Bio

Dr. Peters’ long-term goal is to contribute to the advancement of nondestructive evaluation and structural health monitoring techniques for composite aerospace structures. The advancements tend to increase safety and improve performance of structural systems. She served as the program director for the Mechanics of Materials and Structures program at the National Science Foundation from 2015-2018. She is an Associate Editor of the journal Smart Materials and Structures and the ASME Journal of Nondestructive Evaluation, Diagnostics and Prognostics of Engineering Systems. She is also on the editorial board of the journal Measurement Science and Technology.

Dr. Peters teaches Mechanics of Composite Structures (MAE 537). Her presentation in this course has a fundamental flavor. In this course, Dr. Peters surveys composite structures in the aerospace industry, and gives students an understanding of the current state-of-the-art. Dr. Peters teaches Aerospace Structures I and II (MAE 371 and MAE 472). In these courses, she outlines the current state-of-the-art of aircraft structures and describes some of the advancements being anticipated in the near future.

Dr. Peters works closely with her students to help them develop strong experimental problem-solving skills. Her students bridge the gap between optics and mechanics and work in a hands-on, experimental environment. They fabricate the composite structures themselves, from learning how to embed sensors into composite materials to learning how to make different kinds of optical interfaces.

Publications

• Experimental investigation of coupling of shear-horizontal waves to metamaterial flexural resonances , (2026)
• Investigating the coupling efficiency and attenuation of guided waves in D-shaped optical fibers , Measurement (2026)
• Optical sensing of deployment dynamics in composite shell structures with fiber Bragg gratings , Smart Materials and Structures (2026)
• Separation of Lamb Wave Modes Using Remotely Bonded Seven-Core Fiber Bragg Grating Fabry-Pérot Interferometer , Journal of Lightwave Technology (2026)
• Shear-Horizontal Wave Manipulation using Flexural Resonance-based Elastic Metamaterial , Journal of Nondestructive Evaluation Diagnostics and Prognostics of Engineering Systems (2026)
• High-sensitivity measurement of ultrasonic waves with FBG sensors , OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE AND LASER SENSORS IV (2025)
• High-speed polarization imaging for in situ quality assessment in the fiber spinning process , Applied Optics (2025)
• Lamb wave amplification using flexurally resonant metamaterial , Smart Materials and Structures (2025)
• Remote bonding of fiber Bragg grating sensors for Lamb wave measurements: a review , Measurement Science and Technology (2025)
• Separation of Lamb waves modes using remotely bonded seven-core fiber Bragg grating Fabry-Pérot interferometer , 29TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON OPTICAL FIBER SENSORS (2025)