Faculty

Scott L. Thomson

Assistant Professor

Office: 435C CTB
Phone: 801-422-4980
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Office Hours:

M-W,F

2:00pm

3:00pm

Mailing Address:
Department of
Mechanical Engineering
Brigham Young University
435 CTB
Provo, UT 84602

Introduction

Scott Thomson joined the Mechanical Engineering Department after receiving his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Purdue University in 2004. His primary area of research involves the biomechanics and flow-induced vibrations of the human larynx (particularly the vocal folds). This work is funded by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). He is also interested in fluid mechanics and acoustics. He is actively involved with the BYU Acoustics Research Group, a group of several full-time faculty and students primarily from the Mechanical Engineering and Physics departments. His research interests include modeling the flow-induced vibrations of the vocal folds and characterizing head and neck skin vibration during speech. His work includes both experimental and computational components. He is the recipient of a national Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (2000-2003) and an ASME Graduate Teaching Fellowship (2000-2004).