Chris Rogers

I got all three of my degrees at Stanford Univ., where I worked with John Eaton looking at particle motion in a boundary layer flow. From Stanford, I came to Tufts as a faculty member, where I have been for the last 15 years, with a few exceptions. My first sabbatical was spent at Harvard and a local kindergarten looking at methods of teaching engineering. My family and I spent half a year in New Zealand on a Fulbright Scholarship looking at 3D reconstruction of flame fronts to estimate heat fluxes. We went from there to Princeton for a year. I currently work in six different research areas: particle-laden flows (a continuation of my thesis), robotics, slurry flows in chemical-mechanical planarization, the engineering of musical instruments, gene-based assay experiment design, and in elementary school engineering education. This work has been funded by the NSF, NASA, Intel, Boeing, Cabot, Steinway, Selmer, Fulbright, and the LEGO Corporation. Probably the most exciting project was aboard the NASA 0g experimental aircraft where I flew over 700 parabolas without getting sick.

Much of my time is spend developing ROBOLAB, a graphical programming language for LEGO Robots and am currently working on SAM - a software environment to make your own stop action movies for teaching science and engineering.ss for making too much noise.

Most importantly, I have three kids - all brilliant - who are responsible for most of my research interests and efforts.