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Professor John M. Sullivan, Jr.

Professor of Mechanical Engineering.

Affiliate Professorships in Biomedical Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Manufacturing Engineering.

Professional Interests:
Development and application of advanced numerical methods for visualization and solution of partial differential equations in engineering and biological sciences.
Current 3-year research interests:
a.) Development of user interactive grid generation and deployment systems.
b.) Development of graphics tools and strategies to facilitate nonlinear data interpretation in the field of biomedical engineering.
c.) Development of three-dimensional tools for registration and segmentation of medical image data.

Education:
Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College, Doctor of Engineering, (Numerical Methods) (6/86)
University of Massachusetts, Master of Science in ME, (Materials Science) (12/78)
Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering, BSME (6/77)
Bachelor of Science (Zoology) (12/73)

Teaching: Undergraduate and graduate courses in numerical methods, engineering experimentation, transport phenomena, thermodynamics, design, and computer aided manufacturing systems.

Research: Finite element grid generation techniques for applied problems in medical and engineering sciences. Registration and segmentation algorithms to transform and align MRI and histological images. Numerical analysis of ground penetrating radar including decomposition of such signals via neural network strategies.

Professor John M. Sullivan, Jr.

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