Associate Professor
Dr. Gurau’s research interests are in the areas of fuel cells, flow batteries, green and alternative energy, flexible manufacturing systems, robotics, automated assembly processes, collaborative robots, high-volume manufacturing processes for fuel cells and flow battery components, computational fluid dynamics, materials characterization, electrochemical micro/nanomachining.
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About Vladimir Gurau
Dr. Gurau’s research interests are in the areas of fuel cells, flow batteries, green and alternative energy, flexible manufacturing systems, robotics, automated assembly processes, collaborative robots, high-volume manufacturing processes for fuel cells and flow battery components, computational fluid dynamics, materials characterization, electrochemical micro/nanomachining.
| Present | Faculty Member, Georgia Southern University ‐ Department of Manufacturing Engineering | |
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Disciplines
Research Interests
Grants
| 2019 | USDA-NIFA-SBIR |
| Georgia Southern University - 2019-33610-29797 | |
| Unmanned, Fully-Autonomous, Long-Endurance Robotic Forest Rover for Automated Pine Resin Collection - Phase 1 | |
| $99,518 | |
| 2018 - 2019 | GSU-CEC-Seed Grant |
| Georgia Southern University | |
| Design and Fabrication of Innovative Surgical Implant for Spinal Stabilization | |
| $6,500 | |
| 2010 - 2017 | Dominion East Ohio Grant |
| Dominion Energy | |
| Development of an Educational Program in Green and Alternative Energy at College Level | |
| Role: PI | |
| $30,000 | |
| 2010 - 2017 | Rosenberry Foundation Grant |
| Rosenberry Foundation | |
| Acquisition of Laboratory Equipment for Green and Alternative Energy | |
| Role: PI | |
| $19,748 | |
| 2010 - 2017 | he fund supported the offering of two credit hours in Green and alternative Energy for high school students |
| 21st Century Grant for STEM Initiatives | |
| Role: Co-PI | |
| Colleague(s): Dover High School | |
| 2014 | Ohio Third Frontier Technology Validation and Start-Up Fund |
| Ohio Third Frontier Commission | |
| $53,232 | |
| 2003 - 2010 | Gas Diffusion Medium Internal Contact Angle Measurement |
| General Motors | |
| Colleague(s): General Motors Company, Electrochemical Energy Research Laboratory | |
| 2003 - 2010 | In-situ characterization of GrafTech materials for cathode gas diffusion layers of proton exchange membrane fuel cells |
| Ohio Third Frontier Commission | |
| Colleague(s): GrafTech, Inc. | |
| $30,000 | |
| 2007 | Numerical Simulations of Phosphoric Acid-Doped Polybenzimidazole Fuel Cells |
| Department of Energy, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy | |
| Colleague(s): BASF Fuel Cell, Inc | |
| $99,000 |
Professional Service and Affiliations
| 2021 | Guest and Academic Editor, Energies, Special Issue: Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells, 2021 | 2019 | Guest and Academic Editor, Energies, Special Issue: Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cells, 2019 | 2019 | Session Chair, International Conference on Mechanical, Materials and Manufacturing (ICMMM 2019) | 2017 | Guest and Academic Editor, Energies, Special Issue: Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cells, 2017 | 2016 | Guest and Academic Editor, Energies, Special Issue: Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cells, 2016 | 2015 | Guest and Academic Editor, Energies, Special Issue: Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cells, 2015 | Member, ABET Committee, Department of Manufacturing Engineering, GSU | Member, Editorial Board for Energies | Member, FMS and Robotics Committee, Department of Manufacturing Engineering, GSU | Member, Governance Committee, Department of Manufacturing Engineering, GSU | Member, Outreach to K-12 Committee, Department of Manufacturing Engineering, GSU | Member, Society of Manufacturing Engineering (SME) | Chair, Student Laboratory Safety Committee, Department of Manufacturing Engineering, GSU | Member, Undergraduate Program Committee, Department of Manufacturing Engineering, GSU |
Honors and Awards
- Recipient, Faculty Excellence Award for Research (2014)
Courses
- Manufacturing Processes Laboratory, MENG 1310
- Applied Computing in Manufacturing Engineering, MFGE 2534
- Design for Manufacturability, Assembly and Sustainability, MFGE 3131
- Advanced Materials Processing, MFGE 3531
- Automation and CIMS, MENG 5331
- Advanced CNC Machining and Programming, MFGE 5531
- Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing, MFGE 5331
- Machine Vision, MFGE 5335
- Advanced CNC Machining and Programming, MFGE 5531
| 1998 | Ph.D. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Miami | |
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| 1987 | M.S. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Polytechnic Institute of Bucharest | |
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Contact Information
PO Box 7991
Statesboro, GA 30460
Phone: (912) 478-5205
Office: IT 3130
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