Sunil Saigal

Sunil Saigal (Hindi: सुनील सैगल), is an Indian-born American engineer.

Sunil Saigal
Alma mater	Punjab Engineering College Indian Institute of Science Purdue University

Education

Saigal obtained his bachelor's degree (Civil Engineering) at Punjab Engineering College, Chandigarh, India in 1978, obtaining a masters in Structures from Indian Institute of Science in 1980, and obtained his PhD in 1985 from Purdue University.

Career

Sunil Saigal is a distinguished professor and a former dean of the Newark College of Engineering at New Jersey Institute of Technology.

Saigal's research has been focused on interactions with the industry and these contributions have included:

• development of boundary element shape optimization in collaboration with United Technologies
• formulations for powder packing in collaboration with Alcoa and DuPont
• development of computational models for nonlinear soil behaviour in collaboration with ANSYS
• cohesive element formulations for post crack behaviour of glass—polymer composites in collaboration with DuPont
• explicit algorithms for high velocity impact in collaboration with Naval Surface Warfare Center
• computational simulations of acetabular hip component to assist with total hip replacement surgery in a collaboration with University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
• development of medial surface algorithms in collaboration with Sandia National Laboratories.

Awards

• Fellow of American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).
• Fellow of American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
• Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
• Orr Award for best paper, ASME Materials Division, 2004.
• Who's Who in America, 57th Edition, November 2002.
• Richard Teare Award for Excellence in Engineering Education, Carnegie Institute of Technology, Carnegie Mellon University, 1996.
• Outstanding Professor of the Year, ASCE Pittsburgh Section, 1994.
• George Tallman Ladd Research Award, Carnegie Mellon University, 1990.
• Presidential Young Investigator Award, National Science Foundation, 1990-1995.
• Ralph R. Teetor Award, Society of Automotive Engineers, 1988.
• The Admiral Ralph Earle Medal, Worcester Engineer Society, 1987.