Dr. Masoud Rais-Rohani (Contact for Engineering Students)

Chair & Richard C. Hill Professor of Mechanical Engineering

5711 Boardman Hall, Room 219
University of Maine
Orono, Maine 04469-5711
Phone: (207) 581-4120
Fax: (207) 581-2379
Email: masoud.raisrohani@maine.edu

Education:

  • Ph.D., Aerospace Engineering, Virginia Tech, 1991
  • M.S., Aerospace Engineering, Mississippi State University, 1985
  • B.S. (honors), Aerospace Engineering, Mississippi State University, 1983

Teaching Areas of Interest:

  • Design Optimization
  • Aircraft Structures
  • Structural Mechanics
  • Composites

Research Areas of Interest:

  • Structural and Multidisciplinary Design Optimization
  • Crashworthiness
  • Lightweight and Composite Structures
  • Structural Reliability and Uncertainty Quantification
  • Reduced-Order and Surrogate Modeling