| Professional Experience： |
| Professor of Mechanical and Ocean Engineering, MIT,USA 1985-present |
| Associate Professor, MIT,USA 1979-1985 |
| Doherty Assistant Professor, MIT,USA 1976-1978 |
| Assistant Professor, MIT,USA 1975-1979 |
| Research Associate, MIT,USA 1975 |
| Education： |
| Ph.D Oceanographic Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology/WHOI,USA 1975 |
| M.Sc. Ocean Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology/WHOI,USA 1969 |
| B.Sc. Engineering Harvey Mudd College of Science and Engineering,USA 1968 |
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| Some Principal Publications ： |
| 1.Vandiver, J. K., A Universal Reduced Damping Parameter for Prediction of Vortex-Induced Vibration, 21st International Conference on OMAE, Paper 28292, June 23-28, 2002, Oslo. |
| 2.Vandiver, J. K. and Donnelly, J., The Use of Scatter Diagrams for the Selection of Current Profiles for the Design of a Riser Experiencing Vortex-Induced Vibration, Paper No. 15395, Proceedings of 2003 Offshore Technology Conference, Houston, May 2003 |
| 3.Vandiver, J. K. and Peoples, W., The Effect of Staggered Buoyancy Modules on Flow-Induced Vibration of Marine Risers", Paper No. OTC 15284, Proceedings of 2003 Offshore Technology Conference, Houston, May 2003. |
| 4.Vandiver, J. K. and Marcollo, H., High Mode Number VIV Experiments, IUTAM Symposium on Integrated Modeling of Fully Coupled Fluid-Structure Interactions Using Analysis, Computations, and Experiments, June 1-6, 2003, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht. |
| 5.Vandiver, J. K., Marcollo, H., Swithenbank, S., and Jhingran, V., High Mode Number Vortex-Induced Vibration Field Experiments, Offshore Technology Conference, Paper Number 17383, Houston, Texas, May 2-5, 2005. |
| 6.Vandiver, J. K., Swithenbank, S., Jaiswal, V., and Marcollo, H., The Effectiveness of Helical Strakes in the Suppression of High-Mode-Number VIV, Offshore Technology Conference, Paper Number 18276-PP, May 1-4, 2006, Houston, Texas. Received the Arthur Lubinski, ASME OTC 2006, Best Paper Award. |
| 7.Vandiver, J. K., Swithenbank, S., Jaiswal, V., and Jhingran, V., Fatigue Damage from High Mode Number Vortex-Induced Vibration, Proceedings of OMAE 2006: 25th International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering, Paper No. OMAE2006-9240, June 4-9, 2006, Hamburg, Germany, |