Speaker

Leigh McCue is a Professor and Chair of George Mason University’s Department of Mechanical Engineering.  From June 2015-December 2018 she was the executive director of the American Society of Naval Engineers. Prior to that, from December of 2004 through May of 2015, she was an Assistant, then Associate Professor in Virginia Tech’s Department of Aerospace and Ocean Engineering. Her research interests are in maritime robotics, nonlinear and chaotic vessel dynamics, and computational fluid dynamics, coupled with an emphasis on nurturing the future STEM workforce.