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Name: Frederick Nelson
Title: Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Departmental Affiliation: Mechanical Engineering Department
Degrees: Ph.D. Harvard University; M.S. Harvard University; B.S. Tufts University
Expertise: Dynamics of Rotating Structures
Structural Damping
Control of Machinery Noise and Vibration
Major Awards: Life Fellow, ASME, Fellow, ASA, Fellow, AAAS, Centennial Medal, ASME, King Seijong Medal, KAIST, Anniversary Medal, INSA deLyon, Distinguished Service Medal, Tufts University, Career Achievement Award, ME Deparment, Tufts University
E-mail: fnelson@tufts.edu

Other websites: http://ase.tufts.edu/mechanical/faculty/bios/nelson.asp
Scholarship & Research: "Rotordynamic Modeling of an Actively Controlled Magnetic Bearing Gas Turbine Engine" ASME "J. of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power", July 1998

"Rotordynamic Modeling and Control System Design for an Aircraft Gas Turbine Rotor suspended on Magnetic Bearings", Proc of IFToMM Conf. on Rotordynamics, Sept. 1998

"Damping in Structural Analysis and Design" chapter in "Impact and Friction of Solids, Structures and Machines", Birkhauser, 1999

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