Three Department of Aerospace Engineering faculty members have received advancements that recently became effective.
Anupam Sharma advances to the rank of professor. He joined the aerospace engineering faculty as an assistant professor in 2012. His research interests have centered on wind turbine aerodynamics and aeroacoustics, dynamic stall characterization, modeling and mitigation. A research specialty has been developing ultrasonic deterrents to bat mortality at wind turbines.
Sharma teaches aerospace propulsion, turbomachinery, compressible flow, aeroacoustics and computation fluid mechanics. He also served as associate chair of the Department of Aerospace Engineering undergraduate program from 2019-2022. He holds a B. Tech degree in aerospace engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in aerospace engineering from The Pennsylvania State University.
Jenny Johannsen has been advanced to teaching professor. She has been an instructor in the department since 2012 and currently teaches mechanics of materials. She has also taught engineering mechanics statistics and dynamics and introduction to aircraft performance and design. She earned a B.S. in engineering science from Iowa State University and an M.S. in engineering mechanics from Michigan State University. She came to Iowa State with a background in industry, having worked with steering gears/halfshafts/CV joints, superchargers and agricultural equipment.
Matthew Nelson advances to associate teaching professor. He is the director of the department’s Make to Innovate program, the assistant director of the NASA-supported Iowa Space Grant Consortium and is an Aerospace Engineering Entrepreneurship Fellow. His teaching includes the aerospace computational techniques course and the cyber physical applications course. He also instructs the two courses within the Make to Innovate program. He has earned a B.S. in electrical engineering, and an M.S. in computer engineering from Iowa State. He is currently completing his Ph.D. in Human-Computer Interaction. He is president of the Stratospheric Ballooning Association, which promotes STEM education through high altitude ballooning.