Email: ejayson@talkelab.ucsd.edu Phone: 858-534-2882 Fax: 858-534-2720 Address: University of California, San Diego Mail Code #0401 9500 Gilman Dr. La Jolla, CA, 92093-0401

Biography of Eric Jayson

Eric was born in Detroit, MI on September 30th, 1972. He completed his B.S. in Ocean/Mechanical engineering at Florida Atlantic University in May of 1999. During the summer of 1999 he worked as intern at Quantum Corporation in Shrewsbury, MA performing research on tension effects in tape drives. Eric enrolled as a graduate student in the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering department in September of 1999 in pursuit of a Ph. D. in Mechanical Engineering.

Currently his research is a finite element model of a hard disk drive subject to a shock impulse (such as being dropped). The project is sponsored by Seagate. It utilizes Hypermesh as a pre- and post-processor and uses LS-Dyna3D as the finite element solver.

• Research: Shock Test Modelling of a Hard/Disk Drive Using Hypermesh and LS-DYNA