Fracture Mechanics

Ali P. Gordon is an award-winning educator. He serves as a professor for the Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering at the University of Central Florida (UCF) in Orlando, Florida. His research focuses on durability modeling of structural materials in complex service environments. To support these activities, he has been awarded funding from sources such as: NSF, AFRL, NASA, numerous industrial p artners, and more. He has accrued over $7M in funding. Gordon is a four-time awardee of the US Air Force’s Summer Faculty Fellowship participating in ongoing collaborations with colleagues at AFRL in Wright-Patterson, Ohio. He and his students have authored nearly 200 peer-reviewed articles, two of which have been recognized as best papers in American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) journals. In 2021, he was elevated to the rank of Fellow of ASME. Ali has taught 12 different courses and over 5,000 students, and he leads an aerospace-based study abroad course in Brazil as well as the NSF-DoD REU site on Hypersonics. His PhD in Mechanical Engineering is from Georgia Tech. His BS in Mathematics is from Morehouse College.