Sarah C. Baxter, PhD., Professor Mechanical Engineering,

University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN scbaxter@stthomas.edu

_______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Education:

Doctor of Philosophy, Applied Mathematics University of Virginia (1995) Advisor: Corneilius O. Horgan Major Area: Partial Differential Equations/Applied Mechanics Dissertation: St. Venant End Effects for Anti-Plane Shear Master of Science, Applied & Computational Mathematics, U. of Minnesota, Duluth (1991) Advisor: Steven A. Trogdon Major Area: Numerical Analysis/Partial Differential Equations Thesis: Flexural Bending in Beams Bachelor of Science, University of Denver Major: Biological Sciences Minors: Physics and Chemistry Professional Experience:

2014 – present Professor School of Engineering, University of St. Thomas

2013 – 2014 Professor Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of South Carolina

2003 – 2013 Associate Professor Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of South Carolina

1997-2003 Assistant Professor Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of South Carolina

1995-1997 Postdoctoral Fellow Applied Mechanics Program, University of Virginia Advisors M.J. Pindera and C.T. Herakovich Micromechanics of Metal Matrix Composites

1994 Summer Research Scientist Polymer Division, NIST, Gaithersburg, MD.

1991-1993 Graduate TA Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Virginia.

1991 Summer Member of the Technical Staff The Aerospace Corporation, Los Angeles

1989-1991 Graduate TA Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Minnesota, Duluth

Honors and Awards:

NSF Career Award -“Effects of Microstructural Randomness in Composites” 1999.

Invited Lecturer: Four lectures, to a Graduate Workshop, on Random Material Microstructures Modeling and Mechanical Behavior. Centre of Excellence for Advanced Materials and Structures at the Institute of Fundamental Technology in Warszawa, Poland, 2004.

Who’s Who in Computational Science and Engineering, 2004.

Finalist, NSF Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge, 2005.

Invited Speaker, NSF Workshop- Probability & Materials: from Nano- to Macro-Scale, Johns Hopkins University, 2005.

Faculty Associate of the Year, Preston Residential College, 2006.

Invited Panelist and Panel Chair, Science Foundation of Ireland, Biannual Proposal Reviews, 2006-2008.

SCHOLARSHIP:

Peer Reviewed Journal Articles:

Bourn, R. Fralick, Bethany S. and Baxter, Sarah C. “Distributions of Elastic Moduli in Mechanically Percolating Composites” Probabilistic Engineering Mechanics, 34, 67-72, 2013.

Fralick, B.S., Gatzke. E.P., and Baxter, S.C. "Three-dimensional evolution of mechanical percolation in nanocomposites with random microstructures", Probabilistic Engineering Mechanics 30, 1-8, 2012.

Baxter, S.C. and Robinson, C.T. “Pseudo-percolation: Critical volume fractions and mechanical percolation in polymer nanocomposites", Composites Science and Technology, 1(10), 1273-1279, 2011.

Wilson, C.G., Stone, J.W., Fowlkes, V.,Morales, M.O., Murphy, C.J., Baxter, S.C. and Goldsmith, E.C. “Collagen Receptors and the Age-Dependent Contraction of Type I Collagen Substrates by Cardiac Fibroblasts”, Microsc. Microanal, 17(4), 555-562, 2011.

Snipes, J.S., Robinson, C.T., and Baxter, S.C. “Effect of scale and interface on the effective viscoelastic properties of polymer nanocomposites", Journal of Composite Materials, 45(24), 2537-2546, 2010.

Ray, T.R, Murphy, C.J., Baxter, S.C. “Diffusion Linked Solidification Model of Axisymmetric Growth of Gold Nanorods” in Advances in Mathematical Modeling and Experimental Methods for Materials and Structures, Springer Netherlands, pp.199-210, 2010.

Murphy, C.J., Gole, A.N., Aalkady, A.M., Stone. J.W., Sisco, P.N., Goldsmith, E.C .and Baxter, S.C. “Gold Nanoparticles in Biology: Beyond Toxicity to Cellular Imaging” Acc. Chem. Res., 41 (12), 1721-1730, 2008.

Sisco, P.N., Wilson, C.G., Mironova, E., Baxter, S.C., Murphy, C.J. and Goldsmith, E.C. “The Effect of Gold Nanorods on Cell-Mediated Collagen Remodeling” Nano Letters, 8 (10), 3409–3412, 2008.

Baxter, S.C, Morales, M.O., and Goldsmith, E.C. “Adaptive Changes in Cardiac Fibroblast Morphology and Collagen Organization as a Result of Mechanical Environment” invited paper, Cell Biochemistry and Biophysics, 51(1) 33-44, 2008.

Stone, J.W., Sisco, P.N., Goldsmith, E.C., Baxter, S.C., and Murphy, C.J. “Using Gold Nanorods to Probe Cell-Induced Collagen Deformation” NanoLetters, 7(1) 116-119, 2007.

Williams, T.O., Baxter, S.C. “A Framework for Stochastic Mechanics” Probabilistic Engineering Mechanics 21, 247–255, 2006.

Orendorff, C.J., Baxter, S.C., Goldsmith, E.C. and Murphy, C.J. “Light Scattering from Gold Nanorods: Tracking Material Deformation ” Nanotechnology, 16, 2601-2605, 2005.

