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Robert Kielb has over 45 years of academic, industrial, and government research laboratory experience in turbomachinery propulsion. His background includes 8 years in the U.S. Air Force, 10 years at NASA Lewis Research Center, and 12 years as a Manager in Aeromechanics Technology at GE Aircraft Engines. He is currently the Associate Chair of the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science at Duke University, where he conducts research and teaches. Kielb is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and has served as Chair of the Board of Directors of the International Gas Turbine Institute for six years. He was also the Technical Program Chair for ASME Turbo Expo ’96 and Associate Editor for the Journal of Turbomachinery and the Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power. His research interests include unsteady aerodynamics, aeroelasticity, mistuning, damping, and probabilistic methods, leading various research projects funded by AFOSR, DARPA, NASA, and industry. He has authored and co-authored fifty technical papers and has been recognized with ASME’s Melville Award for substantial improvements in understanding turbine aeroelasticity.
Department of Biomedical Engineering (MS program)