Dr. Andreas N. Alexandrou
	Andreas Alexandrou is currently the interim Department Head of the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at the University of Cyprus. Prior to this appointment he was Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute and Director of the Semisolid Metal Processing Center. He received the B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering (1982) from the American University of Beirut while on U.S.AID/Fullbright scholarship. At the University of Michigan he earned M.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering (1983) and Civil Engineering (1985), and the Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering (1986). His research interests and contributions are in basic fluid flows, fluid mechanic applications in material processing, and microgravity and wake flows. He has well over 80 scientific publications and numerous presentations to his credit. In addition to co-authoring Viscous Fluid Flow, he has authored Principles of Fluid Mechanics, an undergraduate book in Fluid Mechanics. He received the 1992 WPI Board of Trustee's Award for Outstanding Teaching, the 1993 Morgan Distinguished Instructorship Award, and the 1996 Russel M. Searle Teacher of the Year Award in Mechanica Engineering.
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