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P. Venkataraman P. Venkataraman

Professor
Phone: 585-475-6975
E-mail: pnveme@rit.edu
Office: 2175 Gleason
URL: http://www.rit.edu/~pnveme/

Biography:
Dr. P. Venkataraman has a Ph.D. in aero-astronautics from Rice University, Houston, Texas. He holds a B.Tech degree in aeronautical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India, and a MS degree (mechanical engineering) from Rice University. He is currently an associate professor in the department of mechanical engineering at the Rochester Institute of Technology.

Dr. Venkataraman worked for several years with the Helicopter Design Bureau of Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd, Bangalore, India. At RIT, he has taught over 40 courses across the spectrum in mechanical engineering and the aerospace option, both the undergraduate and graduate level. Subjects include mechanics, fluid mechanics, transport phenomena, computational fluid dynamics, numerical analysis, computer programming, optimization, system dynamics, and flight dynamics. He is the facilitator for the CFD Laboratory and the Graduate Computation Laboratory in the Mechanical Engineering department.

Dr. Venkataraman's research and professional development areas include applied optimization (airfoil optimization), trajectory shaping in nonlinear dynamic systems, applied CFD computation, software development (MATLAB, Java, C++, Java), and Web content development. He has over 100 MB of original content on the web and is seriously engaged in harnessing the web for instructional advantages.