Introduction to Finite Elements in Engineering

About Ashok BelegunduTirupathi Chandrupatla

Tirupathi R. Chandrupatla has been a Professor and Founding Chair of Mechanical Engineering at Rowan University New Jersey since 1995. He received his B.E. from National Institute of Technology Warangal his M.Tech. from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) and his Ph.D. from University of Texas Austin. He started his career as a design engineer with Hindustan Machine Tools (HMT) Bangalore and then taught at IIT. Professor Chandrupatla also taught at the University of Kentucky and Kettering University before joining Rowan. In 2005 he received the Lindback Distinguished Teaching Award at Rowan University. He is also the author of Quality and Reliability in Engineering (Cambridge 2009) and Introduction to Finite Elements in Engineering (2012). Professor Chandrupatla has broad research interests which include design optimization manufacturing engineering finite element analysis and quality and reliability. He published widely in these areas and serves as a consultant to industry. Professor Chandrupatla is a registered Professional Engineer and also a Certified Manufacturing Engineer. Ashok D. Belegundu has been a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Pennsylvania State University since 1986. Prior to this he taught at Kettering University Michigan. He received his B. Tech. from IIT. Madras and his Ph.D. from the University of Iowa. He has been a principal investigator on research projects involving optimization for several agencies including the National Science Foundation Army Research Office NASA SERC (UK) MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation Gentex Corporation and Ingersoll-Rand. He has organized two international conferences on optimization in industry and has authored or edited four books and written a chapter in a book. He has advised more than fifty graduate students. He has given short courses on finite elements and optimization to the Forging Industry Association Hazleton Pumps Infosys (India). He has served as an associate editor for AIAA Journal and for Mechanics Based Design of Structures and Machines.