Dan Inman | The Best Job in the World

U-M chapter of Sigma Gamma Tau Special Lecture Series:
A talk by Professor Daniel Inman, the chair and of the Aerospace Engineering department, about "how to become a professor".

Dan Inman (http://www.engin.umich.edu/college/ab...) is active in research involving smart materials and structures as applied to morphing aircraft, energy harvesting, structural health monitoring and clearance control in jet engines. He currently has projects in cube satellite actuators, electronic damping, avian inspired morphing aircraft and energy harvesting. Formerly he was the Director of the Center for Intelligent Material Systems and Structures and the G.R. Goodson Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Virginia Tech and the Brunel Chair in Intelligent Materials and Structures at the University of Bristol, UK. A former Department Chair of the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, State University of New York at Buffalo, he has held adjunct positions in the Division of Applied Math at Brown University and in math at the University of Southern California. Since 1980, he has published 10 books (on vibration, energy harvesting, control, statics, and dynamics), eight software manuals, 20 book chapters, over 300 journal papers and 600 proceedings papers, given 61 keynote or plenary lectures, graduated 62 Ph.D. students and supervised more than 75 MS degrees.

http://www.engin.umich.edu/aero