DDML - Key Persons
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- Student Shop Supervisor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
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- Academic Advisor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
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- Senior Manager, Aerodynamics, BR & T
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- Laboratory Supervisor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
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- Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Biography
Ahmet Kahraman is the Winbigler Designated Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the Ohio State University. He is the Director of the Gear and Power Transmission Research Laboratory (GearLab) and its industrial consortium of more than 75 companies. He also directs Pratt & Whitney Center of Excellence in Gearbox Technology. He received his Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Ohio State in 1990. He worked for General Motors for 10 years before moving to academia. His research focuses on several areas of power transmission and gearing including gear system design and analysis, gear and transmission dynamics, gear tribology and efficiency, wear and fatigue life prediction, and test methodologies. He authored more than 250 papers on various aspects of gear and power transmission research. He serves on the editorial boards of Journal of Sound and Vibration, and Journal of Multi-body Dynamics. He is a fellow of ASME. He is the recipient of OSU's Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching.
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- Manager, Academic Advising, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
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- Laboratory Supervisor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
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- Academic Advisor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
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- Program Assistant, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
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- Graduate Program Coordinator, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
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- Finance Manager, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
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- Fiscal Associate, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
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- Director, Mechanical Engineering Program
- Professor
Professor Castro received his Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Mechanical Engineering both from the Ohio State University and his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was post-doctoral fellow at the Technische Universität München working in structural DNA nanotechnology. Dr. Castro joined OSU in 2011 as a faculty member and is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and a faculty member of the OSU Biophysics Graduate Program. His research focuses on the self-assembly of DNA nanodevices for biophysical and biomedical applications. Dr. Castro's laboratory has pioneered the use of engineering mechanics and design approaches for the development of DNA nanomachines with complex motion, dynamic behavior, and programmed stimulus response. A major goal of his current research is to develop nanodevices for measurement, manipulation, and drug delivery in biological systems. He has received honors including OSU research and teaching awards, an NSF CAREER award, an Alexander von Humboldt fellowship, and a Fulbright Research Scholar Award.
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DNA nanotechnology, single molecule biophysics, molecular and cellular mechanics
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- Associate Chair for Research
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- MAE Shops Supervisor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
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- Manager, Academic Advising, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
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- Retired, VP of Operations, Mobile Hydraulics / Aeroquip
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- Endowed Chair, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
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- Nuclear Fuel Services / Retired President
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- Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff and Distinguished Inventor
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- Office Admin Associate, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
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- Faculty Emeritus, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
- Professor
Dr. Bharat Bhushan is an Academy Professor and has served as an Ohio Eminent Scholar and The Howard D. Winbigler Professor in the College of Engineering, Director of the Nanoprobe Laboratory for Bio- & Nanotechnology and Biomimetics (NLB 2), and affiliated faculty in John Glenn College of Public Affairs at the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. He received an M.S. in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1971, an M.S. in mechanics and a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1973 and 1976, respectively, an MBA from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute at Troy, NY in 1980, Doctor Technicae from the University of Trondheim at Trondheim, Norway in 1990, a Doctor of Technical Sciences from the Warsaw University of Technology at Warsaw, Poland in 1996, Honorary Doctor of Science from the National Academy of Sciences, Gomel, Belarus in 2000, University of Kragujevac, Serbia in 2011, and University of Tyumen, Russia in 2019. He is a registered professional engineer. In 2013-14, he served as ASME/AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellow, House Committee on Science, Space & Technology, United States Congress, Washington, DC. He has served as Expert Investigator on IP related issues in the U.S. and International Courts. His research interests are in Fundamental studies in the interdisciplinary areas of Bio/nanotribology/nanomechanics, Nanomaterials Characterization, Scanning Probe Techniques, Magnetic Storage, Bio/nanotechnology, Nanomanufacturing, Bioinspired Liquid Repellency, Self-cleaning, Anti-icing, Anti-fouling, and Water Harvesting, Science and Technology Policy. He is an internationally recognized expert of bio/nanotribology and bio/nanomechanics using scanning probe microscopy, and biomimetics. He is considered by some one of the pioneers of the tribology and mechanics of magnetic storage devices, nanotribology, green tribology, and biomimetics. He had introduced the word nanotribology in a title of a Nature paper in 1995 and in a title of a first book on green tribology in 2010. He is one of the most prolific authors. He has authored 10 scientific books, 100+ handbook chapters, and 900+ scientific papers. He is Google Scholar's one of 1248 Highly Cited Researchers in All Fields, h-index - 141+ with 100 k+ citations; Scopus's one of 401 Scientists for Career-long Citation Impact Across All Fields out of over 8 million scientists from around world; Fourth Highly Cited Researcher in Mechanical Eng.; and ISI Highly Cited Researcher in Materials Science and in Cross-field Category. His research was listed as the Top Ten Science Stories of 2015. . He has also edited more than 60 books and holds more than 25 U.S. and foreign patents. He is co-editor of Springer NanoScience and Technology Series and co-editor of Microsystem Technologies. He has given more than 400 invited presentations including 300+ keynote/plenary addresses at major international conferences on six continents. He delivered a TEDx 2019 lecture on Lessons from Nature.
