Dr. Tom Burton Department Head Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering New Mexico State University Box 30001, Dept. 3450 Las Cruces, NM 88003 Office: (575) 646-3502 Fax: (575) 646-6111 E-mail: tdburton@nmsu.edu

EDUCATION

• PhD in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania, 1976
• MS in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania, 1972
• BS in Engineering (Major: Aeronautical Engineering), California Institute of Technology, 1969

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• 6/05 - present Head, Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM 88003
• 9/04 - 5/05 Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, 79409-1021
• 7/95 - 8/04 Chair, Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Texas Tech University
• 6/97 - present Consultant, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Engineering Sciences and Applications - Weapon Response, Los Alamos, NM
• 1994 - 1996 Affiliated Staff Scientist, Battelle Pacific Northwest Laboratory (Applied Physics Section), Richland, WA 99352.
• 8/91 - 10/92 Acting Department Chair, Mechanical and Materials Engineering Department, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164-2920.
• 1988 - 1995 Professor, Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, 99164-2920.
• 1977 - 1988 Associate Professor (1982-88), Assistant Professor (1977-82), Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Washington State University, Pullman, WA.
• 1984 - 1985 Visiting Professor, (sabbatical leave), Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA.
• Sum. 1979 Consulting Analyst, Landing Gear Research Group, Boeing Military Airplane Company, Seattle, WA.
• 1969 - 1977 Engineer, General Electric Co., Missile and Space Division, Valley Forge, PA: 1975-77: Intelligence Programs Group, Space Sciences Lab; 1969-75: Flight Dynamics Group, Re Entry and Environmental Systems Division.

Recent journal publications and submissions

• P Meekangvan, AA Barhorst, TD Burton, S Chatterjee, and L Schovanec, "Nonlinear Dynamical Model and Response of Avian Cranial Kinesis," J. Theoretical Biology, in press.
• Burton, TD, "Numerical Calculation of Nonlinear Normal Modes in Structural Systems," Nonlinear Dynamics, original submission February, 2005; in revision.
• J Kim and TD Burton, "Reduction of Structural Dynamics Models with Nonlinear Damping," J. Vibration and Control, original submission June, 2005; in revision.
• TD Burton, "Evidence of Nonlinear Resonance in a Randomly Excited Complex Structure," Nonlinear Dynamics, submitted September, 2005.