Dr. GEORGE G. ADAMS
COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR
PROFESSOR OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
203 Snell Engineering Center
Spring 2008 semester Conference Hours:
Mondays 4:30-6:00; Tuesdays 4:00-4:50, 5:30-5:50; Wednesdays 4:00-5:15; Thursdays 11:45-12:50, 5:30-5:50
Biographical Sketch
Dr. George G. Adams is College of Engineering Distinguished Professor in the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Department
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); dynamic response of structures to moving loads
(including friction-induced vibrations and other instabilities); and the mechanics and tribology of information storage and
processing systems (ISPS). He has published over 60 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. He is an Associate Editor of
Microsystems Technologies - Micro- and Nanosystems and Information Storage and Processing Systems and of the newly
formed 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.
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
- Hassan Eid
- Andy Pamp
- Peter Ryan
Associated Students
- Juan Aceros
- Lei Chen
- Yan Du
- Zhijun (Jim) Guo
Recent Alumni
- 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
Publications
Professional Activities
- Chairman of the Contact Mechanics Committee of the
Tribology Division of ASME
- Associate Editor of the ASME Journal of Tribology
- Associate Editor of the Microsystems
Technologies - Micro- and Nanosystems and Information Storage and
Processing Systems
- Editor of the Proceedings of the 6th, 7th, 8th, and 9th ASME Annual Information Storage and Processing Systems (ISPS) Symposia
- Fellow of ASME
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