Introduction

Ann Dowling is Head of the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge where she is Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Chairman of the University Gas Turbine Partnership with Rolls-Royce. She has held visiting posts at MIT (Jerome C Hunsaker Visiting Professor, 1999) and at Caltech (Moore Distinguished Scholar 2001). Ann Dowling's research is primarily in the fields of combustion, acoustics and vibration and is aimed, in particular, at low-emission combustion and quiet vehicles. She was the UK lead of the Silent Aircraft Initiative, a collaboration between researchers at Cambridge and MIT who have released the conceptual design of an ultra-low noise and fuel efficient aircraft, SAX40.

Ann Dowling is a Fellow of the Royal Society (Council Member), Royal Academy of Engineering (Vice-President 1999-2002) and is a Foreign Associate Member of the US National Academy of Engineering and of the French Academy of Sciences. She has served on a number of industry and government advisory committees, and chaired the Royal Society/Royal Academy of Engineering study on nanotechnology and the Engineering Panel of the UK Research Assessment Exercise, 2008. She was appointed CBE for services to Mechanical Engineering in 2002, DBE for services to Science in 2007, and received an Honorary ScD from Trinity College Dublin in 2008.

Research

Areas of research of include: Acoustics and the Silent Aircraft Initiative.

Publications

A list of some of Professor Dowling's recent publications are available here.

Undergraduate Teaching

Professor Dowling's Teaching notes are available from here.

Contact Information