Address: University of Southern California Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Los Angeles, California 90089-1453 Office: OHE 430K Tel. (213) 740-0495 Fax. (213) 740-8071 email: fudwadia@usc.edu website: http://ame-www.usc.edu/bio/udwadia

Academic rank: Professor, full-time

Education:

1972 Ph.D., Civil Engineering (major) and Applied Math (minor), California Institute of Technology
1969 M.S., Civil Engineering, California Institute of Technology
1968 B. Tech. Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

USC Academic Positions:

1998-: Professor, Department of Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering
1983-1998: Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
1983-: Professor, Department of Civil Engineering
1977-83: Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering
1974-77: Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering
2005-: Professor, Systems Architecture Engineering
2000-: Professor, Department of Mathematics (College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences)
1986-: Professor, Information and Operations Management (Marshall School of Business)

Research Interests:

Dynamics and control, mechanics and mathematics, collaborative engineering, engineering management, structural dynamics, system identification

Selected Publications:

F. E. Udwadia, "Optimal Tracking Control of Nonlinear Dynamical Systems," Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series A 464, pp. 2341-2363, 2008.

M. S. Waters, C. A. Sturm, M. Y. El-Naggar, A. Luttge, F. E. Udwadia, D. G. Cvitkovitch, S. D. Goodman, and K. H. Nealson, "In Search of the Microbe/Mineral Interface: Quantitative Analysis of Bacteria on Metal Surfaces using Vertical Scanning Interferometry," Geobiology 6, pp. 254-262, 2008.

J. Peters, M. Mistry, F. E. Udwadia, J. Nakanishi, and S. Schaal, "A Unifying Framework for Robot Control with Redundant DOFs," Auton. Robot 24, pp. 1-12, 2008.

F. E. Udwadia, and B. Han, "Synchronization of Multiple Chaotic Gyroscopes Using the Fundamental Equation of Mechanics," Journal of Applied Mechanics 75, 02011, 2008.

C. A. Sturm, M. S. Waters, R. S. Arvidson, M. El-Naggar, S. D. Goodman, K. H. Nealson, A. Luttge, and F. E. Udwadia, "Bugs in Stress: microbial control of surface reactivity in a stress field," Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 71, A982, 2007.

D. Kim, F. E. Udwadia, and W. Proskurowski, "A Perturbation Approach for Approximate Inertial Manifolds," International Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics 2 (1), pp. 15-41, 2007.

F. E. Udwadia, and P. Phohomsiri, "Generalized LM-inverse of a Matrix Augmented by a Column Vector," Applied Mathematics and Computation 190, pp. 999-1006, 2007.

F. E. Udwadia, and P. Phohomsiri, "Explicit Poincare Equations of Motion for General Constrained Systems. Part I. Analytical Results," Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series A 463, pp. 1421-1434, 2007

F. E. Udwadia, and P. Phohomsiri, "Explicit Poincare Equations of Motion for General Constrained Systems. Part II. Applications to Multi-body Dynamics and Nonlinear Control," Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series A, 463, pp. 1435-1446, 2007.

F. E. Udwadia, H. von Bremen, and P. Phohomsiri, "Time-delayed Control Design for Active Control of Structures: Principles and Applications," Struct. Control Health Monit. 14 (1), pp. 27-61, 2007.

More publications

Professional Societies:

American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Fellow
American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Fellow
American Society of Civil Engineers

Honors and Awards:

2006: ASCE Aerospace Division's Outstanding Technical Contribution Award

Courses Taught:

AME 521
AME 524, Advanced Engineering Dynamics
AME 525
AME 526

Recent Professional Development Activities:

Editor-in-chief, Journal of Aerospace Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers
Associate Editor, Applied Mathematics and Computation
Associate Editor, Journal of the Franklin Institute
Associate Editor, Mathematical Problems in Engineering
Associate Editor, Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications
Associate Editor, Nonlinear Science
Associate Editor, International Journal of Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society
Honorary Editor, Journal of Mathematical Control Science and Applications
Steering Committee, 10^th ASCE Aerospace Division International Conference on Engineering, Construction and Operations in Challenging Environments
Associate Editor, Applied Mechanics Reviews
Associate Editor, International Journal of Mathematical Analysis
Associate Editor, International Journal of Mathematical Modeling, Simulation, and Applications

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