Bio: Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Professor, Advanced Power and Energy Program Regional Director, California Alliance for Minority Participation Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, Thermal Science, 1985 M.S., University of California, Berkeley, Mechanical Engineering, 1984 B.S., University of California, Santa Barbara, Mechanical Engineering, 1980

Research: study of the electrical aspects of microgravity combustion; an effort to develop techniques to measure the size of airborne droplets and particles using laser light scattering; and development of a hydrogen-enhanced IC engine.