Ismail Orabi

Education

Ph.D.: Clarkson University, 1987

Published Books and Articles

“Application of LabVIEW for Undergraduate Lab Experiments On Materials    Testing,” will be presented and published in the proceedings of the 2002 ASEE Annual Conference to be held June 16 – 19, 2002, in Montreal, Canada.

“Structural Response in the Frequency Domain using LabView,” ,"  presented and published in the proceedings of the 2001 ASEE Annual Conference, held June 24 – 27, 2001, in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

“Prediction and Measurement of Joint Damping in Scaled Model Space Structures,” presented and published in the proceedings of the 2000 Engineering Mechanics Annual Conference,  ASCE, Austin, TX.

"Application of LabView for Undergraduate Experiments,"  presented and published in the proceedings of the 2000 annual ASEE Conference, June 2000, St. Louis, MO.

"Outcomes Assessment Results of a Multi-disciplinary First-year Engineering at the University of New Haven,@ presented and published in the proceedings of the 1999 annual ASEE Conference, June, 1999, NC.

@Assessment of Linear Joint Effects on Space Structures,@ presented at the International Conference of Sound and Vibrations, July 1999, Denmar

A Computer- Aided Instruction in the Undergraduate Mechanics Laboratory,@ presented at the 1998 annual meeting of ASEE, in a poster session # 2566, June 28 - July 1, 1998, Seattle, WA.

@Stochastic Response of a Hysteretic System under Nonstationary Excitations,@ proceedings of the 7th Specialty conference, Probabilistic Mechanics & Structural Reliability, pp. 392- 395,1996.

@ Dynamics of a Free Play Type of Nonlinearity System under Deterministic and Random Excitations@ presented at the 15th Biennial Conference of Mechanical Vibration and Noise, September 17-21, 1995, Boston, MA.

@A Modern Universal Materials Testing System for undergraduate Laboratories,@ Proceedings of the 1995 ASEE annual conference, Anaheim, CA, June 25-28, 1995.

"Dynamics Response of a Hysteretic Structure Under Random Excitations," proceedings of the 14th Biennial Conference of Mechanical Vibration and Noise, Albuquerque, NM, Sept 19- 22, 1993.

"A New Approach for Response Analysis of Nonlinear Systems Under Random Excitations", Proceedings of the ASME Conference on Mechanical Vibration and Noise, 22 DE‑Vol. 37, pp. 147‑151, Miami, Fla, September 22‑25, 1991.

Courses Taught

Engineering & Applied Science courses 

Mechanical Engineering courses

Other

Biography

Dr. Orabi joined the faculty of the Mechanical Engineering Department in 1986.  Professor Orabi received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Cairo Institute of Technology (now Helwan University), in 1975, his M.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the State University of New York at Buffalo, in 1982, and  his Ph.D. degree from Clarkson University, in 1987. Prior to joining the University of New Haven, he  taught at Clarkson University as an Instructor for two years in the department of mechanical engineering and two years at the Cairo Institute of Technology. His more than 25 papers span a wide spectrum of problems in the dynamics of systems and structures. Dr. Orabi has also been involved in developing schemes for vibration control of space structures during the lift off and in orbit.  He is also working in multimedia curricula development to make learning more attractive, relevant, and efficient.  Professor Orabi has received a number of research awards from the  State of Connecticut and Untied Technologies. He has established two Laboratories: the Materials Testing laboratory sponsored by the National Science Foundation, and the Engineering Multimedia Laboratory funded by AT&T.  Professor Orabi was awarded the ASEE Instrumentation Division Best Paper Award  in 2000. Dr. Orabi was a Visiting Professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) (1996-1998).  He is a member of ASME and ASEE.

Research Areas : Applied  mechanics, vibration control of space structures, base isolation of buildings, vibration isolation,  Modeling and Analysis of Dynamics Systems

 

Teaching Interests: Applied mechanics, mechanical vibrations,  mechtronics, thermodynamics,  dynamic systems and control, experimental stress analysis, mechanical measurements using LabView

 

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