C. Nataraj
American-Indian scientist (born 1959)
Chandrasekhar Nataraj (ಚಂ. ನಟರಾಜ.) (born 1959) is an American-Indian scientist and professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Villanova University, where he holds the Mr. and Mrs. Robert F. Moritz, Sr. Endowed Chair position in Engineered Systems. His research includes nonlinear dynamic systems with applications to machinery diagnostics, rotor dynamics, vibration, control, electromagnetic bearings, mobile robotics, unmanned vehicles and biomedical diagnostics. He is currently the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Vibration Engineering & Technologies and associate editor of Nonlinear Dynamics.
Education
Nataraj received a Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering from Indian Institute of Technology in 1982. He then received his Master of Science degree in mechanical engineering from Arizona State University in 1984 for his research on “The Simulation of Cracked Shaft Dynamics” followed by a PhD in 1987 from the same institution. He worked for a year as a research engineer at Trumpler Associates, Inc., after earning his PhD.
Career
Nataraj was hired at the College of Engineering at Villanova in 1988.
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