Leitao Chen

Title: Assistant Professor
Email: Leitao.Chen@erau.edu Email
Department: Mechanical Engineering Department
College: College of Engineering

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Education

Ph.D. - Doctor of Philosophy in Mechanical Engineering, University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus

Currently Teaching

ME 800: Dissertation
ES 403: Heat Transfer
ME 595HH: Multi-scale Kinetic Modeling
ME 409: Vehicle Aerodynamics

Courses Taught

ES 403 – Heat Transfer

ME409 – Vehicle Aerodynamics

ME595HH – Multi-scale Kinetic Modeling

Professional Experience

Assistant Professor, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University August 2023 — Present

Assistant Professor, Tennessee State University August 2020 — August 2023

Research Scientist, Rice University November 2018 — July 2020

Postdoctoral Fellow, Rice University August 2016 — October 2018

Research Intern, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center June 2015 — September 2015

Memberships and Credentials

American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2016 – present

American Society of Thermal and Fluids Engineering (ASTFE), 2017 – present

Awards, Honors and Recognitions

Faculty Excellence Award in Research, Tennessee State University, 2023

Outstanding Reviewer, Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena, Elsevier, 2017

Outstanding Reviewer, Renewable Energy, Elsevier, 2017

Outstanding Reviewer, Computers and Fluids, Elsevier, 2017