Mary Kasarda
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Mary E. F. Kasarda is a retired American mechanical engineer whose research focused on the vibration, wear, and diagnostics of rotating machinery. She is an associate professor emeritus of mechanical engineering at Virginia Tech,[1] and president of ABET Bridge, a nonprofit organization that supports ABET in its mission of engineering accreditation.[2]
Kasarda writes that she grew up in love with cars, with her earliest memory being the sight of a Ford Mustang at the 1964 New York World's Fair.[3] She became a student at the University of Virginia, where she received her bachelor's degree and master's degree,[1] and then worked in industry for five years before returning to the university for a Ph.D.[3] Her 1997 doctoral dissertation, Measurement and Characterization of Power Losses in High Speed Magnetic Bearings, was supervised by Paul E. Allaire.[4]
She joined the Virginia Tech faculty in 1997, and retired in 2024.[3]