Dwight
C. Baum Professor of Engineering
School
of Civil and Environmental Engineering
643
Rhodes Hall
Cornell
University, Ithaca, New York USA 14853
E-mail:
ari1@cornell.edu
Web:
www.cfg.cornell.edu
Phone:
607-254-8844
Fax:
607-254-8815
Ph.D,
Civil Engineering, University of Colorado/Boulder, 1977.
M.S.,
Civil Engineering, Polytechnic Institute of New York, 1971.
B.S.,
Aerospace Engineering, University of Notre Dame, 1969.
Dr.
Ingraffea’s research concentrates on computer simulation and physical testing
of complex fracturing processes. He and
his students performed pioneering research in the use of interactive computer
graphics in computational mechanics. He
has authored with his students over 180 papers in these areas.
He has been a
principal investigator on R&D projects from the NSF, NASA Langley, NASA
Marshall, AFOSR, FAA, Kodak, U. S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station,
U.S. Dept. of Transportation, IBM, Schlumberger, Digital Equipment Corporation,
the Gas Research Institute, Sandia National Laboratories, the Association of
Iron and Steel Engineers, General Dynamics, Boeing, Caterpillar Tractor, and
Northrop Grumman Aerospace. He has been
a principal or co-principal investigator on over $27M in externally funded
R&D since arriving at Cornell in 1977.
Professor
Ingraffea was a member of the first group of Presidential Young Investigators
named by the National Science Foundation in 1984. For his research achievements
he has won the International Association for Computer Methods and Advances in
Geomechanics "1994 Significant Paper Award" for one of five most
significant papers in the category of Computational/Analytical Applications in
the past 20 years, and he has twice won the National Research Council/U.S.
National Committee for Rock Mechanics Award for Research in Rock Mechanics
(1978, 1991). His group won a NASA Group Achievement Award in 1996, and a NASA
Aviation Safety Turning Goals into Reality Award in 1999 for its work on the
aging aircraft problem. He became a Fellow of the American Society of Civil
Engineers in 1991.
Professor
Ingraffea has received numerous awards his outstanding teaching at
Cornell. He has been a leader in the
use of workstations and information technology in engineering education, with
grants from the NSF, U.S. Department of Education, Digital Equipment
Corporation, Sun Microsystems, and Hewlett-Packard in these areas. He organized and was the first Director of
the NSF-supported Synthesis National Engineering Education Coalition, a team of
eight diverse engineering colleges.
Synthesis developed, implemented, and assessed innovative programs and
technologies to improve the quality of undergraduate engineering education and
to attract and graduate larger numbers of women and under-represented minority
engineers.
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