Prof. George S. Dulikravich

Founder and Director

 

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Professor Dulikravich has authored and co-authored over 350 technical publications in diverse fields involving computational and analytical fluid mechanics, subsonic, transonic and hypersonic aerodynamics, theoretical and computational electro-magneto-hydrodynamics, conjugate heat transfer including solidification, computational cryobiology, acceleration of iterative algorithms, computational grid generation, multi-disciplinary aero-thermo-structural inverse problems, design and constrained optimization in turbomachinery, and multi-objective optimization of chemical compositions of alloys.  He is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of the international journal on Inverse Problems in Science and Engineering (founded in 1994) and an Associate Editor of three additional journals.  He is also the founder, chairman and editor of the sequence of International Conferences on Inverse Design Concepts and Optimization in Engineering Sciences (ICIDES) and International Symposium on Inverse Problems, Design and Optimization (IPDO).  Professor Dulikravich is a Fellow of the American Academy of Mechanics, Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and an Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.  Professor Dulikravich was a member of the Texas Institute for Computational Mechanics (TICOM) at the University of Texas at Austin and a member of the Center for Space Propulsion and the Center for Gas Turbines and Power at the Pennsylvania State University. He is the founder of the interdepartmental Multidisciplinary Analysis, Inverse Design and Optimization (MAIDO) Institute at the University of Texas at Arlington and the founder of Multidisciplinary Analysis, Inverse Design, Robust Optimization and Control (MAIDROC) Laboratory at Florida International University.

 

ADDRESS

George S. Dulikravich, Ph.D.

Professor and Chairman

Department of Mechanical and Materials Eng.

College of Engineering and Computing

Florida International University

10555 West Flagler St., EC 3474

Miami, Florida 33174

+1 (305) 348-7016 phone

+1 (305) 348-6007 FAX

dulikrav@fiu.edu (E-mail)

 

CITIZENSHIP          U. S. A.

 

EDUCATION

· Ph.D. Cornell University, Ithaca, NY (Aerospace Engineering and Applied Mathematics) January 1979 

· M.Sc. University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN (Aeronautical Engineering and Theoretical Mechanics) June 1975

· Dipl. Ing. University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Yugoslavia (Aeronautical and Mechanical Engineering) May 1973

· Dipl. Tech. Technical School "Nikola Tesla", Pancevo, Yugoslavia (Mechanical Engineering) May 1968

· P.E. Registered Professional Engineer, Texas (P.E. #58582) May 1985

 

AREAS OF RESEARCH

· Multi-Disciplinary Aero-Thermo-Structural-Electro-Magnetics Analysis, Inverse Design, and Optimization

· Electro-Magneto-Hydrodynamic Flow and Solidification Modeling, Simulation, and Design Optimization

· Turbomachinery Aerodynamics, Heat Transfer, and Elasticity Simulation and Design Optimization

· Computational Simulation and Optimization of Cryopreservation Protocols

· Multi-Objective Evolutionary Design Optimization of Chemical Compositions of Alloys

· Hybrid Single-Objective and Multi-Objective Optimization Algorithms and Metamodels

 

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

· Founder and Director, Multidisciplinary Analysis, Inverse Design, Robust Optimization and Control (MAIDROC) Laboratory, Florida International University, Miami, FL (02/04-present)

· Founder and Director, Multidisciplinary Analysis, Inverse Design and Optimization (MAIDO) Institute, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX (10/02-12/03)

· Senior Visiting Research Scientist, ICOMP-NASA Lewis Research Center/Case Western Reserve Univ., Cleveland, OH  (5/87; 5/88)

· Visiting Research Scientist, DFVLR-AVA - Institut fuer Theoretische Stroemungsmechanik, Goettingen, Germany (7/80-10/80; 5/82; 7/83; 6/84)

· Visiting Research Scientist, Universities Space Research Association - NASA Lewis Research Center, Cleveland, OH  (11/80-05/82)

· Research Associate, National Research Council - NASA Lewis Research Center, Cleveland, OH (6/79-7/80)

· Graduate Research Assistant - Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY (7/76-8/76; 1/77-9/78)

 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

· Full Professor and Chairman – Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Florida International University, Miami, FL (08/03 – present)

· Graduate Student Advisor – Aerospace Program, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX (7/02-08/03)

· Full Professor – Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX (7/99-12/03)

· Adjunct Professor – Department of Aerospace Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA (8/99-12/00)

· Visiting Professor - Institute of Mathematics, University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Yugoslavia (5/96-6/96)

· Visiting Professor - School of Science and Technology, Teikyo University, Utsunomiya, Japan (7/95-8/95)

· Associate Professor - Department of Aerospace Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA (1/86-7/99)

· Assistant Professor - Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX (9/82-1/86)

· Graduate Teaching Assistant – Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University (9/75-6/76; 9/76-1/77; 9/78-1/79)

· Graduate Teaching Assistant – Department of Aeronautical Engineering and Theoretical Mechanics, University of Minnesota (9/74-6/75)

 

HONORS, AWARDS, CERTIFICATIONS AND MEMBERSHIPS

· Eli Carafoli Award and Commemorative Medal, Politechnica, Bucharest, Romania (10/01)

· ALCOA Foundation Faculty Research Fellow Award (07/96-06/97; 07/97-06/98)

· William J. Murray, Jr. Fellowship in Engineering #1, University of Texas at Austin (09/85-01/86)

· NASA - National Research Council Postdoctoral Research Associateship and Travel Grant (1979)

· Sigma Xi - The Scientific Research Honor Society of North America (1979)

· Sigma Gamma Tau - National Honor Society for Aerospace Engineers (1975)

· International Institute for Education (IIE) - Fulbright Travel Grant (1974)

· IAESTE Program – Thune/Eureka Co., Norway (1971)

· Fellow  American Academy of Mechanics (AAM, since 11/06)

· Fellow  American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME no. 318923)

· Associate Fellow American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA no.4512)

· Member Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS no. 436471)

· Honorary Member Asociacion Argentina de Mecanica Computacional

 

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