George Staab

George Hans Staab is an associate professor of mechanical engineering at The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. He attended Purdue University and graduated with a Ph.D in mechanical engineering in 1979. He is the faculty adviser for the FIRST Robotics program at OSU as well as the Formula Buckeye racing team.
Research and Teaching
Staab's key areas of research include applied mechanics and design and manufacturing. He is very involved with undergraduate engineering education and the development of interactive computer tutorials for classical mechanics (statics, dynamics and strength of materials). Currently he teaches several undergraduate classes including First Year Engineering and Mechanical Engineering: Statics. He is the campus representative for The American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) and the faculty adviser for the student chapter of American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), the Formula Buckeye SAE race team and FIRST Robotics. In 1993, he began working with five other math, engineering, and physics faculty to develop a curriculum for the Gateway Engineering Project, which has since evolved into the Freshman Engineering Honors program at The Ohio State University.
FIRST
In 1996 he organized the original OSU FIRST Robotics team composed of Ohio State University students, who work as mentors for high school students in the FIRST (For the Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Robotics Competition (FRC). Currently, Staab advises three teams. These high school students include representation from Columbus School for Girls, Dublin Scioto High School, Dublin Jerome High School, Dublin Coffman High School, and a home school from Westerville, Ohio.
Awards
*Charles E. MacQuigg Outstanding Teaching Award (1988)
*Boyer Award for Outstanding Teaching in the OSU College of Engineering (co-recipient, 1999)
*Pi Tau Sigma Above and Beyond teaching award (2001)
*Mechanical Engineering Industrial Advisory Board Excellence in Teaching Award (2002)
Additionally, Staab has been awarded eight ASEE Campus Representative Awards since 1998.
Publications
Some of Staab's more notable publications include:
# Educational software accompanying Vector Mechanics for Engineers: Statics, by Beer, Johnston, and Eisenberg McGraw-Hill, 7th edition, 2003.
# Educational software accompanying Vector Mechanics for Engineers: Dynamics, by Beer, Johnston, and Clausen, McGraw-Hill, 7th edition, 2003.
# Educational software accompanying Vector Mechanics for Engineers: Statics and Dynamics, by Beer, Johnston, Eisenberg, and Clausen, McGraw-Hill, 7th edition, 2003.
# Educational software accompanying Mechanics of Materials, by Beer, Johnston, and DeWolf, McGraw-Hill, 4th edition 2004.
# Laminar Composites, by George H. Staab, Butterworth-Heinemann, 1999.
Work in Progress
Work In Progress
Current works in progress include collaborative efforts toward text revisions for the 2nd edition of Mechanical Design of Machine Elements and Machines, by Jack A. Collins, due out in autumn 2009.
Additionally, he is currently working on extending the strength of material software to provide a similar educational module for the design of selected machine elements. Students enrolled in any of the three Mechanical Engineering design courses have free access to the software in its developmental stages.

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