Baxter, S.C.. Graham-Brady, L.L., Xi Xu, F. “Modeling the effects of material non-linearity using moving window micromechanics”, International Journal of Nonlinear Mechanics, 40 351-359, 2005.

Umpleby II, R.J., Rampey, A.M., Baxter, Rushton, G.T., Shah, R. N. , Bradshaw, J.C. and Shimizu, K.D. “Characterization of the heterogeneous binding site affinity distributions in molecularly imprinted polymers” Chromatogr. B 804 141, 2004.

Baxter, S.C., Islam, M.O. and Gassman,S. L. “Impulse response evaluation of drilled shafts with pile caps: modeling and experiment” Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering, 31(2), 169-177, 2004.

Baxter, S.C. and Reynolds, A.P. “Modeling Anisotropic Hardening with a Stochastic Cellular Automaton” Probabilistic Engineering Mechanics, 19 3–8, 2004.

Graham, L.L., Siragy, E.F. and Baxter, S.C. “Analysis of Heterogeneous Composites Based on Moving Window Techniques, Journal of Engineering Mechanics, 129:(9) 1054-1064, 2003.

Khan J. A., Hinton H.J., and Baxter S.C. “Enhancement of Heat Transfer with Inclined Baffles and Ribs Combined” Journal of Enhanced Heat Transfer, 9(3-4) 137-151, 2002.

Umpleby R.J., Baxter S.C., and Shimizu K.D. “Characterization of Molecularly Imprinted

Polymers with the Langmuir Freundlich Isotherm”, Analytical Chemistry, 73: 4584-4591, 2001.

Baxter S.C., Hossain, M. I. and Graham L.L. “Micromechanics Based Random Material Property Fields for Particulate Reinforced Composites” International Journal of Solids and Structures, 38: 9209-9220, 2001.

Graham L.L. and Baxter S.C. “Simulation of Local Material Properties based on Moving Window GMC” Probabilistic Engineering Mechanics, 16: 295-305, 2001.

Umpleby R.J., Baxter S.C., Bode M., Berch Jr. J.K., Shah R.N., and Shimizu K.D., “Application of the Freundlich adsorption isotherm in the characterization of molecularly imprinted polymers”. Analytica Chemica Acta, 435: 35-42, 2001.

Baxter S.C and Graham L.L. (2000) “Characterization of Random Composite Materials using the Moving Window-Generalized Method of Cells” Journal of Engineering Mechanics, 126(4): 389-397.

Reynolds A.P. and Baxter S.C (2000) “Kinematic hardening in a dispersion strengthened aluminum alloy: experiment and theory” Material Science and Engineering, A285: 265-279.

Herakovich C.T. and Baxter S.C. “Influence of Pore Geometry on the Effective Response of Porous Media” Journal of Materials Science, 34: 1595-1609, 1999.

Baxter, S.C and Pindera, M.-J. “Stress and plastic strain fields during unconstrained and constrained fabrication cool down of fiber reinforced IMC’s” Journal of Composite Materials, 33(4): 351-376, 1999.

Graham L.L. and Baxter S.C. “Stochastic Finite Element Analysis of Composite Structures with Random Imperfections” Stochastic Structural Dynamics, Eds. B.F. Spencer and E.A. Johnson, Balkema Press, 159-164, 1999.

Baxter S.C and Pindera, M.-J. “Degradation of Elastic Response of MMC Tubes due to Internal Fiber Cracks” ASCE Journal of Aerospace Engineering, 10(1): 43-48, 1997.

Baxter S.C. and Horgan C.O. “Effects of Curvilinear Anisotropy on Radially symmetric stresses in anisotropic linearly elastic solids”, Journal of Elasticity, 42: 31-38, 1996.

Baxter S.C. and Horgan C.O. “Anti-plane shear deformations of sandwich structures: end effects” International Journal of Solids and Structures, 34: 79-98, 1997.

Baxter S.C. and Horgan C.O. “End Effects for Anti-Plane Shear Deformations of Sandwich Strips” Journal of Elasticity, 40: 123-164, 1995.

Book Chapters:

Lecture Notes 17: Random Material Microstructures Modelling and Mechanical Behavior, pps. 101-145, edited by Kazimierz Sobczyk, Centre of Excellence for Advanced Materials & Structures; Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, Warszawa, Poland, 2004.

An Introductory Guide to Solid Mechanics, in Mechanobiology Handbook Ed. Jiro Nagatomi, published by Taylor & Francis, NY, 2011.

High Aspect Ratio Gold Nanorods: Their Synthesis and Application to Image Cell-Induced Strain Fields in Collagen Films, D. J. Chernak, P. N. Sisco, E. C. Goldsmith, S. C. Baxter, and C. J. Murphy, in Nanobiotechnology Protocols, 2, Ed. S.J. Rosenthal, 2011

Conference Papers:

Baxter, S.C., Johnson, A. and Fralick, B.S. “Revisiting Graphical Statics” American Society for Engineering Education, Annual Conference, Seattle, AA, June 2015.

Baxter, S.C and Caicedo, J.M, “Probabilistic Parameters in the MR Hyperbolic Tangent Damper Model” 6th ASCE-International Symposium on Uncertainty Modelling and Analysis, Liverpool, July 2014.

Baxter, S.C. and Burrows, B.J. “Mechanical Percolation in Nanocomposites: A Micromechanical Perspective” 7th International Conference on Computational Stochastic Mechanics, Santorini, Greece, June 2014

Bourn, R. and Baxter, S.C. “Developing Mathematical Intuition by Building Estimation Skills’’, American Society for Engineering Education, Annual Conference, Atlanta, GA, June 2013.

