Ansel C. Ugural is Research Professor of Mechanical Engineering at New Jersey Institute
of Technology. He has been a National Science Foundation (NSF) fellow and taught at the
University of Wisconsin. Dr. Ugural has held faculty positions at Fairleigh Dickinson
University, where he served for two decades as professor and chairman of the mechanical
engineering department. He has considerable and diverse industrial experience in both full-time
and consulting capacities as a design, development, and research engineer.
Professor Ugural received his M.S. in Mechanical Engineering and Ph.D. in Engi-neering
Mechanics from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He has been a member of
the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the American Society of Engineering
Education. Dr. Ugural is listed in Who’s Who in Engineering.
He is the author of several books, including Stresses in Plates and Shells (McGraw-Hill,
1999) and Mechanics of Materials (McGraw-Hill, 1991) with editions in Korean
(1992) and Chinese (1994). Dr. Ugural is also the coauthor (with S. K. Fenster) of
Advanced Strength and Applied Elasticity (Prentice Hall, 2003). In addition, he has pub-lished
numerous articles in trade and professional journals.
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