Eric F. Spina

Education

• Ph.D., 1988, Princeton University, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
• M.A., 1987, Princeton University, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
• B.S., 1983, Carnegie Mellon University, Mechanical Engineering with University Honors
• 1979, Canisius High School, Buffalo, New York  

Academic leadership at Syracuse university

• 2007-2015, Vice Chancellor and Provost
• Oct. 2013-Jan. 2014, Interim Chancellor and President
• 2006-2007, Interim Vice Chancellor and Provost
• 2003-2006, Douglas D. Danforth Dean of the L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science
• 2000-2003, Associate Dean, L.C. Smith College of Engineering
• 2001-2003, Deputy Director, Environmental Quality Systems Center
• 1996-2000, Head, Division of Mechanical, Civil, & Chemical Systems
• 1995-1998, Chair Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Manufacturing Engineering
• 1993-1997, Associate Director and Principal Investigator, Syracuse Center for Hypersonics

ACADEMIC career AT Syracuse university

• Jan. 2015-2016, Trustee Professor and Vice Chancellor and Provost Emeritus
• Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
  • 2004-2015, professor
  • 1993-2004, associate professor
  • 1988-1993, assistant professor

research grants as principal investigator, co-investigator, proposal leader or co-leader

• U.S. patent for "Method of Forming Microsensor Thin-film Anemometer."
• U.S. patent for "Microsensor Hot-film Anemometer for High-speed Flows."
• "Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation Mid-level Program: The Upstate Alliance," National Science Foundation, $2,495,852
• "Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation Phase 1: The Upstate Alliance," National Science Foundation, $3,000,000
• "Graduate Student Researcher’s Program: Active Control of Flow-Induced Pressure Oscillations in Cavities," NASA-Langley Research Center (Fluid Mechanics Division), $58,000
• "Research Experiences for Undergraduates Site Program in Theoretical, Experimental and Computational Fluid Dynamics," National Science Foundation (Engineering Directorate), $171,000
• "Hypersonics Internships in Government and Industry," NASA/New York State Space Grant Consortium, $24,000
• Syracuse University Center for Hypersonics, NASA, $1,017,500
• "Graduate Manufacturing Engineering Traineeships for Defense Workers," Advanced Research Projects Agency Technology Reinvestment Program, $598,114
• "Graduate Student Researcher’s Program: A Hot-film Anemometer for Hypersonic Slow, NASA-Langley Research Center (Fluid Mechanics Division), $66,000
• "Research Experiences for Undergraduates Site Program in the Theoretical, Experimental and Computational Fluid Dynamics," National Science Foundation (Engineering Directorate), $60,000
• "Reynolds Stress Measurements in Hypersonic Boundary Layers," NASA-Langley Research Center (Fluid Mechanics Division), $50,131
• "Scientific Visualization for Improved Undergraduate Engineering Education," Syracuse University Chancellor's Fund for Innovation, $34,000
• "Turbulence Measurements in Hypersonic Boundary Layers Using Constant-temperature Anemometry," NASA-Langley Research Center (Fluid Mechanics Division), $68,273
• "Improving the Engineering Laboratory Through Scientific vVsualization," National Science Foundation (Directorate for Education), Leadership in Laboratory Development Program, $78,362
• "Flow Diagnostic Equipment for Exploration of High-speed Coaxial Jet Flows," NASA-Langley Research Center (Aeroacoustics Division), $16,302
• "The Noise Reduction Potential of Dual-stream Coaxial Rectangular Improperly-expanded Jet Flows," NASA-Langley Research Center (Aeroacoustics Division), $15,000
• "An Experimental Study of the Structure of an Impinging Coaxial Jet," National Science Foundation (Engineering Directorate), $70,000
• "New York Environmental Quality Systems Center," New York State Office of Science, Technology and Academic Research, $15,000,000
• "Faculty Development Program to Hire a Director of the New York Environmental Quality Systems Center," New York State Office of Science, Technology and Academic Research
• "New York Indoor Environmental Quality Center," New York State Assembly, $2,330,000
• "Indoor Environmental and Asthma Study - Phase I," Environmental Protection Agency, $1,830,000

honors at Syracuse university

• Chancellor's Citation for Outstanding Contribution to the University's Academic Programs
• "40 under 40" Leadership Award, Syracuse Chamber of Commerce/Leadership Greater Syracuse
• University College Vice President's Teacher of the Year Award
• The Filtertech Outstanding Professor Award in Mechanical, Aerospace and Manufacturing Engineering
• NASA Certificate of Recognition
• Crouse-Hinds Award for Excellence in Education, L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science
• NASA Invention Award
• Outstanding Professor in Mechanical Engineering
• NASA Summer Faculty Fellowship