Sunil Saigal
Alma materPunjab Engineering College
Indian Institute of Science
Purdue University

Sunil Saigal (Hindi: सुनील सैगल), is an Indian-born American engineer.

Education

Saigal obtained his bachelor's degree (Civil Engineering) at Punjab Engineering College, Chandigarh, India in 1978, obtaining a masters in Structures from Indian Institute of Science in 1980, and obtained his PhD in 1985 from Purdue University.

Career

Sunil Saigal is a distinguished professor and a former dean of the Newark College of Engineering at New Jersey Institute of Technology.

Saigal's research has been focused on interactions with the industry and these contributions have included:

  • development of boundary element shape optimization in collaboration with United Technologies
  • formulations for powder packing in collaboration with Alcoa and DuPont
  • development of computational models for nonlinear soil behaviour in collaboration with ANSYS
  • cohesive element formulations for post crack behaviour of glass—polymer composites in collaboration with DuPont
  • explicit algorithms for high velocity impact in collaboration with Naval Surface Warfare Center
  • computational simulations of acetabular hip component to assist with total hip replacement surgery in a collaboration with University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
  • development of medial surface algorithms in collaboration with Sandia National Laboratories.[1]

Awards

References

  1. "Sunil Saigal | People".
  2. "NJIT: Newark College of Engineering: Sunil Saigal". Archived from the original on 2010-07-11. Retrieved 2010-08-15. 'NJIT : Newark College of Engineering -- Our People - Sunil Saigal '
  3. http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-12/njio-nat121609.php Elected as AAAS fellow 'Eureka Alert : NJIT announces top honor: Sunil Saigal elected AAAS Fellow'
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