Rate My Professor Matthew Ringuette

Matthew Ringuette is an Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in Aerospace Engineering in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, a role he has held since 2014 after serving as Assistant Professor from 2008 to 2014. He earned his PhD in Aeronautics from the California Institute of Technology in 2004, with a dissertation on "Vortex Formation and Drag on Low Aspect Ratio, Normal Flat Plates" advised by Professor Morteza Gharib. Ringuette also holds an MS in Aeronautics from Caltech in 2000 and a BS in Aeronautical and Mechanical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1999, where he was awarded the Tau Beta Pi Founders Award.

Prior to UB, he served as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Princeton University from 2005 to 2008. His research focuses on experimental fluid mechanics, vortex dynamics, unsteady aerodynamics, bio-inspired propulsion for autonomous air and underwater vehicles, fluid-structure interactions, and high-speed flow. Ringuette teaches courses including MAE 415 Advanced Fluid Mechanics, MAE 424 Aerodynamics, MAE 515 Fluid Mechanics 1, and MAE 516 Fluid Mechanics 2. He has received the AIAA Associate Fellow election (class of 2023), Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Program Award (2010) for "Flapping-Wing Propulsion Characterized Using Optimal Vortex Formation," SEAS Senior Teacher of the Year (2019), Tau Beta Pi Professor of the Year at University at Buffalo (2010), and honorary membership in Pi Tau Sigma (2009). Key publications include "Aspect Ratio Effects on Rotating Wings: Circulation and Forces" (Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2015), "On Calculating Forces from the Flow Field with Application to Experimental Volume Data" (Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2014), "Vortex Formation and Saturation for Low-Aspect-Ratio Rotating Flat-Plate Fins" (Experiments in Fluids, 2012), and "Role of the Tip Vortex in the Force Generation of Low-Aspect-Ratio Normal Flat Plates" (Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2007).