Dr. Karl I. Jacob Associate Professor School of Polymer, Textile & Fiber Engineering, with joint appointment in G. W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering 801 Ferst Drive Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA 30332-0295 Phone: 404-894-2541 FAX: 404-894-8780

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Dr. Karl I. Jacob, an Associate Professor of Polymer, Textile & Fiber Engineering, teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on polymer physics and engineering, rheology, and mechanics of polymeric materials. His graduate work was in the area of numerical analysis of vibrating three-dimensional structures. He came to Georgia Tech from DuPont Corporation in 1995. His initial work at the DuPont Dacron Research Laboratory was in the area of fiber-reinforced composite materials and in the development and modeling of fiber spinning processes. He then moved to the DuPont Central Research and Development Department, where he was involved in molecular modeling, computational chemistry, and diffusion. Dr. Jacob is a member of the American Academy of Mechanics, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the Sigma Xi Research Society, and the Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society. EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND Ph.D., Engineering Mechanics, The Ohio State University M.Tech., Engineering Mechanics, I.I.T, Madras B.Sc (Engg.), Civil Engineering, College of Engineering, Trivandrum