Faculty Directory
- Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering—Engineering Mechanics
Research Interests
- Nanomaterials
- Stem cell and tissue engineering
- Nano-biomaterials
- Mechanical characterization of advanced materials
- Sensors and actuators in medical device
- Finite element analysis (FEA)
- Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering—Engineering Mechanics
Areas of Expertise
- Space Mechanics
- Ocean Wave Energy Conversion
- Optimization
- Spacecraft Dynamics and Control
- Dynamics and Control
Research Interests
- Space Trajectory Optimization
- Ocean Wave Energy Conversion
- Spacecraft Dynamics and Control
- Global Optimization Methods
- Variable-Size Design Space Optimization
- Evolutionary Algorithms
- John & Joan Calder Professor, Mechanical Engineering—Engineering Mechanics
Areas of Expertise
- Capillary Flow
- Interfacial Transport Phenomena
- Fuel Cells
- Phase-Change Heat Transfer
- Microgravity Fluid Physics
Research Interests
- Stability of evaporating and condensing liquid films
- Capillary-Scale Gas-Liquid Flow
- Near-Field Optical Diagnostics
- Thermal and Mass Transport in Porous Media and Fuel Cells
- Low-gravity fluid dynamics
- Weak Atmospheric Shock Waves
- Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering—Engineering Mechanics
- Faculty Advisor,
SENSE Enterprise
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Areas of Expertise
- Acoustics
- Noise Control
- Vibration
- Real Time Control Systems
- LabVIEW programming and instruction
Research Interests
- Advanced Measurements and Signal Processing
- Acoustic Intensity and Vector Sensors
- Room Acoustics
- Acoustic Material Characterization
- Outdoor Sound Propagation
- Physical Acoustics
- NI LabVIEW Data Acquisition and Control
- Microphones
- Crowd Noise
- Underwater Acoustics
- Structural Acoustics
- Array Signal Processing
- Professor, Mechanical Engineering—Engineering Mechanics
Areas of Expertise
- Clean Coal Combustion
- Fuel Switching in Coal Power Plants
- Torrefaction and pyrolysis of Biomass
Research Interests
- Emissions from Coal Power Plants
- Simulation of Operation of Coal Power Plants
- Torrefied-biomass (biocoal) as a Renewable Clean Replacement of Coal
- Kinetics of Torrefaction and Pyrolysis of Biomass
- Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering—Engineering Mechanics
- Faculty Advisor,
Hybrid Electric Vehicle Enterprise
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Areas of Expertise
- Design of Mechanical Systems
- Bioengineering
- Manufacturing
Research Interests
- Manufacturing variation on the response of planar and three-dimensional mechanisms
- Influence of design parameters on the wear rates of gerotor types
- Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics
Areas of Expertise
- Heat Transfer
- Thermal Management
- Multiphase Flows
- Energy Systems
- Micro- and Nano-fabrication Techniques
Research Interests
- Microscale Heat Transfer
- Microscale Physics of Phase Change Heat Transfer
- Transport Phenomena
- Multiphase Flows
- Micro- and Nano-engineered Materials
- Energy Conversion and Storage Devices
- Professor, Mechanical Engineering—Engineering Mechanics
- Director, Design Dynamic Systems
Area
- Clean Snowmobile Team Faculty Advisor, SAE Faculty Advisor
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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
- Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics
Areas of Expertise
- Fluid dynamics
- Aerospace and space engineering
- Computational fluid dynamics
Research Interests
- Rarefied and non-equilibrium gas dynamics
- Plasma simulations
- Electric propulsion
- Computational fluid dynamics
- Dave House Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Electrical Engineering
Areas of Expertise
- Mechatronics and embedded systems
- Agent Technology
- Monitoring and control networks
- Hybrid electric vehicles
- Smart grid
Research Interests
- Modeling and control of hybrid electric vehicles
- EV-smart grid integration
- Distributed monitoring and control
- Battery control for HEV and energy storage systems
- IC engine management systems
- Sensor information fusion
- Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering—Engineering Mechanics
- Affiliated Associate
Professor, Biomedical Engineering
- Faculty Advisor, Korean Student Association
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Areas of Expertise
- Microscopic Imaging Techniques
- Micro-/nano-fabrications
- Cellular Sensing & Single Protein Tracking
Research Interests
- Opto-electric Cellular Sensing
- Microfluidics and Microscale Heat Transfer
- Droplet Impingement on Patterned Metal Surfaces
- Evaporation of Thin Films and Droplets
- Multiscale Interface Phenomena
- Neutron imaging
- Fluid Flow-induced Shear Effect on Chondrons; Regeneration of pericellular matrix
from chondrocytes using microencapsulation;
- Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering—Engineering Mechanics
- Senior Capstone
Design Program Director
- Manufacturing/Industrial (MI) Area Director
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Areas of Expertise
- Machining Dynamics
- Cutting Mechanics
- Manufacturing Processes
- Richard and Bonnie Robbins Chair, Professor, Associate Chair and Director of Graduate
Studies, Mechanical Engineering—Engineering Mechanics
- Director, Multi-Scale Technologies
Institute (MuSTI)
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Areas of Expertise
- Micromechanical Systems
- Nanotechnology
Research Interests
- Micromechanical machining processes
- Microsystem design
- Bionanotechnologies
- Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Assistant Professor, Mechanical
Engineering-Engineering Mechanics
- Richard and Elizabeth Henes Assistant Professor
of Energy Storage Systems
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Areas of Interest
- Battery energy storage testing, and modeling. Battery aging testing and impedance
extraction. Application to vehicle and grid applications.
