BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
EDUCATION
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Ph.D. M.S. B.S. |
Structural
Eng./Mechanics Structural
Eng./Mechanics Structural |
1990 1982 1980 |
State Indian Bangalore Univ.,
India |
EXPERIENCE
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06 – Present 05,06,07 99 – 05 93 – 98 90 – 93 87 – 90 82 - 86 80 – 82 |
Professor Associate Chairman Associate Professor Assistant Professor Post Doctoral Researcher Graduate Research Assistant Engineer Research Scholar |
CEVE, Rice University of Missouri, Columbia, MO State Tata Cons.
Eng., India, EBASCO, USA Indian |
Biographical Sketch of Professor
Professor Satish Nagarajaiah holds a joint appointment
between the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, and the Mechanical
Engineering and Material Science Department at Rice University. He obtained his
Ph.D. (1987-1990) from State University of New York at Buffalo, where he was a
post-doctoral researcher before he started his academic career in 1993.
Dr. Nagarajaiah’s teaching and research interests are
in the areas of structural dynamic systems and control;
smart-structures-materials-sensors; system identification; monitoring; applied
nanotechnology; earthquake and wind engineering; offshore structures; civil,
mechanical and aerospace engineering. His research is funded by the National
Science Foundation, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department
of Energy, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, other state and Federal
Agencies. National Science Foundation has awarded him the prestigious faculty
early CAREER award for his research in structural control. He has published
nearly sixty journal papers and over hundred conference papers. He currently
supervises seven Ph.D. students. He holds two U.S. Patents. Visit the following
web site www.ruf.rice.edu/~nagaraja for full details.
Dr. Nagarajaiah currently serves as the
co-editor of the international journal—structural control and health monitoring
journal [Wiley Journal], and serves on the editorial board of four other international
journals. He served as the associate editor for the journal of structural
engineering (2002-2006) and as the guest editor of several special issues in
various journals. He currently serves as the chairman of ASCE Structural
Engineering Institute, Technical Activities Division Executive Committee. He
also serves as a member of the board of directors of the international
association of structural control and monitoring. He served as the chair of the U.S. panel on
structural control and monitoring (2006-2008). He was the founding chair
structural health monitoring and control committee (2004-2006),
ASCE-Engineering Mechanics Institute, and chair of the structural control
committee (1998-2002), ASCE Structural Engineering Institute.