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Dr.
Erdem Acar
Erdem Acar
received his Bachelor of Science degree in 1999 and Master of Science in
2002 in Aerospace Engineering from Middle East Technical University –
Ankara, Turkey. He earned his Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering
in 2005 and a doctoral degree in Aerospace Engineering in 2006 from
University of Florida. His thesis title is "Aircraft
Structural Safety: Effects of Explicit and Implicit Safety Measures and
Uncertainty Reduction Mechanisms". His research topics are
Reliability-based aircraft structural design and Effectiveness and
tradeoffs of uncertainty reduction mechanisms.
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Dr.
Tushar Goel
Tushar Goel
received his Bachelor of Technology degree in Mechanical Engineering from
Institute of Engineering and Technology – Lucknow, UP, India in 1999. He
earned a Master of Technology degree in Mechanical Engieering from Indian
Institute of Technology – Kanpur,India in 2001. He earned his master
& doctoral degree from University of Florida in 2006. His thesis
title is "Multiple Surrogates and Error Modeling
in Optimization of Liquid Rocket Propulsion Components". His
research interests include Surrogate modeling, bias error analysis in
polynomial response surface approximations, multi-objective optimization,
CFD, and cavitating flows.
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Laurent
Grosset
Renault, Direction DE LA Recherche, TCR AVA 0 15
1 Av du golf 78288 GuyanCourt
Ph: +33.1.768.29734(W)
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Dr. Amit A. Kale
Amit received his Bachelor
of Technology in Aerospace Engineering from Indian Institute of
Technology - Kharagpur, India. He earned a doctoral degree from University
of Florida in 2005. His thesis title is "Interaction
of conservative design practices, tests and inspections in safety of
structural components". His research topic is "Reliability
based design and optimization of aircraft structures and design of inspection
schedules".
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Sunil Kumar
Sunil
received his Bachelor of Technology degree in Mechanical Engineering from
the Indian Institute of Technology - New Delhi, India in 2003. Currently
he is enrolled for the doctoral program in the Mechanical & Aerospace
department, University of Florida. His thesis title is "Measuring and Using Uncertainties in the Material Properties
of Composites over a Wide Temperature Range". His research
interests include Reliability-based aircraft
structural design, Effectiveness and tradeoffs of uncertainty reduction
mechanisms.
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Xueyong
Qu
Sr. Software Development Engineer
Altair Engineering, Inc
2445 McCabe Way Suite 100 Irvine, CA 92614 USA. Ph: 949.232.2277(M)
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Dr.
Palani Ramu
Palani Ramu
received his Bachelor of Engineering degree in Mechanical Engineering
from Madurai Kamaraj University - India in 1999. He earned his doctoral degree
from University of Florida in 2007. His thesis title is “Multiple Tail
Models Including Inverse Measures For Structural Design Under
Uncertainties ". His research
topics include Reliability/Risk-based design, tail modeling and surrogate
based optimization.
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Jaco
Schutte
Materials Sciences Corporation,
181 Gibraltar road, Horsham, PA 19044, USA
Phone:+215 542-8400 ext. 121, Fax:+215 542-8401
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Dr. Benjamin
P. Smarslok
Ben received
his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from The Pennsylvania State University
in 2004. He earned his Ph.D. student in the MAE department at UF in
Summer 2009. His dissertation title is "Measuring, Using, and
Reducing Experimental and Computational Uncertainty in Reliability
Analysis of Composite Laminates". His main research areas include
statistical analysis of uncertainty in composite properties and efficient
Monte Carlo methods for calculating failure probability.
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Kyle
Stoker
Kyle
Stoker received his Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering
from University of Florida in 2007. He graduated with master degree in
Summer 2009. His research interests are in Computational
wear modeling of gears, design tool for evolving kinematics.
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