CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY , LONG BEACH
DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL AND AEROSPACE ENGINEERING
Dr. Hamid Hefazi is a Professor of Aerospace Engineering and the Chair of the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department at CSULB. Professor Hefazi received his Ph.D. degree in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Southern California in 1985. He has been involved in a broad range of research activities in fluid mechanics, including geophysical fluid mechanics and computational fluid dynamics (CFD), with emphasis on the computation of transonic flows over complex geometries. His more recent works have been on the application of CFD in turbomachinery, aerodynamic design optimization, aeroacoustics, hydrodynamics, and advanced optimization methods. He has more than 35 papers in various publications and is a senior member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He has been the Principal Investigator for twenty (20) externally funded research projects during the last 8 years, including projects sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Office of Naval research (ONR). Since the year 2000, he has also been the task manager for a multi-year, multi-million dollar project on developing "fast ships" sponsored by the US Transportation Command (USTRANSCOM) and the US Maritime Administration (USMARDA). Currently, he is CO-PI of an ONR sponsored project on the development of offshore stable platforms. He has worked as a consultant for the Prada 2000 America 's Cup challenge in the areas of keel, hull and sail performance for race boats and continued in the same capacity for the 2003 challenge. He is the director of the Computational Research Laboratory at CSULB.
Dr. Hefazi has served as the director of a number of other projects in the College of Engineering, including the Technology Reinvestment Program (TRP), the Employment Training program (ETP) for Boeing, Mattel Inc. and Rocketdyne employees, and two projects sponsored by the California Trade and Commerce Agency. Dr. Hefazi is the director & University representative of the "Boeing Technology Center" located in the College of Engineering and director of the Boeing sponsored "Certificate Program in Aerospace Manufacturing". He is also a member of the California Space Grant Consortium.
