William W. Schultz

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schultzProfessor Mechanical Engineering

Joint appointment with Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering
2027 Auto Lab
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2133 USA
734-936-0351
schultz@umich.edu
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Keywords:

Contact Lines; Flows in Material Processing (glass, paper and metals); Swimming; Desalination; Biofluids; Dysphagia; Hydrodynamics Stability; Lubrication; Arc Welding; Laundry Process; Fluid Mechanics Education

Brief Bio:

Bill Schultz received his BSME and MSME from Purdue in 1974 and 1976. He received his PhD in Applied Mathematics from Northwestern in 1982 after spending three years at Owens-Corning Fiberglas. After beginning his teaching career, he has spent the last 25 years in Mechanical Engineering at University of Michigan. He recently finished a three-year term as the Program Director in Fluid Dynamics at the National Science Foundation, Engineering Directorate and has now started a three-year term as the Faculty Director of the Ginsberg Center for Community Service and Learning.

Current Graduate Students:

    • Bosuk Han
    • Srinivasa (Svan) Rajagopalan

Recent Graduate Students:

Recent Visitors:

  • Winter 10 – ME495 Senior Laboratory
  • Fall 09 – ME320 Fluid Mechanics
  • Fall 09 – ME520 Advanced Fluid Mechanics
  • Winter 06 – ENG490-082 Engineering for Community
  • Fall 02,04,05 – ME495 Senior Laboratory
  • Winter 04,05 – ENG490-082 Engineering for Community
  • Fall 03 – ME520 Advanced Fluid Mechanics
  • Winter 03 – ME521 Advanced Fluid Mechanics II
  • Winter 02 – ME626 Singular Perturbations in Fluid Mechanics