His biography has been listed in over two dozen Who's Who books including Who's Who in the World. He has received more than two dozen awards for his contributions to science and technology from professional societies, industry, and U.S. government agencies including International Tribology Gold Medal and Institution of Chemical Engineers (UK) Global Award for bioinspired surfaces. He received NASA's Certificate of Appreciation to recognize the critical tasks performed in support of President Reagan's Commission investigating the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident. He is also the recipient of various international fellowships including the Alexander von Humboldt Research Prize for Senior Scientists, Max Planck Foundation Research Award for Outstanding Foreign Scientists, and Fulbright Senior Scholar Award. He is foreign member of the International Academy of Engineering (Russia), Byelorussian Academy of Engineering and Technology and the Academy of Triboengineering of Ukraine, honorary member of the Society of Tribologists of Belarus and STLE, fellow of ASME, IEEE, and the New York Academy of Sciences, and member of ASEE, Sigma Xi and Tau Beta Pi.
He is an accomplished organizer. He organized the Ist Symposium on Tribology and Mechanics of Magnetic Storage Systems in 1984 and the Ist Int. Symposium on Advances in Information Storage Systems in 1990, both of which are now held annually. He organized two international NATO institutes in Europe. He is founder of an ASME Information Storage and Processing Systems Division founded in 1992 and served as founding chair during 1993-1998.
He has previously worked for Mechanical Technology Inc., Latham, NY; SKF Industries Inc., King of Prussia, PA; IBM, Tucson, AZ; and IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA. He has held visiting professorship at University of California at Berkeley, University of Cambridge, UK, Vienna University of Technology, Austria, University of Paris, Orsay, ETH Zurich, EPFL Lausanne, Univ. of Southampton, UK, Univ. of Kragujevac, Serbia, Tsinghua Univ., China, Harbin Inst., China, and KFUPM, Saudi Arabia.
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- Owner
- Associate Professor of Practice and Aerospace Engineering Program Director for the Department of Mechanical
- Director, Aerospace Engineering Program
- Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Dr. Clifford Whitfield is Associate Professor of Practice and Aerospace Engineering Program Director for the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. He has been a faculty member at Ohio State since 2009. He received his B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering at Ohio State before joining the department as a faculty of practice.
Dr. Whitfield is Owner and Design and Test Engineer for Whitfield Aerospace LLC. His professional practice provides design and testing support of novel aircraft enabled by new methods and technologies, and provides exciting avenues for graduate and undergraduate student research in his design research group.
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Flight vehicle conceptual and preliminary design
Aircraft configuration layout design and drafting
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- Associate Professor
- the Honda Chair for Transportation, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Dr. Lian Duan is an associate professor and holder of Honda endowed chair in transportation in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the Ohio State University (OSU). Before he joined OSU in September 2019, he was an assistant professor at Missouri University of Science and Technology from 2013 to 2019 and worked as a research scientist at the National Institute of Aerospace and NASA Langley Research Center from 2010 to 2013. He received his Ph.D. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Princeton University in 2011. Duan has held research grants with NSF, AFOSR, ONR, NASA, Sandia National Laboratory, and Honda R&D Americas on topics including (but not limited to) hypersonics, flow instability and transition, turbulence modeling and control, high-performance and data-driven computing, and automotive aerodynamics and aeroacoustics. The significance of his research has been recognized with several accolades including the 2017 Henry J. E. Reid Award (NASA Langley's top award recognizing technical excellence in research publications), 2014 AFOSR Young Investigator Award, 2015 AIAA St. Louis Section Young Professional Engineer Award, and multiple mentions in the annual highlights of Fluid Dynamics research in Aerospace America.
