Anthony M. Waas
Anthony M. Waas, Felix Pawlowski Collegiate Professor of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanical Engineering (courtesy) and Director, Composite Structures Laboratory at the University of Michigan, received his B.Sc. with first class honors from Imperial College, Univ. of London, U.K., in 1982, the M.S. in 1983 and Ph.D in 1988 with a minor in Applied Mathematics from the California Institute of Technology, all in Aeronautics.
He joined the faculty of the Department of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Michigan in 1988, where he was promoted to the rank of Associate Professor in 1994 and Professor in 2000.
His research interests include lightweight structures, mechanics of composite structures and composite materials including failure mechanics, wind-energy, nano-scale composite materials with a focus on enhancing toughness, energy absorption and mitigation, structural stability, biomechanics, and “hot” structures.
He served as the Aerospace Department Graduate Program Chair (1998-2002), the Associate Chairperson of the Aerospace Engineering Department (2003-2005), and currently serves on the College of Engineering executive committee.
He is author or co-author of more than 130 refereed journal papers, and numerous conference papers and presentations. He is an academic consultant to the structures technical discipline team (TDT) of the NASA Engineering Safety Board, and was the technical chair for the AIAA SDM conference, 2008.
He is a Fellow of ASME, a Fellow of the American Academy of Mechanics and a faculty fellow of MMPEI.