Professor Emeritus
Joint with Aeronautics and Astronautics
Biography
In Memoriam
Remembering Professor Jerry Kevorkian
Professor Kevorkian received his undergraduate degree in Aeronautical Engineering in 1955 from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He pursued his doctoral degree in Aeronautics at the California Institute of Technology, receiving it in 1961. He taught several service courses in addition to more advanced courses on partial differential equations and perturbation theory, topics that he surveyed in two well-known texts with recent second editions. His research interests concerned perturbation techniques for studying nonlinear problems in science and engineering. He was also honored as a Fulbright-Hayes visiting lecturer (Paris)