Rushikesh Kamalapurkar received his M.S. and his Ph.D. degrees in 2011 and 2014 from the Department of Mechanical
and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Florida. After working for a year as a postdoctoral researcher, he was
appointed as the 2015-16 MAE postdoctoral teaching fellow. From 2016 to 2024 he served as a member of the faculty
of the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Oklahoma State University.…
As the senior manager for Sandia’s Advanced and Exploratory (A&E) teams, Marie Kane provides leadership for her management team and strategy development and execution for the Advanced and Exploratory Systems Departments that support technology development and maturation for the Nuclear Deterrence (ND) mission. The A&E program at Sandia is responsible for developing next generation weapon architectures that support anticipated adversarial threats and defend against technology surprise.…
Dr. Nam-Ho Kim is presently a Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Florida. He graduated with a Ph.D. in the Department of Mechanical Engineering from the University of Iowa in 1999 and worked at the Center for Computer-Aided Design as a postdoctoral associate until 2001. He is an Associate Fellow of American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) and an Associate Editor of Journal of Mechanical Design and Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization.…
Dr. James Klausner is an MSU Foundation Professor and Mechanical Engineering Department Chair at Michigan State University (2016-present). He formerly served as Chair of the ASME Heat Transfer Division (2011-2012). He serves on the board of directors for the American Society of Thermal Fluid Engineers and the International Titanium Association Foundation. For three and a half years he served as a Program Director at the U.S.…
Steve Kowkabany is a Florida native who graduated from UF in 1998 after completing his master’s degree in mechanical engineering while completing research in the CIMAR robotics program under Dr. Carl Crane. After working in the power generation, pulp and paper, and photographic film manufacturing sectors, Steve found his way into the field of fire protection and process safety. …
Education
Ph.D., 1993, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Professional Memberships and Fellowships
American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Member
Research Interests
Multifunctional structures, Finite Element Method, Geometric Modeling, Design Optimization and Rapid Prototyping.
Education
Ph.D., 1961, Princeton University
Research Interests
Fluid mechanics, magneto-hydrodynamics, applied mathematics, heat transfer by high frequency oscillations.