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Kritzer Professor in Mechanical Science and Engineering

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Contact Information

• Office: 2140 Mechanical Engineering Laboratory
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  2140 Mechanical Engineering Laboratory
  1206 West Green Street, MC-244
  Urbana, IL 61801

• Phone Number: 217-333-1180
• Fax Number: 217-244-4333
• Email Address: aluru AT illinois.edu
• Research Website: https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/aluru/www

Research Description

Professor Aluru studies problems at the crossroads of mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, materials science and chemical engineering. His work in the area of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) and nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS) revealed previously unknown nonlinear dynamic phenomena, such as complex oscillations, period doubling bifurcation to chaos, and U-sequence. These insights led him to perform fundamental studies on thermoelastic damping in MEMS and to develop a new model to predict thermoelastic damping for complex nonlinear oscillations encountered in NEMS.

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