POTSDAM -- Clarkson University President Tony Collins has announced that Douglas Bohl has been promoted from associate professor to professor of Mechanical & Aeronautical Engineering in the Wallace H. Coulter School of Engineering.

Bohl has been a faculty member at Clarkson University since 2006. He received his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Michigan State University in 2002. Following graduation, he worked as a research assistant professor at the U.S. Naval Academy and as a research engineer at the Naval Surface Warfare Center Indian Head Division.

His research interests are in the development and application of new diagnostic techniques for measurement of fluid flows. Bohl has been a part of a multidisciplinary group that developed a novel experimental technique called Molecular Tagging Velocimetry, which can be used to study motion, heat transfer, and mixing in fluids. His experimental work focuses on unsteady aerodynamics, vortex dynamics, multiphase flow fields, mixing and the release and dispersion of volatile/hazardous chemicals.