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JUAN C. LASHERAS
Pages 234-239

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... Penner Endowed Chair in Engineering or Applied Sciences. Adapted from the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering press release (https://jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/release/3218)
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... burning of multi­component and emulsified fuel droplets. His pioneering work attracted the attention of the Research Department at the Shell Corporation, which hired him as a research scientist in 1981 to direct the combustion group at the Royal Dutch Shell Laboratory in Amsterdam.
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... They were married in the Picos de Europa in Cantabria, Spain, in 1985. Already a renowned experimentalist, Lasheras joined UC San Diego as a professor in the AMES Department in 1991.
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... Students consistently gave him the highest evaluations, he received the MAE department's Teacher of the Year Award on multiple occasions, and he was recognized by the Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society. He was often sought by campus colleagues to serve on academic senate faculty committees.
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... He was a member of the National Academy of Engineering, National Academy of Inventors, and Spanish Royal Academy of Engineering. In 1990 he was elected an APS fellow and shared the François Frenkiel Award for Fluid Dynamics.2 He held honorary doctoral degrees from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.
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