KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Keynote Introduction

Sunil Saigal
New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA

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Biography of the Keynote Speaker

Dean of the College of Engineering at the University of South Florida. Prior to his current position, he was the Chairman of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at USF. Dr. Saigal received his Ph.D. in Aeronautics and Astronautics from Purdue University. He has held faculty positions at Worcester Polytechnic Institute and at Carnegie Mellon University before arriving at USF. From 1996-98, he was the Program Manager for the Mechanics and Materials Program at the National Science Foundation. He has held summer appointments at NASA, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Sandia National Laboratory. He has authored over 100 technical articles in archival journals and serves on the editorial boards of several journals. He is a Fellow of both the American Society of Civil Engineers and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and an Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Dr. Saigal has won several teaching and research awards over the years.

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