Aleksander (Alex) Czekanski, PhD, MBA, PEng
Professor
President, CSME
Past President, CEEA-ACEG
NSERC/Quanser Chair in Design Engineering for Innovation
Director of Manufacturing Technology Enterpreneurship Centre (MTEC)
Office:
Bergeron Centre for Engineering Excellence Building
11 Arboretum Ln, Room 435D
Toronto, ON, M3J 2S5, Canada
T: 416.736.2100 x 77077
Integrated Design and Engineering Analysis Laboratory (IDEA-LAB) |
http://www.idea-lab.ca
Design Engineering for Innovation | http://design.lassonde.yorku.ca
Manufacturing Technology Enterpreneurship Centre (MTEC) | http://lassonde.yorku.ca/mtec
Teaching Areas:
Academic Degrees
PhD, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto
MBA, Schulich School of Business, York University
Research Areas
Additive Manufacturing Bioprinting Computational Solid Mechanics Contact Mechanics Elastomers Engineering Education Experimental Solid Mechanics Multi-scale Modeling Topology Optimization
Technical Expertise
Finite Element Analysis Experimental Mechanics
Research Projects
Biography
Dr. A. Czekanski is Professor within the Department of Mechanical Engineering and serves as the co-Director of the Manufacturing Technology and Entrepreneurship Centre at York University. He has previously held the distinguished role of NSERC Chair in Design Engineering. Dr. Czekanski earned his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Toronto in the year 2000 and subsequently obtained an MBA degree from the Schulich School of Business at York University in 2004. His specialization lies in the domains of Computational and Experimental Solid Mechanics, Additive Manufacturing, Bioprinting, Artificial Intelligence and Engineering Education, reflecting his profound knowledge in cutting-edge engineering principles.
Before transitioning into academia, Dr. Czekanski made significant contributions to the automotive industry. In 2014, he assumed a professorship at York University and rapidly ascended to the rank of full professor by 2020. Over the past decade, he has received a number of awards, recognizing his excellence in teaching and research. Noteworthy among these honors are the President's University-Wide Teaching Award, the highest award for excellence in university teaching, and the Lassonde Innovation Award - Established Researcher, the highest recognition for research excellence within the Engineering Faculty. His students received several prestigious awards including the Student’s Governor General’s Gold Medal, the Student’s University-Wide Best Thesis Award, four President's University Wide Teaching Assistant Awards.
Dr. Czekanski has exhibited remarkable leadership in the field of engineering. He dedicated ten years to serving on the board of directors of the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering (CSME) and currently holds the esteemed position of President from 2022 to 2024. He also served as President of the Canadian Engineering Education Association (CEEA) from 2020 to 2021. His illustrious career has earned him fellowships in the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering (CSME), the Canadian Engineering Education Association (CEEA), and the Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC).
- AlAttar A*, Gkouti E* and Czekanski A. Multistep deformation of helical fiber electrospun scaffold toward cardiac patches development, Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials, Accepted 2023.
- Abdelhamid M* and Czekanski A. Topology Optimization of Fluid-Structure Interaction Problems with Total Stress Equilibrium, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, Accepted 2023.
- Gkouti E*, Chaudhry MS* and Czekanski A. Evaluating the Effect of Environmental Conditions on High Compressive Strain Rates in Unfilled and Filled Neoprene Rubbers, Journal of Elastomers and Plastics, Accepted 2023.
- Yenigun B*, Chaudhry MS*, Gkouti E* and Czekanski A. Characterization of Mode I and Mode II Interlaminar Fracture Toughness in CNT-Enhanced CFRP Under Various Temperature and Loading Rates, Nanomaterials, Accepted 2023.
- Chaudhry MS* and Czekanski A. Skin In-situ Bioprinting - A Review, Bioprinting, Accepted 2023.
- Agyapong J*, Czekanski A and Boakye-Yiadom S. Effect of Process Parameters on Part Quality, Microstructure, and Mechanical Properties of a WC-Co-hBN alloy prepared by Laser Power Bed Fusion Process, Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance, Published on-line, 2023.
- Yenigun B*, Gkouti E*, Barbaraci G* and Czekanski A. Identification of Hyperelastic Material Parameters of Elastomers by Reverse Engineering Approach, Materials, 2022.
- Gkouti E*, Chaudhry MS*, Yenigun B* and Czekanski A. High Strain Rate Compression of Rubbers Subjected to Temperature and Humidity Conditions, Materials, 2022.
- Somireddy M*, Czekanski A and Sundar VA. Modelling of Failure Behaviour of 3D Printed Composite Parts, Journal of Applied Science, Vol. 12(21), pp.10724.1-12, 2022.
- Moraes D*, Abdelhamid M* and Czekanski A. Powder Thermal Conductivity Analysis in Selective Laser Melting, Materials, Vol. 12, pp. 1707.1-21, 2022.
- Hukpati K*, Eliasu A*, Tetteh F, Czekanski A and Boakye-Yiadom S. Effect of Printing Parameters on The Structure and High Strain Rate Deformation Behavior of Additively Manufactured 316L Stainless Steel, Materials Science & Engineering A, Vol. 853, pp. 143710.1-15, 2022.
