Background
Bourgin, Patrick Charles was born on April 11, 1951 in St. Etienne, Loire, France. Son of Robert Jean-Louis and Denise Reine Bourgin.
Mechanical engineering educator
Bourgin, Patrick Charles was born on April 11, 1951 in St. Etienne, Loire, France. Son of Robert Jean-Louis and Denise Reine Bourgin.
Dipl.Engr., Ecole Centrale, Lyon, France, 1973. Doctor of Philosophy, Claude Bernard University, Lyon, France, 1979. Doctor of Science, Claude Bernard University, Lyon, France, 1984.
Assistant professor Institut National des Sciences Appliquées, Lyon, 1980-1983. Associate professor Ecole Centrale, 1983-1986. Engineer Rhone-Poulenc, 1986-1990.
Professor Claude Bernard University, 1990-1992, Louis Pasteur University, Strasbourg, 1992-1999, Ecole Superieure de Plasturgie, Oyonnax, France, 1999—2005, managing director, 2000—2005. Deputy director Ecole Centrale de Lyon, 2005—2006, director France, since 2006. Managing director Ecole d'Application des Hauts Polymeres, 1992-1993.
Head aerothermodynamics laboratory Louis Pasteur University, 1998-1999.
Member American Society of Mechanical Engineers (associate), French Mechanical Association.
Married Pascale Michele Pitrat, November 16, 1973. 1 child, Yannick Remi.