Robinson, C.T and Baxter, S.C. “Turning STEM into STEAM” American Society for Engineering Education, Annual Conference, Atlanta, GA, June 2013.

Pfister-Altschul, E., Baxter, S., Metz, S. and Peters, W. "Implementing ENGAGE Strategies to Improve Retention: Focus on Spatial Skills - Engineering Schools Discuss Successes and Challenges", American Society for Engineering Education, Annual Conference & Exposition, 2011.

Baxter, S.C. and Robinson, C.T. “A little bit random: Misalignment and pseudo-percolation in polymer nanocomposites”, 6th Computational Stochastic Mechanics Conference-CSM6- Crete, Greece, June 2010.

Baxter, S.C. Snipes, J.S. and Robinson, C.T. “Nano”-micromechanics: multi-functional modeling of polymer nanocomposites” The 7th International Conference on Engineering Computational Technology, September, Valencia, SPAIN September 2010.

Armstrong, L., Baxter, S. and Vogelwede, P., “Simplified Model of the knee as a 2-Dimensional Spring Mechanism", Proceedings of the 2008 ASME IDETC/CIE Conference, Paper Number DETC2008-49797, August 2008.

Baxter, S.C. and Williams, T.O. “A Framework for Stochastic Micromechanics", 15th UK Conference of the Association of Computational Mechanics in Engineering, Glasgow, Scotland, UK. 2007.

Baxter, S.C. and Williams, T.O, “A Stochastic Framework for the Micromechanical Analysis of Heterogeneous Materials” Proceedings 5th Annual Computational Stochastic Mechanics, Rhodes, Greece June, 2006.

Baxter, S.C. and Reynolds A.P., “Modeling Anisotropic Hardening with a stochastic cellular automaton” Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Computational Stochastic Mechanics, 2003.

Graham, L.L., Gurley, K., Masters, F. and Baxter, S.C. “Analysis of random composite materials using non-Gaussian simulation” Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Computational Stochastic Mechanics, 2003.

Baxter, S.C. and Reynolds, A.P. “Modeling kinematic hardening in a dispersions strengthened aluminum alloy using a stochastic cellular automaton” S.C. Baxter and A.P. Reynolds, WCCM V Fifth World Congress on Computational Mechanics, Vienna Austria, July 2002.

Horgan, C.O. and Baxter, S.C. “Saint-Venant’s Principle for Sandwich Structures”, , in Mechanics of Sandwich Structures, Proceedings of EUROMECH 360, Saint Etienne, France May 1997.

Sankurathri, A.C., Baxter, S.C. and Pindera, M-J. “The Effect of Fiber Architecture on the Inelastic Response of Metal Matrix Composites with Interfacial and Fiber Damage”, in Damage and Interfacial Debonding in Composites, G. Z. Voyiadjis and D. H. Allen (Eds.), Elsevier Science B.V., The Netherlands, 1996.

Baxter, S.C. and Pindera, M-J. “Response of MMC Laminated Tubes with Internal Fiber Cracks”, Proceedings of the 11th ASCE Engineering Mechanics Conference, .K. Lin and T.C. Su (Eds.), 412-415, 1996.

Baxter, S.C. and Pindera, M.J. “Mechanical Response of Functionally Graded MMC Tubes with Fiber Damage due to Torsional Loading” S.C. Baxter and M.-J. Pindera, 3rd International Conference on Composite Engineering, ICCE/3, New Orleans, LA,1996.

Conference Abstracts:

“Probabilistic Descriptions of Mesoscale Material Properties Fields using the Principle of Maximum Entropy” Sarah C. Baxter and Katherine A. Acton, USCCM, San Diego, CA, 2015

“Mechanical Percolation in Nanocomposites with Random Microstructures” Sarah C. Baxter and Bethany S. Fralick, in the Symposium "Multiscale Modeling and Uncertainty Quantification of Materials” at the ASME 2012 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Houston, TX , 2012.

“A Probabilistic Characterization of the Distribution of Elastic Moduli in Mechanically Percolating Nanocomposites” Sarah C. Baxter, Rebecca Bourn, Mechanics of Nano, Micro and Macro Composite Structures - Politecnico di Torino, Italy,18-20, 2012.

“The Evolution of Mechanical Percolation in Nanocomposites with Random Periodic Microstructures" Bethany S. Fralick, Sarah C. Baxter, Mechanics of Nano, Micro and Macro Composite Structures - Politecnico di Torino, Italy, 2012.

“Tracking Cell Assessment of Local Mechanical Environment using Gold Nanorods” Sarah C. Baxter, John Stone, Christopher Wilson, Catherine J. Murphy and Edie C. Goldsmith, 16th US National Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, State College, PA 1680, 2010.

“Correlation of Collagen Receptor Distribution and Extracellular Matrix Deformation Using Gold Nanorods” Sarah C. Baxter, Katherine J. Langley, John W. Stone, Nidhi Kumar, Mary Morales, Christopher T. Robinson, Catherine J. Murphy and Edie C. Goldsmith, Fall Meeting MRS, Boston MA, 2007.

