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Graduate Faculty and Research Interests

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Addresses for faculty not based at the West Lafayette campus are provided.

Faculty 

  Research Interests

Bowen, Brent D.
Professor
Office: NISW 124
Phone: 765.494.5782 
Fax: 765.494.2305 
Email: bdbowen@purdue.edu

 

 
  • Service Quality Evaluation
  • Safety and Security
  • Gender Issues in Aviation

 

Carney, Thomas Q.
Professor
Office: TERM 210
Phone: 765.494.9954 
Fax: 765.494.2305 
Email: tcarney@purdue.edu   

 
  • The impact of weather on aviation operations
  • High performance turbine operations
  • High altitude/high speed flight
  • Corporate flight department management

Fanjoy, Richard O.
Associate Professor 
Office: NISW 219 
Phone: 765.494.9964 
Fax: 765.494.2305 
Email: rofanjoy@purdue.edu

 
  • Advanced Flight Training
  • Cognitive modeling & Learning styles
  • Aviation Human factors
  • Airline Category Aircraft Operations
  • High Performance Aerodynamics

Johnson, Mary E.
Associate Professor
Office: NISW 221 
Phone: 765.494.1064 
Fax: 765.494.2305 
Email: mejohnson@purdue.edu

 
  • Lean Manufacturing Systems
  • Supply Chain Management
  • Production Systems Ops
  • Enterprise Engineering
  • Quality Function Deployment

Lopp, Denver W.
Professor
Office: NISW 216 
Phone: 765.494.6387 
Fax: 765.494.2305 
Email: denver@purdue.edu

 

 
  • Alternative aviation fuels
  • Project Management
  • Resource analysis and Optimization
  • Line mainatenance operations

 

Lu, Chien-Tsung
Associate Professor
Office: NISW 225 
Phone: 765.494.6517 
Fax: 765.494.2305 
Email: ctlu@purdue.edu

 

 
  • Safety Management Systems
  • Airport Security
  • Risk Management in Aviation Systems

Nolan, Michael S.
Professor
Office: NISW 124A 
Phone: 765.494.9962 
Fax: 765.494.2305 
Email: mnolan@purdue.edu 

 
  • Air traffic control technologies, procedures, air traffic management and controller training systems
  • Airline operations, high performance flight planning
  • Computer network theory and operation, computer assisted instruction and training

Petrin, Donald A.
Associate Professor
Office: Hangar 5 Phone: 765.494.9979
Fax: 765.494.2305
Email: dapetrin@purdue.edu

 

 
  • Human Factors
  • Corporate flight operations
  • Crew Resource Management
  • Globalization Concepts
  • Aviation Safety Decision Making Theory

Schreckengast, Stewart
Visiting Associate Professor
Office: NISW 225 Phone: 765.494.9958
Fax: 765.494.2305
Email: swschrec@purdue.edu

 

 
  • Safety Management Systems
  • Airport Security
  • International Aviation Regulatory Structure

Stanley, David
Associate Professor
Office: NISW 105 
Phone: 765.494.6266 
Fax: 765.494.2305 
Email: dlstanley@purdue.edu 

 
  • Alternative Aviation Fuels Development

Suckow, Michael W.
Associate Professor
Office: NISW124B
Phone: 765.496.6375
Fax: 765.496.1149
Email: msuckow@purdue.edu

 

 
  • Systems theory and thinking
  • Airline management and operations
  • Corporate flight operations
  • Entrepreneurship

Thom, J.  Mark
Associate Professor
Office: TERM 213 
Phone: 765.494.9757 
Fax: 765.494.2305 
Email: thomj@purdue.edu

 
  • Inappropriate Crew Response to engine malfunction
  • Alternative fuels and propulsion systems
  • Engineering Design Support and Logistics Analysis
  • Female and Minority Careers in Aerospace Technologies
  • Distance Education

Wulle, Bernard W.
Associate Professor
Office: NISW 402
Phone: 765.494.9973
Fax: 765.494.2305
Email: wulleb@purdue.edu

 
  • Regional Airline Operations
  • Flight Evaluation and Standardization

Young, John P.
Professor
Office: NISW 402
Phone: 765.494.9969
Fax: 765.494.2305
Email: jpy@purdue.edu

 

 
  • Airline Operations
  • Turbine Aircraft Operations
  • Aviation Human Factors
  • Intructional Technologies