Ivana Milanovic
Ivana M. Milanovic is a Serbian and American mechanical engineer and engineering educator. A specialist in the computational fluid dynamics of fluid jets, she is also known for her advocacy of simulation software in the classroom. She is a professor of mechanical, aerospace, and acoustical engineering at the University of Hartford.
Education and career
Milanovic is originally from Čačak and went to school in Belgrade. She earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Belgrade, in 1988, with a thesis involving heat transfer for building-level heating, ventilation, and air conditioning. Next, she worked in industry on geothermal energy and energy-efficient buildings. Returning from 1991 to 1995 to the University of Belgrade as an assistant professor in the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, she began her work in fluid mechanics, earning a master's degree in 1993 under the supervision of Vladan Đorđević.She came to the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute as a doctoral student in 1995, working there with George Vradis, and completed her Ph.D. there in 1999. After a year as a lecturer at Columbia University, she joined the University of Hartford as an assistant professor in 2001. She was promoted to associate professor in 2006 and full professor in 2012.