Lee Langston

Professor Emeritus

Lee Langston received a BSME (1959) from the University of Connecticut, and an MS (1960) and a Ph.D. (1964) from Stanford University. He was with Pratt and Whitney Aircraft as a research engineer working on fuel cells, heat pipes and jet engines from 1964 to 1977.

During these years he also participated in mountain climbing activities in various parts of the world, with a first ascent of Peak T3 in Pakistan. He joined the mechanical engineering faculty at the University of Connecticut in 1977, rising to the rank of Professor in 1983. At UConn he has taught graduate and undergraduate courses in heat transfer and fluid mechanics, with research activities involving the measurement, understanding and prediction of secondary flows in gas turbines. He served as Interim Dean of the School of Engineering in 1997-98 and became Professor Emeritus in 2003.

Lee Langston is a Life Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineering Engineers (ASME), has served as Editor, ASME Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power (2001-2006) and was a member of the Board of Directors of the ASME International Gas Turbine Institute (IGTI).  In 2015 he was the recipient of IGTI’s R. Tom Sawyer Award, for outstanding contributions in the field of gas turbines. For the past twenty years Professor Langston has written a column and a variety of articles on gas turbine technology for IGTI and ASME’s Mechanical Engineering Magazine.

Additional Profile Information

• University of Connecticut- Interim Dean, School of Engineering, The University of Connecticut, Storrs, 1997-98- Professor, 1983-June 2003
• University of Connecticut, School of Engineering, elected to Academy of Distinguished Engineers, 2010.
• ASME Vice President, IGTI, 1997-2000
• ASME Editor, Transactions of the ASME, Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power, 2001-06, with an Editorial Board of six Associate Editors.
• ASME Member of IGTI Board of Directors, 2005-07 and 2012-2014, Treasurer.
• ASME Life Fellow, 2000.
• ASME Dedicated Service Award, 1995.
• ASME R. Tom Sawyer Award, 2015
• Pratt and Whitney Aircraft, United Technologies Corporation, East Hartford, Connecticut 1964-1977- -development work on the first large fan jet engines for the first Boeing 747’s- -heat conduction work for casting of the first single crystal turbine blades and vanes.