Sue Ellen Haupt
 

Professional Experience

Head, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics, Applied Research Laboratory, PSU, 2007-current.
Senior Scientist, Applied Research Laboratory, 2009-current.
Senior Research Associate, Appl.ied Research Laboratory and Associate Professor of Meteorology, Meteorology Department, 2004-2009.
The Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA, 2004-current.  Research in air contaminant dispersion,
computational fluid dynamics, applications of artificial intelligence methods, nonlinear methods in meteorology,
genetic algorithms.  Advise graduate students.

Assistant Professor, Associate Research Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,Utah State University,
Logan, UT, 2000-2004. Research in fluid mechanics, numerical methods,and microdevices.
Teach  Heat Transfer, Thermodynamics II, and Numerical Methods I. 
Associated Faculty,  Environmental Education Program.

Associate Research Professor, Mechanical Engineering, University of Nevada, Reno. 1998-1999.
Externally funded research and teaching engineering courses (fluid mechanics, numerical methods.)

Research Associate, Program in Atmospheric and Oceanic Science, The University of Colorado,
Boulder, CO, 1993-1997.  Principal investigator on National ScienceFoundation funded research
on principal component analysis and inverse models.  Advise graduate students.   Teaching
in Atmospheric Dynamics and Climatology.

Visiting Scholar, Physics Department, US Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, CO, 1996-1997.
Taught Atmospheric Dynamics, Atmospheric Energetics, and Introductory Physics.

Visiting Scientist, National Center for Atmospheric Research,Boulder, CO, 1990-1998.
During this period, many collaborations and office availability atNCAR.

Visiting Faculty, Physics Department, The Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO, Jan.-Feb. 1994.
Taught introductory physics course, concentrating on laboratory learning.

Research Associate, Program in Applied Mathematics, Universityof Colorado, Boulder, CO, 1990-1993.
Principal investigator for National Science Foundation funded researchonnonlinear mathematics in
geophysical fluid dynamics.

Visiting Scientist, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, May-June 1992.

Postdoctoral Fellow, Advanced Study Program, National Centerfor Atmospheric Research,  1988-1990.
Research in coherent structures in geophysical flow. Attended 1988 Enrico Fermi course on Nonlinear
Topics in Ocean Physics in Varenna, Italy.

Graduate Research Assistant, The University of Michigan, AnnArbor, MI, 1984-1987.
Theoretical and numerical models of nonlinear wave equations and nonlinear resonance.

Environmental Engineer, New England Electric System, Westborough, MA, 1982-1984.
Air quality modeling and evaluating environmental issues such as climatechange and acid rain.
Power brokering.

Environmental Scientist, GCA/Technology Division, Bedford, MA,1979-1982.
Application, analysis, and improvement of air quality models. Emission inventories.
Project management.

Research Assistant, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, WoodsHole, MA, 1978-1979.
Participated in Joint Air-Sea Interaction Project, spending 5 weeksat sea in the North Atlantic and
subsequent data reduction.

Student Trainee, National Weather Service, Radar Department,Silver Spring, MD, Summers 1977, 1978.
Implemented quality control procedure for radar reporting. Rewrote part of the Weather Radar Manual.

Grader, The Pennsylvania State University, Mathematics Dept., 1975-1978.
 

Consulting
 
External Panel for DOE review of R&D project at Savannah River National Laboratory, Aiken, SC, Aug. 2006.
 
Professional curriculum development for the Cloudsat Outreach Program, Atmospheric Science Department, Colorado State University, 2002 –2003.