Dick K.P. Yue, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Dick K.P. Yue is the Associate Dean of Engineering, the Philip J. Solondz Professor of Engineering, and Professor of Mechanical and Ocean Engineering at MIT. As the number two person in the Office of the Dean of Engineering, he is actively engaged in the overall administration of the School and in its educational and research initiatives. Dick Yue was the originator of the MIT OpenCourseWare concept and its formulation and played a major role in its adoption by MIT. He is the Founding Faculty Director of the Undergraduate Practice Opportunities Program (UPOP), a program that will potentially transform engineering education by providing sophomores with special training and industry-based work experiences. Dick Yue is a long-time MIT'er, having received all his degrees (S.B., S.M. and Sc.D./Ph.D.) from MIT. He has been a faculty member in Ocean Engineering (part of the Department of Mechanical Engineering) since 1983.
Professor Yue is active in research and teaching in marine fluid mechanics and ocean engineering. He directs the Vortical Flow Research Laboratory and co-directs the Ocean Engineering Towing Tank facility. Professor Yue's main research contributions are in theoretical and computational hydrodynamics. He is internationally recognized for his expertise on ocean and coastal wave dynamics and for his extensive work in nonlinear wave mechanics, large-amplitude motions and loads on ships and offshore structures. He has also made fundamental contributions to the understanding of hydrodynamics of fish swimming and to the study of vortical and turbulent flows at the air-sea interface and their effects on interfacial processes. He has authored/co-authored more than two hundred papers and a book on wave hydrodynamics and ocean fluid mechanics.