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School Office: Building 17, Level 2
Telephone: +61 2 626 88580
Fax: +61 2 626 88276
E-mail: seit@adfa.edu.au

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Staff Biography - Dr John Young

Dr John Young

Senior Lecturer

BE (Aero) (Hons) (Sydney), PhD in School of Aerospace, Civil and Mechanical Engineering at ADFA.

Building 17 Room 216  
Telephone: (+61) 2 626 88261  
Fax: (+61) 2 626 88581 
Email: j.young@adfa.edu.au  

Link to personal website  


Additional Experience

  • Senior Lecturer, UNSW@ADFA (2008 – present) - Computational fluid dynamics, thermodynamics and fluid mechanics, aerodynamics, refrigeration, statics and dynamics, aeromechanical systems, computer programming, mathematics.
  • Lecturer, UNSW@ADFA (2001-2008)
  • Visiting Scholar, Wolfson College, University of Oxford (2007)
  • Aeronautical Engineer, Royal Australian Air Force (1992 - 2001) - Structural fatigue flight test, requirements analysis, specification development, tender evaluation and source selection, structural integrity, flight performance, stability and control, reliability and maintainability, aircraft systems integration.

Administration Duties

  • Senior Lecturer/Aeronautical Coordinator (S2)

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