You can call or write to:

Ian H. Leslie
New Mexico State University
Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
POBox 30001/Dept 3450
Las Cruces, NM 88003-8001

Voice Phone: (575) 646-2335
FAX Phone: (575) 646-6111

You can reach me by e-mail at: ileslie@nmsu.edu

Education

• Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, 1984.
• M.S. Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, 1977.
• B.S. Mechanical Engineering, University of California, 1976.

Professional Experience

• 1984 - Present Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico.
• Summer 1989 NASA Faculty Fellow, White Sands Test Facility, Las Cruces, New Mexico. Worked on transient compressible flow calculations.
• June 1975 - September 1975 Assistant Engineer, Precision Founders, Oakland, California. Duties included design and drafting as it related to foundry equipment.

Recent Publications

• I.H. Leslie, N.R. Aukland and D. Jernigan, `Failure Mechanisms and Test Criteria for Push Button Switches at Logic Level Conditions' presented at the 43rd International Relay Conference, April 24-26, 1995, Oak Brook, Il.
• N. Aukland, I. Leslie, H. Hardee, and P. Lees, `A Statistical Comparison of a Clad Material and Gold Flashed Palladium-Nickel Under Various Fretting Conditions', presented at the 41st IEEE Holm Conference on Electrical Contacts, Montreal, Canada, October 2-4, 1995, also published in proceedings.
• Ian H. Leslie, P.R. Smith and D. Bruce, `Diesel Pool Fire Burn Rates in Cross-Winds' presented at the 1995 ASME International Congress and Exposition, San Francisco, CA, November 12-17, 1995.
• P.Smith, E.Hensel, I. H. Leslie, J. Johnson, J.Glover, T.Schultheis, J.Walls, and W.Gregory, `Nuclear Waste Repository Ventilation System Studies', Chapter 16 in Waste Management: From Risk to Remediation, Volume 1, Eds. R.Bhada, T.Ward, A.Ghassemi, M.Jamshidi, and M.Shahinpooor, January 1995.
• P.R. Smith, E. Hensel, I.H. Leslie and C. Ricketts, `Experimental Verification of Revised FIRAC', Proceedings of the 1995 WERC TDC Conference, Las Cruces, NM, April, 1995.
• I.H. Leslie and S.T. Holbrook, 'Reforming and Gasification Technology for the Destruction of Wastes', in Radioactive Waste Management and Environmental Restoration, Vol. 18, Nos. 1-2, (1994).
• P.R. Smith, I.H. Leslie, E.C. Hensel, T.M. Schultheis, J.R. Walls, and W.S. Gregory 'Nuclear Waste Repository Ventilation System Studies', accepted for publication in Radioactive Waste Management and The Nuclear Fuel Cycle, Vol. 17, Nos. 3-4, (1993).
• I.H. Leslie and S.T. Holbrook, 'Fuel Rich Combustion of Chlorinated Hydrocarbons', Proceedings of the 1993 WERC TDC Conference, April 22-23, 1993.
• E. Hensel, J.W. Glover, P.R. Smith and I.H. Leslie, 'Ventilation System Simulation Studies', Proceedings of the 1993 WERC TDC Conference, April 22-23, 1993.
• P.R. Smith and I.H. Leslie, 'Non-Linear Dynamic Parameter Measurement-- Phase I', Final Report, ASL at WSMR, March, 1992.
• I.H. Leslie and S.T. Holbrook, 'Thermal Technology for the Destruction of Waste', Paper presented at the ECM-91 Conference, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
• I.H. Leslie, 'Thermodynamic and fluid Mechanic Analyses of Rapid Pressurization in a Dead-End Tube', Flammability and Sensitivity of Materials in Oxygen-Enriched Atmospheres: Fifth Volume, ASTM STP 111, Joel M. Stoltzfus and Kenneth McIlroy, Eds., 1991.
• W.S. Gregory, R.A. Martin, B.W. White, B.D. Nichols, P.R. Smith, I.H. Leslie, D.L. Fenton, M.V. Gunaji, J.P. Blythe, 'Fires in Large Scale Ventilation Systems', Nuclear Engineering and Design , Vol. 125:337-345 (1991).
• P.R. Smith, I.H. Leslie and E.C. Hensel, 'Investigation of Salt Loaded HEPA filters.', Proc. 21st DOE/NRC Air Cleaning Conf., San Diego, CA, August 1990, (366-374).
• M. Gunaji, R. Pederson, and I. Leslie, 'A Numerical Study of Natural Convection over a Finite Heated Disc.', in ASME publication HTD-Vol. 140, Fundamentals of Convection. Presented at the 5th AIAA/ASME Thermophysics and Heat Transfer Conference, Seattle, WA, June 18-20, 1990.
• P.R. Smith and I.H. Leslie, 'Pool Fires in Large Scale Ventilation Systems.' Proc. 21st DOE/NRC Air Cleaning Conf., San Diego, CA, August 1990, (844-858).
• P.R. Smith, I.H. Leslie and W. Gregory, 'Fires in Large Scale Ventilation Systems', Proceedings of Fire Safety of Nuclear Powered Plants Seminar, SMIRT-10, Anaheim CA., August 1989.
• P.R. Smith and I.H. Leslie, 'Kerosene Pool Fire Tests.', Final Report to Los Alamos National Laboratory, Contract No. 9-x3-1712d-1, May 1989.
• I. Leslie, M. Jost, C. Kruger, 'Measured and Predicted Char Reactivity of Three U.S. Coals', Combustion and Flame 78, 195203 (1989).
• W.S. Gregory, B.D. Nichols, B.W. White, P.R. Smith, I.H. Leslie, and J.R. Corkran, 'Fire Aerosol Experiments and Comparison with Computer Code Predictions', 20th DOE/NRC Nuclear Air Cleaning Conference, Boston, MA, August 2225, 1988.
• I. Leslie, 'Flow Scaling Laws for PESL', Final Report for Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico, Contract No. 1-4-23216, Oct. 1985 to Dec. 1986.
• M. Jost, I. Leslie, and C. Kruger, 'Flow-tube Reactor Studies of Devolatilization of Pulverized Coal in an Oxidizing Environment,' 20th Symposium (Inter.) on Combustion, August 1984, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
• M. Jost, I. Leslie and C. Kruger, 'Oxidation Reactivity of Pulverized Montana Rosebud and Illinois No. 6 Coal During Combustion', Summer National Meeting of the AIChE, August 29 -September 1, 1982, Cleveland, Ohio.

Scientific Societies

• American Society of Mechanical Engineers
• Combustion Institute

Honors and Awards

• Member, Phi Beta Kappa
• Dynamic Driveshaft Teaching Award, 1988.