Dr. Brianno D. Coller
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Engineering Building - Room 214
Northern Illinois University
DeKalb, IL 60115, U.S.A.
Phone: (815) 753-9944, Fax: (815) 753-0416
E-mail: bcoller@niu.edu
B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Cornell University, 1991.
Ph.D., Theoretical & Applied Mechanics, Cornell University, 1995.
Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, 2003 ?2006.
Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, 2006 ?Present.
Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1997 ?2003.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Control & Dynamical Systems, California Institute of Technology, 2005 ?2007.
Mechanical Engineer, Hughes Aircraft Company, 1991.
Mechanical Engineering Intern, Hughes Aircraft Company, 1989, 1990
United Technologies Research Center, Hartford Connecticut, 1997 ?1998.
NIU Student Choice Award, 2007.
ASEE Sectional Conference Best Paper Award, 2005.
NIU College of Engineering & Engineering Technology Faculty of the Year, 2004-2005.
NIU Mechanical Engineering Teaching Award, 2003-2004, 2004-2005, 2006 ?2007.
NIU Mechanical Engineering Service Award, 2006-2007.
Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers, 2000.
First Place, North American Ethanol Vehicle Challenge, 1999.
NSF New Century Scholar, 1998.
Harriet Davis Fellowship for Excellence in Teaching, 1994.
H.D. Block Teaching Award, 1993.
Hughes Graduate Fellowship, 1991-1992.
Harrison-McFaddin Scholar, 1988.
American Society for Engineering Education
Nonlinear Dynamics, Applied Bifurcation Theory, Nonlinear Control, Engineering Education.
B.D. Coller and D.J. Shernoff, “Video Game-Based Education in Mechanical Engineering: A Look at Student Engagement,?(submitted to International Journal of Engineering Education.)
B.D. Coller and M.J. Scott, “Effectiveness of using a video game to teach a course in mechanical engineering,?(submitted to Computers & Education.)
B.D. Coller, “An experiment in hands-on learning in engineering mechanics: statics?(Accepted for publication in International Journal of Engineering Education.)
B.D. Coller, “Hopf-Hopf interactions of surge and rotating stall,?Journal of Computational and Nonlinear Dynamics, 1(4): 320 ?327, 2006.
P.A. Chamara and B.D. Coller, “A study of double flutter,?Journal of Fluids and Structures, 19:863?79. 2004
B.D. Coller and P.A. Chamara, “Structural nonlinearities and the nature of the classic flutter instability,?Journal of Sound and Vibration, 277: 711?39 2004
B.D. Coller, “Intriguing nonlinear dynamics of a controller with a sluggish actuator,?Automatica, 39: 2049 ?2058, 2003.
B.D. Coller, “Implementing a video game to teach principles of mechanical engineering,?Proceedings of the ASEE Annual Conference, 2007.
B.D. Coller, “Advanced programming in the mechanical engineering curriculum,?Proceedings of the ASEE Annual Conference, 2005.
B.D. Coller, “Teaching numerical methods with a video game to mechanical engineers,?Proceedings of the ASEE Illinois-Indiana Sectional Conference, 2005
B.D. Coller and C. Gururaja, “Investigation of low order models of bluff body flow,?AIAA Paper 2004-2414.
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