Dr. GEORGE G. ADAMS
COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR
PROFESSOR OF MECHANICAL AND INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING
203 Snell Engineering Center
Biographical Sketch
Dr. George G. Adams is College of Engineering Distinguished Professor in the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Department (Joint Appointment with Electrical and Computer Engineering) at Northeastern University where he has
served on the faculty since 1979. His areas of expertise are in contact mechanics and tribology;
MicroElectroMechanical Systems (MEMS), especially RF MEMS switches and micromirrors; nano-mechanics (including
materials characterization, adhesion, and mechanical and electrical contacts); and the dynamic response of structures
to moving loads (including friction-induced vibrations and other instabilities). He has published over 70 refereed
journal papers and has had numerous research grants and contracts with government and industry.
George received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Cooper Union in 1969, and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Mechanical
Engineering (Applied Mechanics) from the University of California at Berkeley in 1972 and 1975 respectively.
Dr. Adams then became an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Clarkson University in Potsdam, New York,
and a Research Associate at the IBM Research Laboratory in San Jose, California, prior to joining Northeastern
University in 1979. He is an Associate Editor of Microsystems Technologies - Micro- and Nanosystems and Information
Storage and Processing Systems and of the International Journal of Surface Science and Engineering.
George co-founded and served as the first chair of the Contact Mechanics Technical Committee of the Tribology
Division of ASME, and is a Fellow of the ASME and the STLE.
Complete resume in pdf.
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Education
Cooper Union, New York, NY, Mechanical Engineering, B.S., June 1969
University of California, Berkeley, CA, Mechanical Engineering, M.S., March 1972
University of California, Berkeley, CA, Mechanical Engineering, Ph.D., June 1975
Research in Applied Mechanics and Tribology
Graduate Students
- Aneesh Bendre
- Hassan Eid
- Nikhil Joshi
- Peter Ryan
- Yu-Chiao Wu
Recent Alumni (Advised and Co-Advised)
- Palaniappan Nagappan
- Juan Aceros
- Lei Chen
- Yan Du
- Zhijun (Jim) Guo
- Andy Pamp
- Asri Onur Sergici
- Jeff Johnson
- Kurt Joudrey
- Kodwo Dadzie
- Patricia Nieva
- Nazif Mohd Azhar
- Ozgur Taylan Sari
- Mikhail Nosonovsky
- Koray Safak
- Terrence G. Barnes
- Ruyue Wu
- Andronicos Phylactopoulos
- Thieu Q. Truong
- Jonathan F. Maher
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