{"id":862,"date":"2019-07-10T18:41:07","date_gmt":"2019-07-10T18:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.asu.edu\/rajan\/?post_type=person&p=10"},"modified":"2026-01-22T11:05:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T18:05:10","slug":"subramaniam-d-rajan","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.asu.edu\/rajan\/","title":{"rendered":"Subramaniam D. Rajan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Subramaniam D. Rajan, Professor<\/span><\/h1>\n\n\n\n
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I am a Professor of Civil Engineering in the School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment (SSEBE<\/a>) as well as Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering in the School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy (SEMTE<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I graduated with a Bachelor of Technology (Hons) degree in civil engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (Kharagpur)<\/a> and moved to the University of Iowa<\/a> in 1978.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I obtained my MS and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Iowa before accepting a faculty position in the civil engineering department at Arizona State University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I enjoy teaching and mentoring undergraduate and graduate courses as well as interacting with the local junior high and high school students in STEM-related activities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My research interests include a wide variety of areas such as structural analysis via finite element method, design via numerical optimization techniques, understanding material behavior via experimental methods and constitutive modeling, and software development via object-oriented programming and parallel processing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have worked on a variety of sponsored projects from such government agencies as the National Science Foundation (NSF), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), US Army Research Laboratories (ARL), Office of Naval research (ONR), Arizona Department of Transportation and private companies such as Honeywell, Motorola, Raytheon, U-Haul, etc. with applications in aerospace, civil, mechanical, semiconductor packaging, biomechanics, and the defense industries.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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