{"424331":{"#nid":"424331","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Prof. Suresh Menon Appointed the Hightower Professor","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp class=\u0022rtecenter\u0022\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.ae.gatech.edu\/community\/staff\/bio\/menon-s\u0022\u003EProf. Suresh Menon\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;has been selected by COE Dean Gary May after a college-wide search, and appointed by the Board of Regents for the position of the College of Engineering Hightower Professor.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EProf. Menon has made enormous contributions to the knowledge base in fluid mechanics, combustion and propulsion. The Hightower Professorship recognizes his accomplishments in the development of original computational methods applicable to a wide spectrum of combustion and fluid dynamics problems, and particularly for their impact on modeling and simulation of realistic operational systems.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Hightowers have been an important family to Georgia Tech for more than 100 years.\u0026nbsp; William Harrison Hightower, Sr. earned a degree in textile engineering in 1909 while playing football for Coach John Heisman.\u0026nbsp; The fifth generation of the Hightower Family to attend Georgia Tech, Ann Louisa Hightower Brewton, is attending as a freshman this fall.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EProf. Menon earned his BS and MS in Aeronautical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology and his PhD in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Maryland.\u0026nbsp; He is a world-renowned expert in large-eddy simulation of turbulent reacting and non-reacting flows, and has developed unique simluation capabilities to investigate these processes in propulsion systems such as gas turbines, ramjet, scramjet and rocket engines.\u0026nbsp; He is the Director of the Computational Combustion Laboratory in the School of Aerospace Engineering at Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Prof. Suresh Menon has been selected by COE Dean Gary May after a college-wide search, and appointed by the Board of Regents for the position of the College of Engineering Hightower Professor."}],"uid":"27456","created_gmt":"2015-07-14 12:34:58","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:19:00","author":"Britanny Grace","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2013-10-28T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2013-10-28T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1239","name":"School of Aerospace Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"2082","name":"aerospace engineering"},{"id":"169615","name":"suresh menon"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":["communications@ae.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}