James F. Driscoll

• Princeton University
  • PhD Aerospace and Mechanical Sciences

Supersonic Combustion within Scramjet Experiments
Rocket Combustion (H2-O2) for NASA’s Project Constellation Center at Michigan
Nitric Oxide Formation in General Electric TAPS Jet Engine Combustors
Fundamental Studies of Turbulent Combustion

• President, the Combustion Institute, 2016-2020
• Vice President & President-Elect, The Combustion Institute 2012-2016
• Editor, Combustion and Flame, 2003-2009
• Board of Directors, The Combustion Institute
• Fellow, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2005
• Technical Program Co-Chair, 28th Symposium on Combustion, Edinburgh, 2000
• AIAA Propellants and Combustion Award for 2013
• The Silver Medal of the Combustion Institute (1998) for the outstanding paper of the
• Twenty-Sixth International Symposium on Combustion Naples, Italy, 1996 (with co-authors C. Mueller, M.C. Drake, D. Reuss)
• Distinguished paper award, 2006 Symposium on Combustion, Heidelberg, with co-author Jeffrey Sutton
• AIAA Best Paper Award-in the area of Propellants and Combustion, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1994 and 2008
• Combustion and Flame Most Cited Author Award for 2005-2008
• Silver Shaft Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2001
• The Research Excellence Award – Department of Aerospace Engineering, 1993
• Outstanding Faculty Member Award for 1982, College of Engineering Class of ’38 Award
• Service Award, College of Engineering, University of Michigan, 2007
• AIAA Service and Leadership Award, 1990
• Interim Chair, Department of Aerospace Engineering, 2003-2005

• Publications
• Expert Profile on SciVal
• Michigan/AFRL Collaborative Center in Control Science