- Non-traditional energy storage, such as hydraulic, mechanical or electrochemical for
wave energy applications
- Ron and Elaine Starr Professor in Space Systems, Mechanical Engineering-Engineering
Mechanics
- Director, Space Systems Research Group
- Faculty Advisor, Aerospace Enterprise
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Areas of Expertise
- Space Propulsion
- Plasma Physics
- Optical Fluid Diagnostics
Research Interests
- Design of in-situ electrostatic probes
- Ion-energy analysis and time-of-flight mass spectrometry
- Doppler laser cooling of trapped ions
- Optical flow diagnostics
- Antimatter confinement
- Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering—Engineering Mechanics
- Energy Thermo-Fluids
(ETF) Area Director
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Areas of Expertise
- Spray Combustion
- Fuel Chemistry
- Soot Emissions
- Laser-Based Combustion Diagnostics
- Internal Combustion Engines
- Gas Turbine Engine
Research Interests
- Laminar and Turbulent Combustionmbustion engines
- Soot Formation and Spray Combustion
- Bio/Alternative Renewable Energy and Clean Fuels in Low Temperature Combustion
- New Emerging Laser-Based Technique Development
- Nonequilibrium Plasma-Assisted Combustion
- Surrogate Fuel Chemical Reaction Models and CFD Modeling of Reacting Flow Systems
- Combustion Dynamics of Instability, Stabilization, and Propagation in Gas Turbine
Engine
- Lou and Herbert Wacker Associate Professor in Autonomous Mobile Systems, Mechanical
Engineering-Engineering Mechanics
- Faculty Advisor, SENSE Enterprise
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Areas of Expertise
- Unmanned Systems
- Dynamics and Controls
- System Design
Research Interests
- Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) with Special Interest in Underwater Gliders
- Coordination and Control of Networked Multi-Agent Systems
- Motion Planning in Complex Environments
- Cyber-physical Systems
- Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering—Engineering Mechanics
Areas of Expertise
- Fluid Mechanics
- Transport Phenomena
- Applied Mathematics
- Scientific Computing
Research Interests
- Interfacial and Multiphase Flows
- Fluid-Structure Interaction
- Mechanics of Soft Matter
- Biological and Bio-Inspired Fluid Mechanics
- Flow Through Porous Media
- Micro and Nano Fluidics
- Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering—Engineering Mechanics
Areas of Expertise
- Alternative and renewable transportation fuels
- Internal combustion engine efficiency
- Performance and emissions
- Wireless data acquisition techniques
- Combustion visualization
Research Interests
- Internal combustion engine efficiency, emissions, and performance
- Alternative and renewable fuels: investigating how the unique chemical compositions
affect both engine and vehicle operation
- IC engine data acquisition techniques such as piston-mounted wireless microwave telemetry
and minimally invasive combustion visualization
- Alternative and renewable transportation fuels
- In-Use Emissions
- Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics
- Faculty Advisor,
BoardSport Technologies Enterprise
- Solid Mechanics (SM) Area Director and Faculty
Advisor, SEM
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Areas of Expertise
- Engineering Mechanics
- Experimental Stress Analysis
- Composite Materials
Research Interests
- Use of severe plastic deformation to alter properties of materials
- Failure studies of random fiber composites with applications to structural problems
- Failure of sandwich panels with applications to structural problems
- Nanoscale properties of interphase in polymer matrix composites
- Photomechanics integrated with digital image processing for thermomechanical stress
analysis
- Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Assistant Professor, Mechanical
Engineering-Engineering Mechanics
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Research Interests
- Window Glass Strength Design
- Wind loads on Structures
- Finite Element Modeling of Brittle Materials
- Large Scale Data Processing and Data Mining
- Ron and Elaine Starr Professor in Energy Systems, Mechanical Engineering—Engineering
Mechanics
- Director, Advanced Power Systems Research Center
- Pi Tau Sigma Faculty Advisor
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Areas of Expertise
- Internal Combustion Engines
- Hydrogen and Biofuels
- After-Treatment
