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March 1,1999

WRIGHT STATE PROFESSOR NAMED
AMONG NATION’S TOP ENGINEERING EDUCATORS

An assistant professor of mechanical and materials engineering at Wright State since 1995, Wolff has taught undergraduate fluid dynamics and thermodynamics and graduate computational fluid dynamics classes. His main specialty is gas turbine research, which he conducts at the Compressor Aero Research Lab within the Propulsion Directorate at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.

“I am very impressed by Dr. Wolff’s teaching approach, his commitment to students’ education and respect for his profession,” said Ramana V. Grandhi, university professor of mechanical engineering, who, along with department chair Richard Bethke, nominated Wolff for the award. Grandhi was a 1987 recipient of the Teetor Educational Award.

The SAE Teetor Program is intended to improve communication between engineering educators and practicing engineers in industry and government. As the award winner, Wolff will take part in the five-day SAE International Congress and Exposition in Detroit, including an industry tour at General Motors Corporation.

“The Teetor Program will help me gain a better understanding of key auto research issues,” said Wolff. “By collaborating with engineers in the auto industry, I’ll have an opportunity to investigate how my research in the gas turbine field can be adapted to the auto industry. Ralph Teetor was an excellent model of everything that has made our country and profession what it is today. I am honored and blessed to be selected for a national award named after a man like him.”

Although blind since the age of five, Teetor was the inventor of cruise control, and went on to become a respected mechanical engineer, president of the Perfect Circle Corporation, and long-time member and 1936 president of SAE.

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