{"id":25,"date":"2013-02-26T20:39:52","date_gmt":"2013-02-26T20:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/template\/?page_id=25"},"modified":"2025-11-17T09:07:42","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T09:07:42","slug":"biography","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/sarigul\/biography\/","title":{"rendered":"Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Education:<\/h3>\n<p>Ph.D., University of Arizona<\/p>\n<h3>Experience:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Assistant Professor, (1984-89), Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, Ohio State University.<\/li>\n<li>NASA Faculty Fellow, (1985 and 1986) NASA Lewis Research Center.<\/li>\n<li>Associate Professor, (1989-96) Dept of Mech. And Aero Engineering, UC Davis.<\/li>\n<li>Full Professor, (1996-present) Dept of Mech and Aero Engineering, UC Davis.<\/li>\n<li>Consultant, (1984-present) Various Aerospace Companies in Structural Dynamics, Aeroelasticity, Noise Control, Nonlinear Finite Element Formulations, Acoustics and System Design of mechanical and aerospace systems\/subsystems.<\/li>\n<li>Payload Manager, 1987 , NASA Get Away Special Experiment G-0318, Material Processing in Space.<\/li>\n<li>Reviewer, AIAA journals, IJNME, ASME journals and proposals from Air Force and NSF.<\/li>\n<li>Member, Space Research Advisory Committee, California.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Honors\/ Awards and Professional Societies:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Editor-in-Chief (EIC), Journal of Progress in Aerospace.<\/li>\n<li>Editorial Board Member, Journal of Progress in Aerospace.<\/li>\n<li>Fellow of American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).<\/li>\n<li>Associate Fellow, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA).<\/li>\n<li>Member of North American Spine Society (NASS); IEEE; SAE<\/li>\n<li>Founding director of DynaaTECC; SpaceED; SMARTLAB; iPGS; TNCC<\/li>\n<li>Amelia Earhart Fellow, wings and medal for her research in aerospace.<\/li>\n<li>Honorary Member, Golden Key national Honor Society.<\/li>\n<li>Teetor Educational award, in recognition of her significant contributions to teaching, research and student development.<\/li>\n<li>Faculty Advisor to Flight Vehicle design Aerobrick team, which took 1st place at a national competition (40 colleges) with their all composite 1\/7th scale design R\/C aircraft by demonstrating a flight with 5.5 times of structural weight as payload. (Lockheed Martin\/SAE Award).<\/li>\n<li>Faculty Advisor to Eclipse Rocketry.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Graduate Student Research Advisor:<\/h3>\n<p>Directing M.S. thesis and Ph.D. dissertation research of 4-6 students each year. Research areas are in minimum weight design with aeroelastic and acoustic constraints, landing recovery system studies: winged, rotor, or parachute recovery system trades and scaled flight testing, development of advanced finite element methods to solve steep gradient problems of high temperature due to aerodynamic heating or shock loading; Environmental noise control; flow induced vibrations, and innovative power generation systems, Long duration Space flight Effects on Human Spine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Education: Ph.D., University of Arizona Experience: Assistant Professor, (1984-89), Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, Ohio State University. NASA Faculty Fellow, (1985 and 1986) NASA Lewis Research Center. Associate Professor, (1989-96) Dept of Mech. And Aero Engineering, UC Davis. Full Professor, (1996-present) Dept of Mech and Aero Engineering, UC Davis. 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