Mark Sheplak

Professor
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
P.O. Box 116250
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL 32611-6250

227 Benton Building
Phone: (352) 392-3983
Fax: (352) 392-7303
E-mail: sheplak@ufl.edu
Homepage: http://www.img.ufl.edu/sheplak


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Mark Sheplak is currently a Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Florida. Prior to joining UF in 1998, he was a postdoctoral associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Microsystems Technology Laboratories, Cambridge, MA from 1995-1998.

He received a BS degree in 1989, a MS degree in 1992, and a Ph.D. degree in 1995 in Mechanical Engineering from Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY. During his Ph.D. studies he was a GSRP Fellow at NASA-LaRC in Hampton, VA from 1992-1995.

His current research focuses on the design, fabrication, and characterization of high-performance, instrumentation-grade, MEMS-based sensors and actuators that enable the measurement, modeling, and control of various physical properties. He is a member of the AIAA Aerodynamic Measurement Technology Technical Committee. He is also an associate editor for JASA Express Letters.

He is an associate fellow of AIAA and a fellow of ASA.
Research Areas
Acoustics and Fluid Mechanics (Aeroacoustics, Flow Control, Measurement Technologies, Actuator Technologies, Ultrasonics, Aeroacoustics, Flow Control, Measurement Technologies, Actuator Technologies, Ultrasonics)
Chemical and Biomedical Systems (Biomedical Imaging, Biomedical Imaging)
Power and Energy Systems (Energy Harvesting, Energy Harvesting)
Transducer Technologies (Microactuators, Microsensors, Energy Harvesters, Fabrication Technologies, Transducer Modeling, Microactuators, Microsensors, Energy Harvesters, Fabrication Technologies, Transducer Modeling, Assembly/Packaging)
Education
Doctorate in Mechanical Engineering
1995, Syracuse University
Thesis: Design, validation, and testing of a Hot-Film Anemometer for Hypersonic Flow (Turbulence)

Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering
1992, Syracuse University
Thesis: Passive control of impinging jet resonance

Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering
1989, Syracuse University