Professor Mehrdad N. Ghasemi-Nejhad of the Department of Mechanical Engineering
of the University of Hawaii at Manoa was recently conferred the distinction of
ASME Fellow grade of membership. He became the fourth ASME-HI member to be
conferred this distinction of Fellow grade in recognition of outstanding
engineering achievements.
Dr. Ghasemi-Nejhad is the founding director of the Advanced Materials
Manufacturing Lab (AMML), Intelligent and Composite Materials Lab (ICML), and
Hawaii Nanotechnology Lab (HNL). He is an invited speaker in the fields of
composites, smart structures, and nanotechnology, a contributor and reviewer of
articles in professional journals, and the associate editor of the Journal of
Thermoplastic Composite Materials. Besides an ASME Fellow, he is a member of
SPIE, ASC (American Society for Composites), and SAMPE (Advancement of Material
and Process Engineering). He is a technical committee member of Adaptive
Structures and Material Systems (ASMS) of ASME/Aerospace, chair of ASMS
Symposium in 2006 ASME/IMECE, chair of the First ASME International Conference
on Multifunctional Nanocomposite in 2006, and Co-chair of Active and Passive
Structures and Integrated Systems of the 2008 and 2009 SPIE Conference.
Dr. Ghasemi-Nejhad is a faculty advisor for the student sections of the ASME
and SAMPE, as well as the ASME Human Powered Vehicle senior design project. He
is also the Graduate Chair and the ABET Chair of the Department of Mechanical
Engineering. He has over 140 publications in composites, smart structures, and
nanotechnology, including publications in Nature Materials and Science.
Dr. Ghasemi-Nejhad received the Block Fellowship from the University of Delaware, the DuPont Fellowship from E.I. DuPont de Nemours, the Scholars Award from the Center for Composite Materials of the University of Delaware, the University of Hawaii Presidential Citation for Meritorious Teaching, the A.D. Welliver Faculty Fellow from Boeing, the ASME Region IX Outstanding Faculty Advisor Award, and the Best Paper Award in Mechanics of Materials of ASME/Aerospace ASMS. With his students, he won the Human Powered Vehicle National Championship in 1995 and 1997.
He is one of the
inventors of the nanobrush, (the “World’s smallest Brush”), certificated by the
Guinness Book of World Record in 2007. Ph.D. (1992), University of Delaware.