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CURRICULUM VITAE

CURRICULUM VITAE

PERSONAL
Name: Tamer Elsayed
Email: Tamer@alumni.caltech.edu
Web page: http://www.aero.caltech.edu/~tamer/

EDUCATION

CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (2003 - 2007)

A constitutive model for a wide class of polymers and soft biological tissues in the finite strain regime is formulated. The model includes rubber-like hyperelasticity, finite viscosity, deviatoric and volumetric plasticity, rate and microinertia effects. Model parameters are identified via genetic algorithms to fit available tests on polyurea, high-density polyethylene and brain tissue, proving the model's capability in predicting experimentally observed hysteresis, cyclic softening, rate effects, shear and cavitation plasticity. One implemented application of the model is the ductile and brittle fracture of composite plates and shells under dynamic loading. Another implemented application is in biomechanics where the biomaterial of brain tissue is modeled and included in simulating head injury under an accelerating load. This research involves programming in C++ for UNIX.

CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY (CAL POLY) POMONA (1998 - 2002)

Passed with excellence course work emphasizing: CAD design, technical writing, statistical analysis, advanced engineering measurements, strength of materials, stress analysis, finite element analysis, machine design, computer applications, advanced dynamics, thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, and other related subjects. Received an invitation by the California Institute of Technology Grad Preview Program in 2002 to apply for graduate studies in mechanical engineering and received admissions offers from MIT, Michigan Ann Arbor, and University of Southern California (USC) graduate schools. Acted as president of Tau Beta Pi (All Engineering Honor Society) at Cal Poly for the year 2000/2001, Pi Tau Sigma (Mechanical Engineering Honor Society) marketing executive for the year 1999/2000.

AWARDS

9th. United States Congress on Computational Mechanics, San Francisco (July, 2007)

California Institute of Technology (Caltech) (2003 - Present)

Cal Poly Pomona (1997 - 2003)

Chaffey Community College (1994 - 1997)

Al-Tabary Secondary School in Egypt (1991 - 1993)

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Senior Scientist at a local company (full-time) (please contact me for details) (August 2008 - Present):

Postdoctoral Scholar (full-time) (October 2007 - July-2008):

California Institute of Technology, Graduate Aeronautical Laboratories (GALCIT)

Graduate Student and Ph.D. Candidate (full-time) (September 2003 - October 2007):

California Institute of Technology

Mechanical Engineering Intern (February 2000 - November 2000):

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena

Engineering Consultant (part-time) (January 2000 - current):

 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Head Teaching Assistant Spring Quarter (March 2007 - June 2007)
California Institute of Technology (Caltech)

Engineering and Mathematics Instructional Assistant and Tutor (full-time) (September 2002 - June 2003)
Private Tutor (January 1999 - August 2002)
Chaffey Community College and Privately

 

JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

 

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS AND INVITED TALKS

 

AFFILIATIONS

 

OTHER

 

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