Keith Stein

Job Title

Professor of Physics
Physics & Engineering, College of Arts and Sciences

Highlight

Research interests include student-faculty studies utilizing advanced optical and high-speed video imaging techniques to study a number of applications involving compressible flows, shock waves, and thermal convection.

Started at Bethel

2001

Education

Bethel College - B.A. in Physics, 1987
University of Minnesota - M.S. in Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics, 1989
University of Minnesota - Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics, 1999

Biography

Dr. Stein is a graduate of the Bethel Physics department. After receiving his M.S. in Aerospace Engineering at the University of Minnesota, he accepted a position at the U.S. Army Soldier Systems Center in Massachusetts where his research focused on computational modeling of parachute fluid-structure interactions. As an Army researcher, he was awarded the Department of the Army Research and Development Award and received his Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Stein has been involved in research in the area of computational modeling of parachutes and large displacement fluid-structure interaction and has collaborated with the Team for Advanced Flow Simulation and Modeling (T*AFSM) at Rice University. He has also collaborated with the University of Minnesota Department of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics on simulations of Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) parachute system dynamics. Dr. Stein has served on the advisory board of the International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids and has received the Bethel Excellence in Scholarship Award.