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the U.S. Army Aviation Systems Command, located at the NASA Ames Track 6: Education and Globalization
Research Center at Moffett Field, California. During this time he also 6-12-1: ENGINEERING EDUCATION PROGRAMS AT THE NATIONAL
lectured at Stanford University and spent half a year as guest research SCIENCE FOUNDATION
scientist at DLR in Germany. Prof. Hodges has been at Georgia Tech since Wednesday, November 16, 1:30PM–3:15PM
fall 1986. He has been the principal investigator or co-principal investiga- 131A, Phoenix Convention Center
tor on over 50 externally sponsored research projects with expenditures Engineering Education Programs at the National Science Foundation
in excess of $10 million in the fields of aeroelasticity, structural mechanics,
rotorcraft dynamics, finite element analysis, and computational optimal Elliott P. Douglas
control. In recent years his research group has been developing methods for National Science Foundation
accurate analysis and stress recovery in composite beams (including
helicopter and wind turbine rotor blades), plates, and shells. The computer Biography: Elliot P. Douglas is Program Director for Engineering Education
programs VABS (for composite beams) and VAPAS (for composite plates and in the Division of Engineering Education and Centers at the National
shells) are in use around the world. He has published five books and 200 Science Foundation. He oversees several programs, including Research in
technical papers in refereed journals. He has advised 32 PhD and 38 MS the Formation of Engineers, Research Initiation in Engineering Formation,
graduates. Prof. Hodges is a Fellow of the American Helicopter Society, the and is the lead program director for Revolutionizing Engineering and
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, the American Society of Computer Ccience Departments (RED). He also supports the workforce
Mechanical Engineers, and the American Academy of Mechanics. He is on development programs of the Engineering Research Centers, and serves
the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Fluids and Structures, the Journal of on the working groups for other NSF programs related to education. Dr.
Mechanics of Materials and Structures, and Nonlinear Dynamics. He was Douglas’s home institution is the University of Florida where he is
previously on the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Solids and Associate Professor of Environmental Engineering Sciences, Distinguished
Structures and has served as an Associate Editor of the ASCE Journal of Teaching Scholar, and Director of the Engineering Education Collabora-
Engineering Mechanics, AIAA Journal, and Vertica. He has served multiple tive. His research interests lie at the intersection between education
terms on the AHS Dynamics Committee and the AIAA Structural Dynamics research and engineering education practice. His work aims to under-
Technical Committee. Dr. Hodges has received several awards in his stand complex thinking processes and learning in students, and to use this
professional career including the 2015 ASME Spirit of St. Louis Medal, the information to design effective teaching practices, and includes research
2014 AHS Alexander Nikolsky Honorary Lectureship, the 2013 AIAA Ashley in critical thinking, active learning, problem-solving, and cultures of
Award for Aeroelasticity, the 2011 Sigma Xi Sustained Research Award, and inclusion. Dr. Douglas received SBs in Materials Science & Engineering
the 1979 U.S. Army Research and Development Achievement Award. and MSE & Music from MIT in 1988, and his PhD in Polymer Science &
Engineering from UMass-Amherst in 1992. He then worked at Los Alamos
National Laboratory for four years before joining the University of Florida
in 1996. He has served as Deputy Editor of the Journal of Engineering
Track 5: Dynamics, Vibration, and Control Education and Chair of the Educational Research & Methods Division of
5-1-2: PLENARY PRESENTATIONS ASEE.
Monday, November 14, 10:30AM–12:15PM
121B, Phoenix Convention Center
The Dynamics of Very Flexible Structures Track 8: Energy
(IMECE2016-68764)
8-18-1: PLENARY SESSION I
Prof. Lawrie Virgin Monday, November 14, 10:30AM–12:15PM
Duke University 121C, Phoenix Convention Center

Biography: Lawrie Virgin is Professor of Mechanical Engineering and
Materials Science at Duke University in North Carolina. He is a former SmartBattery Enabled by In-Cell Sensors and Actuators
Chair of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and has (IMECE2016-68863)
been a faculty member at Duke since 1988. Prior to that he received his
education in the United Kingdom culminating in a PhD from the University Dr. Chao-Yang Wang
of London (UCL). His research interests are centered on nonlinear Pennsylvania State University
mechanics especially buckling, nonlinear vibration and their interaction. A Biography: Chao-Yang Wang is William E. Diefenderfer Endowed Chair
good deal of this research has an experimental nature, and the characteri- Professor in Mechanical Engineering, and Professor of Chemical Engineer-
zation of chaos has been a recurrent theme. Applications of his research ing and Materials Science & Engineering at the Pennsylvania State
include ship capsize, aeroelasticity, marine risers, rotordynamics, rocking University. He has been the founding director of Electrochemical Engine
blocks, vibration isolation, impacting systems, sonic fatigue, solar sails and Center (ECEC) since 1997 and an ASME fellow since 2007.
the dynamics of very slender structures. He is the subject editor for
Nonlinear Dynamics for Journal of Sound and Vibration. He has written
well over a one hundred and forty journal papers and two books:
28 “Introduction to Experimental Nonlinear Dynamics” (2000) and “Vibration
of Axially Loaded Structures” (2007) both published by Cambridge
University Press.

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