- Moter AE*, Abdelhamid M* and Czekanski A. Direction-Oriented Stress-Constrained Topology Optimization of 3D Printed Polymers, Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization, Vol. 65(6), pp. 1-17, 2022.
- Solis D* and Czekanski A. The Effect of the Printing Temperature on NIPAM Based Hydrogels Manufactured by DLP, Soft Matter, Vol. 18, pp. 3422-3429, 2022.
- Eliasu A*, Duntu SH, Hukpati K*, Amegadzie MY, Agyapong J*, Tetteh F, Czekanski A and Boakye-Yiadom S. Effect of Individual Printing Parameters on Residual Stress, Tribological and Dynamic Loading Behaviour of 316L Stainless Steel Fabricated with Laser Powder Bed Fusion (L-PBF), The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, Vol. 119, pp. 7041-7061, 2022.
- Solis D* and Czekanski A. Manufacturing of 3D and 4D Printed Vascular-like Structures - A Review, Bioprinting, Vol. 25, pp. e00182, 2022.
- Abdelhamid M* and Czekanski A. Revisiting Non-convexity in Topology Optimization of Compliance Minimization Problems, Engineering Computations, Vol. 39(3), pp. 893-915, 2022.
- Abdelhamid M* and Czekanski A. Lattice Structural Optimization: Experimental Investigation of Analytical vs. Numerical Tools, Mechanics of Advanced Materials and Structures¸ Vol. 29(25), pp. 3614-3622, 2022.
- Agyapong J*, Czekanski A and Boakye-Yiadom S. Effect of Heat Treatment on Microstructural Evolution and Properties of Cemented Carbides (WC-17Co) Reinforced with 3% Volume Hexagonal-Boron Nitride (h-BN) and Processed by Selective Laser Sintering (SLS), Materials Characterization, Vol. 174, pp. 110968.1-16, 2021.
- Eliasu A*, Czekanski A and Boakye-Yiadom S. Effect of Laser Powder Bed Fusion Parameters on the Microstructural Evolution and Hardness Of 316l Stainless Steel, International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, Vol. 113(9), pp. 2651-2669, 2021.
- Somireddy M* and Czekanski A. Computational Modeling of Constitutive Behaviour of 3D Printed Composite Structures, Journal of Materials Research and Technology, Vol. 11, pp. 1710-1718, 2021.
- Czekanski A and Zozulya V*. Vibration Analysis of Nonlocal Beams Using Higher Order Theory and Comparison with Classical Models, Mechanics of Advanced Materials and Structures, Vol. 28(12), pp. 1293-1309, 2021.
- Gkouti E*, Yenigun B* and Czekanski A. Transient Effects of Applying and Removing Strain in Viscoelastic Materials, Materials, Vol. 13(19), pp. 4333.1-14, 2020.
- Chaudhry MS* and Czekanski A. Effect of FDM Process Parameter on the Mechanical Performance of Thermoplastic Polyurethane under Quasi-Static and High Strain Rate of Loading, Materials, Vol. 13(14), pp. 3202.1-10, 2020.
- Somireddy M*, Singh CV and Czekanski A. Mechanical Behaviour of 3D Printed Composite Parts with Short Carbon Fiber Reinforcements, Engineering Failure Analysis, Vol. 107, pp. 1-13 ,2020.
- Gkouti E*, Yenigun B* and Jankowski K and Czekanski A. Transient Effects of Applying and Removing Strain in Viscoelastic Materials, Materials, Accepted, 2020.
- Chaudhry MS* and Czekanski A. Effect of FDM Process Parameter on the Mechanical Performance of Thermoplastic Polyurethane under Quasi-Static and High Strain Rate of Loading, Materials, Published On-line, 2020.
- Somireddy M* and Czekanski A. Influence of 3D Printing Strategy on Mechanical Performance of Parts — Material Extrusion Additive Manufacturing, Materials and Design, Accepted, 2020.
- Czekanski A and Zozulya V*. Vibration Analysis of Nonlocal Beams Using Higher Order Theory and Comparison with Classical Models, Mechanics of Advanced Materials and Structures, Vol. 27(11), pp. 876-893, 2020.
- Chaudhry MS* and Czekanski A. FE Analysis of Critical Testing Parameters in Kolsky Bar Experiments for Elastomers at High Strain Rate, Materials, Vol 12(23), pp. 1-16, 2019.
- Czekanski A and Zozulya V*. Vibration Analysis of Nonlocal Beams Using Higher Order Theory and Comparison with Classical Models, Mechanics of Advanced Materials and Structures, Published on-line 2019.
- Agyapong J*, Czekanski A and Boakye-Yiadom S. Effect of Heat Treatment on Microstructural Evolution and Properties of WC-17 Co Alloy Processed by Selective Laser Sintering, Materials Science & Engineering A, Accepted, 2019.
- Czekanski A and Zozulya V*. Dynamics of Vibrating Beams Using First Order Theory Based On Legendre Polynomial Expansion, Archive of Applied Mechanics, 90(4), pp. 789-814, 2019.
