Brad Lee Kinsey
Assistant Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering

RESEARCH

 

Publications and Presentations

Research Efforts:

• Microforming

  Strain Gradient Plasticity

  Material Properties at the Micro/Mesoscale

   

• Process/Tooling Design in Sheet Metal Forming

  Advanced Tailor Welded Blank Forming Process

  Renovation of hydraulic stamping press

   

• Process Control in Sheet Metal Forming

  Exploiting a Stress Based Failure Criterion to Improve Sheet Metal Forming

  Neural Network Control of Springback and Strain

  Feasibility of Process Control in a Stamping Plant

   

• Sheet Metal Forming Failure Analysis and Prediction

  Experimental Validations of a Stress Based Failure Criterion for Sheet Metals

  Simplified 2D Model for Predicting Corner Failure in a Square Part

   

• Educational Research Efforts

  Improving and Assessing the Spatial Ability of Engineering Students

   

HONORS & AWARDS

2006 Society of Automotive Engineers Ralph R. Teetor Award
2006 Best Organized Symposium and Sessions Award, Manufacturing Engineering Division, International Mechanical Engineering Conference and Exposition
2004 UNH Outreach Scholars Program participant
2003 UNH Faculty Instructional Technology Institute participant
2000 NSF Engineering Education Scholars Workshop Participant (Carnegie Mellon University)
2000 ASME Elisabeth M. and Winchell M. Parsons Scholarship Recipient
2000 Apprentice Faculty Grant Recipient for Educational Research and Methods Division of ASEE
1999/2001 Society of Automotive Doctoral Scholar Program Recipient
1998 U.S. Department of Energy Integrated Manufacturing and Processing Fellow
Searle Center for Teaching Excellence Graduate and Teaching Assistant Fellow (1997-98)
University of Michigan Honorary Engineering Scholarship (1990)

EDUCATION

Graduate School:  Northwestern University, Department of Mechanical Engineering

• Doctoral of Philosophy (June 2001): A Combined Approach to Improve and Assess the Formability of Tailor Welded Blanks
• Masters of Science (June 1998):  Process Control in Sheet Metal Forming

 

Undergraduate School:  The University of Michigan, Department of Mechanical Engineering

• Bachelor of Science (December 1992)  

 

SOCIETY AFFILIATIONS

American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)

Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME)

Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE)

North American Deep Draw Research Group (NADDRG)

American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE)
 

CURRICULUM VITAE

Mechanical Engineering Department
Kingsbury Hall
33 College Road
Durham, NH 03824
phone: 603-862-1811
fax: 603-862-1865
bkinsey@unh.edu

page last updated: 8/06