Establish my own research laboratry in a prestigious university.

• Studied theoretically the nonlinear dynamics of carbon nanotube resonators.

• Modeled the collapse instabilities of microbeam under capillary forces.

• Modeled theoretically and experimentally the nonlinear resonances of an electrically-actuatedMEMS resonators.

• Studied the static and dynamic behavior of clamped-clamped MEMS arches under electrostaticforces.

• Studied theoretically and experimentally the stability behavior of a General Electric switch underelectric and shock loads simultaneously.

Co-advised an independent study project with Texas Instrument (TI) under the supervision of Pr. Younis: "The Reliability of Microbeams against Stiction and Collapse Failures Due to Capillary and Electrostatic Force"

Independent study with General Electric (GE global research) under the supervision of Pr. Younis: "Characterization of the Structural-Thermal-Electrical Coupling in an Electrostatically Actuated Switch and itsImpact on the Switch Stability"

• Performed the control strategy of an electrostatically-actuated clamped-clamped microbeam inorder to enhance its filtering features and render it behaves like a Van der Pol and/or Rayleighoscillator.

• Studied the nonlinear dynamics of a cantilever microbeam coupled to a microplate at its free endthe possibility to build a resonant gas sensor out of it.

Thesis: “Nonlinear Structural Mechanics of Micro and Nano Systems”

Major Advisor: Prof. Mohammad Younis (SUNY Binghamton, USA)

GPA: 4/4

Thesis: “Nonlinear Dynamics and Control of Microbeam Based Systems”

Major Advisor: Prof. Ali Nayfeh (Virginia Tech, USA)

Grade: courses 16.4/20, thesis defense 18/20, ranked the first.

Engineering Diploma, Field of Mechanics,

(Grade: 15.2/20), ranked the first.

Ranked 13 out of 1200 in the Tunisian national examination for the entrance to the high engineeringschools.

Combined structural mechanics, thermal, and electrical modeling: ANSYS, Matlab Simulink,Maple, and mathematica.

Characterization techniques: Laser vibrometer, Polytech MSA laser vibrometer, and Veecoprofilometer.

Modeling and simulation: AutoCAD, Simulink, finite element software DIANA, Protel, Sap 2000.

Programming Languages: C, Turbo Pascal.

Engineering Applications: LAB view, MATLAB, L-Edit, and Mathematica.

• Recipient of the outstanding academic achievement in graduate studies award in the MechanicalEngineering Department of the Watson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (BinghamtonUniversity, NY, USA, Mai 2010).

• Certificate of appreciation in the Graduate Student Research Day (March 2008).

• Doctoral scholarship in Mechanical Engineering from State University of New York at Binghamton,USA, (2007-2010).

• Tunisia Polytechnic School top-student award.

• Master degree in computational mechanics top-student award.

• Best-graduation project award.

1. Hassen M Ouakad, Mohammad I Younis "Dynamic response of slacked single-walled carbon nanotube resonators, " Nonlinear Dynamics, DOI: 10.1007/s11071-011-0078-3, 2011.

2. Hassen M Ouakad, Mohammad I Younis "Natural frequencies and mode shapes of initially curved carbon nanotube resonators under electric excitation, " Journal of Sound and Vibration, Vol. 330, pp. 3182-3195, 2011.

3. Mohammad I Younis, Hassen M Ouakad, Fadi M Alsaleem, Weili Cui, Ronald Miles " NonlinearDynamics of MEMS Arches Under Harmonic Electrostatic Actuation, " Journal ofMicroelectromechanical Systems, Vol 19(3), pp. 647-656, 2010.

4. Hassen M Ouakad, Mohammad I Younis, “Nonlinear Dynamics of Carbon Nanotube Resonators,”ASME journal of computational and nonlinear dynamics, Vol 5(1), pp. 011009(1-13), 2010.

5. Hassen M Ouakad, Mohammad I Younis, “The Dynamic Behavior of MEMS Arch ResonatorsActuated Electrically,” International journal of nonlinear mechanics, Vol. 45, pp. 704–713, 2010.

6. Hassen M Ouakad, Mohammad I Younis “Modeling and Simulations of Collapse Instabilities ofMicrobeams due to Capillary Forces”, Mathematical Problems in Engineering, Volume 2009, ArticleID 871902, 16 pages doi:10.1155/2009/871902, 2009.

7. Fadi M Alsaleem, Mohammad I Younis, Hassen M Ouakad, "On the Nonlinear Resonances andDynamic Pull-in of Electrostatically Actuated Resonators" J. Micromech. Microeng. Vol. 19(4), pp.045013(1-14), 2009.

8. Ali H Nayfeh, Hassen M Ouakad, Fehmi Najar, Slim Choura, Eihab Abdel-Rahman, “NonlinearDynamics of a Resonant Gas Sensor,” Nonlinear dynamics, Vol. 59(4), pp. 607-618, 2009.

• Member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).

• Member of the Tunisian Engineers Association (OIT).

• Member of the clubs environment and speleology of the Faculty of Science of Bizerta, Tunisia;

Mini project Robotics: “Simulation and PID control for a four link manipulator Robot”, (Jan-Jun 2005).

Mini-projects CAO and infography : “3D simulation of a 3 articulations arm of robot code written in C,utilization of the Xanimate library”, (Jan-Jun 2006).

Mini-project in the modeling of industrial processes: “Simulation of the liquid-gaz binary diagram of ethanolhexaneand conception of a user interface under MatLab”, (Jan-Jun 2006).

Mini project transport and logistics: “Development of a circulation plan for the city of Bizerte”, (Sep-Dec2006).

Mini project structures: “Control of a TI Digital Micromirror Device using a bang-bang technique”, (Sep-Dec2006).