Bruce Minaker
Assoc Prof & Head, Mech, Auto, & Mat'ls Eng
Windsor, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolBruce Minaker is an associate professor and department head in Mechanical, Automotive, and Materials Engineering at the University of Windsor with nearly three decades of experience in vehicle dynamics, multibody modeling, and control. He designs and openly publishes software that automatically generates equations of motion for complex mechanical systems, blending rigorous research with practical tools used in teaching and industry projects. An experienced instructor, he leads the senior Vehicle Dynamics course, advises SAE Baja and AeroDesign teams, and integrates hands-on challenges like the Trebuchet Challenge into the curriculum. His academic path (BASc Waterloo; MSc & PhD Queen’s) and early industry work in product development give him a pragmatic perspective on translating theory into engineered systems. A long-time open source advocate, he promotes Fedora/Arch Linux, Octave, and LaTeX, and makes his research code freely available to accelerate reproducible engineering.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Mechanical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Mechanical Engineering at Queen's UniversityBachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Mechanical Engineering at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (29)
blas7
lapack7
vscode7
julia6
pweave6
factorization6
openblas6
google-fonts5
fonttools5
ide5
differential-equations4
linear-algebra4
bsd4
gpu3
font-family3
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
BPMinaker/EoM.jl
Mar 2017 - Nov 2022
Contributions:334 commits, 299 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years 9 months
BPMinaker/EoM_samples
Dec 2020 - Jun 2026
Contributions:153 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 7 months
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