Dr. David G. Alciatore, PE
("Dr. Dave")
Department
of Mechanical Engineering
College
of Engineering
Colorado State University
1374 Campus Delivery
Fort Collins, Colorado 80523-1374
office:
Engineering A103M
ph: (970) 491-6589
fax: (970) 491-3827
e-mail: David.Alciatore@colostate.edu
web: www.engr.colostate.edu/~dga
Positions and Involvements
- Associate Professor, Mechanical
Engineering, Colorado State University, 1991-present.
- Instructional
Columnist, "Dr.
Dave's Illustrated Principles," Billiards Digest, monthly, 2004-present.
- Editor
and Contributor, Online Video
Demonstrations, 2001-present.
- Webmaster, High-speed
Video Demonstrations, 2001-present.
- Fellow, The American Society
of Mechnical Engineers (ASME), 2007-present.
- Co-author, Introduction
to Mechatronics and Measurement Systems, textbook, 1999, 2003, 2007.
- Author,
High-speed
Video Magic instructional DVD.
- Distinguished Lecturer, "The
Illustrated Principles of Pool and Billiards," ASME, 2004-2007.
- Co-author,
Introduction to Mechatronics
and Measurement Systems Laboratory Exercises, 2004, 2006, 2007.
- Author,
The Illustrated Principles of Pool and
Billiard book, 2004.
- Author, VP-Sculpt:
software for editing and sculpting 3-D polygonal mesh surface models (e.g., from
3-D laser scanners), 1994-2006.
Research and Consulting Interests
- Modeling, simulation, and high-speed video analysis of dynamic systems.
- Physics
and engineering of pool/billiards and bowling equipment.
- Mechatronics,
automation, robotics.
- Editing and reshaping (computer graphics modeling)
of polygonal mesh surface models for 3D digitizing and rapid prototyping applications
(see Computer
Aided Sculpting for more info).
- Engineering education.
Education
- Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, University
of Texas at Austin, 1989.
- M.S., Mechanical Engineering, University
of Texas at Austin, 1987.
- B.S., Mechanical Engineering, University
of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA, 1986.