Program Leads

Carl Moore, Ph.D

PI, Program Lead

Dr. Carl Moore is an associate professor of mechanical engineering. He earned his BSME from Howard University. Dr. Carl Moore is an associate professor of mechanical engineering. He earned his BSME from Howard University.

camoore@eng.famu.fsu.edu

Telephone: (850) 410-6367

Chiang Shih, Ph.D

PI, Program Lead

Dr. Chiang Shih is a Professor and Chair of Mechanical Engineering Department, FAMU-FSU College of Engineering. He received his Ph.D. degree from the Aerospace Engineering Department at University of Southern California in 1988. He joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering in August, 1988.

shih@eng.famu.fsu.edu

Telephone: (850) 645-0102

Rajan Kumar, Ph.D

Co-PI, FSU Lead

Rajan Kumar is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering. He earned his BE in Aeronautical Engineering from Punjab Engineering College, Chandigarh, MS and PhD in Aerospace Engineering from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. He is currently the Director of the Florida Center for Advanced Aero-Propulsion (FCAAP), a multiuniversity, state-wide research, technology and education center established in 2008.

rkumar@fsu.edu

Telephone: (850) 645-0149

Subith Vasu, Ph.D

Co-PI, UCF Lead

Subith Vasu, a professor at UCF in Orlando, is an expert in spectroscopy and optical diagnostics. Before joining UCF in 2012 as an assistant professor, he was a postdoc at Sandia National Labs after obtaining his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 2010, and his B.Tech from the India Institute of Technology in Madras, India.

subith@ucf.edu

Telephone: (407) 823-3468


Graduate Mentors





BP-AE Fellows


Cason Allen

Solomon Andrews


Bryce Dickerson

Danielle Edwards


Aleksander Grabowski

Michael Henry


Aliya Hutley

Kyle Mahoney

Rafael Meza

Catherine Potts

Dior Reece

Carlos Sanchez-Sarmiento