Antoinette Maniatty
Antoinette M. Maniatty is an American mechanical engineer whose research involves the mechanical properties of materials and a professor and department chair in the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She has studied elasticity, fatigue, and cracking in the aluminum alloys used in aircraft.
Early life and education
Maniatty was born in 1965 in Cincinnati, and grew up in Allentown, Pennsylvania, where she went to Parkland High School. She attend Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where she majored in mechanical engineering, graduating summa cum laude in 1987.She earned a master's degree in 1988 from the University of Minnesota, under the supervision of Nicholas Zabaras, and then attended Cornell University, where she earned a second master's degree in 1990 and completed her Ph.D. in 1991. Her dissertation, Eulerian elasto-viscoplastic formulation for modeling steady-state deformations with strain-induced anisotropy, was supervised by Paul Dawson.