Associate Department Chair and Professor
The Earl E. and Myrtle E. Walker Professor of Engineering
Education
D.Sc., Washington University in St. Louis, 1974
M.Sc., Washington University in St. Louis, 1971
B.Sc., University of Illinois, 1969
Biography
Professor Jerina was an assistant professor at Texas A&M University from 1978-1982. Before he joined academia, he was the Director of the Experimental Mechanics Research Laboratory at MTS Systems Corporation in Minneapolis, Minnesota and a Materials Research Engineer at the Air Force Materials Laboratory of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio.
Research
Technologies for the life prediction and maintenance of aging aircraft systems for military and civil aircraft, constitutive modeling for engineering design methods, and fatigue behavior at high temperatures with complex thermally activated time dependent processes are some of Professor Jerina’s research interests.