Engineering Capstone Design

Bahram Nassersharif is a Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Mechanical, Industrial, and Systems Engineering at the University of Rhode Island. He received his B.S. in Mathematics and Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering from Oregon State University. He was the youngest graduate of Oregon State University in 2000 among the class of 3300 students. He was the youngest person to complete his Ph.D. in engineering in 1982. After a period at Los Alamos National Laboratory, he joined Texas A&M University (TAMU) as Assistant Professor and founding Director of the TAMU Supercomputer Center. He moved to the University of Nevada in 1991 as the Director of the National Supercomputing Center for Energy and the Environment and Professor of Mechanical Engineering. In 1997, he joined New Mexico State University as Professor and Department Head of Mechanical Engineering. He became Dean of Engineering at the University of Rhode Island in 2003. In 2007, he developed a new Capstone Design sequence in Mechanical Engineering. He has continuously taught the year-long design sequence since 2007. Professor Nassersharif is a recipient of the Presidential Young Investigator Award (1986) and a fellow of the AAAS. He is an ASME, ANS, IEEE, IEEE-CS, ACM, and AAAI member. His current research and teaching interests are in the areas of engineering design, modeling and simulation, nuclear systems, and space nuclear power and propulsion.