Experience I recieved my undergraduate degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst I recieved my Ph.D. in Civil Engineering with a minor in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics from Cornell University. My advisor was Dr. Anthony Ingraffea, and I worked with the Cornell Fracture Group. My research here was funded by NASA Marshall Space Flight Center. I studied fracture-mechanics based life prediction techniques, with particular emphasis on how assumptions regarding crack shape affected the predictions. After my doctorate, I worked at NASA Langley Research Center, in the Mechanics of Materials Branch, as a National Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow. My research here was focussed on environmental effects on fatigue crack growth rates. Then I worked for the Volpe National Transportation Systems Center, which was part of the Research and Special Programs Administration for the U.S. Department of Transportation at the time. With my background in structures and fracture mechanics, I helped the Federal Railroad Administration understand how equipment that was being used to transport hazardous materials might be damaged, and to develop sensible regulation and policies based on this understanding. I left the Volpe Center to come to Rowan University. Here, I am teaching courses in Mechanics, Materials and Design. I addition to my previous research interests, I have developed interests in educational research -- particularly how to teach design, and sustainability.
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