Biography

Gary L. Solbrekken is a teaching professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Missouri. He is also part of the Nuclear Engineering Program. He studies fluid-structure interaction, influence of material property changes caused by nuclear radiation in structural materials, thermal/mechanical effects in packaging of nuclear and electronic structures, system level implementation of thermoelectric devices, cryopreservation of biological tissues and use of resonant acoustics to evaluate structural aging. He collaborates with industry, national labs, biologists, accelerator facilities and the University of Missouri Research Reactor (MURR). His projects have been funded by Intel, W.L. Gore and Associates, Argonne National Lab, the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, Y-12 National Security Complex and MU. He currently serves as chair of the MURR reactor safety-subcommittee and on the reactor advisory committee. He previously managed a thermal laboratory for Intel Corp. and holds four U.S. patents in the area of thermal management.