Alistair K. Macpherson
Phone: (610) 758-4105
Fax: (610) 758-6224

Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics

Appointed to Lehigh Faculty: 1971

Education:
Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, University of Sydney, 1967
M.S. Engineering Science, University of Sydney, 1965
B.S. Aeronautical Engineering, University of Sydney, 1957

Related experience - teaching, industrial, etc.:
Project Engineer, De Havilland Aircraft, 1958
Project Engineer, QANTAS Airways, 1959-66
Post Doctoral Fellow, University of Toronto, Institute for Aeronautical Studies, 1968-69.
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Manitoba, 1969-71
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Lehigh University, 1971-75
Professor of Mechanical Engineering, 1975-present
Member of Technical Staff, Bell Laboratories, 1985
Division Head, Thermofluids Division, Dept. of Mech. Engrg. & Mech., 1987-90
Chairman, Graduate Committee, Dept. of Mech. Engr. & Mech., 1976-1984

Research activities, consulting, patents, etc.:
Research on: shock and combustion waves; geophysical flows; charged plasmas; general atomic and molecular level problems; semiconductor models; general chemical reacting systems; very high pressure reacting systems; hypertension and heart ischemia.

Technical consultant to U.S. Army 1977-1997

Honors and Awards:
U.K. Science Research Council, Senior Visiting Fellow, Oxford University, England, 1978
Senior Visiting Fellow, Mathematical Institute, Oxford University, England, 1984, 1991