Mechanical Engineering

College of Engineering

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

Mansour Karkoub

Dr. Karkoub’s research expertise is in the areas of:

  1. 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.)
  2.  Engineering Education
    • Using technology in the classroom to improve learning in the freshman and sophomore years
    • ABET accreditation and soft engineering skills