Terry J. Delph
Phone: (610) 758-4119
Fax: (610) 758-6224

Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics

Appointed to Lehigh Faculty: 1979

Education:
Ph.D. Applied Mechanics, Stanford Univ., 1976
Ae.E. Aeronautics, Caltech, 1969
M.S. Aeronautics, Caltech, 1968
B.S. Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Tech, 1967

Related experience - teaching, industrial, etc.:
Instructor, Dept. of Aeronautics, Naval Postgraduate School, 1969-70
Research Staff Member, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 1977-1979
Visiting Scientist, 1990-91, Fraunhofer Institut für Werkstoffmechanik

Research activities, consulting, patents, etc.:
Research on the mechanics of solids with emphasis upon the behavior of solids at elevated temperatures. A particular interest has been the mechanisms of material failure at high temperatures.

Scientific and professional societies of which a member:
ASME
American Academy of Mechanics
Materials Research Society

Honors and awards:
Class of 1966 Professor, 1981
College of Engineering Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1989

Recent PhD and MS Theses and/or Project Reports Supervised:
2008 - Joshua Kunz, MS Thesis: "A General Criterion for Instability at the Atomic Scale"
2003 - Hamilton, Allison, MS Thesis: "Design and Fabrication of a Microsystem to Rupture Polymer Vesicles
2003 - Lin, Ming-Tzer, PhD Thesis: "Temperature Dependent Mechanical Behavior of Silicon Dioxide, Gold and Gold-Vanadium thin films for VLSI Integrated Circuits and MicroElectroMechanical systems (MEMs)