Abstract:Miniature structures and devices have captured the attention of the scientific community for several decades for their unprecedented attractive features. Today, several micro-electro--mechanical systems MEMS devices are being used in our everyday life, ranging from accelero meters and pressure sensors in automobiles, radio-frequency (RF) switches and microphones in cell phones, and inertia sensors in video games. With the quest to boost sensitivity, reduce power consumption, and increase integration density, the past decade has witnessed the emergence of Nano-electro-mechanical systems NEMS. Along with their great promise, micro and nano devices have brought new challenges and a wide spectrum of unexplained and less-understandable behaviors and phenomena. Because these devices employ movable compliant structures, many of these challenges are related to their dynamical behavior, which is mostly nonlinear.
Bio:
Mohammad I. Younis received a Ph.D. degree in engineering mechanics from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, in 2004. Since 2004, he has been serving as an assistant and then as an associate professor of Mechanical Engineering at the State University of New York (SUNY), Binghamton, NY. In 2013, he took a leave from SUNY to King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia, where he has served as an associate professor of Mechanical Engineering and a Director of the MEMS and NEMS Characterization and Motion Laboratory. Dr. Younis is arecipient of the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities in 2012, the National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Award in 2009, and the Paul E. Torgersen Graduate Research Excellence Award in 2002. He holds several U.S. patents in MEMS sensors and actuators. He serves as an Associate Editor of Nonlinear Dynamics, the Journal of Computational and Nonlinear Dynamics, and the Journal of Vibration and Control. He has authored more than ninety archival journal papers and a book, all on the fields of MEMS and NEMS statics and dynamics.He is a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
