BSME 1950 - MIME. Jack Kerrebrock went on from OSU to obtain an MS from Yale and PhD from the California Institute of Technology. He became a faculty member at MIT in 1956, becoming the Richard Cockburn Maclaurin Professor and Head of the Aeronautics and Astronautics Department. His early work was on nuclear rockets, space propulsion and power, and magneto hydrodynamic generators; more recently, on fluid mechanics of turbomachinery for aircraft engines. He is the author of Aircraft Engines and Gas Turbines. He has served as a consultant to government and industry, and on many advisory committees to NASA and DOD. He served as Associate Administrator of NASA's Office of Aeronautics and Space Technology during a leave from MIT. Dr. Kerrebrock has received many honors and awards. He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 1978.