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Dr. Allemang is a Professor Emeritus and member of the faculty of the Mechanical Engineering Program in Mechanical and Materials Engineering, University of Cincinnati, where he currently also serves as Director of the Structural Dynamics Research Laboratory (UC-SDRL). Dr. Allemang has been actively involved in the area of experimental structural dynamics and modal analysis for over forty years, pioneering the use of multiple input, multiple output estimation of frequency response functions, developing the concept of cyclic averaging, formulating the modal assurance criterion (MAC) and the enhanced frequency response function and reformulating modal parameter estimation algorithms into the unified matrix (coefficient) polynomial approach (UMPA). Dr. Allemang has served on the Advisory Board for the International Modal Analysis Conference (1981-2015, Chairman, 1986- 1995), on the Editorial Board of Sound and Vibration Magazine (1983-2017) and on the Scientific Committeeof the ISMA Noise and Vibration Conference at the Katholieke University of Leuven, Belgium (1984- present). Dr. Allemang has also served on the Executive Board of the Society for Experimental Mechanics (SEM) from 1998-2006, including President for the Society during 2003-2004. Dr. Allemang is currently involved as Senior Collaborator for the AFRL Structural Sciences Center at WPAFB, working on the verification and validation (experimental quantification of margin and uncertainty) of experimental and analytical dynamic models and has been recognized by three professional societies as a Fellow (SEM, SAE and ASME). Dr. Allemang has also mentored two PhD graduates who went on to win Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE).
Dr. Peter Avitabile is a Professor Emeritus and member of the faculty at the University of Massachusetts Lowell (UML) in the Mechanical Engineering Department. He serves a Co-Director of the Structural Dynamics and Acoustic Systems Laboratory (SDASL) at UML. Dr. Avitabile has over 4 decades of experience in design and analysis using FEM and experimental techniques. His main area of research is structural dynamics specializing in the areas of modeling, testing and correlation of analytical and experimental models along with advanced applications for developing structural dynamic models. He is a Fellow of the Society for Experimental Mechanics (SEM), has received the DeMichele award (2004), has held numerous board and executive positions in the SEM Organization and the International Modal Analysis Community and served as President of SEM during 2016-2017. Peter has contributed well over 300 technical papers in the area as well as his 17 year “Modal Space” article series in the Experimental Techniques magazine published by the Society for Experimental Mechanics. Pete has also published a book entitled “Modal Testing: A Practitioner’s Guide” (Wiley 2017). 
Dr. Avitabilehas over 4 decades of experience in design and analysis using FEM and experimental techniques. His main area of research is structural dynamics specializing in the areas of modeling, testing and correlation of analytical and experimental models along with advanced applications for developing structural dynamic models.
He is a Fellow of the Society for Experimental Mechanics (SEM), has received the DeMichele award (2004), has held numerous board and executive positions in the SEM Organization and the International Modal Analysis Community and served as President of SEM during 2016-2017.
Pete has contributed well over 300 technical papers in the area as well as his 17 year “Modal Space” article series in the Experimental Techniques magazine published by the Society for Experimental Mechanics. Pete has also published a book entitled “Modal Testing: A Practitioner’s Guide” (Wiley 2017).