Director
Professor Gregory M. Odegard
Greg earned his Ph.D. at the University of Denver in 2000, where he studied the failure behavior of graphite/polyimide composites. From 2000-2004 he worked at NASA Langley Research Center where he conducted research on the multiscale modeling and characterization of polymer-based nanostructured materials. Since 2004, Gregory has served as an Assistant Professor at Michigan Technological University where he conducts research on a wide range of engineering materials and biological tissue. Greg has earned the SAMPE Outstanding Graduate Student award, ASME/Boeing Structures and Materials Award, Henry J.E. Reid Award, MTU Oustanding Graduate Mentor Award, and the Ferdinand P. Beer and E. Russell Johnston Jr. Outstanding New Mechanics Educator Award.


PhD Candidate
Ananyo Bandyopadhyay
Ananyo is a 2nd year PhD student in Materials Science and Engineering. Ananyo is from Kolkata, India. He did his Bachelor's degree in Materials Engineering from Jadavpur University, Kolkata. Prior to his PhD, he was an Assistant Manager-Technical in Vesuvius India Ltd. and there he worked for two years on ceramic refractories used for continuous casting of steel. Ananyo's PhD work is on multiscale molecular modeling of epoxy polymer and study the effects of thermal, chemical and hydrothermal aging on the mechanical properties of this polymer nanocomposite. His project is funded by NASA and he is using LAMMPS (Courtesy-Sandia National Laboratories) software for doing molecular dynamics of the epoxy polymer system.


PhD Candidate
Shreehari (Hari) Elangovan
Hari received his Bachelor's in Mechanical Engineering from Anna University (India) in 2002 and is currently working towards his Ph.D thesis concerning the constitutive modeling of cellular materials and Finite Element Modeling of cysts in Nerve tissue. With respect to cellular materials, his research endeavors to formulate an analytical model with the ability to account for the inherent cell size variation in a cellular material. The Finite Element Modeling part attempts to study the pathogenesis of ganglion cysts within nerves and effective means of treatment