
Associate Professor
Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
Phone: | 848-445-5869 |
Email: | o.bilgen@rutgers.edu |
Office: | ENG B-245 |
Office Hours: By Appointment
Website: www.obilgen.com
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.