Dr. Shi Tsan Wu

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Wall of Honor Level:
Air and Space Friend

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Dr. Shi Tsan Wu is the Founder & Director for the Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research (CSPAR) and the Institute for Space Physics, Astrophysics and Education (ISPAE) and Distinguished Professor of the University of Alabama System, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, The University of Alabama in Huntsville. S.T. has served at The University of Alabama in Huntsville for more than 30 years.
A native of China, Dr. Wu did his undergraduate work at the National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan in 1955 after which he traveled to Chicago to complete his M.S. in Mechanical Engineering at the Illinois Institute of Technology. He completed the Ph.D. in 1967 at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He also spent two years at the Division of Engineering and Applied Physics of Harvard University and the Plasma Laboratory of Princeton University.
Dr. Shi Tsan Wu has been internationally and nationally recognized for his pioneering work in establishing solar-terrestrial relationships and for the initial work on numerical magneto hydrodynamic modeling of these relationships.