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Tsu-Chin Tsao Professor and Department Chair

Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Department. Tsu-Chin Tsao Professor and Department Chair. HENRY SAMUELI SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND APPLIED SCIENCE. Department Mission Statement.

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Tsu-Chin Tsao Professor and Department Chair

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  1. Mechanical & AerospaceEngineering Department Tsu-Chin Tsao Professor and Department Chair HENRY SAMUELI SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND APPLIED SCIENCE

  2. Department Mission Statement • Our mission is to educate the nation's future leaders in the science and art of mechanical and aerospace engineering. Further, we seek to expand the frontiers of engineering science and to encourage technological innovation while fostering academic excellence and scholarly learning in a collegial environment.

  3. Students

  4. Faculty Faculty Research Areas • Dynamics, Systems and Controls • Fluids, Heat/Mass Transfer • Structure & Solid Mechanics • Manufacturing & Design • Micro and NanoTechnoloy • Plasma Physics, Applied Mathematics Ladder Faculty: 32 Recognitions Society Fellows: 24CAREER or Young Investigator Awards: 10NAE members: 7

  5. Research Groups, laboratories, Centers

  6. Sponsored Research Budget & Expenditure Amounts in Millions

  7. Department Ranking US News & World Report Graduate Rankings

  8. MS Online Ranking

  9. Retirement and Recruitment • New hires: • Jonathan Hopkins (design, July 2012), • XiaochunLi, Raytheon Chair in Manufacturing Engineering(August 2013) • Dennis Hong (robotics, Jan. 2014), • Jacob Rosen (robotics, July 2014) • This year’s recruitment plan • Complete hiring of last year’s Robotics search • Search in thermal science

  10. Initiative on Robotics • Robotics education and research programs • Cluster faculty hires • New UG and G courses • Interdisciplinary projects with other fields • Collaborationwith medical school, NASA JPL, local industry, etc.

  11. Initiative Design & Prototyping Studio Develop hands-on trajectory • Sophomore: CAD/design prototyping • Junior: Basic ME&AE Lab. • Senior: Capstone design, mechatronics, product prototyping

  12. Initiative Design & Prototyping Studio • Support our vibrant extracurricular student projects

  13. Initiative on Design & Prototyping Studio • We have faculty expertise and experienced supporting staff • We have space

  14. Design & Prototyping Studio initiative • We need • 3D printers for plastics and metals • CNC machiningandlaser cutting machine tools • Mechatronics Kits (sensors, actuators, controllers • Coordinate Measurement Machine • …

  15. Industrial Partnerships • Industrial Advisory Board GaurangChoksi (Intel), Philip Conners (LM), Natalie Crawford (RAND), Patrick Fitzgerald (Raytheon), Ingo Foldvari (NI), Timothy Frei (NGC), Wayne Goodman (Aerospace, IAB Chair), Jim Hardy (Conoco-Phillips, Luke Haylock (Alcoa), Eugene Lavretsky (Boeing), Geoffrey McKnight (HRL), Bryan McEnerney (Rocketdyne), Shawn Phillips (AFRL), Lance Richards (NASA Dryden), Mat Schacht (Honeywell), Steve Toner (NGC), Steven Yahata (Boeing)

  16. Industrial Partnerships • Industrial Affiliates • Alcoa (joined this year) • Boeing • Chevron • Conoco Phillips • Exxon Mobil Corporation • Honeywell Engines, Systems & Services • Lockheed Martin Corporation • National Instruments(joined last year) • Northrop Grumman Space Technology • AerojetRocketdyne • Raytheon Electronic Systems

  17. Suggested Discussion Topics for IAB • Improve curricula • Improve ranking • Increase number of student fellowships • Increase research collaboration with industry • Assist creating Design Prototype Studio

  18. Thank You !

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