Emeritus

Professor Emeritus

5120 Etcheverry Hall
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-1740
alaa@berkeley.edu

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Dr. Alaa Mansour is a Professor Emeritus in the Mechanical Engineering Department and previously the Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Ocean Engineering Graduate Program. He is a past chairman of the Naval Architecture and Offshore Engineering Department at the University of California, Berkeley. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Cairo in 1958 and has M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley in 1962 and 1966, respectively. He held the position of Associate Professor in the Department of Ocean Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a registered Professional Engineer in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

 

Dr. Mansour has been the editor of the Journal of Marine Structures for North and South America since its inception. He is also an editor of the Journal of Marine Science and Technology. Dr. Mansour has been elected to Chair the International Ship and Offshore Structures Congress for the term 2000-2003, and is currently the United States representative to the Congress. Dr. Mansour is the recipient of the Davidson Medal presented by the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers for “Outstanding Scientific Accomplishment in Ship Research”, and is currently a Fellow of the Society. In 2001, the Technical University of Denmark has conferred upon Dr. Mansour its highest honor, the Honorary Doctorate Degree, “Doctor Technices Honoris Causa”, in recognition of his “significant contributions to development of design criteria for ships and offshore structures.”

Research Description:

Structural reliability and safety, probabilistic dynamics of marine structures, strength of ship and offshore structures, development of design criteria.

 

Key Publications:

To view a list of Professor Mansour’s publications, please click here.

Professor Emeritus of Fire Safety Engineering Science

6165 Etcheverry Hall
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-1740
patrickjpagni@berkeley.edu
(510) 642-5300

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Research Description:

Fire safety engineering science: fire physics, fire modeling, compartment fire growth, flamespread, flame shapes and heights, excess pyrolyzates, soot formation, backdrafts, glass breaking in compartment fires, explosions, gravity currents, salt water modeling, self-heating to ignition, brand lofting, urban/wildland intermix and post-earthquake conflagrations.

Professor Emeritus of Energy

72 Hesse Courtyard
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-1740
rsawyer@me.berkeley.edu
(510) 642-5573

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Research Description:

Air pollutant formation and control, motor vehicle emissions, energy and environment, regulatory policy.

Professor Emeritus of Mechanical Engineering

5104 Etcheverry Hall
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-1740
bhtongue@me.berkeley.edu

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Research Description:

Nonlinear dynamics, vibrations, modal analysis, numerical modeling, acoustics

Professor Emeritus of Mechanical Engineering

5104 Etcheverry Hall
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-1740
paulwright@berkeley.edu

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Professor Paul Wright is internationally recognized as a leader in design, 3D printing and manufacturing. His recent research has focused on the creation of self- powered wireless nodes for the Internet of Things (IoT).  The Advanced Manufacturing for Energy (AME) lab has extensive experience in the design and manufacture of energy harvesting, including devices that utilize thermal electric generators (TEG), vibration energy harvesting, thin film solar cells, thin film batteries and super capacitors. 3D-dispenser printing and screen-printing allow us to create fully functioning IoT nodes with a wide set of performance characteristics. A detailed modeling tool on the performance of harvesters, batteries and super-capacitors allows an analysis of the various load-demand scenarios. Professor Wright joined the faculty of the Mechanical Engineering Department in 1992 and he holds the A. Martin Berlin Professorship. From 2007 to 2013 he was the Director of the Center for Information Technology for Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS). Most recently he was the Director of the Berkeley Energy and Climate Institute (BECI) and a co-director of the Berkeley Wireless Research Center (BWRC).

Research Description:

Energy scavenging and storage; Smart materials; Design and manufacturing for micro-integration of ‘intelligent objects’; Design of wireless sensor systems. Application areas include: Energy efficiency and demand response; First responder applications; Medical products. Previous research on Internet-based manufacturing & open-architecture control.

 

Key Publications:

To view a list of Professor Wright’s publications, which are included in his CV, please click here.

Professor Emeritus of Hydromechanics and Ocean Engineering

5104 Etcheverry Hall
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-1740
rwyeung@berkeley.edu
(510) 642-8347

For more information see: Berkeley Marine Mechanics Lab
Current Classes Taught

Education

Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley, 1973.  Joined faculty in 1982.

 

Positions Held

Professor of Hydromechanics and Ocean Engineering, 1982-
Inaugural American Bureau of Shipping Endowed Chair in Ocean Engineering, 2012 – 2017
Visiting Professor, Center of Excellence for Ship and Offshore Structures (CESOS), Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway, Spring 2007
Humboldt Professor, Institut fu¨r Schifftechnischen, Gehardt Mercator University of Duisburg, Germany, 1998
Visiting Professor, Research Institute of Applied Mechanics, Kyushu University, Japan, 1998
Chair, Naval Architecture & Offshore Engineering, University of California at Berkeley, 1989 – 1997
Humboldt Professor, Institut fu¨r Schiffbau, University of Hamburg, W. Germany, 1988
Fulbright-Hayes Senior Scholar, University of Adelaide, Australia, 1981
Principal, R. W. Yeung  – Consulting Naval Architect and Ocean Engineer, 1976-
Assistant / Associate Professor of Naval Architecture, Mass. Inst. of Tech., 1974 – 1982
Naval Architect, Litton Ship Systems, Advanced Marine Technology Division, CA, 1970 – 1971
Instructor, Long Beach Naval Shipyard, UCLA Extension, 1970 – 1971

 

Academic Curriculum Vitae of Professor R. W. Yeung (August 2020)

Research Description:

Hydromechanics, naval architecture, ship hydrodynamics, mathematical modeling, numerical fluid mechanics, offshore mechanics, ocean processes, separated flows, wave-vorticity interaction, vortex-induced vibrations, ocean-wave energy, tidal current energy, two-layer fluid flow, hydroelasticity, multi-hull optimization, moonpool resonance, vortical flow for slender hulls in forward motion, wave-to-wire conversion, model-predictive controls, micro-scale turbine, unsteady ship interactions

 

Key Publications:

To view a list of Professor Yeung’s publications, please visit Professor Yeung’s website.