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| Firdaus E.
Udwadia |
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Professor, full-time
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
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)
Dynamics and control, mechanics and mathematics, collaborative engineering, engineering management, structural dynamics, system identification
F.E. Udwadia and P. Phohomsiri, "Active control of structures using
time delayed positive feedback proportional control designs,"
Structural Control and Health Monitoring 13 No. 1,
pp. 536-552, 2006.
F.E. Udwadia and P. Phohomsiri, "Explicit equations of motion for
constrained mechanical systems with singular mass matrices and
applications to multi-body dynamics," Proceedings of the Royal
Society, Series A pp. 1-21, March 2006.
F.E. Udwadia, "In Memory of Robert E. Kalaba," Journal of
Optimization Theory and Applications 127 No. 3,
pp. 471-473, 2005.
Y.Y. Fan, R.E. Kalaba, H.H. Natsuyama,and F.E. Udwadia, "Reflections
on the Gauss Principle of Least Constraint," Journal of
Optimization Theory and Applications 127 No. 3,
pp. 475-484, 2005.
F.E. Udwadia, "Equations of Motion for Constrained Multibody Systems
and their Control," Journal of Optimization Theory and
Applications 127 No. 3, pp. 627-638, 2005.
F.E. Udwadia and P. Phohomsiri, "Recursive Determination of the
Generalized Moore-Penrose M-Inverse of a Matrix," Journal of
Optimization Theory and Applications 127 No. 3,
pp. 639-663, 2005.
F.E. Udwadia, "Structural Identification and Damage Detection from
Noisy Modal Data," Journal of Aerospace Engineering 18
No. 3, pp. 179-187, 2005.
F.E. Udwadia, "On Constrained Motion", Applied Mathematics and
Computation 164, pp. 313-320, 2005.
F.E. Udwadia, "Boundary Control, Quiet Boundaries, Super-stability and
Super-instability," Applied Mathematics and Computation
164, pp. 327-349, 2005.
F.E. Udwadia, "New General Principle of Mechanics and Its Application
to General Nonideal Nonholonomic Systems," Journal of Engineering
Mechanics 131 No. 4, pp. 444-450, 2005.
More publications
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics,
Fellow
American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Fellow
American Society of Civil Engineers
2006: ASCE Aerospace Division's Outstanding
Technical Contribution Award
AME 524, Advanced Engineering Dynamics
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,
10th 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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