Dr. Mahmoud Hussein

  • Associate Professor
  • Laboratory Director
  • ANN AND H.J. SMEAD AEROSPACE ENGINEERING SCIENCES

Focus Area

Structural & Material Systems

Education

PhD, Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, 2004
MS, Mathematics, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, 2002
MS, Applied Mechanics, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, 1999
MS, Mechanical Engineering, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London, 1995
BS, Mechanical Engineering, The American University in Cairo, 1994

Professional Experience

2017 - Present, Vice President, International Phononics Society
2017 - Present, Faculty Director, Pre-Engineering Program, University of Colorado Boulder
2014 - Present, Associate Professor, Aerospace Engineering Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder
2007 - 2014, Assistant Professor, Aerospace Engineering Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder
2005 - 2007, Research Associate, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge
2004 - 2005, Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

Selected Awards

Alvah and Harriet Hovlid Professor, College of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Colorado Boulder (2018 - present)
Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (2018)
Provost's Faculty Achievement Award for Tenured Faculty, University of Colorado Boulder (2017)
Lloyd Hamilton Donnell Applied Mechanics Reviews Paper Award, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (2016)
H. Joseph Smead Faculty Fellow, Dept. of Aerospace Engineering Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder (2014 - 2018)
Outstanding Junior Faculty Award, Dept. of Aerospace Engineering Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder (2014)
NSF CAREER Award (2013)
DARPA Young Faculty Award (2011)
Dean's Faculty Fellowship, College of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Colorado Boulder (2010)
Robert J. Melosh Medal for Best Student Paper on Finite Element Analysis (2005)
1st Prize, Student Paper Competition, Society of Engineering Science (2003)
Distinguished Achievement Award, College of Engineering, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor (2002)
Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award, Rackham Graduate School, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor (2001)

Research Interests

Theoretical, computational and experimental dynamics of materials and structures; dispersive, dissipative and nonlinear dynamics; periodic systems, disordered systems; phononics including phononic crystals and metamaterials; vibrations and wave propagation, thermal transport in crystals, fluid-structure interaction, discrete dislocation dynamics; multiscale methods, model reduction methods, design and optimization.

News

$2.5 million ARPA-E grant awarded to Mahmoud Hussein for transformational energy technology

"Phononics: An Emerging Interdisciplinary Field with Roots in Smead Aerospace" Seminar - Oct. 29

Mahmoud Hussein named ASME Fellow

Mahmoud Hussein's Dynamics of Lattice Materials published

Nanoscale pillars could radically improve conversion of heat to electricity, say CU Boulder researchers