Rate My Professor Joseph Slater

Slater received a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering in 1989, an M.S. in Aerospace Engineering in 1992 with thesis "Modeling of Non-proportional Frequency Dependent Viscoelastic Damping in Space Structures," and a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering in 1993 with dissertation "Nonlinear Modal Control," all from the State University of New York at Buffalo. His research interests include vibration of structures and machines, aeroelasticity, linear and nonlinear system identification, experimental modal analysis, nonlinear dynamics, cyber-physical systems, morphing wing control, and turbomachinery blade vibration. A Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, he is also a member of Tau Beta Pi, Sigma Gamma Tau, and Phi Eta Sigma. He has contributed to the AIAA Structural Dynamics Technical Committee and Gossamer Spacecraft Program Committee and served as Associate Editor for professional journals. Notable publications include "An Optimization Based Technique for Determining Nonlinear Normal Modes" (2023), "Strain Gage Ramifications On Mistuning in As-manufactured Models and Experimental Testing" (2019), "Mistuned Response Prediction of Dual Flow-Path Integrally Bladed Rotors With Geometric Mistuning" (2015), and "Component-Mode Reduced-Order Models for Geometric Mistuning of Integrally Bladed Rotors" (2014).