Ching L. Ko, Ph.D. Associate Professor Mechanical Engineering Department 116 DHE; (248) 370-2694; Fax: (248) 370-4261 E-mail: ko@oakland.edu www.secs.oakland.edu/~ko/ Ph.D., University of Oklahoma, 1985

• Joined Oakland University in 1985
• 1985 Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma
• 1981-82 Engineering Analyst, Division of Tranter, Inc., Tulsa, Oklahoma
• 1981 Software Engineer, Burtek, Inc., Tulsa, Oklahoma
• 1978-81 Systems Analyst, SPS Technologies-Automation Division, Tulsa, Oklahoma
• Registered Professional Engineer (Oklahoma No. 13001, Michigan No. 34649)
• Recipient of 1989 and 1990 NASA Summer Faculty Fellowship (Lewis Research Center)

RESEARCH

• Mechanics of Composite Materials and Structural Design
• Finite-Element Analysis of the Metal-Forming Process
• Computational Fluid Mechanics and Numerical Heat-Transfer Analysis
• Vibration Analysis of Plate and Shell Structures
• Hot-wire and LDA Measurements in Fluid Flows
• Analytical Modeling of Fluid-Structure Interaction
• Dynamics and Nonlinear Vibration
• Impact Dynamics and Plasticity