Dr. Leland A. Carlson
After 40 years of excellent service to Texas A&M University, Dr. Leland A. Carlson, Professor of Aerospace Engineering at Texas A&M University retired on May 31, 2009. Now is your opportunity to honor an outstanding academian.
Lee Carlson received hid PhD in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering in 1969 from Ohio State University. He then joined the faculty at TAMU. His primary activities have involved teaching, advising, and research. He served three years in an administrative role as Assistant- Associate Dean of Engineering Undergraduate Programs. He has devoted considerable time and effort to aerospace engineering education accreditation activities with ABET. His research has been in transonic flows, aerothermodynamics, and high altitude balloon and balloon package thermal analysis.
Dr. Carlson is a Fellow of the AIAA, has served on the Career Environment, Academic Affairs, Fluid Dynamics, Applied Aerodynamics, and Plasmadynamics and Lasers technical committees, and has organized many meetings and technical sessions. Locally, he has been treasurer, vice-chairman, and chairman of the Houston AIAA section. He also served on the NASA Langley Wind Tunnel-WIAC peer review panel in 1985 and chaired the Transonic CFD peer review panel in 1989. Dr. Carlson is a Fellow of the American Society of Engineering Education and is the recipient of many teaching awards including the AIAA/ASEE J.Leland Atwood Aerospace Engineering Education Award. He is one of the few faculty who has received the Texas A&M University Former Students Award for Excellence in Teaching three times, once at college level and twice at the University level, first in 1987 and again in 2008. In 2009 he was also awarded the Caterpillar Teaching Excellence Award from the College of Engineering. And finally this year he was chosen by senior students for the Thomas U. McElmurry Excellence in Teaching Award for the sixth time.
Suffice to say, he is an accomplished, much loved teacher who will be greatly misses in the classrooms at the Bright Bldg. His many efforts on behalf of students are exemplified in the preceding paragraphs.
Dr. Carlson and his wife, Mayetta, reside in Montgomery and have two daughters, Dr. Lisa Lyons of Tallahassee, Florida, and Wendy Carlson of Irving, Texas.
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