Margaret Wooldridge
Margaret Wooldridge received her B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Champaign/Urbana in 1989. She received her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University in 1991 and 1995, respectively.
Professor Wooldridge came to the University of Michigan in 1998, where she is currently a Professor in the Departments of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. Prior to that, she was on the faculty in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Texas A&M University from 1995 to 1998.
Dr. Wooldridge's research program spans diverse areas of the energy sector, with an emphasis on systems where high-temperature chemically reacting systems are critical, including advanced power and propulsion systems (including internal combustion and gas turbine engines), renewable and fossil fuel chemistry and exhaust gas clean-up.
Dr. Wooldridge's studies have had widespread impact. Her research results include the first documented observation of ignition regimes that are critical to the recent emphasis on lean burn technologies and the first flame synthesis of single-crystal tin dioxide nanorods, which are promising materials for lean burn catalyst applications. She is the author of over 30 book chapters and peer-reviewed publications on these subjects.
Dr. Wooldridge's research results have been nationally recognized by her receipt of the prestigious National Science Foundation Career Award, the Pi Tau Sigma Gold Medal Award from the American Society of Mechanical Engineering, the Society of Automotive Engineers J. Cordell Breed Award for Women Leaders and a highly competitive Honda Initiation Grant Award.
Margaret Wooldridge is a MMPEI Faculty Fellow.