Teaching

This course introduces students to aircraft longitudinal and lateral static stability, aircraft equations of motion, stability derivatives, longitudinal and lateral dynamic stability of uncontrolled motion, and the design of open-loop and closed-loop aircraft control. Students will be able to: (i) determine the static and dynamic stability characteristics of an aircraft based on its geometrical and inertial properties, (ii) describe the response of an aircraft to basic commands, and (iii) utilize MatLab and Simulink software to describe the aircraft’s flight response.

This course introduces students to the principles of stress and strain, torsion, bending of beams, shearing stresses in beams, compound stresses, principal stresses, deflections of beams, statically indeterminate members, columns. At the conclusion of this course, students should have the ability to: (i) compute stresses, strains, and deformations for structures experiencing tension, compression, torsion, bending, and thermal loads, (ii) combine analyses for different types of loading, and (iii) analyze engineering structures for failure by yielding and buckling.

This course is designed for graduate students with a strong engineering background that want to learn more about the physical and mathematical principles behind experimentation. It will include the fundamentals of optics, optical interferometry, and imaging systems including Digital Image Correlation and Particle Image Velocimetry. It will also include signal processing, and spatial and temporal filtering techniques. The goal of the course is to give students a quantitative appreciation of commonly used experimental methods in mechanics, their applications, limitations and theories. Students will be able to apply the theories learned in lectures to carefully designed laboratory experiments. As such the course is intended for all students with interests in continuum mechanics.

This course is designed to introduce graduate students to various topics within solid mechanics. It’s important to note that this course serves primarily as an overview course rather than an in-depth course on the various subject areas, which include: Continuum Mechanics, Boundary Value Problems in Linear Elasticity, Stress Waves, Linear Viscoelasticity, Plasticity, and an introduction to Large-Deformation Elasticity.

This course is designed for junior and senior undergraduate students with an engineering background that want to learn more about the exciting field of biomechanics and its mathematical and mechanical descriptions of the human body and anatomy. It will include mechanics-based descriptions of muscles, bones, the circulatory system, and biological material properties commonly found throughout the human body. The course will present examples from recent theoretical and experimental research investigations, and teach quantitative tools commonly used by engineers in the field.

Designed for students with a strong engineering background who want to learn more about the mathematical and mechanical descriptions of the cell and its functions. It will include an overview of cell biology emphasizing locomotion, mitosis (cell division), intracellular transport, cellular mechanotransduction, and biological material properties. The course will draw examples from recent theoretical and experimental research investigations, and teach quantitative tools commonly used by engineers in the field.