Sunil Saigal
Sunil Saigal | |
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| Alma mater | Punjab Engineering College Indian Institute of Science Purdue University |
Sunil Saigal (Hindi: सुनील सैगल), is an Indian-born American engineer.
Education
Saigal obtained his bachelor's degree (Civil Engineering) at Punjab Engineering College, Chandigarh, India in 1978, obtaining a masters in Structures from Indian Institute of Science in 1980, and obtained his PhD in 1985 from Purdue University.
Career
Sunil Saigal is a distinguished professor and a former dean of the Newark College of Engineering at New Jersey Institute of Technology.
Saigal's research has been focused on interactions with the industry and these contributions have included:
- development of boundary element shape optimization in collaboration with United Technologies
- formulations for powder packing in collaboration with Alcoa and DuPont
- development of computational models for nonlinear soil behaviour in collaboration with ANSYS
- cohesive element formulations for post crack behaviour of glass—polymer composites in collaboration with DuPont
- explicit algorithms for high velocity impact in collaboration with Naval Surface Warfare Center
- computational simulations of acetabular hip component to assist with total hip replacement surgery in a collaboration with University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
- development of medial surface algorithms in collaboration with Sandia National Laboratories.[1]
Awards
- Fellow of American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).[2]
- Fellow of American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
- Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).[3]
- Orr Award for best paper, ASME Materials Division, 2004.
- Who's Who in America, 57th Edition, November 2002.
- Richard Teare Award for Excellence in Engineering Education, Carnegie Institute of Technology, Carnegie Mellon University, 1996.
- Outstanding Professor of the Year, ASCE Pittsburgh Section, 1994.
- George Tallman Ladd Research Award, Carnegie Mellon University, 1990.
- Presidential Young Investigator Award, National Science Foundation, 1990-1995.
- Ralph R. Teetor Award, Society of Automotive Engineers, 1988.
- The Admiral Ralph Earle Medal, Worcester Engineer Society, 1987.
References
- ^ http://civil.njit.edu/people/saigal.php
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-07-11. Retrieved 2010-08-15.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) 'NJIT : Newark College of Engineering -- Our People - Sunil Saigal ' - ^ http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-12/njio-nat121609.php Elected as AAAS fellow 'Eureka Alert : NJIT announces top honor: Sunil Saigal elected AAAS Fellow'