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William Kepler Whiteford Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science


Phone: 412-624-9605
Fax: 412-624-4846
Office: BENDM 644

Education

PhD, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
BE, Youngstown State University, Youngstown, OH

Curriculum Vitae

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 has been named the 2004 Distinguished Alumnus by the local Chapter of the Phi Kappa Phi honor society. Dr. Givi is a Fellow of ASME and an Associate Fellow of AIAA.

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faculty

The Department of Mechanical Engineering has 16 full time, 6 adjunct, and 5 emeritus faculty members