“Optical Sensing of Local Biomechanical Fields using Gold Nanorods as Light- Scattering Imaging Agents” Sarah C. Baxter, John W. Stone, Patrick N. Sisco, Edie C. Goldsmith and Catherine J. Murphy, Material Research Society Fall Meeting, Boston, 2006.

 “Application of a Stochastic Transformation Field Theory to the Inelastic Response of Composites” T.O. Williams and S.C. Baxter, IUTAM, Boulder Colorado, 2006.

“A Stochastic Micromechanical Basis for the Characterization of Random Heterogeneous Materials”, S. C. Baxter and T. O. Williams NSF WORKSHOP: Probability & Materials: from Nano- to Macro-Scale”, Baltimore, MD, 2005.

“Analysis of Material Property Fields for Heterogeneous Materials” S.C. Baxter, S. R. McNeill, L. L. Graham-Brady, 9th ASCE EMD/SEI/GI/AD Joint Specialty Conference on Probabilistic Mechanics and Structural Reliability, Albuquerque, NM, 2004.

“A Micromechanical Characterization of Clustering of Second Phases in Composites” Arturo Valentin and Sarah Baxter, ASME Mechanics and Materials Conference, Arizona, 2003.

“Residual Stresses in Functionally Graded Composites” Sarah C. Baxter and Shuchen Fan, USNCTAM, Virginia Tech, 2002.

 “Effects of Friction Stir Welding on Random Composite Microstructure: Particle Size Distribution” S.C. Baxter and A.P. Reynolds, ICOSSAR International conference on Structural Safety and Reliability”, Newport Beach CA, 2001.

“Characterization of Reinforcing Particle Size Distribution in a Friction Stir Welded Al-SiC Extrusion” S.C. Baxter and A.P. Reynolds, TMS Annual Conference, New Orleans, 2001.

“Heat Transfer Enhancement with Inclined Baffles and Ribs” J. A. Khan, H.J. Hinton, and S.C. Baxter, ASME Annual Conference, NYC, 2001.

“Micromechanics Based Material Property Fields for Particulate Reinforced Composites” S. C. Baxter, M.I. Hossain, and L.L. Graham, ASME Materials and Mechanics Conference, University of California, San Diego, 2001.

“Calculations of micromechanics based material property fields using Moving Window GMC: Appropriate Window Sizes” S.C. Baxter and L.L. Graham, 37th SES Annual Meeting, USC, Columbia SC, 2001.

“Stochastic Finite Element Analysis Based on Micromechanics of Random Composite Materials” L.L Graham and S. C. Baxter, 8th ASCE Probabilistic Mechanics and Structural Reliability Conference (PMC2000) University of Notre Dame, 2000.

“Evolution of stress and plastic strain fields during composite fabrication cool-down” Sarah C. Baxter and Marek-Jerzy Pindera, 14th Engineering Mechanics Conference ASCE, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore MD, 1999.

“Stochastic Field Representation of the Mechanical Properties of Composite Materials, L.L. Graham and S C. Baxter, 14th Engineering Mechanics Conference ASCE, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore MD, 1999.

“Modeling of Random Composite Materials using Stochastic Field Representations, Lori L. Graham and Sarah C. Baxter, 5th U.S. National Congress on Computational Mechanics, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, 1999.

“Analysis of Local Material Property Fields for Random Composites”, Sarah C. Baxter and Lori L. Graham, Mechanics and Materials Conference, ASME, Virginia Tech, 1999.

“Evolution of stress and plastic strain fields during composite fabrication cool-down”, Sarah C. Baxter and Marek-Jerzy Pindera, 14th Engineering Mechanics Conference ASCE, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 1999.

“Influence of Porosity on the Response of Fibrous Composites”, Baxter, S.C. , Herakovich, C.T. and Roerden, A., IUTAM Symposium on Theoretical and Numerical Methods in Continuum Mechanics of Porous Media, Stuttgart, German, 1999.

“Microstructural modeling of the evolution of stress and plastic strain fields fabrication cool down of fiber reinforced IMC’s”, Sarah C. Baxter and Marek-Jerzy Pindera, Annual meeting of the Society of Engineering Science, 1998.

“Influence of Pore Geometry on the Effective Response of Porous Media”, Carl T. Herakovich and Sarah C. Baxter, Joint meeting of ASCE, ASME and SES - McNu ’98 - Northwestern University, 1998.

“Mechanical Response of Functionally Graded MMC Tubes with Fiber Damage due to Torsional Loading”, S.C. Baxter and M.-J. Pindera, 3rd International Conference on Composite Engineering, ICCE/3, New Orleans, LA 1996.

Conference Posters:

“Micromechanics in Mechanical Percolation of Nanocomposites” Burrows, B.J. Fralick, B.S. and Baxter, SC 2013 Conference of the ASCE Engineering Mechanics Institute, August 4 – 7, 2013, Northwestern University.

“Characterizing the Mechanical Behavior of Cancer Cells by Tracking Displacement of Gold Nanorods” Kara Garrott, Sarah Baxter and Edie Goldsmith, BMES Annual Meeting, Atlanta, 2012.

“Synergistic Modeling: Manufacture and Design of 'Nano" Microstructures” Sarah C. Baxter and Christopher T. Robinson, 2012 NSF CMMI Research and Innovation Conference, Boston MA, 2012.

“Tracking Alignment of Plasmonic Nanostructures using Internal Reflection Microscopy” Tyler R. Ray, Sarah C. Baxter, and Thomas M. Crawford, Materials Research Society, Spring 2010.

