Faculty Profile

Patrick Hollis, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, received his Ph.D. degree from Cornell University in 1986 and joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering later that year. He currently teaches courses in design, FEM and CAD, and various graduate and undergraduate courses in dynamics. His research interests lie in CAD design tools and rapid prototyping, and dynamic system modeling and control. Dr. Hollis has been the recipient of two teaching awards from FSU. He is also the author of a textbook on the design of machine elements to be published by McGraw-Hill.

• Sohel Anwar and Hollis, P. J., "An Adaptive Control System for Active Attenuation of Wind Tunnel Noise," Proceedings of the Conference on Recent Advances in Active Control of Sound and Vibration Blacksburg, VA, April 15Ñ17, 1991.
• Hollis, P.J. and Taylor, D.L., "Applications of Computer Algebra in Journal Bearing Analysis," Proceedings of the 1990 ASME International Computers in Engineering Conference, Boston, MA, August 5-9, 1990.