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Annual Showcase honors
Mechanical engineer Crowe earns emeritus award
Monday, Feb. 15, 2010
Clayton Crowe, professor emeritus of mechanical engineering, has earned the 2010 WSU Emeritus Society Excellence Award, to be presented at WSU's annual Showcase celebration of excellence on March 26. The award is given for outstanding contributions while in retirement to academia, the university, the community and mankind.
Since his retirement in 2001, Crowe has maintained an active role in the School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, according to a nominator. He continues to publish, work with graduate students and faculty on research projects, and mentor young faculty.
Since his retirement in 2001, Crowe has maintained an active role in the School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, according to a nominator. He continues to publish, work with graduate students and faculty on research projects, and mentor young faculty.
Crowe's research and teaching have focused on fluid mechanics and two-phase (gas particle/droplet and solid-liquid) flows. Most recently he has collaborated with young faculty and a graduate student to develop a turbulence dissipation model to complement Crowe’s existing turbulent kinetic energy model.
This has resulted in four journal papers, five conference proceedings and the honor of presenting a plenary talk at the 2009 ASME Fluids Engineering Summer Meeting. Only four plenary speakers every year are selected from among the 500 conference attendees.
Among many honors, Crowe was awarded WSU's Sahlin Award for Research in 1998.
Crowe earned his Ph.D. in aerospace and astronautical engineering from the University of Michigan in l962; a master of science in aerospace engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in l957; and a bachelor of science in aerospace engineering from the University of Washington in l956.
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