“Force Handles for Alignment of Metallic Nanoparticles” T.R. Ray, J.S. Snipes, C.J. Murphy, T.M. Crawford and S. C. Baxter, Materials Research Society, Fall 2009.

“Age Effects on Arterial Axial Stiffness in Wild Type and Diabetic Mice” Ying Wang, Jennifer L. Snipes, Kevin Anderson, Michael A. Sutton, Sarah C. Baxter, and Susan M. Lessner, ASME Summer Bioengineering Conference, 2009.

“Fibroblast Collagen Receptor Spatial Distribution Links to Mechanical Deformation” , Sarah C Baxter, Katherine J Langley, John W. Stone, Nidhi Kumar, Mary Morales, Christopher T. Robinson, Catherine J. Murphy, and Edie C. Goldsmith, Fall Meeting American Society for Cell Biology, Washington DC, 2007.

”Contraction in Cell-Populated Collagen Gels: cell geometry and mechanical environment” S.C. Baxter and E.C. Goldsmith Biomedical Engineering Society, Baltimore MD, 2005.

“Examination of Collagen Organization during Cardiac Fibroblast-mediated Collagen Gel Contraction”, Sarah C. Baxter, Mary O. Morales, Robert L. Price, Cathy J. Murphy and Edie C. Goldsmith. Association for Cell Biology Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 2005.

“Strain Measurements due to Contraction in Collagen-Fibroblast Gels using Digital Image Correlation” S.C. Baxter, T.G. Rekers and E.C. Goldsmith, ASME Summer Bioengineering Conference, Vail CO, 2005.

SEMINARS AND PRESENTATIONS

Invited Seminars:

“Mechanics in Mechanical Percolation” An invited seminar presented to the KTH (Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm) Department of Solid Mechanics , Stockholm, Sweden, January 23, 2014.

‘Nano’-micromechanics: Tracking the three-dimensional evolution of mechanical percolation effects in nanocomposites” Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Massachusetts Lowell, March 6, 2012.

“Tracking the evolution of mechanical percolation in nanocomposites with random microstructures”, University of Minnesota, Duluth, Department of Applied and Computational Mathematics, September 22, 2011.

“Fabrication and Design of Multi-Functional Polymer Nanocomposites”, University of Kentucky, William Maxwell Reed Seminar Series, 30 March 2010.

“Force Handles for Long Range Patterning: ‘Nano’ Microstructures in Polymer Nanocomposites” Department of Civil Engineering, Graduate Student Seminar, University of Pittsburgh, 5 February 2010.

“Nano “Micromechanics” Design and Fabrication of Polymer Nanocomposites, Virginia Tech”, Department of Engineering Mechanics Graduate Student Seminar, 4 November 2009.

“Visualizing Cell Initiated Deformation in the Extracellular Matrix”, Department of Biomechanical Engineering, Clemson University, 10 July 2009.

“Examination of Collagen Organization During Cardiac Fibroblast-Mediated Collagen Gel Contraction”, University of South Carolina School of Medicine; INBRE Clinic on Confocal Microscopy, February 2006.

“Evolving Tissue Microstructure: Mechanotransduction and Micromechanics” USC SOM - Bioengineering Group Seminar, December 2005.

“Random Material Microstructures: Modeling and Mechanical Behavior, 4 Lectures: 1-2: Classical and Stochastic Micromechanics, Center of Excellence for Advanced Materials and Structures, Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, Warsaw, Poland, February, 2004.

“Modeling kinematic hardening in a dispersion strengthened aluminum alloy using a Stochastic Cellular Automaton , Graduate Seminar, Department of Civil Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, March 2002.

“Characterization of Random Composites using Local Material Property Fields. Army Research Lab, Aberdeen MD, Aberdeen MD, Center for Impact Physics Seminar Series, March 2000.

Conference Presentations:

“Probabilistic Parameters in the MR Hyperbolic Tangent Damper Model” Sarah C. Baxter and Juan M. Caicedo 6th ASCE-International Symposium on Uncertainty Modelling and Analysis, Liverpool, July 2014.

“Mechanical Percolation in Nanocomposites: A Micromechanical Perspective” Baxter, S.C. and Burrows, B.J. 7th International Conference on Computational Stochastic Mechanics, Santorini, Greece, June 2014.

“Mechanical Percolation in Nanocomposites with Random Microstructures” Sarah C. Baxter and Bethany S. Fralick, "Multiscale Modeling and Uncertainty Quantification of Materials" at the ASME 2012 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Houston, TX November 2012.

“A probabilistic characterization of the distribution of elastic moduli in Mechanically percolating Nanocomposites” Sarah C. Baxter, Rebecca Bourn, Mechanics of Nano, Micro and Macro Composite Structures - Politecnico di Torino, Italy,18-20 June 2012.

“Nano”-micromechanics: multi-functional modeling of polymer nanocomposites” S.C. Baxter, J.S. Snipes and CT. Robinson, The 7th International Conference on Engineering Computational Technology, September, Valencia, Spain, 2010.

“Tracking Cell Assessment of Local Mechanical Environment using Gold Nanorods" Sarah C. Baxter, John Stone, Christopher Wilson, Catherine J. Murphy and Edie C. Goldsmith, 16th US National Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, June 2010, State College, PA, 2010.

