Curriculum Vitae - Prof. Suresh G. Advani


Current Position
George W. Laird Professor,  Department of Mechanical Engineering and Associate Director, Center for Composite Materials, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716 


Principal Fields of Interest
Polymer and Composite Processing, Transport Phenomena in Manufacturing Processes, Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics and Rheology, Fiber Suspensions, Flow Through Porous Media, Computational Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer, Fuel Cells, Hydrogen Storage, Wind Energy

Education
Ph.D. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1987 Mechanical Engineering at Urbana-Champaign 
B.Tech. Indian Institute of Technology 1982 Mechanical Engineering at Bombay, India 


Professional Experience
2006-present, George W. Laird Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Delaware
1/00-present  Associate Director, Center for Composite Materials, University of Delaware
2012- 2017, Chair, Mechanical Engineering Department, University of Delaware
8/97- 2006 Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Delaware
9/98-8/99    Interim Chair of Mechanical Engineering, University of Delaware
9/92- 8/97  Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Delaware
9/93- 12/93  Visiting Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Imperial College, London, U.K. 
6/93-8/93  Visiting Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Auckland, New Zealand 
9/87- 8/92  Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Delaware
1/84-8/87  Research Assistant, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
9/85-5/86  Teaching Fellow, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign


Professional Societies
American Society of Engineering Education
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Society of Plastic Engineers
Polymer Processing Society
Society of Rheology


Honors/Awards

Outstanding Research Award, 2015 from American Society of Composites
Composite Educator of the Year Award, 2015 from Society of Plastic Engineers
Outstanding Doctoral Graduate Student Advising and Mentoring Award, 2008
Named Professor, George W. Laird Professor -2006
Keynote Speaker. “A New Approach for Textile Fiber Preform Permeability Tensor Characterization with Non-Zero Skew Components,” TEXCOMP-12 Conference, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, May 26-29, 2015.
Plenary Speaker: “Role of Process Modeling and Simulation in Composites Manufacturing,” The International Conference on Manufacturing Advanced Composites, organized by the IOM Communications Ltd on 24-25th June at Bristol Science Centre in Bristol, England, 2015
Best Poster Award, International Conference on Fuel Cell Seminar (2011)
Keynote Speaker: Recent Advances and Future Outlook in Liquid Molding in Composites Processing, July 27-31 2009, ICCM-17, Edinburgh, Scotland.
Plenary Speaker: Multi-scale Modeling in Textile Composite Processing,12th International ESAFORM Conference on Material Forming, April 27-29, University of Twente, Netherlands( 2009)
 Keynote Speaker: "Role of Resin Flow Simulations in Liquid Composite Molding Processes," Polymer Processing Society, Goa,  India , March 1-5, (2009)
Conference Co-Chair, International Conference of Textile Composites (2008)
Scientific Advisory Board, J. of Forming Processes
Scientific Advisory Board, Computer Modeling in Engineering and Science
Scientific Advisory Board, Flow Processes in Composite Materials
Scientific Advisory Board, TEXCOMP
Keynote Speaker, 8th International Conference on Flow Processes in Composite Materials, Douai, France, July 2006
Keynote Speaker, “12th International Conference on Composites and Nano Engineering, August 1-6, 2005 in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain
Conference Chair, 7th International Conference on Flow Processes in Composite Materials, July 2004
NSF Workshop Co-Chair, “Roadmap for Composites Research,” June 2004
Fellow of American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 1999
Best Paper Award, “Composites Manufacturing and Tooling Conference”, SME,2000
Keynote Speaker, SAMPE, 1997 
Best Paper Award at American Controls Conference, 1997 
Best Paper Award at American Composites Conference, 1995 
Conference Co-Chair: Third International Conference on Computer Aided Design in Composite Materials Technology (CADCOMP), University of Delaware, May 1992
Best Paper awarded by Society of Plastic Engineers, 1990 
Bell Laboratory Fellowship 1985-86 
Who's Who in Engineering Education (WWEE), 2002 
Listed in Leading Scientists of the World, 2005
Listed in Who's Who in Plastics and Polymers, 
Listed in Who's Who in America, 
Listed in Who's Who Among Asian Americans, 
Listed in American Men and Women in Science, 
Listed in  Who's Who  in Science and Engineering,   



Teaching
Polymer Composites Manufacturing
Mechanics of Machinery 
Fluid Mechanics-I 
Fluid Mechanics-II 
Heat Transfer 
Conduction Heat Transfer (Graduate Level) 
Mechanics of Viscous Fluids (Graduate Level - originated) 
Convective Heat Transfer (Graduate Level) 
Computational Fluid Mechanics (Graduate Level) 
Flow of Viscous Materials (Senior Elective/Graduate-originated) 
Thermodynamics 
Applied Fluids 


Continuing Education
Composites Manufacturing Workshops
Thermodynamics, Engineering-in-Training Review Course, University of Delaware, 1987-1992 


Research Publications
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