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Current Appointments
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- Fiscal Associate, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
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- Senior Academic Advisor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
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- Ford Motor Company Chair
- the Ford Motor Company Chair in Electromechanical Systems, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Giorgio Rizzoni, the Ford Motor Company Chair in ElectroMechanical Systems, is a Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The Ohio State University (OSU). He received his B.S. (ECE) in 1980, his M.S. (ECE) in 1982, his Ph.D. (ECE) in 1986, all from the University of Michigan. Since 1999 he has been the director of the Ohio State University Center for Automotive Research (CAR), an interdisciplinary university research center in the OSU College of Engineering. His research activities are related to modeling, control and diagnosis of advanced propulsion systems, vehicle fault diagnosis and prognosis, electrified powertrains and energy storage systems, vehicle safety and intelligence, and sustainable mobility. He has contributed to the development of graduate curricula in these areas, and has served as the director of three U.S. Department of Energy Graduate Automotive Technology Education Centers of Excellence: Hybrid Drivetrains and Control Systems (1998-2004), Advanced Propulsion Systems (2005-2011, and Energy Efficient Vehicles for Sustainable Mobility (2011-2016). Between 2011 and 2016 he served as the OSU Site Director for the U.S. Department of Energy China-USA Clean Energy Research Center - Clean Vehicles. He is currently leading an ARPA-E project in the NEXTCAR program. During his career at Ohio State, Prof. Rizzoni has directed externally sponsored research projects funded by major government agencies and by the automotive industry in approximately equal proportion. Prof. Rizzoni is a Fellow of SAE (2005), a Fellow of IEEE (2004), a recipient of the 1991 National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award, a Fellow of ASME (2022) and of many other technical and teaching awards.
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- Communications Assistant, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
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- Communications Specialist, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Jami J. Shah is Honda Professor of Engineering Design at Ohio State. He was previously Professor of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering at Arizona State. He earned a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering. He is the co-author of 2 US patents, 2 books, and 300+ peer reviewed technical papers. He is the founding chief editor of ASME Transaction, the Journal of Computing & Information Science in Engineering (JCISE), Area Editor of Research in Engineering Design and Co-Chief Editor of Journal of Computational Design & Engineering. He was elected Fellow of ASME in 2001. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the 2008 ASME Design Automation award, Siemens PLM Engineering Education Excellence Award 2009 and the ASME CIE Lifetime Achievement Award given in 2012.
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Data Science; Applied Machine Learning; Computer aided design and analysis, Design computing & software development, Artificial Intelligence & Knowledge based Systems (AI/KBS) applied to design/manufacturing problems, DfM, geometric tolerance modeling, engineering informatics, Simulation software/FEA, Design theory & methodology, Cognitive studies of creativity & ideation.
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Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
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- Endowed Chair, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering / Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering / Professor, Center for Aviation Studies
John M. Horack, Ph.D., is the inaugural holder of the Neil Armstrong Chair in Aerospace Policy at The Ohio State University, with tenured, full-professor appointments in the College of Engineering's Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering department and the John Glenn College of Public Affairs. A 30-year veteran of the spaceflight industry, Dr. Horack also currently serves as He also serves as the Senior Associate Dean of Engineering at Ohio State, and is a globally-recognized leader in space-based research, flight hardware development, program management, and space policy.
Prior to joining Ohio State in 2016, he served for four years as Vice President of Teledyne Brown Engineering's Space Systems group in Huntsville, Alabama, with responsibility for overseeing all government and commercial Space programs, including Science, International Space Station Payload Operations, Test Support, Flight Hardware, Launch Vehicle and Component Development, and Earth Imaging, including the deployment of the MUSES commercial imaging platform to the ISS and the installation of state-of-the-art Hyperspectral instrumentation for commercial remote sensing.
From 2009-2012 Dr. Horack served as Vice President of Research for UAHuntsville, where he had fiscal oversight for the entire University's research enterprise, including 14 research centers and laboratories, growing annual research expenditures from $65M to nearly $100 million.
Dr. Horack had an impressive career at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) having achieved the level of Senior Executive Service. His last position at NASA was as manager of the Science and Mission Systems Office, where he was responsible for advanced, complex science and exploration research and nearly 400 civil service personnel and contractors. For work in this role, he was awarded the NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal. He held several titles while at MSFC, including assistant director of the Space Transportation Programs and Projects Office, assistant director for science communications in the Space Sciences Laboratory, and assistant mission scientist for the Astro-2 payload that flew on the Space Shuttle Endeavour.
Dr. Horack also held the positions of gamma ray astrophysics research scientist; assembly, test, and calibration scientist for the Burst and Transient Source Experiment (BATSE); and resident scientist for spacecraft integration at TRW in Redondo Beach, CA, for assembly and test of the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory, launched in April 1991 aboard Space Shuttle Atlantis.
