Faculty Profile

Dr. Farhad Booeshaghi, PE, a nationally recognized forensic engineer, joined the Mechanical Engineering Department as an Adjunct Professor in 2002. He is a senior engineering consultant with Global Engineering & Scientific Solutions, LLC, a/k/a/ GESS. During his career he has evaluated the design of over 500 products and processes. His emphasis is in Product and Process Design, Risk, Reliability, Human Factors, Ergonomics, and Safety Engineering. He leads a team of engineers and technicians at GESS. His active research areas includes application of structural panel in green building environmental sustainability, design and development of non-destructive testing method for damage detection in composites, and noise reduction technology for actuation and propulsion industries.

Dr. Booeshaghi obtained his PhD degree in mechanical engineering from Florida State University in 1997. He furthered his education by completing the University of Florida Biomedical Engineering Certification Program with emphasis in Biomechanics. He holds Master of Science and Bachelor of Science degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Alabama. He is a Registered Professional Engineer in the states of Florida, Alabama, South Carolina and California. He is a registered Model Law Engineer with NCEES.

• Booeshaghi, F., and Garmestani, H., On the Application of Load Relaxation in Characterizing Superplastic Al-Li 8090 Over Large Strain-Rate Regimes, Scripta Materialia, Vol. 40, No.4, pp. 509-516, 1999
• Booeshaghi, F., Basic Principles of Machine Guarding: an Engineers Perspective, The Brief, October 1998
• Booeshaghi, F., Phenomenological Modeling Based on Micromechanical Characterization of Superplastic Materials, Ph.D. Dissertation, Florida State University, April 1997
• Booeshaghi, F., and Garmestani, H., On the existence of threshold stress, Scripta Materialia, April 1997
• Booeshaghi, F., Garmestani, H. and Kalu, P., Micromechanical Investigation and Phenomenological Modeling of AL-8090 Superplastic Materials, Materials Science Forum, vol. 243-245, pp. 569-574, 1997
• Booeshaghi, F., Garmestani, H. and Kalu, P., Phenomenological Modeling of Superplasticity, Proceeding of TMS Annual Meeting, Light Weight Alloys for Aerospace Application IV, Orlando, FL, February 9-13, 1997