Faculty/Staff
Prof. Jeffrey D. Moore (jdm343@psu.edu)
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Director of Thermal Science Lab (TSL)
Penn State – Altoona

Prof. Grant A. Risha (gar108@psu.edu)
Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Director of Advanced Combustion and Energetics Lab (ACEL)
Penn State – Altoona

Current Undergraduate Students
Casey Hess (2022-)

Former Undergraduate Students
Alexandra Risha (2021-2023)
Angela Bunk (2022-2023)

Joshua Hollingshead (2019-2022)
Makayla Ianuzzi (2019-2022)

Cedric Wilt (2019-2021)
Cory Curfman (2019-2020)
Sydney Damgaard (2019-2020)
Luke Eckenrode (2018-2020)
Brad Long (2018-2020)
Ben Smith (2018-2019)

Morgan Litzinger (2018-2019)

Dimitris Kiaoulias (2017-2018)

Joshua Gilbert (2016-2018)

Sarah Ismail (2017-2018)
Ivan Zvorsky (2017-2018)
Kaiyre Saunders (2018)
Bryce Brindle (2016-2017)
Brennan Ingalls (2016-2017)
Tyler Tillman (2016-2017)
Justin Bhalla (2017)
Trenton Fortney (2017)
Tyler Holby (2017)
Adam Hoover (2017)
Anthony Huber (2017)
Nicholas Meyers (2017)
Trevor Travis (2017)
Stephen Tomaszewski (2016)

Collaborators
Prof. Richard Yetter (ray8@psu.edu)
Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director of the HPCL
Penn State – University Park

Dr. Eric Boyer (jeb19@psu.edu)
Assistant Research Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Assistant Director and Safety Officer of the HPCL
Penn State – University Park

Future Openings
We are interested in highly motivated undergraduate students with interest/experience in experimental combustion, propulsion, thermal science,and sports science research. Students that have interest in the research detailed on this website please contact Prof. Jeffrey D. Moore (jdm343@psu.edu)