Stephen Ekwaro-Osire, Ph.D., P.E.

Biography

Professor Stephen Ekwaro-Osire is a full professor of mechanical engineering at Texas Tech University (TTU) and a licensed professional engineer in the State of Texas. He was most recently the interim chair of the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the associate dean of research and graduate programs in the Whitacre College of Engineering at TTU. Before joining academia, he practiced engineering in the private sector. He has over ten years of experience in educational leadership. He was previously the interim chair of the Department of Industrial, Manufacturing & Systems Engineering at TTU. He was a Fulbright Scholar and is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. While at TTU, he has held honorary professorships at four universities in four countries. He has published 69 refereed archival papers in scientific journals, 135 refereed papers in conference proceedings, 14 book chapters, and two books. He has also delivered 36 invited talks in seven countries. As a primary advisor, he has supervised and graduated 16 PhD students and 26 MS students, and he is currently supervising two PhD students and an MS student. Besides serving as a primary advisor, he has additionally served on 74 PhD committees and 57 MS committees. He has mentored and trained seven post-doctoral research associates. Also, as the director of the Product Design & Development Laboratory, he has supervised and mentored 246 undergraduate students. Professor Ekwaro-Osire and his collaborators have secured $7.3 million for their research from state agencies, federal agencies, industry, and international funding agencies. Professor Ekwaro-Osire has 16 years of experience in higher education quality assurance. Of which, for the last eight years he has served as a program evaluator visitor (PEV) for ABET (a global accreditor of college and university programs in applied and natural science, computing, engineering, and engineering technology). His research interests are uncertainty quantification, structural health diagnosis and prognosis, orthopedic biomechanics, and engineering design. He is a founding member of the Society for Design and Process Science, and an active member of the American Society for Engineering Education, the American Society of Biomechanics, and the Society for Experimental Mechanics.

Research Interests

• Uncertainty Quantification
• Structural Health Diagnosis and Prognosis
• Engineering Design
• Orthopedic Biomechanics

Personal Information

Curriculum Vitae

Education:

• Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Texas Tech University, (1993)
• M.S., Mechanical Engineering, Texas Tech University, (1989)
• Dipl.-Ing., Mechanical Engineering, F.H. Osnabrück, (1985)

State(s) in which registered:

• Texas, No. 93063