Steven Louis Creighton

Bio

Steve Creighton brings experiences from industry, defense, and academia to the Duke University classroom. His focus on teaching excellence draws from experiences as an Assistant Professor at the United States Military Academy (West Point), Adjunct Professor at the University of Virginia, and various other teaching roles throughout his career.  Steve's technical depths are continuum mechanics and numerical methods; and his current research interests include: i) optimal pedagogy for mechanical analysis for design, ii) integration of computer aided design and numerical analysis, iii) the Finite Element Method, iv) using Nonuniform Regular Basis Splines (NURBS) for faster and more exact numerical methods; and v) continuum physics models for biological materials.  Over his career, Steve has worked with over 17 defense and national laboratories; and worked for three years as a researcher at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California. He also has research funding experience (from the U.S. Government's side) when he managed a Broad Area Announcement (BAA) topic area for a Defense agency.

Education

• M.S. University of Maryland, College Park, 1990
• Ph.D. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2003

Positions

• Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Thomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

Courses Taught

• ME 555: Advanced Topics in Mechanical Engineering
• ME 321L: Mechanical Engineering Analysis for Design

Publications

• Creighton S. Exceeding the Sum of its Parts: Closer Collaboration between FA52s and the Army Research Laboratory. Exceeding the Sum of its Parts: Closer Collaboration between FA52s and the Army Research Laboratory. Fort Belvoir, VA: U.S. Army Nuclear and Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Agency; 2005.
• Creighton S, Chung P, Clayton JD. Multiscale Modeling of Piezoelectric Materials. In: Proceedings of the Thirteenth Annual US Army Research Laboratory / United States Military Academy Technical Symposium. West Point, NY: Mathematical Sciences Center of Excellence; 2005. p. 43u201358.
• Creighton SL, Regueiro RA, Garikipati K, Klein PA, Marin EB, Bammann DJ. A variational multiscale method to incorporate strain gradients in a phenomenological plasticity model. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering. 2004 Dec;193(48u201351):5453u201375.
• Austin MA, Creighton S, Albrecht P. XBUILD: Preprocessor for Finite Element Analysis of Steel Bridge Structures. Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering. 1993 Jan;7(1):54u201370.