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Manufacturing Engineering Faculty

Dr. Nasser Ghariban

Dr. Nasser Ghariban

  • Associate Professor

  • Contact Information

  • 1 Hayden Drive, Box 9212
  • Petersburg, VA 23806
  • Office:   (804) 524-8989 ext. 1112
  • Fax:      (804) 524-6732
  • Email:     nghariba@vsu.edu


  • Education

    • Ph.D. in Engineering, major Mechanical Engineering, University of Texas at Arlington, 1994
    • MS in Engineering, Mechanical Engineering University of Texas at Arlington, 1990
    • BS in Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, 1982


  • Research Interests:

    • Industrial process control
    • Automation and robotics
    • Heat and mass transfer
    • Electronics component cooling


  • Courses Taught:

    • MANE 205, MANUFACTURING PROCESS I
    • MANE 210, MANUFACTURING PROCESS II
    • MANE 315, MANUFACTURING AUTOMATION
    • MANE 400, SENIOR SEMINAR
    • MANE 461, SENIOR PROJECT
    • MANE 499, SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING PROCESS
    • ENGR 101, INTRODUCTION TO ENGINEERING I
    • ENGR 102, INTRODUCTION TO ENGINEERING II
    • ENGR 305, MATERIAL ENGINEERING
    • ENGR 313, THERMAL ENGINEERING
    • MCET 102, MACHINES LABORATORY
    • MCET 200, STATICS
    • CPEG 201, Computer Engineering Sophomore Laboratory
    • CPEG 207, Introduction to Digital Systems


  • Publications:

    • "Transient Thermal Response of Multi-Conductor Cable to overload current" Proceeding of IASTED‘s EroPES 2003 Conference.
    • "Temperature Distribution over Components with Non-Uniform Current Density", Wire Journal, Feb. 2005.
    • "Pool Boiling on multiple Surface in Proximity," Proceeding of ASME International Conference on Heat Transfer, 2005.
    • "Boiling Characteristics of Two Cylindrical Heaters in Subcooled FC-72", In Process for 19th National conference on Undergraduate research.
    • "Optimum Geometrical Design for Akermann Steering Principle", In Process for 19th National conference on Undergraduate research.
    • "ECIS Measurement in Electroconductive Polymers Using Human Muscle Fibroblasts "
    • "Gaussian Elimination for Solving Two Dimensional Heat Conduction", 2006 WBHR-LSAMP undergraduate Research Symposium.
    • "Algebraic Curve Fitting Using Kernel Functions" 2006 WBHR-LSAMP undergraduate Research Symposium.
    • "A New Approach to Manipulate Objects with a Team of Distributed Robots Based on Constrain-and-Move Strategy" Proceeding IJME/INTERTECH International Conference 2006.


  • Patent Publications:

    • April 7, 1998, "Wire Loom Dobby" Co-inventor: Arnold E. Petsche and Mark Goodman, Pat. No. 5,735,315.