“Pseudo-percolation: the influence of interfacial regions on the effective properties of polymer nanocomposites", Sarah C. Baxter and Christopher T. Robinson, 6th Computational Stochastic Mechanics Conference-CSM6-Crete, Greece, 2010.

“Correlation of Collagen Receptor Distribution and Extracellular Matrix Deformation Using Gold Nanorods" Sarah C Baxter, Katherine J Langley, John W Stone, Nidhi Kumar, Mary Morales, Christopher T Robinson, Catherine J Murphy and Edie C Goldsmith, Fall Meeting MRS, Boston MA, 2007.

“A Framework for Stochastic Micromechanics”, S.C. Baxter and T. O. Williams, The Fifteenth UK Conference of the Association of Computational Mechanics in Engineering 2-3 April Glasgow, Scotland, UK , 2007.

“Optical Sensing of Local Biomechanical Fields using Gold Nanorods as Light-Scattering Imaging Agents” Sarah C. Baxter, John W. Stone, Patrick N. Sisco Edie C. Goldsmith and Catherine J. Murphy, Material research Society Fall Meeting, Boston, 29 November 2006.

“A Stochastic Framework for the Micromechanical Analysis of Heterogeneous Materials" Sarah C. Baxter and Todd. O. Williams, 5th Stochastic Computational Mechanics Conference, Rhodes Greece June 20-23, 2006.

“A Stochastic Micromechanical Basis for the Characterization of Random Heterogeneous Materials" Sarah C. Baxter and Todd O. Williams NSF WORKSHOP: Probability & Materials: from Nano- to Macro-Scale, Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD. January 5-7, 2005.

“Analysis of Material Property Fields for Heterogeneous Materials” Sarah C Baxter, Stephen R. McNeill and Lori L. Graham Brady, PMC2004, ASCE Probabilistic Mechanics Conference, Albuquerque NM July 2004.

“Modeling kinematic hardening in dispersion strengthened aluminum alloy using a stochastic cellular automaton” S.C. Baxter and A.P. Reynolds, WCCM V 5th World Congress on Computational Mechanics, Vienna Austria, July, 2002.

“Residual Stresses in Functionally Graded Composites” Sarah C. Baxter and Shuchen Fan, USNCTAM, Virginia Tech, 2002.

“Modeling Anisotropic Hardening with a Stochastic Cellular Automaton” Sarah C. Baxter and Anthony P. Reynolds, Fourth International Conference on Computational Stochastic Mechanics, June, Corfu Greece, 2002.

“Characterization of Reinforcing Particle Size Distribution in a Friction Stir Welded Al-Sic Extrusion” S.C. Baxter and A.P. Reynolds, TMS Annual Meeting, February, New Orleans, LA, 2001.

“Calculation of Micromechanics Based Material Property Fields for Random Composites using Moving GMC: Appropriate Window Sizes” Sarah C. Baxter and Lori L. Graham, 37th Annual Technical Meeting Society of Engineering Science, University of South Carolina, Columbia SC, 2000.

“Development of Micromechanical Based Material Property Fields for Random Composites” Sarah C. Baxter and Lori L. Graham, 8th ASCE Probabilistic Mechanics and Structural Reliability Conference (PMC2000) University of Notre Dame, 2000.

“Analysis of Local Material Property Fields for Random Composites” Sarah C. Baxter and Lori L. Graham, Mechanics and Materials Conference, ASME, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg VA, 1999.

“Evolution of stress and plastic strain fields during composite fabrication cool-down” Sarah C. Baxter and Lori L. Graham, 14th Engineering Mechanics Conference ASCE, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 1999.

“Stochastic Field Representation of the Mechanical Properties of Composite Materials” Lori L. Graham and Sarah C. Baxter, 14th Engineering Mechanics Conference ASCE, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 1999.

“Influence of Porosity on the Response of Fibrous Composites” Sarah C. Baxter, Carl T. Herakovich and Alysha M. Roerden, IUTAM Symposium on Theoretical and Numerical Methods in Continuum Mechanics of Porous Media, September, Stuttgart, Germany , 1999.

“Stochastic Field Representations and Statistics of the Mechanical Properties of Particulate Reinforced Composite Materials” Sarah C. Baxter and Lori L. Graham, Annual Meeting of the Society of Engineering Science, Austin TX, 1999.

“Microstructural modeling of the evolution of stress and plastic strain fields fabrication cool down of fiber reinforced IMC’s” Sarah C. Baxter and Marek-Jerzy Pindera, Annual meeting of the Society of Engineering Science, September, 1998.

“Influence of Pore Geometry on the Effective response of porous media” Carl T. Herakovich and Sarah C. Baxter. Joint meeting of ASCE, ASME and SES - McNu ’98 - Northwestern University, 1998.

“Mechanical Response of Functionally Graded MMC Tubes with Fiber Damage due to Torsional Loading” S.C. Baxter and M.-J. Pindera, 3rd International Conference on Composite Engineering, ICCE/3, New Orleans, LA, 1996.

“Response of MMC Laminated Tubes with Internal Fiber Cracks” S.C. Baxter and M.-J. Pindera, 11th Engineering Mechanics Conference, ASCE, Ft. Lauderdale FL, 1996.

