Alok Sinha is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Pennsylvania State University (PSU), University Park. He received his PhD degree in Mechanical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA. He has been a PSU faculty member since August 1983. His areas of teaching and research are vibration, control systems, jet engines, robotics, neural networks and nanotechnology. He is the author of Linear Systems: Optimal and Robust Control. He has served as a Visiting Associate Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, and as a researcher at Pratt and Whitney, E. Hartford, CT. He has also been an associate editor of the ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement and Control. At present, he serves as Associate Editor of the ASME Journal of Turbomachinery and the AIAA Journal. Alok Sinha is also a Fellow of ASME, and has received a NASA Certificate of Recognition for Significant Contribution to the Space Shuttle Microgravity Mission.