OAEE Faculty Profile:
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Dr. Colin Marks |
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(301) 405-5447 Office |
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| (301) 438-7971 Home | |
| Office Location: Manufacturing Bldg., Rm 1145 | |
| cmarks@umd.edu | |
Biography |
Colin Marks earned BSME and MS degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie-Mellon University) and a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Maryland. He served for in the U.S. Army with the Army Reactor Group where he carried out analyses of closed-cycle, gas-turbine power plants. After serving in the Army, he joined the faculty of the Mechanical Engineering Department at Maryland from which he retired as a Professor and as its Director of Graduate Studies. |
| Professor Marks' area of expertise is thermo-fluids, but he has taught courses in a variety of area and he currently teaches MATLAB and Computer-Aided Engineering Analysis. His main areas of research have been buoyancy-driven flows, with applications ranging from jellyfish and oil-slick barriers to fire-driven flows; tractor-trailer truck aerodynamics; and fluid damping of oscillating structures. |
| Professor Marks is a registered Professional Engineer in the State of Maryland and he is a member of the ASME. |
Courses |
| ENPM 620 Computer-Aided Engineering Analysis |
