Baz, Amr
Minta Martin Professor
Keystone Professor
Director, Smart Materials and Structures Research Center
Distinguished Scholar and Teacher
EDUCATION
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1973
HONORS AND AWARDS
- Fellow, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1996)
- Who’s Who of American Inventors (1996)
- Engineering Alumni Association Outstanding Faculty Research Achievement Award (1997)
- ASME Adaptive Structures and Material Systems Award (2009)
- Pi Tau Sigma Purple Camshaft Teaching Award (2009)
- SPIE Smart Structures and Materials Lifetime Achievement Award (2011).
- Distinguished Teaching-Scholar Award - University of Maryland (2015)
- Best Paper Award of 2023 of the ASME Journal of Vibration and Acoustics (2023)
- The Purple Camshaft Award of Pi-Tau-Sigma Teaching Award. (2024)
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
- Associate Editor, Vibration and Control Journal, Intl. Journal of Smart Structures & Systems, and Journal of Mechanics of Advanced Materials and Structures.
- Associate Editor, Journal of Acoustics, MDPI AG (Basel, Switzerland)
- Associate Editor, Journal of Vibration, MDPI AG (Basel, Switzerland)
- Editorial Board: Journal of Frontiers in Acoustic Metamaterials
- Editorial Boad: Journal of Low Frequency Noise, Vibration, and Vibraction Control.
- Editorial Board: Journal of Vibration and Control
Courses 2025
ENME462 Vibration, Controls, and Optimization II
Course Description Continuation of ENME361. Fundamentals of vibration, controls, and optimization. Analysis and design in time, Laplace and frequency domains. Mathematical descriptions of system response, system stability, control and optimization. Optimal design of mechanical systems.
ENME662 Advanced Linear Vibrations
Course Description: Development of equations governing small oscillations and spatially continuous systems. Newton's equations, Hamilton's principle, and Lagrange's equations. Free and forced vibrations of mechanical systems. Modal analysis. Finite element discretization and reductions of continuous systems. Numerical methods. Random vibrations.
ENME489P/808P Control of Smart Structures
Course Description: ENME 489P/808P introduces the theory and practice of control systems engineering of smart structures. These structures consist of an integration of mechanical systems with arrays of piezoelectric sensors and actuators. Control of these smart systems is becoming an integral part of modern society that found applications in a broad range of critical systems such as robots, car suspensions, and spacecraft. In this course, students will learn how to describe systems mathematically using Lagrange’s dynamics and analyze those multi-filed descriptions both in the time and frequency domains. This course includes integrated virtual experiments that allow students to master the MATLAB, SIMULINK, and LABVIEW engineering computing environment.
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