Director of Advanced Composite StructuresEngineering Lab (ACSEL)

Multiscale Integrated Technology Solutions LLC (MITS) was incorporated in Indianapolis, Indiana in 2019, focusing on technology and product development in composite and nanocomposite technologies. Since its inauguration, MITS has been actively involved in communicating with industries and research centers focused on developing solutions for enhanced composites, nanocomposite proximity sensors, batteries and additive manufacturing from internal R&D and through SBIR/STTR applications. MITS develops, produces, and markets enhanced composite materials, delivering production scale carbon fiber prepreg advanced composite rolls for manufacturing parts and components with improved mechanical, thermal, electrical and EMI shielding performance. MITS is dedicated to providing cutting-edge enhancement technologies to increase national security and improve the quality of daily life. MITS creates customer-oriented polymer-based active and passive composite solutions to create lighter, yet tougher and more durable materials, parts and components. The core competencies of MITS include:• High-performance composite materials• Ultrasensitive flexible sensors• Cost-effective advanced manufacturing technologies

As part of the AM-TEC project, SyracuseCoE and its AM-TEC collaborators have been awarded funding by NYSERDA to establish an Analysis & Design Center (ADC) to assist cluster firms with product design challenges. The ADC will offer AM-TEC companies access to reduced-cost finite element analysis (FEA). The shared workstations will be available at SyracuseCoE headquarters facility in downtown Syracuse, offering engineering simulation softwares.The AM-TEC FEA Analysis & Design Center is directed by Prof. Hamid Dalir from College of Engineering and Computer Science, Syracuse University.The goal of the AM-TEC Analysis & Design Center is to assist companies introduce products to market faster that are fundamentally better designed. If you have interest in participating in a quick-start pilot project, contact Tammy Rosanio, tlrosani@syr.edu.Special thanks to NYSERDA for its support of this program.http://syracusecoe.syr.edu/what-we-offer/am-tec-analysis-design-center/

RESEARCH INTERESTS• Stress, modal and thermal analysis of mechanical and aerospace structures• Computational mechanics• Multi-disciplinary design optimization• Composite materials and damage mechanics• Multi-scale modeling and material characterization• Material constitutive relations and modeling TEACHING INTERESTS• Statics | Dynamics | Mechanical vibrations • Mechanics of materials | Mechanical behavior of polymer composite materials• Machine element design | Stress and failure analysis of machinery• Finite element analysis• Design and analysis of aerospace structures | Aircraft stress analysis• Capstone mechanical/aerospace engineering design project

- Coordination of Bombardier-University projects in aerospace structural design. - Certification testing of composite design features for aircraft parts and components.- Finite Element Analysis (FEA) and Margin of Safety (MOS) Evaluation of aircraft parts and components.

Nature of work: Improvement of the mechanical, thermal and barrier properties of nanocomposites

Nature of work: Design and control of a hexapod wall jumping robot for cleaning skyscrapers