CURRICULUM VITAE
Seon Mi Han
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Mail Stop 1021
Texas Tech University
Lubbock, TX 79409
Email: seon.han@ttu.edu
Tel: 806 834-7863
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
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Instructor , Department of Mechanical Engineering, Texas Tech University, 2010present
Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Texas Tech University,
2004-2010
Instructor for Vibrations and Controls at Rutgers University, summer of 1999
EDUCATION
Post Doctoral Scholarship, Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering, 2001-2003
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA
Doctor of Philosophy, Mechanical Engineering, 2001
Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ
Dissertation: “Vibration of a Compliant Structure in an Ocean Environment.”
Advisor: Dr. Haym Benaroya
Master of Science, Mechanical Engineering, 1998
Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ
Thesis: “Beam Models for Offshore Articulated Towers: Theory and Experiment.”
Advisor: Dr. Haym Benaroya
Bachelor of Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, 1996
The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York, NY
HONORS AND FELLOWSHIPS
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Selected as (one of handful) Most Influential Professor by the honor students in the
College of Engineering, 2008 and 2009.
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Nomination to Sigma Xi, a graduate honor society for scientists and engineers, April,
2002
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Postdoctoral Scholarship at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, September
2001-March 2003. This is an eighteen-month fellowship, which provides
postdoctoral scholars with opportunities in the ocean science.
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Graduate Student Research Award, May, 2001
This award is given after university-wide competition to six students whose
dissertation and other accomplishments were viewed as significant.
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Monbukagakusho and NSF program Japan, summer of 2001
This is an eight-week summer program funded by the National Science Foundation
(NSF) to introduce students to Japanese science and engineering practices and to
initiate personal relationships that will better enable them to collaborate with
Japanese counterparts in the future.
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NSF Summer Institute in Korea, summer of 2000
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American Society of Mechanical Engineers Teaching Fellowship, 2000-2001
This program is designed to help graduate students expose to the undergraduate
education. Declined
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Office of Naval Research Fellowship, 1996-2001
This grant supported my M.S. and Ph.D. degrees, and was for the investigation of the
response of a class of offshore structures to the ocean environment.
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Alexander Grave Prize for Excellence in Mechanical Engineering, 1996
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Full Tuition Scholarship to the Cooper Union, 1992-1996
This scholarship supported four years of college education.
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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Honors for Achievement in Study of
Mathematics and Science, 1991
This award supports first two years of college education. Declined.
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
Haym Benaroya and Seon Han, 2013, Probabilistic Models in Engineering and Science,
CRC Press, 2nd ed. 2013.
Haym Benaroya and Seon Han, 2005, Probabilistic Models in Engineering and Science,
CRC Press, 2005.
This is an undergraduate and graduate textbook on the probabilistic models for
engineering applications. The major topics include probability theory, random variables,
random processes, the Monte Carlo method, random vibration, reliability, and nonlinear
models.
S. Han and H. Benaroya, 2002, Nonlinear Vibrations of Offshore Structures, Kluwer
This monograph is an extension of my Ph.D. dissertation. The major topics include
review of beam theories, nonlinear beam theories in two and three dimensions, and
modeling of fluid forces in an ocean environment. It can be used as a stand-alone text for
advanced graduate students.
S. Han, 2005, “Wave-induced Vibration of Offshore Platforms,” in CRC Shock and
Vibration Handbook.
DISSERTATIONS
Dissertation: “Vibration of a Compliant Structure in an Ocean Environment.”
Two-dimensional and three-dimensional motions of a compliant tower in an ocean
environment are investigated. The axial as well as the transverse motion is included. The
equations of motion are derived, and the responses to waves and current are studied. Both
deterministic and stochastic forces are included.
MS Thesis: “Beam Models for Offshore Articulated Towers: Theory and Experiment.”
Various transverse beam models are explored fully from equations of motion to analytical
solutions. Responses to waves and current are then solved and compared to experimental
results obtained by our collaborators at Rutgers.
JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS 1
S. Han 2008, Elliptic-Parabolic Motion of a Simple Pendulum in Three Dimensions,
submitted to International Journal of Nonlinear Mechanics.
S.M. Han and M.A. Grosenbaugh 2006, Modeling of seabed interaction of oceanographic
moorings in frequency domain, ASCE Journal of Waterway, Port, Coastal, and
Ocean Engineering 132(6), 450-456
S.M. Han and M.A. Grosenbaugh 2006, On the Design of Single-Point Cable-Linked
Moorings for Ocean Observatories, IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, 31(3) 585598.
