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Home / Faculty & Staff / Faculty / Francis H. Champagne
Francis H. Champagne
  • champagn@arizona.edu

Francis H. Champagne

  • Professor Emeritus of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering

Research Expertise

  • Experimental fluid mechanics: Turbulent shear flows, laminar-turbulent transition, drag reduction
  • Digital data acquisition and signal processing

Education

  • PhD: Chemical Engineering, University of Washington, 1966
  • MS: Chemical Engineering, University of Washington, 1962
  • BS: Chemical Engineering, University of Southern California, 1959

Employment

  • 2005: The University of Arizona: Professor Emeritus
  • 1979-05: Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, The University of Arizona: Professor
  • 1972-79: Applied Mechanics and Engineering Sciences, University of California, San Diego: Associate Research Engineer and Lecturer
  • 1969-72: Boeing Scientific Research Laboratories, Seattle, Washington: Staff Scientist
  • 1966-69: Mechanics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland: Postdoctoral Fellow
  • 1963-66: Boeing Scientific Research Laboratories, Seattle, Washington: Research Engineer
  • 1962: Boeing Scientific Research Laboratories, Seattle, Washington (summer): Research Engineer
  • 1959-60: Hanford Atomic Works, General Electric Company, Richland, Washington: Chemical Engineer

Honors and Awards

  • Award for Excellence at the Student Interface, UA College of Engineering and Mines, Spring 1999, Fall 2001, Spring 2005
  • Exiting Seniors Award, Faculty Contributing Most to Educational Growth and Maturity, Spring 1998, Spring 1999
  • Anderson Consulting Outstanding Faculty Award, 1996
  • Postdoctoral Fellowship, Johns Hopkins University, 1967 and 1968
  • NASA Fellowship, University of Washington, 1962
  • Stauffer Chemical Fellowship, University of Washington, 1961
  • Sigma Xi, 1961
  • Union Carbide and Carbon Scholarship, 1955 to 1959
  • President, USC Chapter, Tau Beta Pi, 1959
  • Phi Kappa Phi and Phi Eta Sigma, 1959
  • Phi Lambda Upsilon, 1958

Courses Taught Since 2000

  • AME 300: Instrumentation Laboratory
  • AME 331: Introduction to Fluid Mechanics
  • AME 401: Senior Aerospace Laboratory
  • AME 413A: Mechanical Engineering Design Lab [supervised project]
  • AME 696G: Graduate Seminar
  • ENGR 102: Introduction to Engineering

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  • The American Physical Society
  • The American Society for Engineering Education
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