GRANT PROPOSALS FUNDED

Funded:

NSF CMMI/Advanced Manufacturing “Synergistic Modeling: Manufacture and Design of 'Nano' Microstructures” $320,000 8/15/10 - 8-14-13 Role: Principal Investigator

NSF “ADVANCE IT-Catalyst: Advancing USC STEM Faculty” $186,000 9/1/10-4/30/13 Role: Co-Principal Investigator, PI: Vice Provost Christine Curtis

NIH R-21 “Using gold nanorods to modify the extracellular matrix and mechanical properties of cardiac valves”

$476,000 7/08-7-10 Role: Co-Principal Investigator/ PI: Dr. Edie Goldsmith, University of South Carolina School of Medicine.

NSF CMMI “Role of Mechanical Environment on the Evolution of Tissue Microstructure: Meso-scale Cell-Extracellular Matrix Interactions” $220,000 9/01/06-8/30/09 Role: Principal Investigator

NSF CCLI “Effects of Timing, Content and Instruction on Engineering Students’ Abilities to Solve Open-ended Problems using Computers” $149,000 1/06-12/08 Role: Co-Principal Investigator/ PI: Dr. Ann Johnson University of South Carolina, History

NIH-SC IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence "ECM Receptor Response to Changes in Matrix Organization" Role: Target faculty

USC SOM/ENGR/COSM Research and Development Fund “Microstructural Response of Cellularized Collagen Gels to Mechanical Fields: A Precursor to Engineering Tissue Architecture” $50,000 7/04-12/05 Role: Principal Investigator

USC SOM/ENGR Research and Development Fund “Characterization of the Spatial Arrangement of Cellular and Extracellular Matrix in Developing Organisms as a Precursor to Constitutive Modeling” $25,000 1/04-12/04 Role: Principal Investigator

NSF CMS Career Award “Effects of Microstructural Randomness in Composites” $280,000 9/99-1/03 Role: Principal Investigator

NSF CMS: “Influence of Random Microstructure on Stress Concentrations in Functionally Graded Composites” $175,694 9/98-8/00 Role: Principle Investigator USC: Research and Productive Scholarship Grant “Analytic modeling of impulse response evaluation techniques: correlation of theory and experiment” $10,000 , 6/97-6/99 Role: Principle Investigator

STUDENT SUPERVISION AND MENTORING Undergraduate Research

Liam Coulter, “6-axis Robotic Arm” 1/2015 to present

Casey Halbmeier, “Case Studies in Graphical Statics” (1/2015 – 5/2015)

Dalton Humphrey, “Case Studies in Graphical Statics” (1/205 – 5/2015)

Mitchell Vinkler “Computational Models of MR Damper Systems for Probablistic Simulations” (1/2014 – 6/2014)

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University of South Carolina

Matthew Smith, Magellan Fellow, “Fibroblast Migration in Response to Injury”(9/07-5/10).

Tyler Ray, Honors College Research Fellowship, “Control of Microscale Arrangement of Metallic Nanorods for Optical Sensing”

 Magellan Scholarship “ Cellular Automata Modeling and the Self-Assembly of Gold Nanorods” (9/06 - 6/08).

Robin Redick, “Finite Element modeling of Collage Gel Contraction (1/07-6/08)/

Ian Baird. “Magnetic Alignment of Gold Nanorods” Summer 2006. “Force Scale Effects on Nanorods” (9/06 -5/07).

Jennifer Snipes, “Gold Nanorods as Imaging Agents for Measuring Deformation in Soft Tissues, Summer 2006.

Katie Wright, Preston College Research Award “An Interactive GIS Based Model for Active Transportation in the Built Environment”, (Spring 2006).

Kim Swygert, Preston College Research Award “An Interactive GIS Based Model for Active Transportation in the Built Environment”, (Spring 2006).

Kevin Middleton, “Digital Image Correlation of Composite Microstructure, (1/04-5/04).

Carlos

Diaz, “Digital Image Correlation of Composite Microstructure, (1/04-5/04).

Tim Rekers, “Small Scale Load Frame for Collagen Gels” (5/03-8/03).

Anand Pariyadath, Small Scale Load Frame for Collagen Gels” (5/03-8/03).

Michael Lonon, “Correlation of Moving Window Analysis with Digital Image Techniques” (5/03-5/04).

Travis Calhan, “Static and fatigue properties of GFRP/CFRP hybrid preformed strip” (5/03-8/03.)

Jeffrey Kahn, “NSF:REU: Small scale deformation measurements of FSW MMC samples”, (5/02-8/02).

Andrew Simmons, “REU: Small scale deformation measurements of FSW MMC samples” (5/02-8/02).

Marjorie Holmquist, “NSF:REU: Correlation of Fracture Surface Morphology with Material Microstructure” (5/01-8/01).

Nadia Craig, “NSF:REU: Correlation of Fracture Surface Morphology with Material Microstructure” (5/01-8/01).

John Crowley, “Use of a cross validation function as window size criteria” (1/00- 5/00).

Keith Blinn, “NSF:REU Particle Size Distribution in Friction Stir Welded Metal Matrix Composites, (5/20-8/00).

John Crowley, “NSF:REU Particle Size Distribution in Friction Stir Welded Metal Matrix Composites” (5/00-8/00).

Frank Ford, “Comparison of Micromechanics models used in Moving Window Technique Development of Research Web page”, (9/99-5/00).

Lorena Boger, “Comparison of elastic properties of continuously reinforced composites using various micromechanics models” (11/99-5/00).

