Ali Sadegh

Professor Sadegh is the Founder and Director of the Center for Advanced Engineering Design and was the Chairman of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at CCNY. He is a Licensed Professional Engineer, P.E., and a Certified Manufacturing Engineer, CMfgE. He was the recipient of the Best Paper Award from the Bioengineering Division of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 1992 and was the recipient of the Melville Medal from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 1993. He is also the recipient of the Inventor Award from General Motors Corp. 

Professor Sedegh has been elected to Fellow of ASME and Fellow of SME (society of Manufacturing Engineering). He was Chairman of Chapter 320 of Society of Manufacturing Engineers, New Jersey. He is the reviewer of many national and international journals. He was the director of the Selected Program in Science and Engineering (SPISE) at CCNY. Dr. Sadegh has conducted research and has over 145 publications including 12 book chapters. He has 12 US patents. He is one of the three editors of Marks Standard Handbook for Mechanical Engineers, McGraw Hill. Throughout the years he received funding supports from many federal agencies and industrial sponsors, including NSF, ONR/ASEE, AFOSR, ALCOA, Lucent Technologies, Con-Edison, ATK-GESL, NCIIA ", Multi Flex and CUNY. He has organized and chaired many technical sessions in conferences. He was an Evaluator of Mechanical Engineering programs of Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology (ABET) 1996-2004.

• B.S. (M.E.), 1972, Sharif University of Technology
• M.S. (M.E.), 1975, Michigan State University
• Ph.D.(M.E.), 1978, Michigan State University
• Postdoctoral, 1979, University of Michigan

• Senior Design Projects I and II
• Composite Materials
• Boundary Element and Finite Element Methods
• Machine Design
• Computer Aided Design
• Automotive Safety Design and Injury Biomechanics
• Manufacturing Processes
• Materials Advance Stress Analysis
• Theory of Elasticity

A: Mechanical engineering, including: modeling and computational mechanics; composites; fabric mechanics and inflated structures; materials modeling; mechanical systems analysis, design and manufacturing

B: Biomechanics, including: cervical spine and traumatic brain injuries in sports and accidents; body-machine interaction; prosthesis, medical and rehabilitation devices; bone remodeling, bone and implants interactions; implant design and biodynamic

• Zoghi M., Sadegh, A, “Equivalent Fluid Model for CSF and SAS Trabeculae Using Head/Brain Damping”, Int. J. of Biomedical Engineering and Technology, Vol. 4 No. 4 2010.
• Shahab Baghaei, Ali Sadegh, and Mohamad Rajaai, “An Analytical Model For Investigating The Role Of Meningeal Interfaces In The Brain Motion Relative To The Skull In Low-Velocity Head Impacts” in press, Int. J. of Biomedical Engineering and Technology, 2010.
• Zoghi M., Sadegh, A, “Global/Local Head Models to Analyze Cerebral Blood Vessel Rupture Leading to ASDH and SAH” , Int. J. of Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering, vol. 12, issue 1, pp1-12, January 2009.
• Sadegh, A., and Cavallaro, P. ,”Nonlinear Constitutive Relationships of Plain-Woven Fabric For Inflatable Structures”, Macro-to Nano-Scale Inelastic Behavior of Materials: Plasticity, Fatigue and Fracture, Edited by Akhtar Khan and Babak Farrokh, Proceedings of PLASTICITY ’09, The 15th International Symposium on Plasticity and its Current Applications, paper number 256, ISBN 0-9659463-9-8, St. Thomas, January 5, 2009.
• Baghaei, S.M., Sadegh, A. M., and Rajaai, S.M. “A Mathematical Head/Brain Model for Investigation of Damping Characteristics of SAS in Low Velocity Head Impacts” Proceedings of the 25th Southern Biomedical Engineering Conference, edited by A. McGoron, C-Z Li, and W-C Lin. Also published in the Int. J. of Medical Implants and Devices, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp 58, 2009.
• Tchako A, and Sadegh A. “A Cervical Spine Model To Predict Injury Scenarios And Clinical Instability” Journal of Sports Biomechanics, Vol. 8(1): pp 78-95, March 2009.
• Tchako A, and Sadegh A. “Stress Changes In Intervertebral Discs Of The Cervical Spine Due To Partial Discectomies And Fusion” Journal of Biomechanical Engineering, Vol.131, Iss.5, 2009.
• Zoghi M., Sadegh, A, Watkins, C. and Dan Dunlap “Biodynamics Model For Operator Head Injury In Stand-Up Lift Trucks”, Int. J. of Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering, Vol. 11 No. 4, pp 397-405, 2008.
• Parisa Saboori, William Morris, Jizhong Xiao, Ali Sadgeh, “Aerodynamic Analysis of City-Climber Robot”, Robotics and Biomimetics (Robio 2007), pp1855-1860, 2007.
• Cavallaro, P., Sadegh, A. and Quigley, C., “Decrimping Behavior of Uncoated Plain woven Fabrics Subjected to Combined Biaxial Tension and Shear Stresses”, Textile Research Journal, Vol.77 (6), PP 403-416, 2007.
• Cavallaro, P., Sadegh, A. and Quigley, C., “Contributions Of Strain Energy And Pdv-Work On The Bending Behavior Of Fabric Air Beams” Journal of Engineered Fibers & Fabrics, Vol 2,Issue 1, 2007.
• Jizhong Xiao, Angel Calle, Ali Sadegh, Matthew Elliot, "Modular Wall Climbing Robots with Transition Capability", Proc. 2005 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (IEEE ROBIO), pp246-250, 2005.
• Jizhong Xiao, Ali Sadegh, Matthew Elliot, Angel Calle, Avinash Persad, Ho Ming Chiu, "Design of Mobile Robots with Wall Climbing Capability", Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics, pp438~443, July 24-28, 2005.
• Cavallaro, P., Johnson, M. and Sadegh, A. “Mechanics of plain-woven fabrics for inflated structures” International Journal of Composite Structures, Vol. 61, Issue 4, pp 375-393, Sept. 2003.

Honors and Awards

• Best Paper Award Bioengineering Division ASME (1992)
• Melville Medal of the ASME (1993)
• Inventor Award from General Motors Corp. (1989)
• Teacher Of The Year Award (2006), GSOE the City College of the City University of New York.
• Editor of McGraw-Hill’s Marks Mechanical Engineering Handbook 2006-present.
• Consulting Editor of McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, 2005-Present.
• Member of the Editorial Board of "Scientia Iranica, International Journal of Science and Technology," 1994-present.