- Chair and Distinguished Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
- Clean Snowmobile Team Faculty Advisor
- jrblough@mtu.edu
- 906-487-1020
- R. L. Smith 808
Areas of Expertise
- Vibrations
- Unique Instrumentation/Data Acquisition
- Digital Signal Processing
- Noise Control
Research Interests
- Dynamic Measurement Problems
- Developing new digital signal processing algorithms to understand NVH type problems
- Ways to improve the NVH characteristics of virtually any machine
- Professor and Chair, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Links of Interest
Courses Taught
- Electronics
- Electrical Engineering
- Microfluidic Biochip Laboratory
- Chemical and Biological Sensors
- Integrated Circuit Engineering
- Integrated Sensors and Actuators
- BioMEMS
Areas of Interest
- BioMEMS, microfluidic devices and systems, and biomedical microdevices
- Sensors and sensor systems
- Bioelectronic and healthcare sensors and devices
- Flexible and printed electronics and sensors
- Healthcare sensors and devices
- Professor and Chair, Manufacturing and Mechanical Engineering Technology
- Affiliated Professor, Psychology and Human Factors
- Director, Research and Innovation in STEAM Education Institute (RISE)
- jlirwin@mtu.edu
- 906-487-2525
- EERC 425A
Research Interests
- Problem-based learning methods applied in the areas of CAD/CAM
- Static and dynamic model simulation
- Product and manufacturing work cell verification
Teaching Interests
- Parametric Modeling
- Statics and Strength of Materials
- Product Design and Development
- CAE and FEA Methods
- Computer-aided Manufacturing
- Senior Design
- Professor and Department Chair, Biomedical Engineering
- Affiliated Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Affiliated Professor, Physics
- sjkirkpa@mtu.edu
- 906-487-2167
- H-STEM 339A
Research Interests
- Biomedical Optics and Photonics
- Coherent Imaging and Light Scattering
- Singular Optics
- Biophysical Dynamics
- Chair, Materials Science and Engineering
- Franklin M. St. John Professor in Materials Science and Engineering
- milligan@mtu.edu
- 906-487-2015
- M & M Building 601
Research and Teaching Interests
- Mechanical Behavior of Materials
- Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
- Professor, Civil, Environmental, and Geospatial Engineering
- anmorse@mtu.edu
- 906-487-3240
- Dow 871
Faculty Advisor
Research Interests
- Water and Wastewater Treatment
- Water reclamation systems and Fate of personal products in treatment systems
- Professor and Chair, Chemical Engineering
- memullin@mtu.edu
- 906-487-1445
- Chem Sci 203B
Links of Interest
Teaching Interests
- Thermodynamics
- Reactor Design
Research Interests
- Catalysis, reactor design, and thermodynamics
- Engineered nanostructures
- Chair and Professor of Practice, Engineering Fundamentals
- Director, Tech Forward 21st Century Education Initiative
- Co-director, Husky Innovate
- mraber@mtu.edu
- 906-487-3570
- Dillman 112F
Links of Interest
Areas of Expertise
- Design Thinking
- Strategic Doing
- Lean Start-up/Entrepreneurship
- Educational Innovation
Research Interests
- College to Work Transition
- Educational Innovation
- Engineering Identity Formation
- Chair, Geological and Mining Engineering and Sciences
- Professor, Geological and Mining Engineering and Sciences
- Affiliated Professor, Physics
- asmirnov@mtu.edu
- 906-487-2365
- Dow 631
Links of Interest
Research Interests
- The long-term evolution of the Earth's magnetic field (especially in relation to the geodynamo mechanisms and the early history of the field) and its geological and geodynamical implications
- Geodynamics and global plate tectonics (eg., large igneous province formation and true polar wander)
- Magnetism of rocks, minerals, and synthetic materials
- Environmental magnetism (eg., biomineralization and the relationships between physical, chemical and magnetic properties of minerals)
- Development of new techniques and instruments for paleomagnetic and rock magnetic research