Office:  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

            Department of Mechanical Engineering

            Building 5-025

            77 Massachusetts Avenue

            Cambridge, MA 02139

Email: truscott at mit dot edu

Phone: (617) 324-7157

 

Tadd T. Truscott received his B.S. degree in mechanical engineering in 2003 from the University of Utah (with Prof. Patrick McMurtry). As an undergraduate researcher, he helped develop and impliment an inertial measurement unit (with Prof. Mark Minor) and was employed by the CSAFE laboratory (with Patrick McMurtry) to run rocket nozzle flow visualizations.  He will receive his Ph.D. in 2009 from The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (with Prof. Alexandra H. Techet) for research in the field of hydrodynamics.  During his graduate studies he studied the affect of wetting angle induced by both dynamic effects and surface treatments on the water entry of spheres.  He also studied the stabilization criterion for the water entry of bullets.  He is currently finishing his Ph.D. and applying for professorships around the world.

 

His research interests span the fields of fluid dynamics, bio-medical flow visualization, ocean-wind-wave renewable energy, micro-fluids, bio-engineering, optics, computational cameras, physics, imaging, flow visualization,  photographic techniques, and  microbiology.