Background
Hajela, Prabhat was born on December 25, 1956 in Kanpur, India. Son of Krishna Prasad and Rajeshwari Hajela. came to the United States, 1977.
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Hajela, Prabhat was born on December 25, 1956 in Kanpur, India. Son of Krishna Prasad and Rajeshwari Hajela. came to the United States, 1977.
Bachelor of Technology Aeronautical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, 1977. Master of Science in Aerospace Engineering, Iowa State University, 1979. Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, California, 1981.
Doctor of Philosophy in Aeronautics, Stanford University, California, 1982.
Research associate, University of California, Los Angeles, 1982-1983;
from assistant to associate professor, U. Florida, Gainesville, 1983-1990;
associate professor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, 1990-1992;
professor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, since 1993. Consultant University of California at Los Angeles, 1983-1984, Technology Analysis and Optimization/Radio Corporation of America Astro Electronics, Princeton, New Jersey, 1983-1987, Occidental Petroleum de Colombia, Bogota, 1987-1988. Program chairman symposium on Aeroelasticity, Structures & Structural Dynamics, Gainesville, 1986.
Program chairman Advances in Aerospace Sciences, Stanford, 1993. Director Emergent Computing Methods in Engineering Design, Greece, 1994.
Associate fellow American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (R.L. Risplinghoff Teaching award 1987, Southeast Faculty Advisor of Year 1988), American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Society Automotive Engineers (Ralph Teetor award 1987, American Society Engineering Education, American Helicopter Society, Sigma Gamma Tau.