Panel on “Smart structures across decades & future perspectives”
Prof. Daniel J. Inman – University of Michigan, Aerospace Engineering
Bio: Daniel J. Inman received his Ph.D. from Michigan State University in Mechanical Engineering in 1980 and is the Harm Buning Collegiate Professor and former Chair of the Department of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Michigan. Since 1980, he has published eight books (on vibration, energy harvesting, control, statics, and dynamics), eight software manuals, 20 book chapters, over 410 journal papers and 674 proceedings papers, given 78 keynote or plenary lectures, graduated 71 Ph.D. students, and supervised more than 75 MS degrees. He works in the areas of applying smart materials and structures to solve aerospace engineering problems including energy harvesting, structural health monitoring, vibration suppression and morphing aircraft. He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, International Instituted for Acoustics and Vibrations, Society of Experimental Mechanics and American Academy of Mechanics. He won the ASME Adaptive Structures Award in April 2000, SPIE Smart Structures and Materials Lifetime Achievement Award in March of 2003, he received the ASME Den Hartog Award for lifetime achievement in teaching and research in vibration, the 2009 Lifetime Achievement award in Structural Health Monitoring, and the AIAA Structures, Structural Dynamics, and Materials Award, in 2014. He is currently Technical Editor of the Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures (1999-present).
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Prof. Kon-Well Wang – University of Michigan, Mechanical Engineering
Bio: Dr. Kon-Well Wang is the A. Galip Ulsoy Distinguished University Professor of Engineering and Stephen P. Timoshenko Professor of Mechanical Engineering (ME) at the University of Michigan (U-M). He has been the U-M ME Department Chair from 2008 to 2018, and has served as the Division Director of Engineering Education and Centers at the U.S. National Science Foundation for two years, 2019-20, via an Executive Intergovernmental Personnel Act appointment. Wang received his Ph.D. degree from the University of California, Berkeley, worked at the General Motors Research Labs as a Sr. Research Engineer, and started his academic career at the Pennsylvania State University in 1988. At Penn State, Wang has served as the William E. Diefenderfer Chaired Professor, co-founder and Associate Director of the Vertical Lift Research Center of Excellence, and a Group Leader for the Center for Acoustics & Vibration. He joined the U-M in 2008. Wang’s main technical interests are in structural dynamics and controls, especially in the emerging field of intelligent structural & material systems, with applications in vibration, acoustic & wave controls, energy harvesting, and sensing & monitoring. Wang is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and Institute of Physics (IOP). He has received numerous recognitions, including the ASME Rayleigh Lecture Award, the Pi Tau Sigma-ASME Charles Russ Richards Memorial Award, the ASME J.P. Den Hartog Award, the SPIE Smart Structures and Materials Lifetime Achievement Award, the ASME Adaptive Structures and Materials Systems Prize, the ASME N.O. Myklestad Award, the ASME Rudolf Kalman Award, and several other best paper awards. He has been the Editor in Chief for the ASME Journal of Vibration & Acoustics, and an Associate Editor or Editorial Board Member for various journals.
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Prof. Shima Shahab – Virginia Tech, Mechanical Engineering
Bio: Shima Shahab is Mary V. Jones Faculty Fellow and an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Virginia Tech. She completed her Ph.D. and M.S. in Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. Dr. Shahab is the Director of Multiphysics Intelligent and Dynamical Systems (MInDS) laboratory and an Associate Editor of Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures (JIMSS). Her theoretical and experimental research program focuses on the intersection of smart materials and dynamical systems for various interdisciplinary applications such as contactless ultrasound power transfer, ultrasound responsive polymer-based systems, ultrasound atomization, and acoustic holograms. Dr. Shahab has served as principal investigator on research grants from the National Science Foundation, Alpha Foundation, Oakridge National Laboratory, and Ford Motor Company. In addition to an NSF CAREER award, Dr. Shahab is the recipient of ASME Gary Anderson Early Achievement Award. The award recognizes a young researcher on the rise who has already made significant contributions to the field of Adaptive Structures and Material Systems. She is also the recipient of 2023 Virginia Tech Dean’s Award for Faculty Fellow in recognition of extraordinary performance in research.