Instructors

Instructors with many years of expertise in design, measurement and control of spray systems will represent the following academic and industrial organizations:

• Carnegie Mellon University Spray System Technology Center
• Parker Hannifin: Aircraft engine nozzles and combustion chambers.
• Delphi: Gasoline direct injection.
• Spraying Systems: Chemical, process, food and other industrial spray systems.
• PPG Coatings: Including automobile spray painting, design engineering and commercialization.
• University of Pittsburgh: Hospital and medical research, including aerosol medications and inhaled drug delivery technology
• Artium Technologies: Inventor and designer of laser phase Doppler particular analyzer and optical patternator.

Norman Chigier - Course organizer. Dr. Chigier is Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. He and his research teams have conducted research in the Spray System Technology Center at CMU, founded and directed by Dr. Chigier, and have authored and presented hundreds of research papers.

Dr. Chigier is the founding editor of the international journal, Progress in Energy and Combustion Science, and continues to be the Editor in Chief of this prestigious journal, 31 years later. He is also the founding editor and is still sole editor of the research journal Atomization and Sprays, which has published 800 archival research papers during the past 15 years.

Dr. Chigier was a founding member of the International Institute of Liquid Atomization and Spray Systems (ILASS) and ILASS America. He has served as president of both ILASS International and ILASS America, and has played an active role in ILASS for 25 years. Read more about Dr. Chigier.

William D. Bachalo. Dr Bachalo is the co-founder and President of Artium Technologies, Inc. of Sunnyvale, California. He is the founder of Aerometrics, Inc., where he was president and CEO for 18 years. He invented and directed the development of the phase Doppler particle analyzer, recognized as the most successful and advanced instrument available for spray characterization. He has conducted research in turbulent transonic and supersonic fluid dynamics at the NASA Ames Research Center, as well as spray combustion and spray interactions with turbulent flows at Aerometrics, Inc. Methods for spray patternation and spray drop temperature were also developed under his direction. Dr. Bachalo holds several patents on laser-based diagnostics techniques; he has won numerous awards recognizing his work.

Rudolph Schick. Mr. Schick is Director of Spray Analysis and Research Services, Spraying Systems Company of Wheaton, IL. With more than 17 years of spray technology experience, Mr. Schick has developed spray performance testing procedures for spray characterization. Spraying Systems laboratory is equipped with phase Doppler analyzers, spray patternators, spray impact measurement devices, a custom-built wind tunnel, and spray control devices. Mr. Schick is on the Board of Directors of the Institute of Liquid Atomization and Spray Systems (ILASS).

Adel Mansour. Dr. Mansour is a recognized authority in atomization and sprays for combustion and spray evaporative cooling applications. He received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 1994; his thesis was on "The Effects of Non-Newtonian Rheology and Liquid Turbulence on Twin Fluid Atomization". Currently Dr. Mansour heads the Research and Development team at Parker Hannifin's Gas Turbine Fuel System Division. He has written over 40 journal and conference publications, and he holds seven patents. Dr. Mansour has collaborated extensively with NASA and various engine companies to develop fuel injection technologies for the next generation gas turbines. He has received technical awards from NASA for "Turning Goals into Reality".

Lee Markle. Mr. Markle is a Staff Research Engineer with Delphi Corporation and the leader of the Spray, Optical Engine and Flow Analysis Team at the Rochester, New York Technical Center. He is responsible for physical testing in support of Delphi's gasoline fuel system product development, including direct injection and port fuel injection spray and mixture preparation studies; advanced atomizer evaluation; development of diagnostics for gasoline injector sprays and engine fluid flow analysis; and optical engine combustion evaluation. Mr. Markle is a past-chair of the Society of Automotive Engineers' Gasoline Fuel Injection Standards Committee.

Tim Corcoran. Dr. Corcoran is a Research Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh. He also holds secondary appointments in the Bioengineering Department at the University of Pittsburgh and in the Biomedical Engineering Department at Carnegie Mellon University. Dr. Corcoran's research includes the development of aerosol medications and inhaled drug delivery technology, as well as the performance of in vitro aerosol characterization, the design of therapies and clinical trials, and the performance of radioisotope studies of deposited aerosol doses.

Melanie Campbell. Ms. Campbell is Manager of Application Research for PPG Industries; Coatings and Resins Research. She has over 20 years of industrial experience with PPG Industries, ranging from process engineering, production scale-up from research to commercialization, design engineering and, more recently, application research from design to commercialization.

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