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Joseph Slater, Wright State University Dr. Joseph C. Slater received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Aerospace Engineering, and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the State University of New York at Buffalo under the guidance of Dr. Daniel J. Inman. Dr. Slater joined the Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering at Wright State University in the Fall of 1993. His research interests are mode localization (pertaining to high cycle fatigue), nonlinear dynamics, nonlinear system ID, turbomachinery dynamics, smart structures, viscoelastic damping, and gossamer structures. He is a member of AIAA, ASME, SEM, the American Academy of Mechanics, Tau Beta Pi, Sigma Gamma Tau, and Phi Eta Sigma, is an Associate Editor of Shock and Vibration and the International Journal of Modeling and Simulation, and is an officer of the AIAA Gossamer Spacecraft Program Committee and is a member of the AIAA Structural Dynamics Technical Committee.