Charlene Birdsong

Professor | Mechanical Engineering Department

Areas of Expertise

Autonomous Vehicle Safety

Vibrations and Control

Contact Information

805.756.1261

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Biography

Charlene Birdsong is a professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department. Her projects and research interests include automotive safety and crash avoidance, vehicle safety modeling and control, pre-crash sensing, vibrations and acoustics. Birdsong is also interested in engineering education, including STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) outreach in local K-12 schools and technology in the classroom. She serves as advisor to both the Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society and the Pi Tau Sigma Mechanical Engineering Honor Society. 

Education

• Ph.D., Michigan State University, Mechanical Engineering 
• M.S., Michigan State University, Mechanical Engineering 
• B.S., Cal Poly, Mechanical Engineering

Research Interests

• Automotive Safety, Collision Avoidance and Autonomous Vehicles
  
  Controls
• Numerical Simulation of Mechanical Systems
• Sensor and Actuator Design and Implementation
• Signal Processing
• System Dynamics
• Vibrations/Acoustics/Active Noise Control