Franco Capaldi
Franco Capaldi
Associate Professor
Department of Civil/Mechanical Engineering
Mendel Hall Room 120
978-837-5325
capaldif@merrimack.edu
EDUCATION
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge,MA
Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering (9/01~2/05)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge,MA
M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering (9/99~6/01)
Brown University Providence,RI
B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering, Magna Cum Laude, with honors (9/95~5/99)
PROFESSIONAL
Merrimack College No. Andover, MA
Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering (9/11-Present)
Drexel University Philadelphia,PA
Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering (9/05-8/11)
Affiliated Professor, Department of Materials Science (9/05-8/11)
Burlington Community College Burlington, NJ
Taught courses through Drexel University (9/09-8/11)
National Vice President, Pi Tau Sigma (9/09-2/11)
National Mechanical Engineering Honors Society
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge,MA
Postdoctoral Fellow (3/05-6/05)
Sandia National Labs Livermore,CA
Engineering Summer Sciences Program (6/01-9/01)
Brown University Providence,RI
Coordinator, NSF Educational Outreach Program (6/97-9/99)
FE Examination Spring 2007
AWARDS
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (1999-2002)
MIT Presidential Fellowship (1999)
DeMase Fellowship (1999)
Frank William & Dorothy Miller ASME Scholarship (1998)
Royce Fellowship (1997)
Member Tau Beta Pi
COURSES TAUGHT AT MERRIMACK
- CEN 2010 Mechanics I
Topics include a review of trigonometry, equilibrium equations applied to trusses, frames and machines, and an introduction to internal forces.