John Dannenhoffer holds an Sc.D. in Computational Fluid Dynamics (Aerospace Engineering) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is currently an Associate Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Syracuse University. Before joining Syracuse, he spent nearly 25 years in government service and industry, including the conceptual aircraft design group at the Naval Air Development Center, the compressor analysis and design group at Pratt & Whitney Aircraft, the computational fluid dynamics group at the United Technologies Research Center, and most recently as Carrier Corp’s global manager of modeling and analysis. He has spent several multi-week periods working with NASA, both at the Ames Research Center and at the Langley Research Center. Prof. Dannenhoffer is an associate fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and has served on both its Artificial Intelligence and (currently) its Meshing, Visualization, and Computational Environments Technical Committees. He has served on the planning committee for several international conferences, mostly in the grid generation field. He is a member of Tau Beta Pi, Sigma Xi, and Sigma Gamma Tau..

Research Interests
John’s research interests lie within three areas. In computational fluid dynamics, John is currently the PI on two contracts in which advanced computational geometry and computer-aided design techniques are being harnessed to vastly improve the time and effort required to prepare models and generate grids for use in CFD flow calculations. In the area of environmental students, John is currently Co-PI on two contracts that are focused on understanding the impact of personal ventilation devices. Finally, John continues to be actively involved in studying and applying collaborative design tools techniques. John specializes in teaching freshman- and senior-level design courses. He currently teaches the gateway course to aerospace engineers (in which they design mars rovers), the engineering computing methods course, and the senior-level design course. He has been actively involved in the Advanced Interactive Discovery Environment (AIDE) course and contract, through which students at Syracuse and Cornell Universities collaboratively design systems for the aerospace industry. John also works with undergraduate students to give them meaningful independent research experiences.

Teaching Interests
Aerospace engineering fundamentals, design, collaborative design, intro numerical methods, computational geometry