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J. E. Akin, P.E., Ph.D.
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J. E. Akin, P.E., Ph.D. Professor of Mechanical Engineering,
received his Ph.D. from Virginia Polytechnic Institute. His
fields of interest are finite element analysis and
computer aided design. He is the author of four textbooks.
His research activities involve the use of computer graphics
and computational procedures in computer aided design
of mechanical systems. Dr. Akin is a Fellow of ASME.
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Enrique V. Barrera, Ph.D.
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Enrique V. Barrera, Ph.D., Professor of
Materials Science and Department Chair, received his Ph.D. from the University
of Texas at Austin. In 1993, Dr. Barrera was named an NSF
Young Investigator (NYI). He also received a Hispanic
Engineer National Achievement Awards Conference (HENAAC)
Award for Outstanding Academic Achievement in 1994.
His research interests are in the areas of structure-property
relations and interface science of materials, including
thin films, coatings, and composites. He is a member of
ASM, TMS and MRS.
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Yildiz Bayazitoglu, Ph.D.
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Yildiz Bayazitoglu, Ph.D., Harry S. Cameron Professor in
Mechanical Engineering and Material Science, Professor of
Mechanical Engineering, received her M.S. and Ph.D. from
the University of Michigan. She is a Fellow of ASME,
Liaison of the ASME Heat Transfer Division to the Energy
Technology Conference, and the ASME/MED Heat Transfer
Liaison. She is a member of the U.S. Scientific Committee
for the International Heat Transfer Conference. She is a
recipient of the Society of Women Engineers' National "1997
Distinguished Educator" Award. Her research interests
are in the area of thermal sciences, including
convections stability; thermal properties, radiation
heat transfer; phase change heat transfer; and problems
of combined conduction, convection, and radiation in
manufacturing and materials processing.
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Franz R. Brotzen, Ph.D.
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Franz R. Brotzen, Ph.D., Professor of Materials Science
(Emeritus), has a B.S., M.S., and Ph.D., from Case
Institute of Technology. He has published extensively
in the area of metal physics and electronic materials.
He is an internationally recognized educator in materials
science with visiting faculty appointments at six
universities. He is a Fellow of ASM International, a
Guggenheim Fellow, and a U.S. Senior Scientist awardee.
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Michael M. Carroll, Ph.D.
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Michael M. Carroll, Ph.D., Burton J.
and Ann M. McMurtry Professor of Engineering, received
his B.A. and M.A. from the University of College Galway
(Ireland): Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from Brown
University; D.Sc. from the National University of Ireland.
His research interests are in solid mechanics and
mechanics of porous materials, and he has more than 85
technical publications. He is an Associate Editor of
the Applied Mechanics Review; Stability and Applied Analysis
of Continious Media; International Journal of Nonlinear
Mechanics; and the Journal of Applied Mechanics. He is a
member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences,
American Society of Mechanical Engineers, American
Academy of Mechanics; and LLD (honoris causae), National
Unversity of Ireland.
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Alan J. Chapman, P.E., Ph.D.
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Alan J. Chapman, P.E., Ph.D., Harry S. Cameron Professor
Emeritus of Mechanical Engineering, received his Ph.D.
from the University of Illinois. His primary interests
are in thermal sciences, principally heat transfer,
thermodynamics, and fluid dynamics. His research
interests include radiation heat transfer, heat transfer
and thermal properties of arctic soils, human thermal
comfort and pipeline analysis. Dr. Chapman has received
numerous awards in recognition of his teaching. He is
a Fellow of ASME and Associate Fellow of AIAA.
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Fathi Ghorbel, P.E., Ph.D.
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Fathi Ghorbel, Ph.D., Professor of Mechanical
Engineering, received his B.S. from Pennsylvania State
University, M.S. from Carnegie-Mellon University and
Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Dr. Ghorbel's research interests are in the area of
control systems, robotics, and biomedical systems. He is
a member of ASME, IEEE, IFAC and SIAM.
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Chad M. Landis, Ph.D.
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Chad Landis, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Mechanical
Engineering received his Ph.D. in 1999 from the University of
California, Santa Barbara. Dr. Landis' research interests are in
the mechanics of solid materials. He is interested in developing
nonlinear constitutive laws for the deformation and polarization of
ferroelectric ceramics for use in predicting performance and
reliability of peizoelectric actuators. His interests also include
employing finite element methods to investigate fracture in
ferroelectrics, adhesive joints, polymers, and thin films. Dr.
