Professor Anoop Dhingra retired from UWM Aug. 31, after 31 years of serving the college’s Mechanical Engineering Department.
“Professor Dhingra made many great contributions to the department, the college and the university,” says Dean Brett Peters. “We are certainly grateful that he joined the faculty.”
Dhingra’s career was marked by teaching and research in the areas of design optimization, structural synthesis and control, and computational kinematics. Over the years, his focus turned to inverse methods for load recovery, vibration control, and game theory. He published extensively in these areas.
Dhingra served as major professor for 80 master’s and doctoral students. Eight of his former doctoral students now hold faculty positions in mechanical engineering. He also served on the editorial board of several international journals.
Named among top 2% scientists in world
In 2020, Dhingra was included in Stanford University’s list of the top 2% of scientists in world. The annual study identifies the top scholars in their fields by considering how often their work has been cited over the course of their careers.
Extensive service to college and university
Dhingra’s wide range of service to the college included serving for seven years as chair of the Mechanical Engineering Department (2010 – 2017) and serving as ABET coordinator for the 2002 and 2014 accreditation visits. The Mechanical Engineering program was accredited for six years following each of these visits. In 2020, he helped complete the virtual ABET accreditation visit, which took place in an unprecedented time and situation. He also served on nearly 20 different college-level committees.
Dhingra also made strong contributions to over 20 university-wide committees, including serving as the chair of the Faculty Appeals and Grievances Committee, the Faculty Rights and Responsibilities Committee, the Nominations Committee, and the Research Policy Committee.
For nine years, he served as the campus representative on a UW System-wide committee dealing with 403(b) programs and underlying investments available to retirement plan participants.
Dhingra recently located to the Atlanta area to volunteer full-time at a non-profit organization. He spends a significant portion of his time overseeing educational programs and Sunday school related activities for youth and adults.