Analytical and Computational Mechanics (ACM) Laboratory

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering
358 Mechanical Engineering Building, (217) 244-6909


Laboratory Personnel:

Research Director:

Daniel A. Tortorelli


Research Assistants:


Deepak Kulkarni
Julian Noratoes
David P. Pattillo II
Ravi Bellur-Ramaswany
Micheal Tonks

Former Research Assistants:

Jin-Young Kim (Ph.D. '02) Northwestern University: postdoctoral researcher
Schalk Kok (Ph.D. '02) University of Pretoria: faculty
Julian Noratoes (M.S. '02) UIUC: Ph.D. candidate
Tyler E. Bruns (Ph.D. '01) UIUC: Beckman Fellow
Michelle Duesterhaus (M.S. '01) Sandia National Laboratory
Shunsuke Okubo (M.S. '01) Ford Motor Company
Shanshin Chen (Ph.D. '00) Hughes Space and Communications
Dinesh Balagangadhar (Ph.D. '99) Michigan State University: faculty
Klaus W. Loeffler (M.S. '96) Technical University of Munich: Research scientist
Chodavarapu A. Prasad (M.S. '96) Aalayance Inc.
Shanshin Chen (M.S. '96) UIUC: Ph.D. candidate
Gregory A. Dorai (M.S. '96) University of Chicago: graduate student
Douglas Smith (Ph.D. '96) University of Missouri: faculty
Vince Pesch (M.S. '94) Ford Motor Company
Xian Wang (Ph.D. '94) Ford Motor Company
John Scheuing (M.S. '94) Ford Motor Company
Pan Michaleris (Ph.D. '93) Pennsylvania State University: faculty
Tyler E. Bruns (M.S. '92) UIUC: Ph.D. candidate
Curt Spivey (M.S. '92)
John Tomasko (M.S. '92) Kohler
John S. Major, Ford Motor Company
Mark A. Haney, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
Raul Enrique, University of Michigan: postdoctoral researcher


Former Visiting Research Assistants:

Yang Haitian (Dalian University, China)
Dorthe Deville de la Coup (Technical University of Denmark)
Nahil Sobh (Caterpillar Inc.)
Zhang Zida (Lilin University, China)
Velaja B. Hammer (Technical University of Denmark)
Joao Pedro Castro Goncalves (Institute Superior Technico, Lisbon)
Roelof Minnaar (University of Pretoria, South Africa)
Creto Vidal (Universidade de Federal do Ceara)


Former Research Engineer:

Clayton Hinkle, Molex, Inc


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