He began his NASA career in 1987 after graduating from Northwestern University with a B.A. in physics and astronomy. He earned a M.A. and Ph.D. in physics from UAHuntsville in 1992 and 1993, respectively.
He has authored or co-authored more than 100 papers and conference presentations. Dr. Horack has spoken at numerous universities, research institutes, and industrial organizations, and served a term as a Vice President of the International Astronautical Federation. He is also a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Astronomical Society, and an Associate Fellow of the American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics. In April 2020, Dr. Horack was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society (UK).
In February 2020, Dr. Horack summited Mount Kilimanjaro with a team of Clean Water advocates from The Ohio State University Global Water Institute, Waterboys.org, players and veterans from the National Football League, and Disabled Combat Veterans as part of the Waterboys' "Conquering Kili 2020" efforts to bring clean water solutions to Tanzania. The OSU Global Water Institute has been instrumental in development of the technology and business model around these solutions, enabling sustainable fresh-water for tens of thousands in Tanzania.
In addition, Dr. Horack is an FAA licensed private pilot with instrument and commercial pilot ratings, and earned an FAA flight instructor rating.
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- Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering / Professor, Materials Science and Engineering / Professor, Physics
Joseph P. Heremans is a condensed matter experimental physicist at The Ohio State University where he holds a chair as Ohio Eminent Scholar and Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, with courtesy appointments in the Department of Physics and Department of Materials Science and Engineering. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering. His research focuses on magneto-transport and thermal transport properties of electrons, phonons, and spin in narrow-gap semiconductors, semimetals, nanostructures, goniopolar materials, ferromagnetic and ferroelectric solids and quantum materials. Prior to OSU, Heremans worked as a research scientist and section manager at GM Research Lab from 1984-1998. From 1999-02005 he was a technical fellow at the Delphi Research Labs. He co-authored over 260 publications in refereed journals and conference proceedings. His work has garnered significant attention and has been cited more than 17,000 times, with an h-index of 58 according to ISI numbers and an h-index of 66 according to Google Scholar. He is an inventor on 40 issued US patents. He co-founded a startup company, GonioTech LLC., located in Columbus, Ohio (2019) after having been a member of the founding team of another startup, ZT Plus in Azusa, CA (2009).
Education
Heremans was educated at the École Polytechnique de Louvain, the college of engineering of the Catholic University of Louvain (Université Catholique de Louvain) where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering (Ingénieur Civil Electricien) in 1975 followed by a Doctor of Applied Sciences degree (Docteur en Sciences Appliquées) in applied physics in 1978. His Ph.D. training included a Research Fellowship with the Belgian Institute for Research in Industry and Agriculture (IRSIA). Following his formal education, Prof. Heremans worked for the Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique (FNRS, the Belgian equivalent of the French CNRS) at the École Polytechnique de Louvain and as invited postdoctoral scientist at the Oersted Institute at the University of Copenhagen, where he worked under the direction of Prof. Ole P. Hansen, a the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he worked under the direction of Prof. Mildred S. Dresselhaus, and at the Institute for Solid State Physics at the University of Tokyo, where he worked under the direction of Prof. Seichi Tanuma.
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- Senior Academic Advisor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
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- Communications Assistant, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
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- Administrative Assistant, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
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- Director, Nuclear Engineering Program
- Professor at the Nuclear Engineering Program
- Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Dr. Lei Raymond Cao is Professor at the Nuclear Engineering Program at The Ohio State University (OSU). He also serves as the Director of OSU-Nuclear Reactor Lab (since 2016). Dr. Cao received his B.S. degree in experimental nuclear physics from Lanzhou University (1994), MS in nuclear physics from CIAE (2002), and Ph.D. from the nuclear and radiological engineering program at the University of Texas at Austin (2007). Prior to joining OSU in 2009, Dr. Cao was a research associate at the Positron Emission Tomography Lab at Harvard Medical School and then at the Center for Neutron Research, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) at Maryland.
Dr. Cao's research interests revolve around radiation and sensor, with a particular focus on wide bandgap semiconductor radiation sensors such as SiC, GaN, and Ga2O3. He works on the applications of these sensors in harsh and extreme environments encountered in nuclear, space, and industrial settings. Additionally, Dr. Cao has been actively involved in studying radiation effects and the survivability of sensors.
Dr. Cao is one of the earlier researchers in the development of perovskite for X-ray and gamma-ray detection.
