Andrew P Conkey Author

Dr. Dara Childs is professor of mechanical engineering at Texas A&M University (TAMU) in College Station, Texas. He has been director of the TAMU Turbomachinery Laboratory since 1984. He has received several best-paper awards, is an American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) life fellow, and received the ASME Henry R. Worthington medal for outstanding contributions in pumping machinery. He is the author of many conference and journal papers plus two prior books. Dr. Childs has taught graduate and undergraduate courses in dynamics and vibrations since 1968: Colorado State University (1968–1971), University of Louisville (1971–1980), TAMU (1980–present).


Andrew P. Conkey

received his PhD from Texas A&M University (TAMU) in 2007, where his research was in the application of the fiber Fabry–Perot interferometer to machinery/vibration measurements. He received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from TAMU–Kingsville. He has over 16 years of teaching experience, having taught at TAMU–Kingsville, TAMU–College Station, TAMU–Qatar, and TAMU–Corpus Christi. In addition to teaching, he has worked for a refinery, a fiber-optic sensor company, and an engineering consulting firm.