AMTAS Short Course on Advanced Composite Materials and Structures

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Dates:	March 20–22, 2012
Time:	2.5 days
	Tuesday–Thursday
Location:	University of Washington
	Seattle, Washington

Faculty

Prof. Mark E. Tuttle, University of Washington

Mark E. Tuttle is Professor and former Chair of the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Washington. He is also Director of the FAA Center of Excellence for Advanced Materials in Aircraft Structures (AMTAS). He joined the University of Washington in 1985. Professor Tuttle's research interests involve polymeric composite materials, composite structural design philosophies, viscoelasticity, and adhesion mechanics. He has authored or co-authored more than 120 journal and conference proceeding articles, co-edited the MANUAL ON EXPERIMENTAL METHODS FOR MECHANICAL TESTING OF COMPOSITE MATERIALS, 1st edition (1989), and is author of the textbook, STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS OF POLYMERIC COMPOSITE MATERIALS (2004). His research studies have been funded by the National Science Foundation, Office of Naval Research, Department of Energy, NASA-Langley Research Center, the Boeing Company, and the Ford Motor Company. Professor Tuttle is an active member of several professional societies, including the Society for Experimental Mechanics (SEM). During 1995–96 he served as SEM President, and in 2005 he was elected an SEM Fellow.