The North Alabama Section of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) is gearing up for its third section meeting of the year with a great presentation from Dr. Kader Frendi titled, Computation of Unsteady Turbulent Flows with Applications to Acoustics. This meeting will be on the UAH campus in room M50 of the Von Braun Research Hall on Wed, Nov 6th, from 11am-12pm.

Dr. Kader Frendi is Professor in the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department at the University of Alabama Huntsville. He obtained his Masters and Ph.D. degrees in Engineering and Applied Mathematics from Brown University. In September 1989, Kader joined Northeastern University as a Visiting Assistant Professor for a year. From September 1990 to August 1999, he worked in the Structural Acoustics Branch of NASA Langley Research Center as a research contractor. Dr. Frendi worked closely with several experimentalists in structural acoustics while developing the various Fluid-Structure-Acoustic interaction models published in well-known journals (Journal of Sound and Vibrations, AIAA, Vibration and Acoustics). He worked on the High Speed Research and Hyper-X programs. Dr. Frendi joined UAH in the fall of 1999. He was tenured and promoted to full professor by 2005 and chaired the MAE department from December of 2007 to December 2010. Dr. Frendi is an Associate editor for the Journal of Propulsion and Power and an Associate Fellow of the AIAA. He is a recipient of the UAH Foundation Research Award and of several NASA appreciation certificates.

Don't forget to RSVP a box lunch ($10 for professionals and $5 for students) by sending a quick email to ASMELunches@gmail.com by noon on Tue, Nov 5th, please. We look forward to seeing you there!