• Collaborators
• Faculty
  • Blackmore, Denis
  • Fischer, Ian
  • Horntrop, David
  • Kondic,Louis
  • Rosato, Anthony
  • Singh, Pushpendra
• Students
• Former Collaborators
• Former Students

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Ian S. Fischer

Department of Mechanical Engineering
New Jersey Institute of Technology
Newark, NJ 07102
Phone: 973-596-3354
Email: ian.s.fischer (at) njit.edu

Education

• Columbia University, EngScD 1985
• Princeton University, MSE 1973
• Columbia University, BS 1970

Awards and Honors

• Robert W. Van Houten Award for Teaching Excellence (NJIT Alumni Association, 1996).
• George A Wood Award (National Applied Mechanisms and Robotics Conference, 1995).

Research Interests

• Design of spatial mechanisms, dual-number mechanics, mechanical aspects of robotics
• Kinematics and the design of mechanisms. Dual-number coordinate-transformation methods are being developed to analyze displacements, velocities, statics and dynamics of complex spatial mechanisms.