• Chair, Mechanical, Aerospace, and Structural Engineering

David Peters

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• Ph.D. in Aeronautics and Astronautics at Stanford University
• S.M. in Applied Mechanics at Washington University
• Sc.B. in Applied Mechanics at Washington University

Peters received bachelor's and master's degrees in applied mechanics at the University in 1969 and 1970, respectively. He worked for McDonnell Astronautics Co. in St. Louis, working on several space vehicles, including NASA's Skylab. He also worked as a research scientist at NASA Ames Research Center in California. He received a Ph.D. in aeronautics and astronautics at Stanford University in 1974 and returned to Washington University in 1975 to begin his academic career as an assistant professor of mechanical engineering, working up through the ranks and becoming department chair in 1982. In 1985, Peters joined the Georgia Institute of Technology as professor of aerospace engineering in the Center of Excellence for Rotorcraft Technology. He became associate director of the center and the founding director of the Georgia Space Grant Consortium, a NASA-funded center. He returned to Washington University as a professor of mechanical engineering in 1991, becoming director of the Center for Computational Mechanics in 1992 and then, once again, department chair in 1997. He remains an adjunct professor at Georgia Tech and associate director of their rotorcraft center.