Sheryl Grace, PhD
ARROWS Internal Advisory Board Member
Sheryl Grace, PhD
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Boston University
Dr. Sheryl Grace is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Boston University. Her research mainly focuses on theoretical and computational unsteady fluid mechanics and acoustics. She has made contributions to the field through her work on inverse methods for source and disturbance identification and aperture and cavity flows. In the past, she has received funding from both GEAE and Boeing for work related to aircraft and engine noise. Recently, with support from the Aeroacoustics Research Consortium, she is developing low-order prediction methods for fan broadband noise. In addition to her aeroacoustics research, she is currently funded by the Dept. of Energy, to develop new submodels for use in computing cavitation in fuel injectors and by the National Science Foundation to improve quadrotor autonomous control by including aerodynamic feedback.
Dr. Grace is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Vibration and Acoustics. She is a past member of the ASME Noise Control and Acoustics Division (NCAD) Executive Committee and was the Division’s Program Chair for the IMECE in 2004. She is an Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) and is active at the national and local level. She is the Faculty Advisor for the student chapter of AIAA at Boston University. Previously, she won the National Faculty Advisor Award, and the Chapter won the most “Outstanding Chapter” Award for their region. Professor Grace was a member of the expert panel to review the health impact of wind turbines for the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection in 2012 and more recently served in a similar capacity for the Council of Canadian Academies.
Professor Grace was instrumental in founding the Women in Science and Engineering Committee at Boston University in 2004, was Co-PI on an NSF ADVANCE PAID grant, and continuously works to improve recruitment and retention of women in science and engineering. For her efforts, she received the INSIGHT Into Diversity Inspiring Women in STEM Award in 2016.