David L. Darmofal

He/His
MIT Vice Chancellor for Graduate and Undergraduate Education
Jerome B. Wiesner Professor

Contact Info

Office Phone

617.258.0743

Email

darmofal@mit.edu

Office

37-451

Administrative Contact

Pam Fradkin
fradkin@mit.edu
617.258.9729

Financial Contact

Venecia Siders
venecia@mit.edu
617.715.5258
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Affiliated Labs

My wife and I are Heads of House at the wonderful MIT graduate student residence "The Warehouse."

Specialization and Research Interests

My principal areas of interest are computational methods for partial differential equations, especially fluid dynamics; and engineering education innovation.

Teaching Interests

I teach subjects at the undergraduate and graduate level on computational methods and fluid dynamics.

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Academic Degrees

B.S.E., 1989; University of Michigan; S.M. 1991, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Ph.D., 1993, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Society Memberships

American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, American Society for Engineering Education, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics

Awards & Honors

  • Michael M. Byram Distinguished Visiting Professorship, University of Colorado, Boulder, Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences, 2021
  • Undergraduate Advisor Award, MIT American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Student Chapter, 2017
  • Visiting Scholar, Gonville & Caius College, University of Cambridge, 2013
  • Bisplinghoff Faculty Fellow, MIT AeroAstro, 2012
  • Alumni Merit Award, University of Michigan Department of Aerospace Engineering, 2012