Charles (Dr. Chuck) Pezeshki - Professor

The School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering

Charles (Dr. Chuck) Pezeshki - Professor

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Contact Information:

office EE/ME 143
telephone 509 335 7662
e-mail pezeshki@mme.wsu.edu
Postal mail Charles (Dr. Chuck) Pezeshki
School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering
Washington State University
PO BOX 642920
Pullman, WA 99164-2920
Charles (Dr. Chuck) Pezeshki

Joined MME in 1988
Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Duke University in 1987

Research Interests:

  • Quality Control for Nanotechnology
  • Development of Industrial/Academic Relations
  • Visualization in Ecodesign, and Ecodesign Education
  • Director of the Industrial Design Clinic - the Industrial Design Clinic provides professional-level services in a teaching environment using student talent in the MME School. The Clinic provides projects for the Capstone Design Class from regional industry. Revenues from the Clinic support Student Clubs in MME, as well as Clinic operation and student travel.
  • Dr. Pezeshki is also extensively involved in university governance issues, and is a Past Chair of the University Faculty Senate.
  • He is also extensively involved in environmental politics and consults on political strategy on environmental protection issues.

Significant Publications:

  • Pezeshki, C., “Managing a Capstone Design Clinic—Strategies for Pedagogic and Financial Success”, Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition.
  • Waugh, B., Morell, L., Davis, I., Pezeshki, C., and Roberts, T. “Citizen Engineers: Why and How We Engage City, State and Federal Governments on behalf of Engineering Education and Research,” Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition.
  • “Dear Mom and Dad—Send Food”, in Holding Common Ground – The Individual and Public Lands in the American West, Edited by Paul Lindholdt and Derrick Knowles, Eastern Washington University Press, Cheney, WA, 2005.
  • “Running and Losing”, in Living in the Runaway West—Partisan Views from Writers on the Range, Edited by Paul Larmer, Fulcrum Press, Golden, CO 2000.

Recent Publications:

  • Al-khedher M., Pezeshki C., McHale J., Knorr F., “Quality Classification via Raman Identification of Carbon Nanotube Bundles Using Artificial Neural Networks”, Nanotechnology 18 (2007), 355703.
  • Al-khedher M., Yassar R.S., Pezeshki C., Field D.P., “A novel structural-based approach in application of neural network modeling to predict the aging behavior of automotive alloys”, Model. Simul. Mater. Sci. Eng., 14 (2006), 905-921.
  • AlKhedher, M., and Pezeshki, C.”A Novel Structural-based Approach to Model the Age-Hardening Behavior of Aluminum Alloys,” submitted, Nov. 2005, to Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering.
  • Davis, W.O., Pezeshki, C., and Mosher, M., "Extracting and Characterizing Blade-Vortex Interaction Noise with Wavelets," Journal of the American Helicopter Society, July, 1997.
  • W. Constantine, C. Pezeshki, R. Bamberger and M. Mosher, "Discrete Wavelet Analysis of Blade-Vortex Interaction", J. of Acoustical Society of America, July 1995.
  • M.K. Khraisheh, C. Pezeshki, and A.E. Bayoumi, "Time Series Based Analysis for Self-Excited Chatter in Metal Cutting", Journal of Sound and Vibration, 1995, Vol. 180(1), pp. 6787.
  • Chandran, V., and Elgar, S. and Pezeshki, C., "Trispectral Analysis of the Duffing Oscillator", International Journal of Bifurcations and Chaos, accepted for publication.
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