{"id":330,"date":"2019-07-31T15:43:58","date_gmt":"2019-07-31T19:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/hcheruku\/?page_id=330"},"modified":"2026-03-02T14:20:58","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T19:20:58","slug":"aboutme","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/hcheruku\/","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/hcheruku\/files\/2018\/04\/harish-e1525106960143.jpg\" alt=\"Harish P. Cherukuri\" class=\"wp-image-128\" style=\"width:208px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Harish P. Cherukuri<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">Professor and Chair<br>Department of Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Science<br>383 Duke Centennial Hall<br>The University of North Carolina at Charlotte<br>Charlotte, NC 28223-0001<br>Tel: 704-687-8321<br>Email: harish.cherukuri@charlotte.edu<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading frontpage_header\"><a id=\"employment\"><\/a>Employment<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>2019-present Chair, MEES<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2008-present Professor UNC Charlotte<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2012-2013 Interim Chair, MEES<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2003-2009 Director of Graduate Programs MEES, UNC Charlotte<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2003-2008 Associate Professor UNC Charlotte<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1997-2003 Assistant Professor UNC Charlotte<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1995-1997 Postdoctoral Research Associate UNC Charlotte<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading frontpage_header\"><a id=\"education\"><\/a>Education<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>1990-1994 PhD The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1987-1989 MS Montana State University<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1983-1987 BTech Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad, India<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading frontpage_header\"><a id=\"professional-affliations\"><\/a>Professional Affiliations<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>2009-Present Vice Chair, ASME-AMD Committee of Material Processing and Manufacturing<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2009-Present Electrostatics Society of America<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1998-Present American Society for Mechanical Engineers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harish P. Cherukuri Professor and ChairDepartment of Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Science383 Duke Centennial HallThe University of North Carolina at CharlotteCharlotte, NC 28223-0001Tel: 704-687-8321Email: harish.cherukuri@charlotte.edu Employment Education Professional Affiliations<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-330","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/hcheruku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/hcheruku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/hcheruku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/hcheruku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/hcheruku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/hcheruku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1073,"href":"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/hcheruku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/330\/revisions\/1073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/hcheruku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}