Dr. Jill Patterson
Assistant Chair Senior Lecturer
Mechanical Engineering
Education
- PhD, Computational and Applied Mathematics, Southern Methodist University (2009)
- MS, Computational and Applied Mathematics, Southern Methodist University (2006)
- BS, Mathematics, University of Mary Hardin-Baylor (2004)
Teaching
- ME 4325 - Dynamic Systems
- ME 4345 - Heat Transfer
Research Interests
After earning a Ph.D., she conducted research in the Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Dapartment at the University of Arizona as part of the NASA/AFOSR/National Center for Hypersonic Laminar-Turbulent Transition Research where she examined the stability of boundary layers including high-speed effects.
- High-Speed Laminar-Turbulent Transition
- Stability of Thin Liquid Films