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Daniel Dickrell is an Associate Instructional Professor (Engineer) in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering within the Engineering faculty at the University of Florida. He earned a B.S. in Engineering Science from the University of Florida in 2000, an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering in 2002, and a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering in 2006 from the same university. His research interests include computational image analysis, electrical contact mechanics, tribology, and engineering education methods for very-large enrollment courses. Dickrell holds memberships in the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

At the University of Florida, Dickrell teaches essential undergraduate mechanical engineering courses, including Engineering Mechanics – Statics (EGM2511), Engineering Mechanics – Dynamics (EGM3401), Mechanics of Materials (EGM3520), Vibrations (EGM4220), and Introduction to Mechanical Design (EML3005). He has produced 16 research publications focused on tribology, electrical contact resistance, and MEMS applications. Key publications are 'Electrical Contact Resistance Degradation of a Hot-Switched Simulated Metal MEMS Contact' (2007), 'Nanostructural, electrical, and tribological properties of composite Au-MoS2 coatings' (2009), 'Lateral Contact Stiffness and the Elastic Foundation' (2010), 'Cell friction and mechanotransduction' (2012), 'Intermolecular Forces, Adhesion, and the Elastic Foundation' (2013), 'An image-based software tool for screening retinal fundus images using vascular morphology and network transport analysis' (2014), and 'Interrupted Measurement Repositioning Using Elastic Averaging' (2015). These works account for 292 citations. During his graduate studies, he was a Research Assistant at Sandia National Laboratories' Materials Science and Engineering Center from January 2004 to February 2006. Dickrell also hosts the Engineering MAEvericks podcast, featuring discussions with mechanical and aerospace engineering professionals on technical topics.