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Jian-Qiao Sun
Scool of Engineering
University of California
Merced, CA 95344

(US Citizen)
Registered Professional Engineer
State of Delaware (12515)

Tel: (209)228-4540
Fax: (209)228-4047
jqsun@ucmerced.edu


EDUCATION

1/83-5/88 Ph.D. and M.S. in Mechanical Engineering
University of California at Berkeley
  • Fields of Study: Solid Mechanics, Dynamics and Applied Mathematics
2/78-1/82 B.S. in Mechanics
Huazhong University of Science and Technology (Wuhan, China)

EXPERIENCE

07/07- Professor
School of Engineering
University of California, Merced
08/09-07/10 Director
UC Merced Energy Research Institute
University of California, Merced
10/12- Editor in Chief
International Journal of Dynamics and Control
Springer
5/08- International Advisory Editors Board Member
Book series on “Non-Linear Physics Science”
Higher Education Press of China and Springer
1/07- Editorial Board Member
Journal of Sound and Vibration
Elsevier Science, Ltd., Oxford, UK
10/05-9/08 Editorial Board Member
Journal of Vibration and Control
SAGE Publications Ltd, London, UK
2/01- Editorial Board Member and International Advisory Editor
Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulations
Elsevier Science, Ltd., Oxford, UK
12/03-7/11 Editorial Board Member
Acta Mechanica Solida Sinica
Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
11/94-12/01 Associate Editor
ASME Transactions Journal of Vibration and Acoustics
9/00-12/05 Associate Director
Delaware Space Grant College Consortium
9/07-6/12
9/03-6/07
9/98-8/03
9/94-8/98
Adjunct Professor
Professor
Associate Professor
Assistant Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware
2/94-8/94
1/91-2/94
Senior Engineering Specialist
Engineering Specialist
Controllable Materials Systems, Thomas Lord Research Center
Lord Corporation, Cary, North Carolina
  • Made great progress on active control of aircraft fuselage interior noise.
  • Invented noise and vibration control sensor/actuator devices using controllable materials such as piezoelectric, electrostrictive and magnetostrictive materials.
  • Worked on passive, active, semi-active and adaptive control of noise and vibration.
  • Studied feedback and feedforward adaptive controls, fuzzy controls and neural networks.
  • Initiated and monitored Lord funded research projects in universities.
2/92-8/94 Adjunct Professor
Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina
  • Advised M.S. and Ph.D. student research and served as a thesis committee member.
7/89-12/90 Postdoctoral Research Scientist
Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
State University of New York at Binghamton
  • Developed a symbolic programming approach for large scale structure modeling.
  • Worked on nonlinear random vibration, acoustic fatigue analysis of aerospace structures.
  • Studied new damping design for reduction of high frequency flow induced vibrations and sound radiation of stiffened panels.
  • Taught a graduate course on linear vibration.
5/88-7/89 Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of California at Berkeley
  • Developed the generalized cell mapping method based upon short-time Gaussian approximation for nonlinear random vibration analysis.
  • Studied effects of small random and fuzzy uncertainties on nonlinear dynamic systems.
1/85-5/88 Research Assistant
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of California at Berkeley
  • Studied the first-passage probability of nonlinear systems using the cell mapping method.
  • Worked on the methodology of stochastic simulation of mechanical systems. Studied the flow through porous media by stochastic simulation.
  • Developed asynchronous interrupt driven multi-tasking software on micro computer for real time control of various mechanical systems.
1/84-5/88 Teaching Assistant
Department of Mechanical Engineering & Department of Physics
University of California at Berkeley
  • Courses: Oscillations in Nonlinear Systems, Engineering Analysis, Engineering Mechanics and University Physics.
1/82-12/82 Lecturer
Department of Mechanics
Huazhong University of Science and Technology (Wuhan, China)

HONORS

8/01-1/02 Guest Professor, Aalborg University, Denmark, supported by Danish Research Agency
12/00-1/01 Fellowship for Research, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
7/98 Guest Professor, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (Wuhan, China)
83,85,86 Graduate Tuition Scholarship, University of California at Berkeley
9/84-5/85 Regents Fellowship, University of California at Berkeley
1/81-12/83 Agents Fellowship, Huazhong Univ of Science & Technology

MEMBERSHIP

Fellow ASME
Member AIAA, The Acoustical Society of America, The International Society of Optical Engineering (SPIE), ASME Technical Committee on Vibration and Sound (7/97)
Inactive Member The Society of Sigma Xi, American Academy of Mechanics

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