{"id":129,"date":"2016-08-30T16:42:01","date_gmt":"2016-08-30T20:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.rose-hulman.edu\/olson1\/?page_id=129"},"modified":"2023-01-25T16:17:13","modified_gmt":"2023-01-25T21:17:13","slug":"professional-background","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.rose-hulman.edu\/olson1\/professional-background\/","title":{"rendered":"Professional Background"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past thirty years, I have enjoyed teaching a wide variety of topics, including solid mechanics, fluid mechanics, finite element methods, mathematical methods in engineering, introductory computer programming, and (most recently) Mechatronics. I particularly enjoy incorporating projects into courses, even traditional lecture courses.<\/p>\n<p>My professional development activities relate to applications of finite element methodology to non-traditional areas such as ultrasonic cleaning of semiconductor wafers, laser welding, online machine tool monitoring, rotational molding of polymers, wear-resistant coatings, and inverse electrocardiography. Currently, my research focuses on inverse problems and early detection of breast cancer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.rose-hulman.edu\/olson1\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/89\/2021\/08\/Olson-USNCCM16-21721379.mp4\">See a 15 minute video on some of our work<\/a> from summer 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Read a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rose-hulman.edu\/news\/2022\/faculty-students-robotics-and-research-make-significant-contributions-to-breast-cancer-detection-techniques.html\">news article<\/a> on the current state of our work, including a robot built by students to improve our experimental testing.<\/p>\n<p>Click <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.rose-hulman.edu\/olson1\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/89\/2017\/03\/Olson_cv.pdf\">here<\/a> for my complete curriculum vitae.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past thirty years, I have enjoyed teaching a wide variety of topics, including solid mechanics, fluid mechanics, finite element methods, mathematical methods in engineering, introductory computer programming, and (most recently) Mechatronics. I particularly enjoy incorporating projects into courses, even traditional lecture courses. My professional development activities relate to applications of finite element methodology&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":802,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-129","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.rose-hulman.edu\/olson1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.rose-hulman.edu\/olson1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.rose-hulman.edu\/olson1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.rose-hulman.edu\/olson1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/802"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.rose-hulman.edu\/olson1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.rose-hulman.edu\/olson1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":433,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.rose-hulman.edu\/olson1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/129\/revisions\/433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.rose-hulman.edu\/olson1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}