Professor Peyman Givi

William Kepler Whiteford Professor
Director, Laboratory for Computational Transport Phenomena
Department of Mechanical Engineering
644 Benedum Hall
Pittsburgh, PA 15261
Tel: (412)624-9605
Fax: (412)624-4846
Email: givi@engr.pitt.edu

Dr. Peyman Givi is the William Kepler Whiteford Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science (MEMS) at Pitt. Previously he held the position of UB Distinguished Professor at the State University of New York at Buffalo, where he received the Professor of the Year Award by Tau Beta Pi and Outstanding Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Educator of the Year Award. Dr. Givi has also worked as a Research Scientist at the Flow Industries, Inc. in Seattle. He has had frequent visiting appointments at the NASA Langley Research Center and the NASA Glenn (Lewis) Research Center, and received the Agency's Public Service Medal (2005). Professor Givi is amongst the first 15 engineering faculty nationwide who was honored at the White House to receive the Presidential Faculty Fellowship from President George Bush. He has also received the Young Investigator Award of the Office of Naval Research, and the Presidential Young investigator Award of the National Science Foundation. Dr. Givi is currently a member of the editorial boards of Computers & Fluids, The Open Aerospace Engineering Journal, Journal of Applied Fluid Mechanics; is Associate Editor of AIAA Journal, International Journal of Reacting Systems; and a past advisory board member of Progress in Energy and Combustion Science. He received Ph.D. from the Carnegie-Mellon University (PA), and BE (Summa Cum Laude) from the Youngstown State University (OH), where he was named the 2004 Distinguished Alumnus by the local Chapter of the Phi Kappa Phi honor society. Dr. Givi is Fellow of APS, ASME and an Associate Fellow of AIAA. In 2007 he was named Engineer of the Year in Pittsburgh by ASME.

Research Interests

Thermal-Fluid Science, Turbulence, Combustion, Computational Methods and Numerical Algorithms, Applied Mathematics, Spectral Analysis, Stochastic Processes.

Teaching Interests

Thermal-Fluid Sciences, Systems and Control, Machine Design, Vibration and Shock, Numerical Methods, Applied Mathematics, Random Data Analysis, Stochastic Processes.

Educational Concerns

Providing opportunities for graduate studies to students with less than "outstanding undergraduate records". Based on my experience in dealing with a large number of graduate students, I have learned that different students "blossom" at different rates and at different times. I have been very pleasantly surprised by students with "mediocre" undergraduate records but with outstanding achievements in graduate school and research. I have also learned that many university administrators do not appreciate the fact that students with less than a perfect GPA can become magnificent researchers.

Education

PhD, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

BE, Youngstown State University, Youngstown, OH

Affiliations

William Kepler Whiteford Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering,  University of Pittsburgh, Pitsburgh, PA.
UB Distinguished Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,  University at Buffalo (UB), State University of New York, Buffalo, NY.
Research Scientist, Applied Mechanics Division, Flow Research Company (a part of Flow Industries, Inc.), Kent (Seattle), WA.
Visiting Scientist at the NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, and at the NASA Glenn (Lewis) Research Center, Cleveland, OH.

Personal Interests

Music (classical & flamenco guitar), cosmology, and sports (football, soccer, running).

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