Madhukar Vable
Associate Professor
Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Mechanics Department
Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI 49931
Tel: (906) 487-2747
Fax: (906) 487-2822
Contact Email: mavable@mtu.edu
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Aerospace Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
M. Tech., Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India
B. Tech., Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India
HONORS
Fellow of Wessex Institute of Great Britain, 2002
Distinguished Faculty Member Award from Michigan Association of Governing Boards of State Universities, 1999.
Michigan Technological University Distinguished Teacher Award, 1998.
Member of Academy of Teaching Excellence of Michigan Technological University.
Most valuable research project award from Michigan Materials and Processing Institute for 1994/95 year.
Member of Editorial Board of The International Journal of Boundary Element Methods Communications. (1994-present).
SCHOLARSHIP
Vable conducts research in the area of computational mechanics and has developed algorithms for finite element method, finite difference method and boundary element method. A list of selected publication and brief description of software development can be obtined by clicking on the links below.
Selected Publications
Computer Program BEAMUP
Textbooks
A brief description of the textbooks can be obtained by clicking on the links below.
Mechanics of Materials, Oxford University Press, 2002
Errata for first print of the Mechanics of Materials
Intermediate Mechanics of Materials, Oxford University Press, 2007
Educational Material
Sample Syllabus, Lecture slides and Sample Exams are available as pdf files on the links below.
Introductory course of Mechanics of Materials
Intermediate Mechanics of Materials
Introduction to Finite Element Method
COURSES
Semester Spring 2008
Office Hours
MEEM 2150 Syllabus
MEEM 2150 Course Policy
Missing answers to homework problems
Miscellaneous
ME-EM Department Charter
Send comments to:mavable@mtu.edu
Last Updated: January 14, 2008