Event
ISR/ME Seminar: NSF's Eduardo Misawa
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
2:00 p.m.
First Floor Pepco Room, Kim Building
Regina King
301 405 6615
rking12@umd.edu
Cyber-Enabled Discovery and Innovation
Dr. Eduardo Misawa
Program Director, Dynamical Systems
Division of Civil, Mechanical, Manufacturing and Innovation (CMMI)
National Science Foundation
Hosts
Bala Balachandran, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Eyad Abed, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Institute for Systems Research
Abstract
The Cyber-Enabled Discovery and Innovation (CDI) Program at the National Science Foundation is about the advancement of science and engineering along fundamentally new pathways opened by computational thinking, through development and application of computational concepts, methods, models, algorithms, and tools. CDI is an activity that includes all NSF Directorates and programmatic Offices.
CDI projects promise outcomes of consequence to more than one field of science and engineering. Success will require collaborative efforts of researchers in mathematical, physical, social, biological, earth, computing, and engineering sciences, driving development, or creative use, of computational thinking for discovery and innovation.
Biography
Eduardo Misawa has B.Sc.and M.Sc. degrees from the University of São Paulo, Brazil (1979 and 1983) and a Ph.D. degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1988), all in Mechanical Engineering with concentration in Dynamical Systems and Controls. He is currently a Program Director in the Directorate of Engineering of the National Science Foundation. He is on leave of absence from the Oklahoma State University where he is a Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. His research experience includes Analytical Dynamics, Nonlinear Dynamics, Nonlinear Control, Robust Control, Vibrations, Mechatronics, Nanotechnology, Precision Engineering, Vehicle Dynamics, Fluid Power Control, Bioinformatics, Biotechnology, and Biomedical Engineering. Most of his research activities have been on dynamics of complex systems and simulation of multi-scale systems motivated by a research thrust on targeted drug delivery particle dynamics and control.