Landis is a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
and the Society of Engineering Science.
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Rex B. McLellan, Ph.D.
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Rex B. McLellan, Ph.D., Professor of Materials Science,
received his Ph.D. from Leeds University. He is an active
researcher in thermodynamics, kinetics, and statistical
mechanics of metallic solid solutions and is an
internationally recognized authority in his field. He has
published and lectured extensively at universities and
laboratories throughout the world. Dr. McLellan is a
member of the ASM, the AIMME, and the society of
Sigma Xi, and is a Distinguished Scientist of Tau Beta Pi.
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Andrew J. Meade, P.E., Ph.D.
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Andrew J. Meade, P.E., Ph.D. Associate Professor of
Mechanical Engineering, received his M.S. and Ph.D.
degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the University
of California, Berkely. Dr. Meade's research interests
include experimental and numerical study of boundary
layer separation in three-dimensional high speed flow,
the application of finite element methods to
compressible flow problems and computational
intelligence. Member of AIAA, ASME, ASEE.
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Angelo Miele, Ph.D.
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Angelo Miele, R. Eng. Foyt Family Professor Emeritus
of Aerospace Sciences and Mathematical Sciences. Dr.
Miele's research deals with flight mechanics,
astrodynamics, applied aerodynamics, optimization
theory, and numerical methods. He has authored several
books and served as a member of several national
technical committees. Dr. Miele is Editor in Chief
of the Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications,
and Editor of Mathematical Concepts and Methods in
Science and Engineering. He is a Fellow of AIAA and
AAS, and a member of the National Academy of Engineering,
the Russian Academy of Science, and the International
Academy of Astronautics.
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Marcia K. O'Malley, Ph.D.
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Marcia K. O'Malley, Ph.D. Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering, received her Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University. Dr. O'Malley's research focuses on the design, modeling, and control of electromechanical devices and systems. She is interested in the design and control of haptic interfaces and bilateral telemanipulation systems. Her interests also include the development of human-machine interfaces for human-assisted movement and the modeling of human-robot interactions. Dr. O'Malley is a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
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Pol D. Spanos, P.E., Ph.D.
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Lewis B. Ryon Professor of Mechanical Engineering and of Civil Engineering
See P.D. Spanos
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Tayfun E. Tezduyar, Ph.D.
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Tayfun E. Tezduyar, Ph.D., James F. Barbour Professor in
Mechanical Engineering. Dr. Tezduyar received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Caltech and
holds a 1986 NSF Presidential Young
Investigator Award. He was elected a Fellow of the
ASME
in 1994, US Association for
Computational Mechanics in 1999, International Association for Computational Mechanics in 2002, and American Academy of Mechanics in 2004. In 1996, he received, together
with his research team, the Commander's Educational Award for
Excellence from the US Army Soldier Systems Command. He received
the 1997 Computational Mechanics Award of the Japan Society of
Mechanical Engineers, the 1997 Computational Fluid Dynamics Award
of the US Association for Computational Mechanics, and the 1998
Computational Mechanics Award of the International Association for
Computational Mechanics. In 2001, Dr. Tezduyar was awarded an honorary doctorate from Slovak Republic. Dr. Tezduyar's research focuses on computational fluid dynamics, finite element methods, computational mechanics, flows with moving boundaries and interfaces, and fluid-structure interactions.
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Chao-Cheng Wang, Ph.D.
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Chao-Cheng Wang, Ph.D., Noah G. Harding Professor in
Computational and Applied Mathematics and Professor
of Mechanical Engineering. He received his Ph.D. from
Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Wang is a joint member
of the Departments of Mechanical Engineering and
Applied Mathematics. His research interests are primarily
in the mathematical aspects of mechanics, principally
in continuum mechanics. His current research concerns
nonlinear elastic theory of inhomogeneous bodies. He
is a member of AAM, ASME, and the Society for
Natural Philosophy.
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Boris I. Yakobson, Ph.D.
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Boris I. Yakobson, Ph.D., Professor in Materials Science
received his Ph.D. in 1982 from the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Dr. Yakobson's research interests are in theory and modeling of
structure, kinetics, and properties of materials, derived from both
macroscopic and fundamental molecular interactions. Computational
methods and simulation are used to visualize and enhance the
understanding of underlying physics and to identify the efficient
degrees of freedom in complex systems, especially in connecting
different length scales of description. He is an editorial board
member of the Journal of Nanoparticle Researchand a member
of the American Physical Society and the Electrochemical Society.
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