Dr. Ernian Pan Professor Office: 209F ASEC Tel- 330.972.6739 Fax- 330.972.6020 Email: pan2@uakron.edu  Click HERE For Dr Pan's Personal Website

Education:

• Ph.D. University of Colorado at Boulder, 1993
• M.S. Beijing University, 1985
• B.S. Lanzhou University, 1982

Research Interests:

• Mechanics of Nanostructures and Semiconductor Quantum Heterostructures
• Microelectromechanical Systems and Magneto-Electro-Elastic Coupling
• Wave Propagation and Nondestructive Evaluation
• Layered Structures and Composite Laminates
• Green’s Functions and Applications
• Computational Mechanics
• Geomechanics

Teaching Experience:

• Graduate Course: Introduction to Boundary Element Method
• Graduate Course: Seminar on Rock Mechanics

Professional Societies:

• Member of American Society of Mechanical Engineer
• Member of American Society of Civil Engineer
• Committee Member of ASCE/EMD Poromechanics

Professional Activities:

• Keynote speaker, Rock Mechanics Conference, 1998.
• Local organizing committee, 37th U.S. Rock Mechanics Symposium, 1999.
• International Advisory Committee, 3rd Int. Conference on Discontinuous Deformation, 1999.

Recent Publications and Presentations:

• Yang, B. and Pan, E. (2002): Elastic analysis of an inhomogeneous quantum dot in multilayered semiconductors using a boundary element method. Journal of Applied Physics 92: 3084-3088.
• Pan, E. (2002): Elastic and piezoelectric fields in substrates GaAs (001) and GaAs (111) due to a buried quantum dot. Journal of Applied Physics 91: 6379-6387.
• Yang, B. and Pan, E. (2002): Efficient evaluation of three-dimensional Green’s functions in anisotropic elastostatic multilayered composites. Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements 26: 355-366.
• Yang, B. and Pan, E. (2002): Three-dimensional Green’s functions in anisotropic trimaterials. International Journal of Solids and Structures 39: 2235-2255.
• Pan, E. (2002): Elastic and piezoelectric fields around a quantum dot: Fully coupled or semi-coupled model? Journal of Applied Physics 91: 3785-3796.
• Pan, E. (2002): Mindlin’s problem for an anisotropic piezoelectric half space with general boundary conditions. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A 458: 181-208.
• Pan, E. and Heyliger, P. (2002): Free vibrations of simply supported and multilayered magneto-electro-elastic plates. Journal of Sound and Vibration 253: 429-443.

Reviewer for the following journals:

• Journal of Elasticity, Engineering Geology, Journal of Applied Physics, International Journal of Fracture, Research in Nondestructive Evaluation, Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, International Journal of Solids and Structures, Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements, International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences, International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics, Quarterly Journal of Mechanics and Applied Mathematics, Journal of Engineering Mechanics, Canadian Geotechnical Journal.