Jose B. Davila, ph.d.
Associate Professor

B.S.E., Princeton University
M.S., Stanford University
Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin

Phone: (901) 321-3572
E-mail: jdavila@cbu.edu
Office: Nolan 101



Dr. Jose B. Davila obtained a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering at Princeton University in 1978.  He obtained a master's degree in mechanical engineering at Stanford University in 1980, specializing in thermosciences.  During 1980 and 1981 he worked at the University of Puerto Rico's Center for Energy and Environment Research.  In 1990, he finished a doctor of philosophy degree at the Univerisity of Texas at Austin.  His dissertation involved wind-tunnel experiments on transition to turbulence in the wake of a flat plate.  He taught mechanical engineering courses in Nicaragua as a volunteer with the organization Science for the People in 1990 and 1991.  In 1991 he moved to Switzerland and married Nicole Christen.  He worked as a research assistant at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne in 1993 and 1994.  He taught at the University of Puerto Rico (1994-1999), the Interamerican University of Puerto Rico (1999-2001), the University of Vermont (2001-2005), and Trinity College (Hartford, Connecticut, 2005-2007).  Since the fall of 2007, he is associate professor of mechanical engineering at Christian Brothers University.