讲座的相关安排如下：

讲座题目：On Undergraduate Education at Caltech/加州理工大学的本科生教育

讲座人：Professor Christopher E. Brennen

时 间：2012年8月28日(周二)上午10:00～12:00

地 点：西二楼机械工程学院第一会议室

讲座人简介：

ProfessorChristopher E. Brennenwas born in Belfast, Northern Ireland and received his bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees in Engineering Science at the University of Oxford. He has been a member of the faculty at Caltech for more than 40 years and has published numerous papers and is especially well known for his work on cavitation, on turbomachinery flows, and on multiphase flow, he is the author ofCavitation and Bubble Dynamics,Fundamentals of Multiphase FlowsandHydrodynamics of Pumps. He has received many awards for his scholarship - the only person to be awarded the top prize of the Fluids Engineering Divisions of both ASME and JSME - and for his teaching at Caltech. He has also served as both Dean of Students and Vice President of Student Affairs at Caltech.

Current and Recent Positions:

l Richard L. and Dorothy M. Hayman Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Emeritus, California Institute of Technology, 2010-present.

l Richard L. and Dorothy M. Hayman Professor of Mechanical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, 2005-2010 (joined Caltech faculty in 1969.)

l Professor of Mechanical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, 1982-present.

l Vice-President for Student Affairs, California Institute of Technology, 1998-2002.

l Executive Officer for Mechanical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, 1993-1998.

l Dean of Students, California Institute of Technology, 1988-1992.

l Master of Student Houses, California Institute of Technology, 1983-1987.

Honors (partial list):

l Twice winner (1978, 1981) of the ASME R.T.Knapp Award for the best paper in the ASME Fluids Engineering Division.

l NASA New Technology Award, 1980.

l ASME Centennial Medallion, 1980.

l Caltech students award for teaching excellence, 1982.

l Christensen Visiting Fellow, St. Catherine's College, Oxford Univ., 1992.

l ASME Fluids Engineering Award, 1992.

l General Editor, Oxford Engineering Science Series, Oxford University Press, 1992-1999.

l Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 1993.

l Graduate student award for teaching excellence, 1994-95.

l Undergraduate student award for teaching excellence, 1995-96.

l Editor, Physics of Fluids (APS), 1998-2000.

l Fluids Engineering Award, Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2002 (first non-Japanese recipient).

l Fluid Science Award, Fluid Science Foundation, Japan, 2003 (first non-Japanese recipient).

l 2005 Richard Feynman Prize, Caltech's most prestigious teaching honor, given for ``exceptional ability, creativity and innovation in both laboratory and classroom instruction''.

l 2006 John Wesley Powell Award from the American Canyoneering Association given for ``pioneering contributions to the sport of canyoneering''.

l 2008 ISROMAC-12 Award for ``.. research contributions in the area of cavitation and hydrodynamics of rotating machinery''.

l JAXA Visiting Professor of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Tokyo, 2008.

l Elected Fellow of the School of Engineering, the University of Tokyo, 2009.

l Honorary Member of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2009.

l Fellow of American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2011.