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Dr. Michael D. Greenberg

Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Delaware
126 Spencer Lab.
Newark, DE 19716
E-mail: greenber@udel.edu

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DEGREES
Ph.D. Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (Minors in Mathematics and Aerospace Engineering), Cornell University, 1964
M.S. Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (Minor in Mathematics), Cornell University, 1960
B.E. Mechanical Engineering, Cornell University, 1958


SERVICE
Professor, University of Delaware, 1979 - present
Associate Professor, University of Delaware, 1971-79
Assistant Professor, University of Delaware, 1969-71


OTHER RELATED EXPERIENCE
Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Delaware, 1979 - present
Associate Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Delaware, 1971-79
Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Delaware, 1969-71
Visiting Assistant Professor of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Cornell University, 1968-69
Staff Scientist, Therm Advanced Research, Inc., Summer, 1960 and full-time from 1963-67


CONSULTING
Staff Consultant, Sage Action, Inc., 1968-70
Consultant to E. I. DuPont de Nemours & Co., September 1982-December 1982


STATE REGISTERED
NONE


SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Books Authored

  1. "On the application of Green's Functions in Science and Engineering", Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1971. Translated into Japanese and reprinted by Brain Book Company, Tokyo.
  2. "Foundations of Applied Mathematics", Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1978.
  3. "Advanced Engineering Mathematics", Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1988. Second edition, 1998.
  4. "Differential Equations and Linear Algebra", Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 2001.

Journal Articles & Proceedings

  1. "The Time-Dependent Free Surface Flow Induced by a Submerged Line Source or Sink", (with E. M. Sozer), Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 2 84, pp. 225-237, 1995.
  2. "Line Momentum Source in Shallow Invicid Fluid", (with J.Lee), Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 145, pp. 287-304, 1984.
  3. "Reflection of Traveling Waves on Shallow Water by a Corrugated Bottom", (with A. Mitra), Journal of Applied Mechanics, Vol.51 No.2 pp. 251-255, 1984.
  4. "Limit Cycle City", Quarterly of Applied Mathematics, April 1976, pp. 103-105.
  5. "On the Formulation of the Zero Creep Method for Small Diameter Wires", (with J. Pryor and W. Elban), Material Science and Engineering, Vol 33, pp. 63-67, 1978.
  6. "On a Vortex Sheet approach to the Numerical Calculation of Water Waves", (with S. Zarooday), Journal of Computational Physics, VOl. 11, No. 3, pp. 440-446, 1973.
  7. "Nanlinear Actuator Disk Theory", Zeitschrift fur Flugwissenschaften, March 1972, pp. 90-98

SOCIETIES
Sigma Xi


HONORS & AWARDS
Faculty Advisor of the Year Award, awarded by Minority Engineering Program, in 1985
University of Delaware Excellence in Teaching Award, April 1977. One of four faculty recipients. (Award is followed by a ten year period of ineligibility.)
University of Delaware Excellence in Teaching Award, April 1987
University of Delaware Excellence in Teaching Award, April 2005
Dr. Greenberg is the only 3-time awardee at the University of Delaware as of 2006.


COURSES TAUGHT
At the University of Delaware, principal teaching responsibility has been a two-semester first year graduate course in Methods of Applied Mathematics (MEEG 863, 864), as well as courses in undergraduate Engineering Analysis, Asymptotic and Perturbation Methods, Greens Functions, Fluid Mechanics, Differential Equations and Linear Algebra, Thermodynamics, Statics, Dynamics, Applied Ocean Science, Numerical Methods in ODEs and PDEs, and Analysis of Selected Biological Systems.

Undergraduate applied mathematics course (MAE 461, now M EEG 361) selected by the College of Engineering and the University Extension for a pilot program in the first offering of televised instruction at off-campus sites (DuPont Louviers), "live" and with direct communication with the audience, in the early 1970s. Televised offerings of MEEG 361, 863 and 864 through University of Delaware FOCUS program, and of MEEG 361, 863 through National Technological University.

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