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2005 - 2006 Visiting Scholar Directory
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Aja Fernandez, Santiago
Assistant Professor, Department of Signal Theory and Communications, University of Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain
Research: Fuzzy Control Schemes for MRI and DT-MRI Processing
Brigham and Women's Hospital, Laboratory of Mathematics in Imaging, Boston, MA, c/o Dr. Carl-Frederik Westin
March 2006 - February 2007

Al Badi, Abdullah
Assistant Dean for Student Academic Affairs and Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman
Research: Analyzing and Minimizing Electromagnetic Interference Caused by Power Transmission Lines on Neighboring Gas Pipelines
University of Arkansas--Little Rock, Department of Systems Engineering, Little Rock, AR, c/o Dr. Seshadri Mohan
June 2005 - August 2005

Amarasinghe, Balasuriya Mudiyanselage
Senior Lecturer, Department of Chemical and Process Engineering, University of Moratuwa, Moratuwa, Sri Lanka
Lecturing and Research: Utilization of Waste Biomass for the Absorption of Heavy Metal Ions
University of Missouri--Rolla, School of Engineering, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Rolla, MO, c/o Dr. Judy Raper
May 2006 - July 2006

Beros, Ana
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Metallurgy and Materials Science, University of Zenica, Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Research: Effects of an Air Gap on Properties of Low Pressure Die Casting of Aluminum-Silicon Wheels
University of Connecticut--Storrs, School of Engineering, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Storrs, CT, c/o Dr. Harold D. Brody
September 2005 - June 2006

Blondel, Vincent
Professor and Chair, Department of Mathematical Engineering, Catholic University of Louvain, Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium
Lecturing and Research: Joint Spectral Radius for Problems in Science and Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Cambridge, MA, c/o Dr. John N. Tsitsiklis
September 2005 - July 2006

Bouassida, Mounir
Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, National School of Engineering, Tunis, Tunisia
Research: Designing Foundations Resting on Soils Reinforced by Columnar Inclusions
California State University--Sacramento, College of Engineering and Computer Science, Department of Civil Engineering, Sacramento, CA, c/o Dr. Ali Porbaha
January 2006 - October 2006

Boudour, Mohamed
Senior Lecturer, Department of Electrical Engineering, Houari Boumediene University of Science and Technology, Algiers, Algeria
Research: Large Scale Power System Security Assessment Using Intelligent Programming
University of Washington, Department of Electrical Engineering, Seattle, WA, c/o Dr. Mohamed A. El-Sharkawi
October 2005 - April 2006

Cabaraban, Maria Theresa
Chair, College of Engineering and Technology, Department of Chemical, Civil and Industrial Engineering, Xavier University, Cagayan de Oro City, Philippines
Research: Comparing Life Cycle Impacts of Conventional Composting Technology and Anaerobic Bioreactor Landfill
Michigan State University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, East Lansing, MI, c/o Prof. Milind V. Khire
Michigan State University, Department of Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering, East Lansing, MI, c/o Dr. Evangelyn Alocilja
September 2005 - December 2005

Castier, Marcelo
Associate Professor, School of Chemistry, Department of Chemical Engineering, Federal University of Rio De Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Lecturing and Research: Phase Equilibrium of Confined Fluids
University of Delaware, Department of Chemical Engineering, Center for Molecular and Engineering Thermodynamics, Newark, DE, c/o Dr. Stanley Sandler
April 2006 - June 2006

De Lorenzis, Laura
Researcher, Department of Innovation Engineering, University of Lecce, Lecce, Italy
Research: Safety Assessment of Historical Masonry Structures
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Building Technology Program, Department of Architecture, Cambridge, MA, c/o Dr. John Ochsendorf
April 2006 - October 2006

Del Alamo de Pedro, Juan Carlos
Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Aeronautics, Polytechnical University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Research: The Mechanical Properties of Endothelial Cells and Their Adaptation to the Conditions of Blood Flow
University of California--San Diego, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, La Jolla, CA, c/o Dr. J.C. Lasheras
March 2006 - February 2008

Ecker, Horst
Associate Professor, Department of Mechanics and Mechatronics, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria
Lecturing: Vehicle Dynamics
Duke University, School of Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Durham, NC, c/o Dr. Kenneth C. Hall
August 2005 - December 2005

Ferrara, Liberato
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Structural Engineering, Polytechnic Institute of Milan, Milan, Italy
Research: Connecting Rheology, Fiber Dispersion and Mechanical Properties of Steel Fiber Reinforced Concrete
Northwestern University, McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, Center for Advanced Cement-Based Materials, Evanston, IL, c/o Dr. Surendra Shah
February 2006 - August 2006

Fraternali, Fernando
Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Salerno, Fisciano (Salerno), Italy
Research: Cohesive Models for Fracture and Segmentation of Solids and Structures
California Institute of Technology, Graduate Aeronautical Laboratories, Pasadena, CA, c/o Dr. Michael Ortiz
September 2005 - September 2006

Gomez Herrero, Manuel
Researcher, Department of Physical Metallurgy, National Center for Metallurgical Research, Madrid, Spain
Research: The Development of Zinc-Coated DP-800 and DP-1000 Dual-Phase Steels for the Automotive Industry
University of Pittsburgh, Basic Metals Processing Research Institute, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Pittsburgh, PA, c/o Dr. Anthony J. DeArdo
October 2005 - September 2007

