Onur Bilgen
Research Interests
Conceptual design, modeling/simulation, optimization, control, manufacturing and testing/validation of smart-material based multi-physics systems. Piezoelectric materials and shape-memory alloys are among the materials that are studied. Applications include aircraft systems such as multi-rotor drones, fixed-wing, flapping-wing and rotary-wing aircraft, energy-conversion and harvesting systems, soft/compliant robotics, manipulators and biomechanical systems, and mobile biomedical devices.
Brief Biography
Dr. Onur Bilgen, ASME Fellow, is an associate professor at the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department of Rutgers University in New Jersey, USA. Dr. Bilgen received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Virginia Tech in 2005, 2007 and 2010 respectively. Dr. Bilgen held a two-year (post-doctoral) research officer position at Swansea University in United Kingdom.
His research to date in the fields of multi-physics coupled system modeling, design optimization, and experimental system identification (of adaptive/smart structures, small aircraft, wind and hydrokinetic turbines, and wearable energy harvesting systems) has to two book chapters, 49 peer-reviewed journal articles and 99 conference papers.
Dr. Bilgen is serving as a principal and co-principal investigator in several U.S. Government funded grants. He is currently a co-PI on an DOE ARPA-E Sharks project, and was the PI of an ARPA-E ATLANTIS project. In these projects, his team developed computational framework for design analysis and optimization of floating offshore wind turbines and ducted moored-submerged hydrokinetic turbines. He served as a co-PI on a NASA University Leadership Initiative (ULI) center where his team developed a piezocomposite trailing edge for ultra-efficient commercial vehicles in the 100-210-passenger class. He received the prestigious ASME / BOEING Structures & Materials Best Paper Award at the AIAA SDM 2007 conference.
Education
• Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Virginia Tech, 2010
• M.S., Mechanical Engineering, Virginia Tech, 2007
• B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Virginia Tech, 2005