Name:
Mohan Rao, Ph.D.
Contact Information
Title:
Chair and Professor
Department:
Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering
Email Address:
Phone:
Office:
Brown Hall (BRWN) 232
Dr. Mohan Rao (Ph.D. Auburn, 1988) is currently a professor and department chair of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering at Tennessee Tech, Cookeville, TN. Previously, he was a professor of mechanical engineering at Michigan Tech. He is a Fellow of two major professional societies in the field—ASME and SAE. He has conducted both basic and applied research in different areas of acoustics and vibration ranging from analytical modeling of damping of materials, joints, and composite structures to experimental work involving small power tools to large scale machines (e.g. excavators, diesel engines). His research has been sponsored by government agencies and industries that include NASA, NSF, ARL, State of Florida, Ford, GM, Daimler-Chrysler, Caterpillar, TRW, Johnson Controls, John Deere, NIOSH, Arctic Cat, Polaris, Xerox, and Volvo-Korea. He has over 100 publications in technical journals and conference proceedings. Also, he has advised over 50 graduate students. Dr. Rao has received the US Fulbright award, National Science Foundation Research Initiation Award and was honored by the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center for his work on the damping of the Hubble Space Telescope truss system. In addition, he was recognized as a United Nations Development Program expert in Noise & Vibration Control. He serves as an Associate Editor for the International Journal of Vehicle Noise and Vibration. He was awarded the 2011 INCE Outstanding Educator Award from the Institute of Noise Control Engineering, USA for his decades of outstanding contribution to noise control education.