Research
Mansour Karkoub, Ph.D., HDR, PE, F-ASME, F-IET
Associate Dean of Accreditation & Assessment
Michael E. and Patricia P. Aldredge Endowed Chair
Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Dr. Karkoub’s research expertise is in the areas of:
- Technology, applied, and fundamental research.
- Robust Control
- (H-infinity, mu-synthesis, sliding and adaptive, AI-based control, etc.)
- Vibration Control
- (Trajectory tracking, flexible robot manipulators, mechanisms and structures, etc.)
- Robotics
- (Inspection robots, medical robots, manufacturing systems, etc.)
- Ground and underwater autonomous vehicles control
- (Mobile robots, self-driving vehicles, surveillance robots, etc.)
- Robust Control
- Engineering Education
- Using technology in the classroom to improve learning in the freshman and sophomore years
- ABET accreditation and soft engineering skills