Kevin Cassel, PhD
Associate Professor of Mechanical & Aerospace EngineeringAssociate Chair for Graduate Programs
Office: E1-209
Phone: 312.567.5939
Fax: 312.567.7230
Email:
cassel@iit.edu
Web:
Personal Webpage
Expertise
- Application of analytical and computational methods in the thermo-fluid sciences.
Education
- B.S. Mechanical Engineering, Messiah College, 1988
- M.S. Mechanical Engineering, Lehigh University, 1990
- Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, Lehigh University, 1993
Research
Current Projects
Awards/Honors
- S. W. Kung Award - for best Ph.D. paper presented at the 1993 Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics Graduate Student Symposium, Lehigh University.
- Baldwin Fellowship, Lehigh University (1989-1990).
- National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship (1991-1993).
- National Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship, National Institute of Standards and Technology (1993-1996).
- Philip Thomas Medal of Excellence - for best paper presented at the Fifth International Symposium on Fire Safety Science, Melbourne, Australia, March 3-7, 1997.
- Army Research Office Young Investigator Award (1998-2001).
- Ralph L. Barnett Excellence in Teaching Award (2001) Mechanical, Materials and Aerospace Engineering Department, Illinois Institute of Technology.
- Alfred Noble Prize (2002) - for the paper, A Comparison of Navier-Stokes Solutions with the Theoretical Description of Unsteady Separation, published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London.
- Essential Foreign Participant (2003) Invited to participate in the London Mathematical Society Colloquium on New Developments and Applications of Rapid Fluid Flows as an Essential Foreign Participant (July 2003).
