Malcolm H. Ray
Ralph H. White Family Distinguished Professor
Malcolm Ray, a faculty member since 1999, directs WPI’s Impact Engineering Program and the Structural Mechanics Impact Laboratory as a professor of civil and environmental engineering. His research interests include using finite element methods to evaluate the crashworthiness of structures, in-service performance of traffic barriers and other roadside features, verification and validation methods in computational impact mechanics, and side-impact crash testing and evaluation methods. He has been funded by federal agencies, state and provincial transportation departments, and commercial manufacturing firms, and has published nearly 80 articles, conference papers, and reports; he holds patents on several roadside safety devices. Earlier in his career he ran a consulting business that completed roadside safety research for government and industry sponsors. As an on-site support contractor for the Federal Highway Administration, he was instrumental in bringing nonlinear dynamic finite element techniques to bear on roadside safety problems. He holds civil engineering degrees from the University of Vermont (BS), Carnegie Mellon University (MS), and Vanderbilt University (PhD). He is or has been a licensed professional engineer in four states.
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