Mechanical Engineering
Contact Information
Office:
Washburn Shops, 311B
Phone: +1-508-831-5966
Fax: +1-508-831-5178
msfofana@wpi.edu
Mustapha S. Fofana
- Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
- Affiliated with:
Research Interests
- Nonlinear Machine-Tool Chatter
- Manufacturing Time Delay Dynamics and Control
- Manufacturing Health Monitoring; Delay Differential Equations and Degenerate Hopf bifurcations
- Stochastic Nonlinear Time Delay Dynamics
Education
- BS, Technical University of Budapest, 1986
- MS, Technical University of Budapest, 1986
- MS, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, 1989
- PhD, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, 1993
Featured Publications
- Ariaratnam, S. T. and Fofana, M. S., "The Effect of Nonlinearity in Orthogonal Turning Operation," Journal of Engineering Mathematics (Accepted).
- Cournoyer, R. J. and Fofana, M. S., "Application of Parametric Software into CAM Environment", Journal of Engineering Education (currently under review).
- Fofana, M. S., "Deterministically and Stochastically Perturbed Hopf Bifurcation", Journal of Engineering Mechanics (under review).
- Fofana, M.S., "Spatial Decomposition in a Mechanical System with Discrete Delays", International Journal of Differential Equations and Applications (in print).
- Fofana, M. S., "Spatial Decomposition in a Mechanical System with Discrete Delays," International Journal of Differential Equations and Applications (in print).
Professional Highlights
- International Student Differential Fee Waiver, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, N2L 3GI, 1988-1991.
- University of Waterloo Scholarship for Outstanding Performance in Graduate Study, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, 1990.
- University of Waterloo Scholarship for Outstanding Performance in Graduate Study, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, 1991.
- Outstanding Master of Science Thesis Award from the Hungarian Scientific Society of Mechanical Engineers, Budapest, Hungary, 1986.
- Sierra Leone Scholarship Award for Studying Mechanical Engineering, Budapest Technical University, 1521 Budapest XI., Muegyetem Raktar 3, Hungary.
