Office Hours - Spring 2013

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday 12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
Other by Appointment

Education
           
Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, University of Louisville, 2005
M.S., Mechanical Engineering, Southeast University, P.R. China, 1989
B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Southeast University, P.R. China, 1986

Courses Taught

• ENGR 45000 Engineering Analysis
• ENGR 45100 Engineering Analysis II
• ME 27400 Basic Mechanics II (Dynamics)
• ME 33001 Structure and Properties of Materials
• ME 45101 Machine Design II

Academic Experience

• Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University North Central, 2010-present
• Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Louisville, 2005-2010

Professional Activities

American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE)

Honors and Awards

• Hsing Chuang Award for Excellence in Graduate Study, University of Louisville, 2002
• Graduate Research Assistant Fellowship, University of Louisville, 2000-2005

Service Activities

• Elected as a member of PNC curriculum committee at the campus level for the 2011-2012 academic year.
• Elected as a member of PNC faculty senate for the 2011-2012 academic year.
  

Publications/Presentations

• Zhang, S.Y. and Prater, G., “Gauge sensitivity indices and application for assessing vehicle body structural stiffness,” Int. J. Vehicle Design, accepted.
• Prater, G., Zhang, S.Y., Shahhosseini, A.M. and Osborne, G.M., “Gauge Sensitivity Indices for Vehicle Body Structure Assessment and Optimization,” Int. J. Vehicle Systems Modeling and Testing, 2009, 4(1/2), 79-101.
• Zhang, S.Y. and Prater, G., “A Study of the Effect of Elastic Instability on Stiffness-Based Gauge Sensitivity Indices for Vehicle Body Structure Assessment,” Thin-Walled Structures, 47(2009) 1590-1596.
• Prater, G., Zhang, S.Y., Shahhosseini, A.M. and Osborne, G.M., “Application and Experimental Validation of Gauge Sensitivity Indices for Vehicle Body Structure Optimization,” SAE paper number 2008-01-0883.
• Zhang, S.Y., Prater, G., Shahhosseini, A.M. and Osborne, G.M., “Experimental validation of noise, vibration and harshness-based gauge sensitivity indices,” Experimental Techniques, September/October(2008), 51-54.
• Prater, G., Zhang, S.Y. and Shahhosseini, A.M., “Structural Gauge Sensitivity Indices for Vehicle Body Architecture Assessment and Optimization,” Proceedings of the VII International Conference on Mathematical Problems of Mechanics of Non-homogeneous Structures, Lviv, Ukraine, September 2006.