Charles R. Smith
Email: crs1@lehigh.edu
Phone: (610) 758-5532
Fax: (610) 758-6224
Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics
Appointed to Lehigh Faculty: 1978
Education:
Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, Stanford Univ., 1971
M.S. Mechanical Engineering, Stanford Univ., 1968
B.S. Mechanical Engineering, Stanford Univ., 1966
Related experience - teaching, industrial, etc.:
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University, 1971-76
NASA-ASEE Faculty Fellow, NASA-Ames Research Center, 1974
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University, 1976-78
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Lehigh University, 1978-83
Co-founder, VORTAB Corporation, Whitehall, PA, 1987-1996
Associate Chair, Dept. of Mech. Engrg. & Mech., Lehigh University, 1994-96
Board of Directors, Penn Engineering Corporation, 1998-2005
Chair, Dept. of Mech. Engrg. & Mech., Lehigh University, 1996-2002
Research activities, consulting, patents, etc.
Research on the fundamental fluid and heat transfer behavior of turbulent, bluff body juncture, and general unsteady flows, as well as the use of unique visual techniques for quantifying spatial-temporal flow and heat transfer behavior.
Technical and forensic engineering consultant to over 25 companies
Scientific and professional societies of which a member:
ASME
American Physical Society
Phi Beta Delta International Scholars
Honors and awards:
NASA-ASEE Summer Faculty Fellow, NASA-Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, 1974
Spira Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1991
Pi Tau Sigma Teacher of Year Award, 1992
Keynote address, International Sedimentology Conference, Leeds, England, 1995