Professor Phillip Cornwell’s Visit Dr. Phillip Cornwell is the Vice President for Academic Affairs and a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. Dr. Cornwell received his B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Texas Tech University in 1985 and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1987 and 1989, respectively. Dr. Cornwell has been active in curricular development, and he helped develop the Sophomore Engineering Curriculum at Rose-Hulman where engineering science is taught in a unified framework. Cornwell spent many summers working at Los Alamos National Laboratory where he was a mentor in the Los Alamos Dynamics Summer School and did research in the areas of structural health monitoring, energy harvesting, vibration monitoring of femoral components, and micromotion of cementless implants. In 2006, Cornwell joined the author team for one of the oldest and bestselling engineering mechanics texts of all time, Vector Mechanics for Engineers: Dynamics by Ferdinand P. Beer and E. Russell Johnston. Dr. Cornwell is a recipient of the Society of Automotive Engineers' Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award, and he has received the two highest awards at Rose-Hulman: the Dean’s Outstanding Teacher award and the Board of Trustees’ Outstanding Scholar Award. Dr. Cornwell was one of the professors featured in the Princeton Review’s book called The Best 300 Professors. Rose-Hulman is a private institution founded in 1874 that focuses almost exclusively on undergraduate science, engineering, and mathematics education. About 85% of the students are majoring in one of the engineering disciplines with the remainder studying computer science, one of the other sciences, or mathematics. Rose-Hulman is dedicated to preparing its students with the world’s best undergraduate science, engineering, and mathematics education in an environment infused with innovation, intellectual rigor, and individualized attention. The goal is to graduate wellrounded, technically outstanding professionals. There are currently about 2,200 undergraduate students and 100 graduate students.