Kathleen Issen

Clarkson University » Mechanical & Aeronautical Engineering » Faculty

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E-mail: issenka@clarkson.edu
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Education
Ph.D., Theoretical & Applied Mechanics, Northwestern University,2000
M.S., Theoretical & Applied Mechanics, Northwestern University, 1997
B.S., General Engineering, University of Illinois, 1983

Licensure
Registered Professional Engineer in Illinois (License No. 062-044422)

Teaching
Dr. Issen's teaching interests include:

• Use of collaborative learning, peer instruction and active learning methodologies in undergraduate engineering courses.
• Assessment of the effectiveness of instructional methods in increasing students’ understanding of fundamental concepts, including development of concept inventory tools.
• Investigation of the influence of student personality types/learning styles and different instructional methods on student performance.

Dr. Issen received the 2003 Clarkson University Outstanding New Teacher award. She is also the advisor for the Society of Women Engineers, and serves on the University Teaching Excellence Committed and the Clarkson University Honors Council.

Courses taught include:

ES222 - Strength of Materials
AE/ME457/CE421 - Composite Mechanics and Design
CE521 - Analysis of Advanced Composite Structures
ME557 - Advanced Mechanics of Composite Materials

Research Interests
Dr Issen’s research interests fall within the field of solid mechanics, and include:

• Constitutive modeling of natural and manufactured heterogeneous and/or anisotropic materials.
• Investigation of bifurcation phenomena and instability problems. Current work focuses on porous materials, such as sandstone, metal foam and bone. Investigation of the onset and propagation of localized deformation is of particular interest. Theoretical, experimental and computational approaches are applied to develop a fundamental understanding of the deformation behaviors of each material individually and of porous materials in general.
  
  Research Goals are:
• Establish connections between material microstructure and macrostructural behavior and express these connections in constitutive models.
• Seek a unifying theory to predict the localized deformation observed in various porous, but otherwise dissimilar, materials.

Dr. Issen is also interested in promoting, organizing and sponsoring undergraduate research, and regularly advises undergraduate researchers from the following programs: Clarkson University Honors, McNair Scholars, and NSF REU.

Selected Publications
Issen KA, and V Challa, “Strain Localization Conditions in Porous Rock under Axisymmetric Loading,” Geological Society of London Special Publications , in press, 2005.

Issen KA, TP Casey, DM Dixon, MC Richards and JP Ingraham, “Characterization and Modeling of Localized Compaction in Aluminum Foam,” Scripta Materialia , in press, 2005.

Challa V and KA Issen, “Conditions for Localized Compaction of Porous Granular Materials,” Journal of Engineering Mechanics, Vol. 130, No. 9 , pp. 1089-1097, September 2004.

Issen KA, “The Influence of Constitutive Models on Localization Conditions for Porous Rock,” Engineering Fracture Mechanics, Vol. 69 , pp. 1891-1906, 2002.

Issen KA and JW Rudnicki, “Theory of Compaction Bands in Porous Rock,” Physics and Chemistry of Earth, Part A, Vol. 26 , pp. 95-100, 2001.

Issen KA and JW Rudnicki, “Conditions for Compaction Bands in Porous Rock,” Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol. 105, No. B9 , pp. 21529-21536, 2000.

Bekker A, LC Brinson and K Issen, “Localized and Diffuse Thermoinduced Phase Transformation in 1D Shape Memory Alloys,” Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures, Vol. 9, No. 5 , pp. 355-365, 1998.

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