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Sophia Santillan

Sophia Santillan

Associate Professor of the Practice in the Thomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Thomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
sophia.santillan@duke.edu
187 Hudson Hall, Box 90300, Durham, NC 27708-0302
187 Hudson Hall, Box 90300, Durham, NC 27708

Research Interests

Engineering education, nonlinear systems, structural mechanics and numerical methods.

Selected Grants

Duke Girls Exploring Math (DukeGEM)

Public ServiceCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by Mathematical Association of America · 2021 - 2023

High-Frequency Broadband Energy-Intensity Boundary Element Method Applied to Aircraft Panels Excited by a Turbulent Boundary Layer

FellowshipPI-Fellow · Awarded by National Aeronautics and Space Administration · 2003 - 2007