ME 3061H, HLAB 1004
aarrieta@purdue.edu
Dr. Andres F. Arrieta leads the Programmable Structures Laboratory. He joined Purdue University in August 2015 as an Assistant Professor of the Mechanical Engineering School and in May 2017 as an Assistant Professor (by courtesy) in the Aeronautics and Astronautics School. Prior to joining Purdue, he held the Compliant Systems Group Team Leader position of the Composite Materials and Adaptive Structures Laboratory (CMAS) at ETH Zurich, Switzerland for 3 ½ years. While in Zurich, received the prestigious ETH Postdoctoral Fellowship from ETH Zurich in 2012, enabling him to conduct his research independently. Before this, he was a Marie Curie Early Training Fellow and Research Associate at the Dynamics and Oscillations Group of the Technical University Darmstadt in Germany between 2010 and 2012. He received his Mechanical Engineering degree in 2006 from Universidad de los Andes, Bogota, Colombia; Ph.D. in 2010 from the Mechanical Engineering Department of the University of Bristol, United Kingdom.
Prof. Arrieta’s research focuses on investigating the interrelation between shape-property-function of material systems and structures with a focus on exploiting nonlinearity to generating multifunctional systems. His work lies at the interface between structures and vibrations uncovering and applying nonlinear phenomena, such as buckling and multi-stability, to engineering applications. These ideas are applied to programmable structures, light-weight morphing structures, time-varying metamaterials and energy harvesting systems.
Dr. Arrieta has graduated 3 Ph.D. and 10 M.Sc. students, and currently advises 9 Ph.D. and 2 M.Sc. He has published 36 journal papers and 43 international peer-reviewed conference papers.
Dr. Arrieta's work has attracted international media coverage in several scientific and general public outlets:
