Dr. Darryll Pines
Dean of the A. James Clark School of Engineering
Quote: Scientists study the world that
is. Engineers design the world that will be.
Dr. Pines has served as Dean and Nariman Farvardin Professor of Aerospace Engineering at the Clark School since January 2009. He first arrived at the Clark School in 1995 as an assistant professor and then served as Chair of the Department of Aerospace Engineering from 2006 to 2009.
A Major Force in Engineering
Because of the quality and scope of our
work, and our location, we are a major force in the nation's
technological advancement, working hand-in-hand with corporate,
government and academic colleagues. Our research expenditures—more
than $110 million for the most recent fiscal year—indicate our
leading role in aerospace, networking technologies, bioengineering,
defense and consumer electronics, intelligent transportation,
advanced materials, nanotechnology, energy and public safety, to name
only a few. If you want to help our country take on difficult
challenges—how to explore space, communicate more securely and
effectively, develop new treatments for diseases, travel with greater
safety, create new energy resources and unlock the potential of the
"nano-world"—come to the Clark School.
If you want to build sustainable
solutions for specific engineering problems in countries around the
globe, work with our award-winning Engineers Without Borders program.
If you want to help advance innovative ventures to drive the region's
economy, facilitate technology transfer, and promote technology
entrepreneurship, work with our Maryland Technology Enterprise Institute. At the Clark School, we're fully engaged—in the region,
the nation and the world.
As Dean, Pines has led the development
of the Clark School's current strategic plan and achieved notable
successes in key areas, such as improving teaching in fundamental
undergraduate courses and raising student retention; achieving
success in national and international student competitions; placing
new emphasis on sustainability engineering and service learning;
promoting STEM education among high school students; increasing the
impact of research programs; and expanding philanthropic
contributions to the school.
Today, the school's one-year undergraduate retention rate and four-year graduation rate is 90 percent and 60 percent respectively. The university's Solar Decathlon team placed first worldwide in the most recent competition against other leading universities, the Engineers Without Borders chapter is considered one of the nation's best, and the Engineering Sustainability Workshop launched by Pines has become a key campus event. Pines has testified before Congress on STEM education and created the Top 25 Source Schools program for Maryland high schools. At a national level he has led an effort as part of the American Society for Engineering Education-ASEE Deans Council’s K-12 STEM Committee to develop a potential College Board AP Exam in Engineering. He is the current Secretary on the Executive Committee of the National GEM Consortium (GEM), a national non-profit providing programming and full fellowships to support increasing untapped domestic human capital at the graduate level in STEM fields.
Today, the school's one-year undergraduate retention rate and four-year graduation rate is 90 percent and 60 percent respectively. The university's Solar Decathlon team placed first worldwide in the most recent competition against other leading universities, the Engineers Without Borders chapter is considered one of the nation's best, and the Engineering Sustainability Workshop launched by Pines has become a key campus event. Pines has testified before Congress on STEM education and created the Top 25 Source Schools program for Maryland high schools. At a national level he has led an effort as part of the American Society for Engineering Education-ASEE Deans Council’s K-12 STEM Committee to develop a potential College Board AP Exam in Engineering. He is the current Secretary on the Executive Committee of the National GEM Consortium (GEM), a national non-profit providing programming and full fellowships to support increasing untapped domestic human capital at the graduate level in STEM fields.
The Clark School's research
expenditures are $119 million, and the school is ranked 34th
worldwide by the Academic Ranking of World Universities, which
focuses on research citations. The Clark School led the university in
achieving and surpassing its $185 million Great Expectations campaign
goal, going on to reach $240 million as of the most recent
accounting.
During Pines' leadership of aerospace
engineering, the department was ranked 8th overall among U.S.
universities and 5th among public schools in the U.S. News and World
Report graduate school rankings. Pines has been director of the Sloan
Scholars Program since 1996, and served as chair of the Engineering Council, director of the NASA CUIP Program, and director of the
SAMPEX flight experiment. He currently serves on the Executive and
Advisory Board for Engineers Without Borders-EWB National and major
corporations.
During a leave of absence from the
University (2003-2006), Pines served as Program Manager for the
Tactical Technology Office and Defense Sciences Office of DARPA
(Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency). While at DARPA, Pines
initiated five new programs primarily related to the development of
aerospace technologies, for which he received a Distinguished Service Medal. He also held positions at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Chevron Corporation, and Space Tethers Inc. At
LLNL, Pines worked on the Clementine Spacecraft program, which
discovered water near the south pole of the moon. A replica of the
spacecraft now sits in the National Air and Space Museum.
Pines' current research focuses on
structural dynamics, including structural health monitoring and
prognosis, smart sensors, and adaptive, morphing and
biologically-inspired structures, as well as the guidance,
navigation, and control of uninhabited aerospace vehicles. He is a
fellow of the Institute of Physics, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and has received a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award.
He is also the co-author of over 60
journal articles, three book chapters, and 140 conference papers. Additionally, Dr. Pines also is the holder of five
co-authored Patents with his students and collaborators including:
1. Biomimetic mechanism for micro
aircraft, Patent number: 6938853, Filed: March
14, 2003, Issued: September 6, 2005, Assignee: University of Maryland,
College Park, Inventors: Darryll J. Pines, Felipe A. Bohorquez, Jayant Sirohi
2. Navigational System and Method
Utilizing Sources of Pulsed Celestial Radiation, Suneel I. Sheikh, Darryll J.
Pines, Kent S. Wood, Paul S. Ray, and Michael N. Lovellette, U.S. Patent No.
7,197,381 (27 March 2007). (FIRST PATENT ON XNAV SYSTEM)
3. Controllable miniature mono-wing
aircraft, Patent number: 8366055, Filed: June 18,
2010, Issued: February 5, 2013, Assignee: University of Maryland,
Inventors: Evan R. Ulrich, Darryll J. Pines, Joseph Park, Steven Gerardi.
4. Method and System for Determining
the Relative Displacement and Heading for Navigation Application number:
20130040656, Filed: November 8, 2010, Issued: February 14, 2013, Assignee: University of Maryland,
Inventors: Suneel Ismail Sheikh, Darryll J. Pines, Joseph Kim Conroy, Timofey N.
Spiridonov.
5. A Fiber Optic Sensor Band for
Monitoring Machinery Vibrations, nondisclosure submitted to University of Maryland
Technology and Licensing Office filed July 1, 2007. Patent Pending, Inventors:
Darryll J. Pines, J. Kiddy, J. Coker and P. Samuel.“
Academic Credentials
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
PhD, Mechanical Engineering, 1991
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
SM, Mechanical Engineering, 1988
University of California, Berkeley
BS, Mechanical Engineering, 1986
As shared from A. James Clark School of Engineering, University of Maryland
Photo Credit: UMD
As shared from A. James Clark School of Engineering, University of Maryland
Photo Credit: UMD
