Dr L.D. Timmie Topoleski
Professor - Mechanical Engineering
University of Maryland Baltimore County
1000 Hilltop Circle Baltimore, MD 21250
Office: Engineering 225 C
Phone: (410) 455-3302
Fax: (410) 455-1052
Email: topoleski@umbc.edu
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Academic Preparation
B.S., Mechanical Engineering/Biology, Cornell University, 1981
M.Eng., Mechanical Engineering, Cornell University, 1984
M.S., Mechanical Engineering, Cornell University, 1986
Ph.D.,Bioengineering, U. Pennsylvania, 1990 |
Employment History
Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland Baltimore County, July 1996 - present
Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland Baltimore County, August 1990 - June 1996
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Division of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Maryland Baltimore County, July 1992 - present
Systems Reliability Engineer, RCA Missile and Surface Radar, Moorestown, NJ, 1981-1984
Research Associate, Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Cornell University, 1986
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Cornell University, 1986
Graduate Research Assistant, Cornell University/Hospital for Special Surgery, 1983-1985
Research Assistant, Bioengineering (Biomaterials), University of Pennsylvania, 1986-1990 |
Research Areas
Research in the UMBC Laboratory for Implantable Materials focuses on using mechanical engineering and material science methods to improve medical materials and procedures. One of the main research projects in the Lab is improving the wear fracture resistance of artificial joints e.g. hips and knees). We hope to create better artificial joints by improving the materials and the surgical methods. Another main project is investigating the properties of the plaques that build up in arteries (which cause heart attacks). This work will lead to better balloon angioplasty techniques, for example.
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Courses Taught at UMBC ME
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Selected Publications
Parks, NL, Engh, GA, Topoleski, LDT, Emperado, J, "Modular Tibial Insert Micromotion: A Concern with Contemporary Knee Implants," Coventry Award for Basic Science Paper, Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research, No 356: 10-15 (1998).
Que, L, Topoleski, LDT, Parks, N, "Surface roughness of retrieved CoCrMo alloy femoral components from PCA artificial knee joints," Applied Biomaterials, vol. 48, pp. 705-711, 1999.
VanDarnme, NS, Que, L, Topoleski, LDT, "Carbide surface coating of Co-Cr-Mo implant alloys by a microwave plasma-assisted reaction," Journal of Materials Science, vol. 34 pp. 3525-3531, 1999
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