Minking K. Chyu, Ph.D.
Committee Member
CAREER SUMMARY
Dr. Chyu presently is Distinguished Service Professor, Leighton and Mary Orr Chair Professor, and Associate Dean for International Initiatives, Swanson School of Engineering, University of Pittsburgh (Pitt). To date Dr. Chyu has a nearly 40-year academic career, including serving on the engineering faculty at Carnegie Mellon University and Arizona State University before joining Pitt in year 2000. Dr. Chyu’s technical expertise lies in the areas of power generation and aero-propulsion technologies. To date he has performed nearly 60 research projects and consultant tasks sponsored by a number of governmental agencies and industry.
Dr. Chyu is Fellow of American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and Associate Fellow of American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). He has published more than 350 technical articles in archive journals, books, and conference proceedings.