Distinguished Engineering Alumnus
Award Recipient
Tuncer Cebeci — 1990
This distinguished alumnus received his doctorate in Mechanical Engineering in 1964. Soon thereafter he joined Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, California, where he became Technology Advisor to the company's Vice President of Strategic Business and Technology Development. He is also Chairman of the Aerospace Engineering Department, which he founded in 1988 at California State University, Long Beach.
A graduate of Roberts College, Turkey, with a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, he received his M.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Duke University.
His research concerns boundary layer computation, turbulence modeling and interaction of viscous and inviscid flows leading to the development of accurate methods for high-lift systems and wing design. In 1982 he was named Senior Fellow in Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer as the first recipient of the McDonnell Douglas Corporation Engineering and Research Fellow Program.
He was named the first Distinguished Professor in the California State University System, and he received numerous awards including Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He also received the Presidential Science Award from Turkey.
Tuncer Cebeci