Member Bio - Lance Collins

Lance R. Collins is the Joseph Silbert Dean of Engineering. He served as
the S. C. Thomas Sze Director of the Sibley School of Mechanical and
Aerospace Engineering from 2005 to 2010. He joined Cornell in 2002,
following 11 years on the Chemical Engineering faculty at Pennsylvania
State University. Collins was part of the Cornell leadership team that
won the bid to partner with New York City to build a new campus focused
on innovation and commercialization in the tech sector on Roosevelt
Island. His research combines simulation and theory to investigate
a broad range of turbulent flow processes, including the motion of aerosol
particles in turbulence, mixing and chemical reactions in turbulent
flames, turbulent breakup of drops and drag reduction due to polymer
additives. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society, chairs the U.S.
National Committee on Theoretical and Applied Mechan¬ics, and serves
on the Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences, the latter two
committees operating under auspices of the U.S. National Academies.

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