Joseph Garbini - Professor
University of Washington (PhD 1977)Systems, Dynamics and Design
Courses
ME 477: Microcomputers in Mechanical SystemsContact Information
Phone: 206-543-5399Fax: 206-685-8047
Email: garbini@u.washington.edu
Biography
Professor Garbini's primary interests include analysis, design and control of dynamic systems, mechatronics, and instrumentation.Teaching: Mechantronics
Mechatronics is the term originally coined to describe the integration of mechanical, electrical, and computer technologies into the design of complex products. Although products have long included all three components, traditional design methods viewed them as separate, independently realized aspects of the design. Mechatronics emphasizes global optimization by integrating these three components of the design process.
Since the Autumn of 1996, the Department of Mechanical Engineering has offered a guided undergraduate curriculum in mechatronics, consisting of these required and option courses, additional electives, and culminating in a special mechatronics capstone design course.
Research: Magnetic Resonance Force Microscopy
In Professor Garbini's principal research he applies his background in controls and instrumentation to the development of a special-purpose micro-electromechanical system: Magnetic Resonance Force Microscopy (MRFM).
One of the oldest and most enduring dreams of the scientific community is to directly observe molecular structure nondestructively, in situ, in three dimensions, with Angstrom-scale resolution. Such an imaging technology would immediately address urgent needs in nanoscale engineering, materials science, molecular biology, and medicine. The objective of Magnetic Resonance Force Microscopy research is to create such a technology.
The interdisciplinary UW MRFM group, housed in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, offers research opportunities in dynamic systems, controls and instrumentation.
