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Farrukh S. Alvi, Ph.D.
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Professor of Mechanical Engineering
FAMU-FSU College of Engineering
Farrukh
Alvi joined the M. E. department in 1993 as a post-doctoral research
associate and an adjunct professor. He was
subsequently started as an assistant professor in Fall 1995 and was
promoted to associate professor in Fall 2001. He
received his B.S. in Nuclear Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley in 1987. He received his Ph. D. in Mechanical Engineering in 1992 from The Pennsylvania State University
at University Park. His dissertation research was in
the area of Shock Wave/Turbulent Boundary Layer Interactions conducted
at the Penn State Gas Dynamic Laboratory under the guidance of Professor Gary Settles.
He currently teaches courses in thermal sciences
(thermodynamics, gas dynamics, fluid mechanics and heat
transfer) and conducts experimental research in fluid dynamics at the
Fluid Mechanics Research Laboratory.
His research interests include shock boundary layer
interactions, the aeroacoustics of high speed jets, including
supersonic impinging jets, and the associated problems
of compressible mixing and jet noise. Recently he has also been
invovled in examining micro-scale flows and their
applications including, the use of supersonic microjets for controlling
large-scale flows. He is also interested in the development and use of
diagnostics, especially non-intrusive optical
techniques for fluid flows.
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William S. Oates, Ph.D.
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Professor of Mechanical Engineering
FAMU-FSU College of Engineering
Prof. Oates received his M.S. and Ph. D. degrees in the Department of
Mechanical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He
spent two years as a post doctorate research associate at the Center for
Research in Scientific Computation in the Department of Mathematics at
North Carolina State University. His current research interests include
constitutive modeling of active materials as well as nonlinear control
of adaptive structures. He has conducted research in a wide range of
topics in theoretical, computational, and experimental solid mechanics
of ferroelectric and magnetostrictive materials. This includes:
fracture characterization of ferroelectric ceramics and relaxor single
crystals, anisotropic elasticity, phase field modeling of ferroelectric
thin films, stochastic homogenization techniques, and nonlinear control
of ferroic materials and actuators. He was the recipient of two best
paper awards for his contribution to piezoelectric fracture mechanics
(2003) and is a professional engineer in the state of North Carolina.
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