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Fernando Sisto, Ph.D.

Professor Emeritus

Education
Sc.D., Aeronautical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1952

B. S., Mechanical Engineering, U. S. naval Academy, 1946

Contact

Email: fsisto@stevens.edu
Office: E-321
Phone #: 201.216.8264

Honors, Awards & Experience

Honors & Awards

  • Listed in:
    • Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who in Engineering, Who’s Who in the East,
    • Who’s Who in Technology Today, American Men and Women of Science
  • 1992: Senior Research Associateship form the National Research Council
  • 1988: Appointed one of 7 U.S. representatives at a NSF Workshop on Power Plant Dynamics held at the National Aeronautical Laboratory, Bangalore, India.
  • 1981: Named Distinguished Faculty Member and invited by Academia Sinica to lecture and visit at 7 institutions in the PRC.
  • 1980: Organized NASA/AF/NAVY Symposium on Aeroelasticity in Turbine Engines at NASA Lewis.
  • 1978: Appointed UNESCO/UNDP Consultant to National Aeronautical Laboratory, India
  • 1971: Appointed a Director of ASME Turbomachinery Institute.
  • 1962: Master of Engineering (Honorary), Stevens Institute of Technology.

Teaching

  • Columbia University, Visiting Lecturer, 1956-58
  • Curtiss-Wright Research, Chief of Propulsion Division, 1952-58
  • Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation, Propulsion Engineer, 1949

Courses Taught
ME546 Introduction to Turbomachinery; ME674 Fluid Dynamics; ME678 Viscous and Turbulent Flows; ME679 Compressible Fluid Flow

Industrial Experience
Consultant to industry

Consulting, patents, etc.
Consultant to: Curtiss-Wright, Worthington, Stal-Laval (Sweden), General Electric, General Motors, Rolls Royce, Westinghouse, Avco-Lycoming, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Navy, Pratt & Whitney Aircraft, Naval Postgraduate School, Garrett Corp.

Institutional, Professional Service & Societies

Professional development Activities
Reviewer for ASME and AIAA Journals and Conferences and other Journals

Professional Societies

  • American Society of Mechanical Engineering, Fellow
  • American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics, Associate Fellow