Prof. Dr. Rama S.R. Gorla

Dr. Rama Gorla is currently employed as Professor of Aerospace Engineering at Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio. Prior to this, he worked as Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Fenn Distinguished Research Professor at Cleveland State University. Professor Gorla served as the University Ombudsperson and interacted with students, faculty and staff. He received the Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Toledo. His primary research areas are combustion, heat transfer and fluid dynamics. He worked as a turbomachinery design engineer at Teledyne Continental Motors Turbine Engines (TCM-TE) in Toledo, Ohio and as a design engineer of the aerothermodynamics of rotating machinery at Chrysler Corporation in Highland Park, Michigan. He completed a research program funded by NASA Lewis Research Center in Turbine Heat Transfer. Dr. Gorla has published over 700 technical papers in refereed journals and contributed several book chapters in Encyclopedia of Fluid Mechanics.  He co-authored two text books: Turbomachinery published by Marcel & Dekker Company in 2003 and Advanced Differential Equations published by Studera Press in 2016. NASA, AFOSR and local industry have sponsored his research. He is the recipient of two Distinguished Faculty awards from Cleveland State University, the first for research and the second for teaching. He was given the Teaching Excellence Award from the Northeast Ohio Council on Higher Education. He received the Distinguished Technical Educator Award from the Cleveland Technical Societies Council. Professor Gorla is a Fellow of ASME.