Assimina A. (Mina) Pelegri (born 1968) is a Greek-American aerospace engineer and materials scientist whose research involves the use of the finite element method to model and study composite materials and biological soft tissue. She is a professor at Rutgers University, where she chairs the Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering.[1]

Education and career

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Pelegri was born in 1968.[2] After earning a diploma in metallurgy at the National Technical University of Athens in 1992, Pelegri went to Georgia Tech for graduate studies in Aerospace Engineering, supported by a Fulbright Fellowship. She earned a master's degree in aerospace engineering in 1994, and completed a Ph.D. degree in 1997, also completing a degree in the management of technology at the same time through Georgia Tech's Scheller College of Business.[3]

She has been on the Rutgers University faculty since 1997,[3] and from 2010 to 2013 held the M. W. Railser Distinguished Teaching Chair there.[4]

Recognition

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Pelegri was named an ASME Fellow in 2014.[5]

References

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  1. ^ Assimina A. Pelegri, Rutgers Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, retrieved 2023-03-18
  2. ^ Birth year from Library of Congress catalog entry, retrieved 2023-03-18
  3. ^ a b Curriculum vitae (PDF), Rutgers University, retrieved 2023-03-18
  4. ^ "Assimina (Mina) Pelegri", IMECE 2020, ASME, retrieved 2023-03-18
  5. ^ Fellows (PDF), ASME, 2022, retrieved 2023-03-18
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