Mechanical Engineering

W. Steve Shepard Jr. Assistant Professor

Education:

Other Related Experience:

• Senior Engineer, Submarine Signatures and Hydrodynamics, Newport News Shipbuilding (1997-1999)
• Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Tech (1991-1996)
• Engineer, Structural Test Lab, General Dynamics – Fort Worth Division (1989-1991)
• Engineer Assistant, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Tech (1988)

Professional Affiliation and Service:

• Co-Chair, ASME Structural Acoustics Session
• Member, Acoustical Society of America (ASA), American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE)
• Reviewed articles for JASA and SAE.

Instructional Activities:

• Mechanical Engineering Design I (ME489)
• Static Machine Components (ME350)
• Mechanical Engineering Analysis
• Senior Level Lab

Research Activities: Structural-Acoustics, Vibrations, and Noise Control

Principal Publications:

• "The influence of substructure modeling on the structural-acoustic response of a plate system," W. S. Shepard, Jr. and K. A. Cunefare,  J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 109(4), pp. 1448-1455 (2001).
• "Estimation of structural wavenumbers from spatially sparse response measurements," J. G. McDaniel and W. S. Shepard, Jr.,  J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 108(4), pp. 1674-1682 (2000).
• "Identifying critical elastic scales in structural-acoustic models," W. S. Shepard, Jr., K. A. Cunefare and J. H. Ginsberg, J. Vib. Acoust.,Trans. ASME, 120(2), pp. 455-460 (1998).
• "Sensitivity of structural acoustic response to attachment feature scales," W. S. Shepard, Jr. and K. A. Cunefare, J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 102(3), pp. 1612-1619 (1997).
• "Active control of extended acoustic sources in a half-space," W. S. Shepard, Jr. and K. A. Cunefare, J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 96(4), pp. 2262-2271 (1994).
• "The active control of point acoustic sources in a half-space," K. A. Cunefare and S. Shepard, J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 93(5), pp. 2732-2739 (1993).
• "Sensitivity of structural acoustic response to attachment feature scales," W. S. Shepard, Jr. and K. A. Cunefare, Proceedings of Winter Annual Meeting, ASME (Atlanta, GA, November 20, 1996) Vol. 96-WA/NCA-22, Part 1, pp. 53-60.
• "Identifying critical elastic scales in structural-acoustic models," W. S. Shepard, Jr., K. A. Cunefare and J. H. Ginsberg, Proceedings of ASME, 15th Biennial Conference on Vibration and Noise (Boston, MA, 17-21 Sept. 1995) Vol. 3B, pp. 267-273.
• "Spectral techniques for assessing critical scales in models of fluid loaded structures," K. A. Cunefare, W. S. Shepard, Jr. and J. H. Ginsberg, Proceedings of 15th International Congress on Acoustics (Trondheim, Norway, 26-30 June 1995) Vol. 4 of 4, pp. 405-408.

Honors & Awards:

• Who’s Who Among Students in American Universities (1995)
• High Honor, Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology (1991)
• Pi Tau Sigma – Georgia Tech Chapter (1989)
• Tau Beta Pi – Mississippi State Chapter (1987)
• Mississippi State University, Academic Scholarship (1985-1987)
• Dean’s List, Mississippi State University (1985-1987)