Dr. Combs is the Dee Howard Endowed Associate Professor in Aerodynamics in the UTSA Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, & Industrial Engineering, where he is the Director of the Aerospace Engineering program, Director of the Center for Advanced Measurements in Extreme Environments, Director of the UTSA Hypersonics Lab, and Associate Dean for Research in the Klesse College of Engineering & Integrated Design. He holds a BS degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Evansville and a Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin where he was a NASA Space Technology Research Fellow.