Jump to: Contact | Degrees | Biography | Publications | Class Materials

Contact Information

• Email: danko@unr.edu
• Phone: (775) 784-4284
• Mail Stop: 173
• Curriculum Vitae

Degrees

• Ph.D. Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Thesis: Measurement and Model-building for the Convective Heat Transfer Examinations. 1985
• M.S. Applied Mathematics, Eotvos University of Sciences, Budapest 1975
• M.S. Mechanical Engineering, University of Technology, Budapest 1968

Positions held

• 7/95-present Professor, Mining Engineering Department, Mackay School of Mines, University of Nevada, Reno.
• 8/90-6/95 Associate Professor, Mining Engineering Department, Mackay School of Mines, University of Nevada, Reno.
• 09/87-8/90 Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Nevada, Reno.
• 11/86-8/90 Research Associate, Mining Engineering Department, Mackay School of Mines, University of Nevada, Reno.
• 1/79-11/86 Associate Professor, Institute of Thermal Energy and Systems Engineering, University of Technolo­gy, Budapest.
• 8/78-1/79 Visiting Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota.
• 9/75-8/78 Fellow of Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
• 8/68-9/75 Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Technology, Budapest.

Patents

Ten patents have been granted, including the following five US pat­ents:

•  "Coordinated joint motion control system", 2008 , US patent: 7457698
• "Method and Apparatus for Underground Nuclear Waste Repository," 1994. (With Mousset-Jones, P., and Wirtz, R.A.)
• "Underground Cooling Enhancement for Nuclear Waste Repository," 1992. (With Mousset-Jones, P., and Wirtz, R.A.)
• "Process and Apparatus for the Determination of Thermophysical Properties," 1990. (with Cifka, I.)
• "Method and Apparatus for the Determination of the Heat Trans­fer Coefficient," 1986. (With Szabo, I. and Illyefalvi, V.Zs. and Kulin, Gy.), US patent: 4568198

Grants and Awards

Several educational awards during university education.

• Research grants (34 grants and awards, total $3,937,662 since 1990, Link: See detailed list)
• Candidacy Fellowship Award, 1975-1978, Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
• Sabbatical Development Awards, 2001 and 2008,University of Nevada, Reno,.
• Fulbright Visiting Professor to Hungary, 2008, Fulbright Commission, USA and Hungary

Publications

Total of 22 peer-reviewed journal papers and 83 reviewed conference papers (See detailed list)

Courses Taught

• MINE 305 - Differential Models
• MINE 310 - Materials Handling
• MINE 350 - Fluids, Pumping & Drainage
• MECH 422/622 - Introduction to Robotics together with MINE 435/635
• MINE 425/625 - Engineering Power
• MINE 435/635 - Introduction to Robotics
• MINE 495 - Special Problems
• MINE 701 - Advanced Mining Equipment
• MINE 702 - Adv. Mining Equipment
• MINE 702F - Adv. Mining Transportation
• MINE 725 - Subsurface Heat Mass Transport
• MINE 799 - Graduate Thesis/Dissertation advising