Joe Floyd Thompson

Background

Thompson, Joe Floyd was born on April 13, 1939 in Grenada, Mississippi, United States. Son of Joe Floyd and Bernice Thompson.

Education

Bachelor of Science, Mississippi State University, 1961. Master of Science, Mississippi State University, 1963. Doctor of Philosophy, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1971.

Career

Aerospace engineer, National Aeronautics and Space Administration Marshall, Huntsville, Alabama, 1963-1964; professor, Mississippi State University, Starkville, since 1964; Distinguished professor aerospace engineering, Mississippi State University, Starkville, since 1995. Member technical review board Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, Maryland., 1993-1995. Director computer code National Grid Project 1993-1996.

Director National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center forComputational Field Simulation, 1990-1995. Director academic team Department of Defense Cewes Major Shared Resource Center, since 1996. Member Presidential Advisory Committee for High Performing Computing and Communications, Information Technology, and the Next Generation Internet, since 1997.

Achievements

• Joe Floyd Thompson has been listed as a noteworthy aerospace engineer, researcher by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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• book

  • Numerical Grid Generation in Computational Fluid Mechanics '88
  • Numerical Grid Generation: Foundations and Applications

Membership

Member Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Computer Society, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (Aerodynamics award 1992), Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.

Connections

Married Emilie Kay Wilson, June 1, 1974. Children: Mardi, Douglass.

Father:

Joe Floyd

Mother:

Bernice Thompson

Spouse:

Emilie Kay Wilson

child:

Douglass Thompson

child:

Mardi Thompson