Billy Allan, Royal Military College of Canada
Associate Professor
lCol
Kingston, Ontario
Billy.Allan@rmc.ca
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(613) 541-6000 ext. 6120
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Dr. Allan joined the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at RMC as an assistant professor and Airforce Major in 2001. Promoted to Associate Professor and to Lieutenant Colonel in 2005, he focused on the development of the establishment of an Aeronautical Engineering Programme at RM...
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Bio/Research
Dr. Allan joined the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at RMC as an assistant professor and Airforce Major in 2001. Promoted to Associate Professor and to Lieutenant Colonel in 2005, he focused on the development of the establishment of an Aeronautical Engineering Programme at RMC. He received his B.Eng. in Mechanical Engineering from Royal Roads Military College and RMC in 1986. His Masters of Applied Science was on external aerodynamics, studying for Prof. G.V. Parkinson at the University of British Columbia. A Rhodes Scholar from B.C., Dr. Allan completed his Doctorate at Oxford studying unsteady aerodynamics on turbomachinery for Dr. Roger Ainsworth of the Osney Laboratory. His Airforce experience included time as a propulsion engineer in Trenton and, having completed the year-long course at Empire Test Pilot's School, Dr. Allan worked for over five (5) years as an Experimental Flight Test Engineer at the Aerospace Engineering Test Establishment in Cold Lake, Alberta. His undergraduate teaching currently includes aircraft performance, aerospace propulsion, and he has taught fluid mechanics, heat transfer and aircraft stability and control in the past. At the graduate level he teaches internal aerodynamics and currently he is researching turbomachinery, internal aerodynamics and gas turbine combustion.
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