Scott Eberhardt earned his undergradute degree at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1980 in the field of Aeronautics and Astronautics, followed by a Master's Degree in the same field and institution in 1981. He then continued his studies at Stanford University, where he was awarded his Ph.D. in 1985 in Aeronautics and Astronautics.
Professor Eberhardt gained additional experience as a research scientist for the NASA Ames Research Center in the time from 1984-1986, and the joined the UW Aeronautics and Astronautics department in 1986.
He was a Presidential Young Investigator for the National Science Foundation from 1987 until 1992, and was honored as the Academic Engineer of the Year, by the Puget Sound Engineering Council in 1997. In addition, Professor Eberhardt has received funding from the Office of Naval Research, the National Science Foundation, Northrup, Rockwell International, Boeing and Cray Research. As a member of the A.I.A.A., Dr. Eberhardt has helped organize conferences and was General Chairman of the 30th Aerospace Sciences Meeting.
Research Activities
Professor Eberhardt recently consulted with the Museum of Flight's new Personal Courage Wing, which opened June 6, 2004. As a result of this work, Professor Eberhardt has become actively invovled researching the history of aviation. A recent AIAA paper summarizes some of this work: Performance Analysis and Tactics of Fighter Aircraft from WWI
Professor Eberhardt is a Center for the Advancement of Engineering Education (CAEE) scholar for the year 2004-2005.
Professor Eberhardt has published a book, with Dr. David Anderson, which targets the general public. The book is entitled Understanding Flight, McGraw-Hill, New York, 2001,2010 and is in its second edition. (Reviews) The book began as a series of papers, the first of which, was originally written for the Feb. 1999 issue of Sports Aviation. The paper was titled How Airplanes Fly: A Physical Desciption of Lift, and has been updated and is available online (in PDF format, in Italian PDF, in Spanish PDF, in Japanese PDF and in French HTML). A slightly more technical paper, which targets physics students and teachers, titled The Newtonian Description of Lift of a Wing, is also available online (in PDF format), and an appendix on misapplications of Bernoulli (in PDF).
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