Assimina Pelegri
Assimina A. (Mina) Pelegri (born 1968) is a Greek-American aerospace engineer and materials scientist whose research involves the use of the finite element method to model and study composite materials and biological soft tissue. She is a professor at Rutgers University, where she chairs the Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering.[1]
Education and career[edit]
Pelegri was born in 1968.[2] After earning a diploma in metallurgy at the National Technical University of Athens in 1992, Pelegri went to Georgia Tech for graduate studies in Aerospace Engineering, supported by a Fulbright Fellowship. She earned a master's degree in aerospace engineering in 1994, and completed a Ph.D. degree in 1997, also completing a degree in the management of technology at the same time through Georgia Tech's Scheller College of Business.[3]
She has been on the Rutgers University faculty since 1997,[3] and from 2010 to 2013 held the M. W. Railser Distinguished Teaching Chair there.[4]
Recognition[edit]
Pelegri was named an ASME Fellow in 2014.[5]
References[edit]
- ^ Assimina A. Pelegri, Rutgers Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, retrieved 2023-03-18
- ^ Birth year from Library of Congress catalog entry, retrieved 2023-03-18
- ^ a b Curriculum vitae (PDF), Rutgers University, retrieved 2023-03-18
- ^ "Assimina (Mina) Pelegri", IMECE 2020, ASME, retrieved 2023-03-18
- ^ Fellows (PDF), ASME, 2022, retrieved 2023-03-18
External links[edit]
- Assimina Pelegri publications indexed by Google Scholar
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- 1968 births
- Living people
- Materials scientists and engineers
- Women materials scientists and engineers
- Greek engineers
- Greek women engineers
- American engineers
- American women engineers
- National Technical University of Athens alumni
- Fulbright alumni
- Georgia Tech alumni
- Rutgers University faculty
- Fellows of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers