Oct. 8th, 2012, Prof. Alison Flatau

Publishing Time：2012-10-08

Biography

Prof. Alison Flatau is the Associate Dean of Research and an Advance Professor of Aerospace Engineering at the Clark School of Engineering at the University of Maryland. Throughout her career, she has been an active mentor and educator of Aerospace Engineering students. Her teaching and research interests are in the areas of the dynamics of smart materials and structures, with emphasis on bio-inspired actuator and sensor technologies and their application in noise, vibration and flow control applied to aerospace systems. Prof. Flatau’s research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, DARPA, the Army Research Laboratory, NASA and the Office of Naval Research, as well as major aerospace companies that include the Boeing Corporation. She served as the AIAA student branch faculty advisor for six years at Iowa State Univ. and for over six years at the University of Maryland. From 2004-2009, she was the Director of the Department of Aerospace Engineering Undergraduate Programs and of the Aerospace Engineering Honors Program at the Univ. Maryland. She is recipient of the SPIE’s 2010 Smart Structures and Materials Lifetime Achievement Award, the Women in Aerospace’s Educator of the Year award in 2010 and the Clark School of Engineering’s 2009 Faculty Service award. She is also a University of Maryland ADVANCE Professor (2011-2013). She joined Maryland after serving as Program Director for the Dynamic Systems Modeling, Sensing and Control Program at the National Science Foundation from 1998-2002. Prior to that, she was on the Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics faculty at Iowa State University (1990-1998). Her experience also includes four years at the National Small Wind Systems Test Center in Golden, CO (now NREL) where she was a Senior Research Engineer in the Wind Energy Conversion Systems Test Program.

Topic of Invited talk

Structural Magnetostrictive Alloys: An Introduction to a New Class of Transducer Materials