Courses Currently Teaching or Previously Taught

Mechanics of Solids and Structures (undergraduate)

Stress and strain analysis of deformable bodies. Emphasis on the three basic principles of equilibrium, geometric compatibility, and material behavior. Stress and strain transformations. Stress resultants. Beam deflection and column buckling.

Fluid Mechanics (undergraduate)

Study of fluid properties, fluid statics, and incompressible fluid flow. Linear and angular momentum equations for fluids. Navier-Stokes equations. Similitude and dimensional analysis.

Rigid-body Dynamics (undergraduate)

Kinematics and kinetics of particles, systems of particles and rigid bodies in one, two, and three dimensions. Newton-Euler equations of motions for rigid-bodies. Work-energy and impulse-momentum principles for particles, systems of particles and rigid-bodies.

Modeling of Dynamic Systems (undergraduate)

Physics-based modeling of dynamic systems. The focus of the course is mechanical systems and electrical circuits, but also involves fluid, thermal and other domains. The course introduces modeling and simulation of systems via MATLAB, Simulink, and Labview. Introduction to systems theory.

Design of Reinforced Concrete Structures (undergraduate)

Study of the behavior and design of reinforced concrete members subjected to axial, shear, bending, torsion and combined compression-bending loading. ACI Design Code use and practice.

Structural Dynamics (graduate)

Introduction to structural dynamic systems. Linear SDOF and MDOF discrete systems, undamped and damped systems, free and forced vibration, dynamic response to periodic and arbitrary excitations, numerical evaluation of dynamic response, response spectrum and modal analysis.

Earthquake Engineering (graduate)

Introduction to earthquake-resistant design. Topics covered include earthquakes generation and propagation, strong ground motion characterization, probabilistic hazard analysis, elastic and inelastic response spectra, and design considerations (force and displacement based design, codes considerations, etc.)

Applied Probability and Statistics in Engineering (graduate)

Introduction to the analysis of uncertain engineering systems. The course covers the fundamentals of probability theory (probability, univariate and multivariate random variables, functions of random variables, and Monte Carlo simulation) and statistical inference (point estimation and confidence intervals, hypothesis testing, regression analysis and design of experiments).