Professor
Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering
Director of Graduate Studies
Education
Ph.D., 1985, Civil Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
M.S., 1982, Civil Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
B.S., 1980, Civil Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University
Research Interests
Microcantilever-Based Chemical/Biological Sensors
Resonant Micro/Nanostructures for Mass Detection
Vibration Energy Harvesting
Solid/Structural Mechanics
Mechanics of MEMS/NEMS Devices
Publications
Heinrich, S.M., and Dufour, I., “Toward Higher-Order Mass Detection: Influence of an Adsorbate’s Rotational Inertia and Eccentricity on the Resonant Response of a Bernoulli-Euler Cantilever Beam,” Sensors, Vol. 15, No. 11, Feature Paper in Special Issue: Nanomechanics for Sensing and Spectrometry, DOI:10.3390/s151129209, free download at http://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/15/11/29209, 2015, pp. 29209-29232.
Heinrich, S.M., and Dufour, I., “Fundamental Theory of Resonant MEMS Devices,” Ch. 1 of Resonant MEMS. Fundamentals, Implementation and Application (Advanced Micro and Nanosystems, Vol. 11), Brand et al. (eds.), Wiley-VCH Verlag, ISBN 978-3-527-33545-9, 2015, pp. 3-28.
Sotoudegan, M., Heinrich, S.M., Josse, F., Nigro, N.J., Dufour, I., and Brand, O., “Analytical Modeling of a Novel High-Q Disk Resonator for Liquid-Phase Applications,” Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, Vol. 24, No. 1 (Feb.), 2015, pp. 38-49; available online Nov. 2014, DOI:10.1109/JMEMS.2014.2365719.
Schultz, J.A., Heinrich, S.M., Josse, F., Dufour, I., Nigro, N.J., Beardslee, L.A., and Brand, O., “Lateral-Mode Vibration of Microcantilever-based Sensors in Viscous Fluids Using Timoshenko Beam Theory,” Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, Vol. 24, No. 4 (Aug.), DOI:10.1109/JMEMS.2014.2354596, 2015, pp. 848-860.
Brand, O., Dufour, I., Heinrich, S.M., and Josse, F. (eds.), Resonant MEMS. Fundamentals, Implementation and Application (Advanced Micro and Nanosystems, Vol. 11), Wiley-VCH Verlag, Weinheim, Germany, ISBN: 978-3-527-3345-9, 2015, 483 pp.