Sunil Saigal ( hi, सुनील सैगल), is an

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n-born American engineer.

Education

Saigal obtained his bachelor's degree (

Civil Engineering Civil engineering is a professional engineering discipline that deals with the design, construction, and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including public works such as roads, bridges, canals, dams, airports, sewa ...

) at

Punjab Engineering College Punjab Engineering College (abbreviated PEC or PEC Chandigarh) is a public research & technical institution in Chandigarh. It was founded in 1921 in Lahore, established in Chandigarh in 1953, and focuses on the field of applied sciences, particu ...

Chandigarh Chandigarh () is a planned city in India. Chandigarh is bordered by the state of Punjab to the west and the south, and by the state of Haryana to the east. It constitutes the bulk of the Chandigarh Capital Region or Greater Chandigarh, which ...

in 1978, obtaining a masters in Structures from

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in 1980, and obtained his PhD in 1985 from

Purdue University Purdue University is a public land-grant research university in West Lafayette, Indiana, and the flagship campus of the Purdue University system. The university was founded in 1869 after Lafayette businessman John Purdue donated land and ...

Career

Sunil Saigal is a distinguished professor and a former dean of the Newark College of Engineering at

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. Saigal's research has been focused on interactions with the industry and these contributions have included: * development of boundary element shape optimization in collaboration with United Technologies * formulations for powder packing in collaboration with Alcoa and DuPont * development of computational models for nonlinear soil behaviour in collaboration with ANSYS * cohesive element formulations for post crack behaviour of glass—polymer composites in collaboration with DuPont * explicit algorithms for high velocity impact in collaboration with Naval Surface Warfare Center * computational simulations of acetabular hip component to assist with total hip replacement surgery in a collaboration with University of Pittsburgh Medical Center * development of medial surface algorithms in collaboration with Sandia National Laboratories.

Awards

* Fellow of

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(ASME). * Fellow of

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(ASCE) * Fellow of

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(AAAS).http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-12/njio-nat121609.php Elected as AAAS fellow 'Eureka Alert : NJIT announces top honor: Sunil Saigal elected AAAS Fellow' * Orr Award for best paper, ASME Materials Division, 2004. *

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, 57th Edition, November 2002. * Richard Teare Award for Excellence in Engineering Education, Carnegie Institute of Technology,

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, 1996. * Outstanding Professor of the Year, ASCE Pittsburgh Section, 1994. * George Tallman Ladd Research Award, Carnegie Mellon University, 1990. *

Presidential Young Investigator Award The Presidential Young Investigator Award (PYI) was awarded by the National Science Foundation of the United States Federal Government. The program operated from 1984 to 1991, and was replaced by the NSF Young Investigator (NYI) Awards and Presiden ...

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, 1990-1995. * Ralph R. Teetor Award,

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, 1988. * The Admiral Ralph Earle Medal, Worcester Engineer Society, 1987.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Saigal, Sunil Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Indian emigrants to the United States New Jersey Institute of Technology faculty Punjab Engineering College alumni