FYI... -----Original Message----- From: Smith, Kristy Jo On Behalf Of Jamieson, Leah H. Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2011 9:19 AM Subject: ME Head Announced All - I am extremely pleased to announce that Anil K. Bajaj, currently Interim Head of the School of Mechanical Engineering, has accepted our offer to become the next William E. and Florence E. Perry Head of the School of Mechanical Engineering, effective June 1, 2011. I would like to thank Ragu Balakrishnan, chair of the search committee, and the entire search committee for their diligence and efforts in this very important process: Andrew Bean Stuart Bolton Donna Cackley Carol Handwerker Stephen Heister Nicole Key Michael Lorenz Eric Nauman Tom Malott Karthik Ramani Jeffrey Rhoads Susan Ritchey Thomas Siegmund Paul Sojka John Wall Carl Wassgren Tyler Williams Xianfan Xu Yushi Yang Anil K. Bajaj is Alpha P. Jamison Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Interim Head of the School of Mechanical Engineering. He joined the Purdue faculty in January 1981 after completing his Ph.D. studies in Mechanics from the University of Minnesota. Prior to that, he had obtained, respectively, Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology at Kharagpur and at Kanpur. From 1998 onward, he first served the School of ME as the Chair of the Graduate Committee, and then as the Associate Head for Research and Graduate Education. Dr. Bajaj's research and teaching interests are in the areas of Linear and Nonlinear Systems, Analytical Dynamics and Modeling of Multibody Systems, Stability of Elastic Systems, Bifurcations and Chaos in Mechanical Systems, Nonlinear Stability in Fluids and Fluid-Structure Interactions, Dynamics of Seat-occupant Systems, Modeling of Viscoelastic Properties of Foam, and Design of Nonlinear Resonant MEMS. He was elected a Fellow of the ASME in 1995. He has received many Purdue University ("Provost's Award for Outstanding Graduate Mentors", Purdue Graduate School, 2006) and College of Engineering ("Mentorship" Award, Faculty Excellence; "Team" Award, Faculty Excellence, 2009) awards. He has published more than 90 archival journal papers, 80 conference proceedings papers, and has advised (or co-advised) 19 M.S. and 22 Ph.D. students. At present, 3 Ph.D. and 4 MS students are working with him. Dr. Bajaj has served as a Contributing Editor of the Journal Nonlinear Dynamics since 1993. Please join me in congratulating Anil. Best, leah Leah H. Jamieson John A. Edwardson Dean, College of Engineering Ransburg Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Neil Armstrong Hall +1 765 494 5346 701 West Stadium Avenue +1 765 494 9321 (fax) Purdue University West Lafayette, IN 47907-2045 lhj@purdue.edu http://www.ece.purdue.edu/~lhj