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Ashraf Bastawros
Assistant Professor
Department of Aerospace Eng. and Eng. Mechanics
515-294-3039 | bastaw@iastate.edu
Education
Ph.D. Engineering Brown University, Providence, RI 1997
M.S. Applied Mathematics Brown University, Providence, RI 1995
M.S. Mechanical Engineering Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt 1991
B.S. Mechanical Engineering Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt 1988
Honors and Awards
ASME, Electronic and Photonic Packaging Division Recognition 2003
NSF CAREER award 2002
Outstanding faculty member at Iowa State University, VESHEA 2000
American Society of Mechanical Engineers, JEP, Outstanding Paper Award 1999
Brown University chapter of Sigma Xi award for outstanding research work 1996
Distinction Award, Cairo University 1984-1988
Academic Experience
Assistant Professor, Aero. Eng. & Eng. Mech., Iowa State University, 8/99 -present
Assistant Professor, courtesy Mechanical Engineering, Iowa State University 10/02-present
Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 9/96 -7/99
Research Assistant, Brown University, Providence, RI 9/92 -5/96
Instructor, Cairo, Egypt 10/88-5/91
Industrial and Other Non-Academic Experience
Visiting Engineer, The Rexroth Corporation, Bethlehem, PA 7/90 – 12/90
Practical Training, Helsinki Energy Board, Helsinki, Finland 6/87 – 10/87
Consulting
Nuvera Fuel Cells, Cambridge, MA 2/00–6/00
Rockwell Science Center, Thousand Oaks, CA 1/98-7/99
SatCon Technology Corporation Cambridge, MA 1/98-6/98
Phelps Dodge Copper Products Company, Norwich, CT 9/94-10/94
OCG Microelectronic Materials, Inc. Providence, RI. 6/95-9/95
Current Research Areas
Mechanics of cellular materials
Size effects in the deformation of dense materials
Mechanics of chemical mechanical polishing
Mechanics of grinding and surface machining
Mechanics of coatings for orthopedic and dental implants
Surface instabilities driven by stresses and chemical attacks
Courses Taught at ISU
AeroE 462 Design of Aerospace Systems
EM 324 Introduction to Mechanics of Materials
EM 417 Experimental Mechanics (Undergraduate)
EM 517 Experimental Mechanics (Graduate)
MATE 271 An Introduction to Material Science for Engineers
EM 590F Special Topics on Dislocation and Plasticity
