Eihab Abdel-rahman

Biography

Eihab Abdel-Rahman, is an Associate Professor in University of waterloo. He received his PhD University of Toledo. I am interested in the modeling, simulation, and design of mechanical, electrical, electro-mechanical, and biomechanical dynamic systems. I have a particular interest in nonlinear dynamic systems. The following is a list of my current areas of research. I developed, in collaboration with Professor Ali Nayfeh and his students, a high-fidelity, robust, and numerically efficient approach to the modeling and simulation of micro- and nano-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS and NEMS). I was a leading member of a group of researchers that identified the “dynamic pull-in” instability in electrostatic MEMS devices. We used this phenomenon to design a new RF MEMS microswitch.

Research Interest

The dynamics of the human musculoskeletal system, The mechanics of the human ear and of hearing loss, Injury mechanisms to the human joints.