Biography

Dan Segalman earned his PhD in Engineering Mechanics from the University of Wisconsin in 1978. He then worked in research laboratories of the automobile and petroleum industries. In 1986 he joined Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque NM. There he worked in a variety of topics, including geomechanics, mechanics of materials, smart materials and structures, vibrations, dynamics, and uncertainty ... quantification. Dr. Segalman retired from Sandia in March of 2014 as a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff and joined the Department of Engineering Physics of the University of Wisconsin as a Senior Scientist. In March of this year, he joined the Mechanical Engineering Department of the Michigan State University.