S.M. Han 2004, Occurrence of double eigenvalues in a Timoshenko beam, submitted to
the Journal of Engineering Mechanics.
S.M. Han and M.A. Grosenbaugh 2004, Nonlinear free vibration of a cable against a
straight obstacle, Journal of Sound and Vibration 273, 337-361.
S.M. Han and H. Benaroya 2002, Three-dimensional vibration of a compliant tower: Free
vibration, Journal to Sound and Vibration 250(4), 675-709.
S.M. Han and H. Benaroya 2002, Comparison of linear and nonlinear tension beams
applied to offshore structures. Chaos, Solitons and Fractals 14, 269-291.
S.M. Han and H. Benaroya 2000, Nonlinear coupled transverse and axial vibration of a
compliant structure I: Free Vibration, Journal of Sound and Vibration 237(5), 837-873.
S.M. Han and H. Benaroya 2000, Nonlinear coupled transverse and axial vibration of a
compliant structure II: Forced vibration, Journal of Sound and Vibration 237(5), 874899.
S.M. Han, H. Benaroya, and T.Wei, 1999, Dynamics of transversely vibrating beams
using four engineering theories, Journal of Sound and Vibration 225(5), 935-988.
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Journal publications are available upon request.
CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONS
S.M. Han, Numerical Simulation of Ringing Response, The 2005 ASME Offshore
Mechanics and Artic Engineering Conference, Halkidiki, Greece, June 2005
S.M. Han, On the elliptic and parabolic motion of a simple pendulum in three
dimensions, The 2004 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress,
ASME, Aneheim, CA, November 2004.
S.M. Han and M.A. Grosenbaugh, Modeling of seabed interaction of oceanographic
moorings in frequency domain, The 2004 Civil Engineering in the Ocean VI, ASCE,
Baltimore, MD, October 2004.
S.M. Han, On the Occurrence of double eigenvalues in a Timoshenko beam, 18th ASCE
Engineering Mechanics Conference, ASCE, Delaware, June 2004.
S.M. Han and M.A. Grosenbaugh, Bending fatigue analysis of sea floor observatory
moorings, The 2003 ASME Offshore Mechanics and Artic Engineering Conference,
Cancun, Mexico, June 2003.
S.M. Han and M.A. Grosenbaugh, Comparison of two seafloor observatory mooring
designs, The 2003 IUTAM Symposium on Integrated Modeling of Fully Coupled
Fluid-Structure Interactions Using Analysis, Computations, and Experiments,
Piscataway, NJ, June 2003.
S.M. Han and Grosenbaugh, M.A., 2003, On the design of S-tether oceanographic
moorings, The Thirteenth (2003) International Offshore and Polar Engineering
Conference, May 2003
S.M. Han and M.A. Grosenbaugh, Nonlinear vibration of a cable against a straight
Obstacle, The 2002 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and
Exposition, November 2002.
S.M. Han and H. Benaroya, Nonlinear coupled transverse and axial vibration of a
compliant structure: Free and forced, The 2000 ASME International Mechanical
Engineering Congress and Exposition, November 2000.
S.M. Han and H. Benaroya, Coupled transverse and axial vibration of a compliant tower:
comparison of linear and nonlinear models, 41st AIAA/ASME/ASCE/ASC SDM
Conference, April 2000.
S.M. Han and H. Benaroya, Nonlinear dynamics of an articulated tower, 13th ASCE
Engineering Mechanics Conference, ASCE, June 1999.
FUNDED PROJECTS
Texas Space Grant Consortium New Investigator Award $10,000
May 1, 2007 – April 31, 2009
Title: Launching a Space Elevator: Design Study
Deep Ocean Exploration Institute – Investigating Earth’s Dynamic Processes,
$45,000
March, 2003-September, 2003.
Title: This is a Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution internal funding to develop a new
method to evaluate sea floor observatory moorings using the bending stresses, which is
traditionally neglected in the cable systems.
EXTERNAL SERVICES
Session organizer for 2005-2010 ASME Offshore Mechanics and Artic Engineering
Conferences.
Reviewer for ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition
Reviewer for the Journal of Applied Mechanics
Reviewer for the Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement and Control
Reviewer for the Journal of Acoustical Society of America
CITIZENSHIP
U.S. citizen, naturalized in 1996