Bharat Bhushan (academic)


Bharat Bhushan is an American engineer. He is an Ohio Eminent Scholar and the Howard D. Winbigler Professor at Ohio State University.

Education

Bhushan graduated with a BE in mechanical engineering from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani in 1970, an MS in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1971, and an MS in mechanics from the University of Colorado, Boulder in 1973. He received his PhD from CU in 1979. He also has an MBA in management from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
He has also received four honorary degrees: in 1990 from the University of Trondheim; in 1996 from the Warsaw University of Technology; in 2000 from the Metal-Polymer Research Institute of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus; and in 2011 from the University of Kragujevac.

Research

Bhushan's research interests include nanotribology, nanomechanics, scanning probe microscopy, biotechnology, nanotechnology, biomimetics, science and public policy. He has authored or co-authored eight books and more than 800 scientific papers.