Gonzalez Figueredo, Carlos
Doctoral Candidate, Department of Chemical Engineering, Technological Institute of Celaya, Celaya, Mexico
Research: Online Detection of Bifurcations in Dynamical Systems
University of Maryland--College Park, Institute for Systems Research, Department of Chemical Engineering, College Park, MD, c/o Dr. Raymond Adomaitis
May 2006 - August 2006

Jannadi, Osama
Faculty Member, Department of Construction Engineering and Management, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
Research: Factors Affecting the Success of Value Engineering Studies in Construction
University of Hawaii--Manoa, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Honolulu, HI, c/o Dr. H. Ronald Riggs
September 2005 - December 2005

Koiller, Jair
Professor, Graduate School of Economics and Business Administration, Getulio Vargas Foundation, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Lecturing and Research: Dynamical Systems and Control
California Institute of Technology, Division of Engineering and Applied Science, Department of Control and Dynamical Systems, Pasadena, CA, c/o Dr. Richard Murray
December 2005 - March 2006

Konsta, Maria
Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Democritus University of Thrace, Xanthi, Greece
Research: Relationships Between Rheology and Fresh and Hardened Properties of Self-Compacting Concrete
Northwestern University, McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, Center for Advanced Cement-Based Materials, Evanston, IL, c/o Dr. Surendra P. Shah
July 2005 - September 2005

Ledesma Carbayo, Maria Jesus
Assistant Professor, High Technical School of Telecommunication Engineering, Department of Electronic Engineering, Polytechnical University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Research: Electromechanical Analysis of the Heart: Application of Non-Rigid Registration Techniques
National Institutes of Health, National Lung and Blood Institute, Laboratory of Cardiac Energetics, Bethesda, MD, c/o Dr. Elliot R. McVeigh
March 2006 - August 2006

Lee, Wei-li
Engineer, Pingtung Environmental Protection Bureau, Pingtung City, Taiwan
Research: Recycling Electric Arc Furnace Dust of Taiwan's Steelmaking Industry
University of Delaware, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Newark, DE, c/o Dr. Chin-Pao Huang
September 2005 - March 2006

Mateu Mateu, Jordi
Research Associate, Communications Subsystems Area, Center of Telecommunications Technology of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain
Research: Advanced Materials and Technologies for Communications
U.S. Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Electromagnetic Properties of Materials Project, Boulder, CO, c/o Dr. James C. Booth
September 2005 - August 2007

Mehmeti, Milajete
Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Mining and Metallurgy, Department of Engineering, University of Pristina, Mitrovica, Kosovo
Research: University Technology Transfer and Technology Commercialization
Johns Hopkins University, Institute for Policy Studies, Baltimore, MD, c/o Ms. Marsha Schachtel
March 2006 - June 2006

Mom, Gijsbertus
Professor, Section of History of Technology, Department of Technology Management, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, Netherlands
Lecturing: Crossing Borders: The Coevolution of Automobile Tourism and the Family Car
University of Michigan--Dearborn, Department of Social Sciences, Center for the Study of Automotive Heritage, Dearborn, MI, c/o Dr. Bruce Pietrykowski
September 2005 - December 2005
(European Union Scholar-in-Residence Program)

Navarro Pintado, Carlos
Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain
Research: Mechanic Modeling of Cell Structures
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Cambridge, MA, c/o Dr. Subra Suresh
March 2006 - February 2007

Pozuelo Alba, Marta
Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Materials Technology, Max Planck Institute for Iron Research, Dusseldorf, Germany
Research: Toughness and Strength of Inverse Ordered Intermetallic Nickel Aluminide
University of California--Los Angeles, Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Los Angeles, CA, c/o Dr. Alan J. Ardell
October 2005 - September 2007

Prljaca, Naser
Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Tuzla, Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Research: High Accuracy Techniques for Singularly Perturbed (Nonlinear and Bilinear) Optimal Control and Filtering Problems
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey--Piscataway, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, New Brunswick, NJ, c/o Dr. Zoran Gajic
March 2006 - September 2006

Rohlmann, Cora
Ph.D. Student, Chemical Engineering Pilot Plant, University of the South, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Research: Training in Nanocomposites and Characterization
University of Michigan--Ann Arbor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI, c/o Dr. Michael Solomon
February 2006 - June 2006

Saqan, Elias
Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Birzeit University, Birzeit, West Bank
Research: Shear Strength of Reinforced and Prestressed Concrete: A Unified Approach
Purdue University, School of Civil Engineering, West Lafayette, IN, c/o Dr. Robert J. Frosch
October 2005 - August 2006

Turmo Coderque, Jose
Assistant Professor, School of Civil Engineering, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Ciudad Real, Spain
Research: Dynamics of Suspension Bridges
University of California--San Diego, School of Engineering, Department of Structural Engineering, La Jolla, CA, c/o Dr. J. Enrique Luco
September 2005 - August 2006

van Leijen, Frederik
Doctoral Candidate, Department of Earth Observation and Space Systems, Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands
Research: Radar Interferometric Time Series Analysis for Monitoring Hazards in Large Rural Areas
University of Miami, Center for Southeastern Tropical Advanced Remote Sensing, Coral Gables, FL, c/o Dr. Falk C. Amelung
January 2006 - April 2006

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