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Former ME Professor Christophe Pierre |
Christophe Pierre, formerly the Stephen P. Timoshenko Collegiate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, has joined the faculty of McGill University in Montreal as dean of the faculty of engineering and professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering.
Pierre joined the U-M faculty in 1985, after earning his PhD from Duke University. He held a joint appointment as associate dean in the Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies and served as associate director of the Automotive Research Center. He was a member of the Vibrations and Acoustics Laboratory in the ME department, where his research focus has been aerospace and automotive applications of structural and nonlinear dynamics, wave propagation, localization in disordered structures, mid-frequency vibration transmission in complex structures, nonlinear modal analysis and dynamics of mistuned bladed-disks and dry-friction damped systems.
Pierre is excited about his new role at McGill, particularly because of its international status. "I think McGill is positioned to leverage its location in such a multicultural city to build productive partnerships with institutions in both the United States and Europe," he said.
During his Michigan tenure, Pierre earned awards for excellence in teaching, research and service, and plans to maintain some of his collaborations. He has built strong relationships with companies such as Pratt and Whitney, General Electric, and Snecma Group and will continue working with U-M's Associate Research Scientist Matt Castanier on the modeling of structural dynamics of turbine engine bladed disks (see story on page XX) through GE Transportation's USA Program.
Pierre says that although he will miss Ann Arbor and U-M, he's pleased both personally and professionally to move with his family to Montreal. "It's a truly vibrant city--coming here, and to McGill, is a great opportunity."