Associate Dean of Engineering and Professor of Mechanical Engineering, San Diego State University.
Professor German has a broad background in advanced materials ranging from sintered materials to the fabrication of net-shape engineering structures. He is technical advisor or member of the board of directors for several firms, professional organizations, and policy agencies. His efforts have been applied to a wide range of sintered products from jet engines to electronic capacitors.
He holds Director positions with six companies including Advanced Materials Technologies (a division of Singapore Technologies) and Allomet (formerly Enduraloy). Professor German was Brush Chair Professor in Materials with the Engineering Science and Mechanics Department and Director of the Center for Innovative Sintered Products at The Pennsylvania State University.
Professor German is listed in various issues of Who's Who - in America, - in Engineering, - in American Education, and - in Science and Engineering, and has received more than 20 national and international awards over the last 20 years of his career. His credentials also include a publication list exceeding 750 articles covering materials processing and engineering design. He has also authored fourteen books, co-edited nineteen books, holds twenty two patents and chairs several annual short courses, workshops, and symposia.
Rand obtained his Ph.D. degree in Materials Science from The University of California at Davis in 1975, following a M.S. degree in Metallurgical Engineering from The Ohio State University (1971) and a honors B.S. degree in Materials Science and Engineering from San Jose State University (1968). He has completed an intense management program at the Hartford Graduate Center (1979).
