Brian L. Wardle
Assistant Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Massachusetts Institute of Technology Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics 77 Massachusetts Avenue Room 33-314 Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 Telephone: (617) 252-1539 Fax:          (617) 253-0361 wardle@mit.edu Administrative Assistant: Mark Prendergast 617-253-6339

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Professor Wardle is Director of MIT's Nano-Engineered Composite aerospace STructures (NECST) Consortium, and is a principal member of the Technology Laboratory for Advanced Materials and Structures (TELAMS). He is active in the MEMS@MIT community as part of the Microsystems Technology Laboratory (MTL).

Professor Wardle's research interests are in the area of structures and materials, primarily focusing on aerospace applications.  Current research areas are composite systems, active materials, structural health monitoring (SHM), and power-conversion devices at the MEMS scale. Topics of interest to him include: structural mechanics, durability, advanced material systems, safety/reliability and performance of structural systems, microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), structural health monitoring and nanocomposites. Professor Wardle's educational activities cover experimentation and modeling of materials and structures

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Brian Wardle received his Bachelor of Science degree in Aerospace Engineering from The Pennsylvania State University in 1992.  He went on to attend MIT where he earned his SM in 1995 and his Ph.D in 1998 in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

In 1999, Dr. Wardle worked as a private engineering consultant as well as serving as a Postdoctoral Associate at MIT.  From 1999 to 2003, he was with McKinsey & Company as an Associate and Engagement Manager assisting leading firms on topics of strategy and operations.  In April of 2003, Dr. Wardle returned to MIT to accept an appointment as the Boeing Assistant Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics.