Office: Steinman Hall 256
Tel: (212)650-5203
Fax: (212)650-8013
email: sadegh@me.ccny.cuny.edu

B.S. (M.E.), 1972, Sharif University of Technology;
M.S. (M.E.), 1975, Michigan State University;
Ph.D.(M.E.), 1978, Michigan State University.
Post Doctoral, 1979, University of Michigan.

Best Paper Award Bioengineering Division ASME (1992)
Melville Medal of the ASME (1993)
ASME Life Fellow (1996)
College of Fellows, SME (1996)
Inventor Award, from General Motors (1989)

Licensed Professional Engineer, P.E., Michigan, since 1982.
Certified Manufacturing Engineer, CMfgE, in Design, since 1988.

1999-Present: Founder and Director of the Center for Advanced Engineering Design and Development.
1/93-7/96: Chairman of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, CCNY/CUNY.
1992-Present: Professor of Mechanical Engineering: Dept. of Mechanical.
1988-1992: Associate Professor, and 1982-1988 Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineerin.
1981-1982: Visiting Assistant Professor: MMM Dept., Michigan State University.
1979-1981: Assistant Professor: Department of Mechanical Engineering, Sharif University of Tech..
1972-1974: Design Engineer: at NIRT and Danube Corp.

The blunt head impacts and angular head acceleration, due to vehicular collisions, contact sports or falls, cause relative motion between the brain and skull and an increase in contact and shear stresses in meningeal region which leads to brain injuries. In Professor Sadegh's research the mechanical role of the fibrous trabeculae and the Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF) in Subarachnoid space (SAS) is investigated. Two and three-dimensional solid and fluid global models of the head and a local model of the SAS trabeculae were developed. It is hypothesized that the arachnoid trabeculae reduce the pressure in the CSF and play a major role in damping the head acceleration.

In addition, the problems associated with neck injuries either in sports or automotive accidents have attracted much attention in recent years. In his research, a cervical spine model has been developed and vertebral stresses in high acceleration loads were determined. Also, the stress changes in intervertebral discs of the cervical spine after partial discectomy and fusion have been studied.The clinical instability of the spine was investigated.

Also, Prof. Sadegh has been investigating a local-global feedback computational model of bone/implant interaction, in particular hip and knee implants using a combination of boundary element and finite element methods. His research has employed a surface bone remodeling theory and a boundary element method to explain the microstructural remodeling of bone-implant interface at the local level and the free surface remodeling-induced penetration of bone between the screw threads of an implanted screw, moving of bone into a slot or cavity of an implant, and the interaction of individual trabeculae in the remodeling process near an implant. In addition, he has studied computer simulation and engineering analysis of new designs of implants and other mechanical devices. Professor Sadegh has over 100 referred publications and has ten U.S. patents. He is the founder and director of the Center for Advanced Engineering Design and Development (CAEDD).

Dr. Peter Torzilli, Hospital for Special Surgery
Dr. Margaret Nordin, Hospital for Joint Diseases
Dr. Vern Huston, VA Hospital NYU