Biography

Dr. Dan Stutts was born in Canton, GA, on January 9, 1959. He received B.S. and M.S. degrees in mechanical engineering from Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, in 1983 and 1987 respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering from Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, in the fall of 1990. 

As a Visiting Assistant Professor, Dan taught Engineering Mechanics I at Purdue in the spring of 1991 before joining the faculty of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Missouri University of Science and Technology (at that time, University of Missouri-Rolla) in the fall of 1991.

He was promoted to Associate Professor in 1997. Since the fall of 1991, Dan has conducted research and consulting in broad range of areas, including vibrations mitigation, piezoelectric actuator and transducer design and optimization, applications of embedded systems, and most recently, heat transfer and parameter estimation.

Discipline

Mechanical Engineering

Research Interests

Dynamics, vibrations, modeling and development of piezoactuators and transducers-mechatronics, mechanics of bone, structural dynamics, optimal design, acoustics, design and modeling of ultrasonic piezoelectric actuators and transducers, dynamic parameter estimation, and vibration mitigation

Education

• 1990 – Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University
• 1987 – M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Louisiana State University
• 1983 – B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Louisiana State University