Department of     Mechanical  Engineering

 

Dr. George  Demosthenous  Head of the Department    Personal           Research

Dr. George Demosthenous is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Frederick Institute of Technology. He is the Supervisor of the Mechanical Engineering Programme of Study (BSc/4 Years/System of Credits) and the Co-ordinator of the Mechanical Engineering Programmes of Study. He joined the Faculty of Engineering in 1996. Prior to this appointment he was Research Associate and Teaching Assistant (1989-1996) at the Mechanical Engineering Department of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) and part-time Lecturer (1990-1995) at the Mechanical Engineering Department of the Pireus Technological Educational Institute.   He received the Dipl.-Eng. degree in Mechanical Engineering (1989) and the Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering (1996) from the National Technical University of Athens. He is a member of the Technical Chamber of Cyprus (ETEK), the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), the Institution of Mechanical Engineers of UK (ImechE), the Society of Manufacturing Engineering (SME), the Society of Automotive Engineering (SAE) and the Cyprus Professional Engineer Association.   He is the coordinator of various funded research projects. He has over 30 scientific publications in refereed Journals and International Conferences. In addition, he is a co-author of a scientific monograph entitled “Crashworthy Characteristics of Composite Thin-Walled Structural Components” and of an undergraduate textbook in Manufacturing Technology.   His research interests are in the area of Forming and Machining Processes, Mechanics of Composite Materials, Impact Engineering, Roadside Safety, Automotive Crashworthiness, Nonlinear Finite Element Analysis.