Gearold Johnson

Gearold Johnson is Senior Research Scientist/Scholar, the Emeritus George T. Abell Endowed Chair, and Professor Emeritus in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, CO. He was Academic Vice-President of the National Technological University. He earned degrees from Purdue University: a B.S. in Aeronautical Engineering, a M.S. in Engineering, and a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering. He was a NATO Post-doctoral Fellow at the von Karman Institute for...See more

Gearold Johnson is Senior Research Scientist/Scholar, the Emeritus George T. Abell Endowed Chair, and Professor Emeritus in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, CO. He was Academic Vice-President of the National Technological University. He earned degrees from Purdue University: a B.S. in Aeronautical Engineering, a M.S. in Engineering, and a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering. He was a NATO Post-doctoral Fellow at the von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics in Brussels, Belgium. He was a VisitingProfessor at the University of Kent in Canterbury, England, and at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California. He also taught on four Semester at Sea voyages. Dr. Johnson has published in fluid mechanics; solar energy; atmospheric science; propulsion; optimal control theory; embedded control systems; modeling, simulation and computer assisted engineering; design of programming languages and computer graphics; and curriculum development in engineering education. See less