- Czekanski A and Zozulya V*. Solution of the 3-D Elastodynamic Contact Problem for a Cracked Body Using the Boundary Integral Equation Method and Constrained Optimization Algorithm, Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements, Vol 106 pp. 599 -608, 2019.
- Somireddy M*, Czekanski A and Singh CV. Experimental Analysis of the Material Behavior of 3D Printed Laminates, Experimental Mechanics, Vol 59(6), pp 871-81, 2019.
- Bonifaz E*, Conde JM and Czekanski A. Determination of Secondary Dendrite Arm Spacing for In738lc Gas-Tungsten-Arc-Welds, Journal of Multiscale Modelling, Vol. 10, pp. 1-11, 2019.
- Czekanski A and Zozulya V*. A High Order Theory for Functionally Graded Shells, Mechanics of Advanced Materials and Structures, Published on-line, 2018.
- Moraes D* and Czekanski A. Numerical Thermal Analysis on the Powder Effective Thermal Conductivity During Selective Laser Melting, Journal of Manufacturing and Materials Processing, Vol 2, pp 1-17, 2018.
- Czekanski A and Zozulya V*. Comparative Study of Time and Frequency Domain Approaches in Frictional Contact Problem for the I-mode Crack under Harmonic Loading, Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements, Vol 95, pp. 200-214, 2018
- Abdelhamid M* and Czekanski A. Impact of the Lattice Angle on the Effective Properties of the Octet-truss Lattice Structure, Journal of Engineering Materials and Technology, Vol 140, 2018.
- Kumar S* and Czekanski A. Roadmap to Sustainable Plastic Additive Manufacturing, Materials Today Communications, Vol 15, pp. 109-113, 2018.
- Somireddy M*, Czekanski A and Singh CV. Development of Constitutive Material Model of 3D Printed Structure via FDM, Materials Today Communications, Vol 15, pp 143-152, 2018.
- Lambe A* and Czekanski A. A Density Field Parametrization for Topology Optimization using Bernstein Elements, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, Vol. 115, pp. 1266-1286, 2018.
- Sigaeva T* and Czekanski A. Finite Bending of a Multilayered Cylindrical Nanosector with Residual Deformations, Mathematics and Mechanics of Solids, Vol. 23(5), pp. 715-726, 2018.
- Bonifaz E*, Alban A. and Czekanski A. Finite Element Analysis of Cylindrical Inclusions in Polycrystalline Nickel Alloys, Journal of Multiscale Modelling, Vol. 9, pp. 1-16, 2018.
- Carrick R* and Czekanski A. A Review of Outcome-Based Education and the Use of Engineering Design Competitions to Improve Underrepresented Attributes, International Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 33-34, pp. 1180-1188, 2017.
- Kumar S* and Czekanski A. Optimisation of Parameters for SLS of WC-Co, Rapid Prototyping Journal, Vol. 23, pp. 1202-1211, 2017.
- Chaudhry MS*, Czekanski A and Zhu Z. Characterization of Carbon Nanotube Enhanced Interlaminar Fracture Toughness of Woven Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymer Composite, International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, Vol. 131-132, pp. 480-489, 2017.
- Kumar S* and Czekanski A. Development of Filament using SLS Waste Powder, Journal of Cleaner Production, Vol. 165, pp. 1188-1196, 2017.
- Somireddy M* and Czekanski A. Mechanical Characterization of Additively Manufactured Parts by FE Modeling of Mesostructure, Journal of Manufacturing and Materials Processing, Vol. 1, pp. 1-21, 2017.
- Lambe A* and Czekanski A. Topology Optimization using a Continuous Density Field and Adaptive Mesh Refinement, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, Vol 113, pp. 357-373, 2017.
- Al-Dojayli M and Czekanski A. Integrated Engineering Design Education: Lateral and Vertical Learning, Journal of Integrated Design and Process Science, Vol. 21, pp. 45-59, 2017.
- Sigaeva T* and Czekanski A. Coupling of Surface Effect and Hyperelasticity in a Combined Tension and Torsion of a Circular Cylinder, International Journal of Solids and Structures, Vol. 85-86, pp. 172-179, 2016.
- Li G*, Zhu ZH, Cain J, Newland F and Czekanski A. Libration Control of Bare Electrodynamic Tethers Considering Elastic-Thermal-Electrical Coupling, Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, Vol. 39, pp. 642-654, 2016.
- Sigaeva T* and Czekanski A. Implementation of Surface Effect in Three Kinds of Pure Bending, International Journal of Nonlinear Mechanics, Vol. 86, pp 112-121, 2016.
- Bonifaz E*, Baus J and Czekanski A. Finite Element Modelling of Dual-Phase Polycrystalline Nickel-Based Alloys, Mechanics of Materials, Vol. 98, pp. 134-141, 2016.
Computational Mechanics
Multiscale Modeling
Topology optimization
Finite Element Method
Solid Mechanics
Contact Mechanics
Material characterization
Experimental Mechanics
Soft and supersoft materials
Additive manufacturing
3D and 4D Bioprinting
Design engineering education
Artificial intelligence
In-situ printing