Engineering and technology
Mohammad Harb received a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering (2009), a M.S. in Mechanical Engineering (2011) and a PhD in Mechanical-Aerospace Engineering (2015) from North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina. In 2013, Mohammad was awarded the National Institute of Aerospace/NASA LaRC Graduate Fellowship to pursue research in Structural Health Monitoring and Nondestructive Evaluation of aerospace composite structures. He was involved in several projects at NASA Langley, including manufacturing and in-process evaluation of composite structures, diagnosis and prognosis of aerospace structures after impact, and automation of nondestructive ultrasound/laser devices. His work on damage imaging and material characterization has been published in several peer-reviewed journal papers and presented at international conferences. After receiving his PhD, Mohammad joined Mooney Aircraft as the Composite Materials and Process Engineer in California. At Mooney, his focus was to develop full qualification test plans, material specifications, and composite manufacturing processes needed to certify carbon fiber composite materials used on the new generation Mooney aircraft. Mohammad will be joining the Mechanical Engineering Department where his focus will be on new manufacturing technologies in advanced materials, Structural Health Monitoring and Material Characterization.