Department Chairs
Interim Chair, Electrical and Computer Engineering Principal Lecturer, Electrical
and Computer Engineering
Areas of Interest
Image processing
Undergraduate EE labs
Counter-terrorism
Electronic warfare
Information operations
Department Chair, Chemical Engineering Professor, Chemical Engineering
Research Interests
Heterogeneous catalysis
Kinetics and reaction engineering
Pyrolysis and gasification of biomass, MSW, coal and blends
Interim Chair, Engineering Fundamentals Senior Lecturer, Engineering Fundamentals Instructor,
Kinesiology and Integrative Physiology
Research Interests
Educational methods
Spatial visualization
Heat transfer
Biomechanics
Professor and Chair, Manufacturing and Mechanical Engineering Technology Affiliated
Professor, Cognitive and Learning Sciences Director, Research and Innovation in STEM
Education Institute (RISE)
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
Chair, Materials Science and Engineering Professor, Materials Science and Engineering Franklin
St. John Chair
Research Interests
Microstructural mapping in laser additive manufactured titanium
Modeling and characterization of Nextel® reinforced aluminum metal matrix composites
Reactive synthesis processes
Thermomechanical processing
Co-deformation of multiphase alloys
Mechanisms of strengthening
Department Chair, Biomedical Engineering Professor, Biomedical Engineering Affiliated
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests
Biomedical optics
Lasers and other light sources for biology and medicine
Non-contact measurement of tissue mechanics and fluid flows
Coherent imaging
Department, Chair, Civil and Environmental Engineering Professor, Civil and Environmental
Engineering Faculty Advisor, Built World Enterprise
Research Interests
Water and Wastewater Treatment
Water reclamation systems and Fate of personal products in treatment systems
JS Endowed Department Chair, Mechanical Engineering—Engineering Mechanics Professor,
Mechanical Engineering—Engineering Mechanics
Areas of Expertise
Ceramics
Impact Phenomena
Wave Propagation
Computer Simulation of Explosive - Metal Systems
Research Interests
Mechanical behavior
Characterization and processing of ceramics
Shock deformation including microstructural effects and dynamic fracture of metals
and ceramics
Impact phenomena
Computer simulation of wave phenomena
Explosive-metal interaction and fragmentation
Chair, Geological and Mining Engineering and Sciences Professor, Geological and Mining
Engineering and Sciences Affiliated Professor, Department of Physics
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
