David Leo, B.S., M.S., P.E.

David Leo is a Licensed Professional Engineer. He earned a Masters of Science Degree in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Southern California and a further Masters of Science Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Northeastern University. He also attended Polytechnic Inst. of Brooklyn, where he received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Aerospace Engineering. Leo received the GE Power Generation Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in 1994.

For the past six years, Leo has specialized, professionally, in the field of gas turbine heat transfer. Prior to that he has an impressive thirty years experience with aircraft jet engines (involving engine testing, rotor dynamics, vibration analysis); industrial compressors (mechanical design, rotor dynamics), submarine steam turbines (structural design, shock, stress and vibration analysis, finite element analysis) and land based gas turbines (heat transfer, fluid flow). He is currently a self-employed consulting mechanical engineer.

He is a Professional Society Member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers & the National Society of Professional Engineers. He teaches a range of courses for DPCS, including a Strength of Materials course, Thermodynamics, Engineering Dynamics, Design of Experiments and the capstone Mechanical course, Senior Design Project.

David Leo has developed and supervised "The Engineers Club" at his local public high school.