Nejat Olgac, Professor

313 Engineering II Building Department of Mechanical Engineering 191 Auditorium Road, Unit-3139 The University of Connecticut Storrs, CT 06269-3139 Phone: (860) 486-2382 Fax: (860) 486-5088 olgac@engr.uconn.edu

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Nejat Olgac, Dr. Eng. Sci. Columbia Univ 1976, M.Sc. Technical Univ. of Istanbul, Turkey 1972, both in Mechanical Engineering.  He is a professor with the Mechanical Engineering Department of the University of Connecticut since 1981.  His research interests are in robust nonlinear controls, active vibration absorption, time delayed systems, micromanipulation in bio-engineering. Dr. Olgac holds three patents (1995-96-99) on the Delayed Resonator active vibration suppression technique.  He is the director of Advanced Laboratory for Robotics, Automation and Manufacturing (ALARM) at UConn. Dr. Olgac was Visiting Professor at INRIA (Sophia Antipolis, France, 1988-89), SEW Eurodrive Fellow - Guest Professor at Technical Univ. of Munich, (Germany, 1995-96), and Visiting Professor at Harvard University (2002-03). He is an associate editor for the ASME Trans. of Dynamic Systems, Measurement and Control, and the guest editor of the Special Issue of JDSMC on Time Delayed Systems (appeared in June 2003). He is currently on the Executive Committee of the ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Division.  Prof. Olgac is a fellow of ASME and member of IEEE.

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