Daniel J. Inman, Department Chair and Clarence "Kelly" Johnson Professor
CAMPUS ADDRESS: 3064 FXB
PHONE: (734) 647-4701
FAX: (unsecured) (734) 763-0578
EMAIL: daninman@umich.edu
VIDEOS: Harvesting the Heart's Energy

Dan Inman 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 gust alleviation in UAVs, cable harnessed satellites and wind turbine blade monitoring.  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 8 books (on vibration, control, statics, and dynamics), eight software manuals, 20 book chapters, 254 journal papers and 511 proceedings papers, given 48 keynote or plenary lectures, graduated 55 Ph.D. students and supervised more than 75 MS degrees.

Education
Ph.D., Department of Mechanical Engineering, Michigan State University (1980)

MAT, Department of Physics, Michigan State University (1975)

BS, Department of Physics, Grand Valley College (1970)

Society Memberships
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA, Fellow)

American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME, Fellow)

American Academy of Mechanics (AAM, Fellow)

International Institute of Acoustics and Vibration (Fellow)

Society of Experimental Mechanics

Honors and Awards
Honorary Professorship, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China, awarded October 2009

The 2009 Structural Health Monitoring Lifetime Achievement Award, awarded September 2009

The 2009 Dean's Award for Excellence in Research, Virginia Tech, awarded April 2009

The Mechanical Engineering Distinguished Alumni Award, Michigan State University, awarded May 2008

The 2008 ASME/Boeing Structural Materials Best Paper Award, awarded April 2008

The 2007 ASME J. P. Den Hartog Award, awarded September 2007

The 2007 ASME Best Paper Award in Structural Dynamics and Control, awarded March 2007

The 2007 DeMichele Award of the Society for Experimental Mechanics, awarded February 2007

The "Benjamin Meaker Visiting Professorship" from the University of Bristol, UK, for visiting during AY

2004-05 and lecturing on smart structures, awarded May 2004

The SPIE 2003 Smart Structures and Materials Lifetime Achievement Award, awarded March 2003

The 2002 H. C. Pusey Best Paper Award, awarded November 2002

The 2002 President's Award for Research Excellence (Virginia Tech), awarded September 2002

The 2001 Dean's Award for Excellence in Research (Virginia Tech), awarded May 2001

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