Karen E. Willcox

Associate Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Associate Faculty Fellow, Singapore-MIT Alliance
Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
37-447
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139

(617) 253-3503
kwillcox@mit.edu

B.E., 1994, University of Auckland
S.M., 1996, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ph.D., 2000, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Specialization and Research Interests

Reduced-Order Modeling, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Multidisciplinary Design Optimization, Aircraft System Design, Environmental Impacts of Aviation

Teaching Interests

Principles of Automatic Control, Multidisciplinary System Design Optimization; Computational Methods in Aerospace Engineering

Positions Held Outside MIT

Sandia National Laboratories, January-June 2005; Blended-Wing-Body Group, Boeing Phantom Works, 2000-2001

Society Memberships

American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics; Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics; American Society for Engineering Education; American Society of Mechanical Engineers

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