With extensive experience working at four research reactors and serving as the director of the OSU Nuclear Reactor Lab for over seven years, Dr. Cao is a recognized expert in the utilization of research reactors, such as instrumented in-core or near-core irradiation and testing of sensor and sensor materials under high temperature and high radiation field. He has applied neutron beam methods, such as Neutron Depth Profiling for characterizing lithium-ion batteries, Neutron Radiography and Tomography for advanced materials analysis, and Prompt Neutron Activation Analysis for trace analysis.
He has actively engaged in the development of nuclear batteries harnessing decay energy to provide long-term, maintenance-free power to microelectronics and IoT sensors.
Dr. Cao has published 170 peer-reviewed journal articles and conference proceedings and a dozen patents. Dr. Cao is the Associate Editor (and Senior Editor for the special issue on Nuclear Batteries) at IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science and on the editorial board of Nuclear Science and Engineering. He is on the executive committee of the Isotope and Radiation Division (IRD) at the American Nuclear Society (ANS) and served as the IRD chair during 2015-2016.
Expertise
WBG Semiconductor Radiation Sensor (e.g., perovskiste, SiC, Gan, Ga2O3)
Nuclear Instrumentation
Radiation Effects and Survivability
Nuclear Voltaic Battery
Reactor and In-pile Instrumentation
Neutron Analytical Techniques (Neutron Depth Profiling for Li-ion Battery, PGNAA)
Neutron Radiography and Tomography
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- Office Admin Associate, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
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- MAE Shops Supervisor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
- Supervisor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
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- Associate Chair Undergraduate Programs
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- Associate Chair for Graduate Programs
- Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace
- Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Marcello Canova is Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the Ohio State University and Associate Director for Graduate and Continuing Education at the Center for Automotive Research. He earned his M.S. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Parma (Italy) in 2002 and 2006, respectively.
Dr. Canova is a 2016 NSF CAREER Award recipient, and he has earned the Kappa Delta Distinguished Faculty Award (2011), the SAE Vincent Bendix Automotive Electronics Engineering Award (2011), the Lumley Interdisciplinary Research Award (2012, 2020), the SAE Ralph Teetor Educational Award (2016), and the Michael J. Moran Award for Excellence in Teaching (2017). He has published over 150 articles in journals and conference proceedings.
Expertise
Dr. Canova's expertise lies in the energy optimization and management of ground vehicle propulsion systems, including internal combustion engines, hybrid-electric drivetrains, energy storage systems, waste heat recovery and thermal management. In these areas, he leads a number of projects funded by, among others, Ford Motor Company, General Motors, Stellantis, the National Science Foundation, ARPA-E and the US Department of Energy.
Department of
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
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- Battelle / Executive Vice President of Laboratory Operations
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- Chief Executive Officer
- President
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- Graduate Program Coordinator, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
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- Student Shop Supervisor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
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- Chairman in Engineering
- Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Prof. Marcelo Dapino is the Honda R&D Americas Designated Chair in Engineering at The Ohio State University, where he holds the rank of professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. He is Director of the Smart Vehicle Concepts Center (www.SmartVehicleCenter.org), a National Science Foundation Industry-University Cooperative Research Center. The mission of the Center is to create fundamental and applied science at the PhD level along with professional training and translational research for advancing the incorporation of smart materials and structures in transportation applications. He has been an active member of the smart materials community for over 20 years. With 130 journal articles and 9 book chapters authored with students and collaborators (https://smsl.osu.edu/archival-journal-articles), Prof. Dapino is well published in this field and has held numerous leadership positions within the Aerospace Division of ASME. These include serving as Chair of the ASME Adaptive Structures and Material Systems Branch, serving as conference chair and organizer for several ASME and SPIE conferences, and overall being regarded as a leading scholar by the international smart materials community. Among other recognitions, he is the recipient of the 2017 ASME Adaptive Structures and Material Systems Medal, the 2017 MAE OSU Distinguished Graduate Faculty Advisor Award, and the 2014 COE OSU Harrison Faculty Award for Excellence in Engineering Education. He is a Fellow of ASME and SPIE (International Society for Optics and Photonics).
Expertise
Smart materials and structures
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- Communications Specialist, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
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- Department Chair
- Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering / Professor, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences / Professor, Orthopaedics
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- Finance Manager, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
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- Laboratory Supervisor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
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- Administrative Assistant, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
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- Associate Chair for Administration
- Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
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- BWX Technologies, Inc. Director, Engineering
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- Professor, Integrated Systems Engineering
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- Program Assistant, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
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- Student Shop Supervisor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering