Andrew Gouldstone

About

I was born in Smithtown, NY in June 1975, the first of my entire English family tree to be born in the USA. I am the 2nd oldest of four brothers. The other three are all way smarter than I am. In 1992 I left NY, as did the rest of my family – and I began my education in earnest.

I received both my B.S. and Ph.D. from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering (DMSE) at MIT, in 1996 and 2001, respectively. My Ph.D. advisor was Professor Subra Suresh, now the Dean of Engineering at MIT. The topic of my dissertation was the mechanical behavior of small volume structures, for thin film and patterned line applications. I also worked in nanoindentation experiments, and experimental atomic simulations using bubble rafts.

In Feb 2001, I looked for something new to research and found it in the Physiology Program at the Harvard School of Public Health. There, I worked as an NIH Postdoctoral Fellow on lubrication between the lung and chest wall during breathing. It was during this time that my interest in macroscopic, physiologically relevant mechanics began to develop.

In June 2003 I joined the faculty of The State University of New York at Stony Brook, in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. I had a joint appointment with the Center for Thermal Spray Research. I made the simple decision to join the faculty there while on a research trip to GE in Schenectady, NY. There, I worked on mechanics of heterogeneous, multilayered systems, with a special focus on Thermal Spray Coatings, and developed my current program in Lung Mechanics. Homesick for Boston and seeking new opportunities, I left Stony Brook in December 2007.

Currently, I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at Northeastern University. My current interests include Mechanics of Heterogeneous Systems, Industrially Relevant Fundamental Mechanics of Thermal Sprayed Coatings, Respiratory (Lung) Mechanics and of course, Indentation Across Size Scales and Disciplines, the topic of my 2005 NSF CAREER Award. I am also developing programs in mechanics and detection of child abuse, and educational outreach such as Bringing Education and Lifelong Learning to Adults (BELLA).

Selected Publications

• Smallwood, Craig D, Walsh, Brian K, Arnold, John H, Gouldstone, Andrew (2019). Empirical Probability of Positive Response to PEEP Changes and Mechanical Ventilation Factors Associated With Improved Oxygenation During Pediatric Ventilation. Respiratory Care, 64(10),1193-1198. 10.4187/RESPCARE.06707
• A. Gouldstone, B.M. Smyser, Comparing Patterns of Quantitative Literacy in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Capstone Teams, The International Journal of Engineering Education, 35(6), 2019, 1918-1925
• C.D. Smallwood, P. Boloori-Zadeh, M.R. Silva, A. Gouldstone, High Oxygen Concentrations Adversely Affect the Performance of Pulmonary Surfactant, Respiratory Care, 62(8), 2017, 1085-1090
• N. Zhi, B.K. Jaeger, A. Gouldstone, R. Sipahi, S. Frank Toward Monitoring Parkinson’s Through Analysis of Static Handwriting Samples: A Quantitative Analytical Framework, IEEE Journal Of Biomedical and Health Informatics, 21(2), 2016, 488-495
• G. Dwivedi, K. Flynn, M. Resnick, S. Sampath, A. Gouldstone, Bioinspired Hybrid Materials from Spray‐Formed Ceramic Templates, Advanced Materials, 27(19), 2015, 3073-3078
• M. Qu, A. Gouldstone, On The Role of Bubbles In Metallic Splat Nanopores and Adhesion, Journal of Thermal Spray Technology, 17(4), 2008, 486-494

Faculty

Jul 08, 2024

Developing the World’s First Sub-THz Satellite Network Platform

ECE Professor and Interim Chair Josep Jornet, MIE Professor Andrew Gouldstone, ECE Professor Kaushik Chowdhury, ECE William Lincoln Smith Professor Tommaso Melodia, and ECE/COS Professor Ken Duffy, in collaboration with the Morehead State University Space Science Center, were awarded a $750,000 NSF grant for the “Development Towards a Community Research Platform for Sub-THz Satellite Communication Networks.”

Student Groups

Jun 23, 2021

Northeastern Electric Racing (NER) Wins First Place in the Formula Hybrid+Electric Competition

Northeastern Electric Racing (NER) student organization won first place in the Formula Hybrid+Electric competition all-electric vehicle class.

Faculty

May 20, 2021

Helping to Make Student Dreams a Reality

In addition to helping students in the mechanical and industrial engineering capstone lab, Professor Andrew Gouldstone advises five engineering student groups to help bring their technical visions to reality.

Student Groups

Apr 20, 2021

Building a Fleet of Drones

As part of the Aerospace NU student club, mechanical engineering student Noah Ossanna, E’22, and electrical engineering student John Buczek, E’22, are working on building a fleet of autonomous drones that could be used in search-and-rescue missions.

Faculty

Jan 07, 2021

NIST Award to Support Metal-Based Additive Manufacturing

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded $999,464 to the Cold Spray Research Group in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering to improve sensing approaches and create a suite of sensor technologies that will help optimize cold spray additive manufacturing. The research team includes Sinan Muftu, professor and associate dean for faculty affairs, […]

Spotlight Story

Nov 06, 2020

Making the Shoe Fit

In many ways, mechanical engineers are like superheroes. They look like you or me out on the street, but when they get to work they can solve almost any problem, big or small. Gabrielle Whittle, E’21, a senior majoring in mechanical engineering at Northeastern, comes by her interest in mechanical engineering naturally. Her father is […]

Spotlight Story

Oct 22, 2020

From Drone Racing to Autonomous Swarms: How Northeastern’s Aerospace Club is Developing Aerial Robotics

In Fall 2017, then-freshman engineering students John Buczek, Noah Ossanna, Blake McHale, Joshua Field, Michael Tang and Ryan Lung were eager to take the combination of their personal interests and studies further in their roles as members of Northeastern’s Aerospace club: Aerospace NU. They turned to Aerospace NU to propose a new subset of projects, […]

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