Long-time professor of engineering Hiroshi Higuchi died Monday. Higuchi has been teaching aerospace and mechanical engineering at the L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science for 21 years.

 

Higuchi played a leading role in bringing together Syracuse University’s engineering school with Tohuku University in Sendai Japan, according to a news release on L.C. Smith’s website. Higuchi also worked closely with his peers in Japan researching aerodynamics.

 

Laura Steinberg, dean of L.C. Smith, said Higuchi was an ‘outstanding faculty member’ and he was ‘adored by our students and held in the highest regard by all,’ according to the news release.

 

As a professor of aerospace engineering, Higuchi worked with students on the Tango Foxtrot flight simulator, which is used to train students how to fly.

 

Higuchi’s own research also included personal ventilation systems and biofluids. He worked closely with NASA’s Japanese equivalent JAXA, according to the news release. 

 

A wake was held for Higuchi on Friday from noon to 2:30 p.m. at a funeral home in Fayetteville, N.Y.

 

‘This is indeed a great loss for Syracuse University and the worldwide research community of fluid mechanics and aerodynamics,’ said Mark Glauser, associate dean for research and professor in the department of mechanical and aerospace engineering, in the news release. ‘For those of us who have had the privilege of working with Professor Higuchi on various joint research projects and publications over the years, this is a particularly difficult time.’

 

— Compiled by News Editor Beckie Strum, rastrum@syr.edu

Published on November 26, 2010 at 12:00 pm