1. Name and Academic Rank: Om Prakash Agrawal, Professor

   
   
2. Degrees With Fields, Institution and Date:

Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1984.

            M.S. Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India (1980).

B.S. Birla Institute of Technology, Ranchi, India (1978).

3. Number of Years of Service on this Faculty: 22 years

 Date of Original Appointment: July 1, 1985, Assistant Professor

 Dates of Advancement in Rank: Associate Professor, May 16, 1990

Professor, July 1, 1998

4. Other Related Experience - Teaching, Industrial, etc.:

Assistant Professor, Mech. Eng., Temple Univ., Philadelphia, PA, Sept. 84 - June 1985. Summer Research Fellow, Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, 5/15-8/15, 1987.

Visiting Scholar, Dept. of Civil Engineering, CMU, Pittsburgh, PA, 8/15-12/31, 1991.

Summer Research Fellow, NASA LRC, Cleveland, OH, 6/1-8/15, 1996, 6/1-8/12, 1995.

5. Consulting, patents, etc.

Reviewed several textbooks for McGraw Hill Company.

6. State(s) in Which Registered: None

   
   
7. Principal Publications of Last Five Years:

• Agrawal, O. P., 2008, A general finite element formulation for fractional variational problems, Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, Vol. 337, No. 1, pp. 1-12.

• Agrawal, O. P., 2007, Generalized Euler-Lagrange equations and transversality conditions for FVPs in terms of Caputo Derivative, Journal of Vibration and Control, Vol. 13, No. 9-10, pp. 1217-1237.
• Agrawal, O. P., 2007, Analytical schemes for a new class of fractional differential equations, Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical, 40, 21, pp 5469-5477.
• Agrawal, O. P., 2007, Fractional variational calculus in terms of Riesz fractional derivatives, Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical, 40, 24, pp 6287-6303.
• Agrawal, O. P., 2006, Fractional variational calculus and the transversality conditions, Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General, Vol. 39, pp. 10375-10384.
• Kumar, P. and Agrawal, O. P., 2006, Numerical scheme for the solution of fractional differential equations of order greater than 1, Transactions of the ASME Journal of Computational and Nonlinear Dynamics, Vol. 1, pp. 178-185.
• Agrawal, O. P., 2004, Application of Fractional Derivatives in Thermal Analysis of Disk Brakes, Journal of Nonlinear Dynamics, Vol. 38, pp. 191-206.
• Agrawal, O. P., 2004, A General Formulation and Solution Scheme for Fractional Optimal Control Problems, Journal of Nonlinear Dynamics, Vol. 38, pp. 323-337.
• Agrawal, O. P., 2004, Analytical Solution for Stochastic Response of a Fractionally Damped Beam, Transactions of the ASME Journal of Vibration and Acoustics, Vol. 126, No. 4, pp. 561-566.
• Agrawal, O. P., 2003, "Response of a Diffusion-Wave system subjected to deterministic and stochastic fields," ZAMM, Journal of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, 83, 4, pp. 265-274.

8. Scientific and Professional Societies of Which a Member:

ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineering)

9. Honors and Awards:

• Outstanding Scholar of College of Engineering, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL 62901, 2007.

• Recognition for contribution to the field of Fractional Calculus, Ankara, Turkey, April, 2006. The award was given by the Mathematical Methods in Engineering, an International Conference committee. As an award, received a silver plate for contributions to the field.
• In 2003 (Chicago, IL), 2005 (Long Beach, CA) and 2007 (Las Vegas, NV), recognized for organizing 3 successful symposia.
• Presented 10 invited and keynote speeches and talks.

10. Institutional and Professional Service in the Last Five Years:

• Organized 5 symposia and member of other 5 symposia on Fractional Derivatives and Their Applications.

• Associate Editor, Journal of Computational and Nonlinear Dynamics, 2005-current.
• Member, ASME, Technical Committee on Multibody Systems and Nonlinear Dynamics, 2003-present (also Chairman, Publicity Subcommittee, CMSND Committee).
• Chair, Fractional Dynamics Subcommittee of the ASME, Technical Committee on Multibody Systems and Nonlinear Dynamics.
• Chaired and co-chaired several sessions at different conferences.
• ASME Student faculty advisor, 2003 to present.

11. Professional Development Activities in the Last Five Years:

• Workshop on How to Engineer Engineering Education (a problem based learning method) Speaker: Dr. Michael Prince, Chemical Engineering, Bucknell University.

• Attended several sessions on Professional Development and Leadership presented at Student Professional Development Conferences and Student Leadership Seminars.