Frank Ford, “Development of Radial Fiber Cracks in Cored Fibers” (6/99- 5/00).

Masters Students

Brian J. Burrows, MS. August 2014

Local Mechanical Fields in Interface-Percolated Nanocomposites

Neelima Yellepeddi M.S., May 2013

Multifunctional Modeling of Polymer Nanocomposites

Tyler Ray M.S. Mechanical Engineering, Electric Field Manipulation of Gold Nanorods: Characterization of Far-Field Alignment and Spatial Positioning through Optical Response Imaging Techniques, 2010

Jennifer Snipes, M.S. Mechanical Engineering, A Two-Layered Micromechanical Composite Model of the Aorta, 2007.

Julie Giles, M.S. Mechanical Engineering, Rate Dependence of the Preconditioned Response of Soft Tissue during Load Controlled Deformation, 2006.

Timothy Rekers, M.S. Mechanical Loading of Soft Biological Tissues, 2005.

Gerti Bajraktari, M.S. Mechanical Engineering, Composite Microstructure as the Basis for Digital Image Analysis, 2004.

Arturo Valentin, M.S. Mechanical Engineering, An Application of Classical Continuum Theory to Image Analysis, 2004.

Shuchen Fan, M.S. Mechanical Engineering, Residual Stresses in Functionally Graded Composites, 2003.

Imran Hossain, M.S. Mechanical Engineering, Three-dimensional Random Field

Characterization of Mechanical Properties in Particulate Reinforced Composites Using Moving Window Generalized Method of Cells, 2000.

Ohidul Islam, M.S. Mechanical Engineering, Modeling of impulse response evaluation of Drilled Columns using Finite Element Analysis, 2000.

Doctoral

Dr. Bethany Fralick, M.S., PhD. May 2013

Mechanical Percolation in Nanocomposites

Dr. Jennifer Snipes, PhD. Mechanical Engineering, 2011.

Nano-Micromechanics: Modeling the Effective Response of Polymer Nanocomposites

Dr. John Stone, PhD. Chemistry & Biochemistry, co-advised with Dr. Cathy Murphy 2008.

Measuring the Local Mechanical Deformation of Collagen Gels using Light Scattered from Gold Nanorods

Postdoctoral and PhD collaborators Dr. Chris Orendorff, 2005-2006.

Light Scattering from Gold Nanorods: Tracking Material Deformation

Dr. Felipe Montes, 5/2005 -12/2005

Simulation of Microstructure of Pervious Concrete

COURSES TAUGHT University of St. Thomas ENGR 220 Statics ENGR 221 Mechanics of Materials ENGR 221L Mechanics of Materials Lab Advisor Senior Design University of South Carolina EMCH 200 Statics EMCH 201 Introduction to Numerical Methods

ENCP 707 Continuum Mechanics ENCP 721 Elasticity EMCH 585 Mechanics of Composites EMCH 501 Engineering Analysis EMCH 260 Mechanics of Materials

SERVICE ACTIVITIES

Professional:

Reviewer: Soft Matter, J. Composite Materials, Probabilistic Engr. Mech., J. Polymer Science, The Royal Society: Math, Phys/Eng. Sciences, Composites Science and Technology, Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, International Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems

2008- 2011, Member Editorial Board: 6th, 7th International Conference on Engineering Computational Technology

2006- 2008 Sitting member & Chair (07-08): Science Foundation Ireland Panel: Mechanical Engineering

2006-2007//2009-2010, Member of the Scientific Committee 5th, 6th Computational Stochastic Mechanics Conference

2003- 2008 Association of Women in Science, Columbia Chapter Sec/Treas.

2002-2006; Committee Vice Chair, International Association for Structural Safety and Reliability, (IASSAR-CSMSE)

2002- 2007 Panelist: NSF Grad Research Fellowship Program - Mechanical Eng and Biomedical Eng.

2001- 2006 Member Probabilistic Committee ASCE

2001-present Member Committee on Uncertainty and Probabilistics; Applied Mechanics Division ASME

2000- present: Panelist and Reviewer for NSF: CMMI, CCLI, Mathematics and Mechanics of Physics

1997- present American Society of Engineering Educators, member

1995- present American Society of Mechanical Engineers, member

University:

University of St. Thomas

2015 – 2018 Faculty Affairs Committee 2015 – present Goldwater Scholarship Committee University of South Carolina 2009-present University Magellan Scholarship Review Panel 2008-present Lecturer in USC-STEM 101 class (transfer student retention.) 2007-2010 University Goldwater Committee 2005-present Interviewer for McNair Scholars Competitive Scholarships 2005-2006; 09-10 Mentor, McNair Scholar Mentor 2005-2006 Mentor, Women's Network Mentor 2002-present Discussion Leader, First Year Reading Experience

2002- present University Faculty Senator, three non-consecutive terms 2002-2007 Preston College Faculty Associate 1998-present Judge SC Junior/Senior Science Fair

College:

University of St. Thomas Admissions Overnight University of South Carolina 2010-2011 Liaison Team Leader: NSF (WEPAN) ENGAGE Project; Disseminating Best Practices in Engineering Education to USC 2009-present Department Seminar Series Committee Chair 2008 CAREER Proposal Internal Reviewer and Mentor 2005-2006 Member Dean's Search Committee COEIT 1999 to present Department Graduate Studies Committee 1998-2001 Faculty Meeting Secretary; Dept. Mechanical Engineering