Research Interests
- Combustion processes and combustion control of hydrogen and hydrogen dual fueled engines
- Biofuels including ethanol with production from forest products and application in
advanced combustion engines
- Gasoline IC engine research and the development of physical based correlations and
models
- Development of combustion measurement techniques for diesel, gasoline, and HCCI and
PPCI engines
- Professor, Mechanical Engineering—Engineering Mechanics
- Richard and Elizabeth Henes Professor of Computational Mechanics, Mechanical Engineering-Engineering
Mechanics
- Associate Chair and Director of Undergraduate Studies
- Affiliated Professor,
Materials Science and Engineering and ASME Faculty Advisor
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Areas of Expertise
- Mechanics of Materials
- Materials Science
Research Interests
- Computational Mechanics
- Computational Materials Science
- Computational Chemistry
- John and Cathi Drake Chair Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Areas of Expertise
- Nonlinear Controls
- Mechatronics
- Microgrids
Research Interests
- Control system design
- Methods for correlating nonlinear dynamic models to experimental data
- Nonlinear control
- System simulation
- Nonlinear system parameter identification and optimization
- Richard and Elizabeth Henes Professor in Wind Energy
Areas of Expertise
- Theoretical and Computational Fluid Mechanics
- Vortex Dynamics
- Fluid-Structure Interaction
- Wind-Turbine Aerodynamics
- Renewable-Energy Sources
- Energy Systems
Research Interests
- Theoretical and Computational Fluid Mechanics
- Vortex Dynamics
- Fluid-Structure Interaction
- Wind-Turbine Aerodynamics
- Renewable-Energy Sources
- Energy Systems
- JS Endowed Department Chair, Mechanical Engineering—Engineering Mechanics
- Professor,
Mechanical Engineering—Engineering Mechanics
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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
- Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering—Engineering Mechanics
Areas of Expertise
- Computational Fluid Dynamics
- Combustion/Chemical kinetics
- Internal Combustion Engine
Specialties
- Advanced Combustion Modeling: Gasoline Compression Ignition (GCI), Reactive Controlled
Compression Ignition (RCCI),High Pressure Torch Jet Combustion (HPTJC), Ignition,
Flame propagation
- Engine CFD: Full Conjugate Multi-domain code, Engine combustion application, Code
development
- Chemical kinetics: Multi-component fuel chemistry, Surface chemistry, Soot, Emissions.
- Alternative Fuel Research: Biofuel, Additives, Spray modeling, Fuel assessment and
design
- High Performance Computing Technology: Parallel computing, Solver algorithm, Optimization
- Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering—Engineering Mechanics
Areas of Expertise
- Dynamics and Controls
- Robotics
- System Identification
Research Interests
- Human-Robot Interactions
- Prosthetic Robots
- Assistive and Rehabilitation Robotics
- Augmenting Agility of Locomotion
- Biomechanics of Gait
- The Richard and Elizabeth Henes Chair Professor in Mechanical Engineering
- Director
of Research
- Agile and Interconnected Microgrids Center Co-Director
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Areas of Expertise
- Renewable Energy Grid Integration
- Collective Systems Control
- Nonlinear Controls
- Optimization
- Dynamics
- Aeroelasticity
Research Interests
- Energy storage system design for renewable energy grid integration
- High penetration renewable energy microgrids
- Collective control of networked microgrids and teams of robots
- Exergy control for buildings
- Flutter suppression for wind turbines
- Nonlinear control system design
- Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics
Areas of Expertise
- Powertrain control
- Automatic transmissions
- Drivetrain dynamics
- Torque converters
- Hybrid electric vehicle system integration and control
Research Interests
- Advanced propulsion and power transfer systems
- Automatic transmission systems design
- Integration and control
- Hybrid electric propulsion systems
- Driveline torsional vibration analysis and testing
- Rotating machinery NVH
- Dynamic/digital signal processing
- Lumped parameter modeling
- Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics
Research Interests
- Constitutive modeling of materials, focusing on polymers, polymer-composites, coupled
physics behavior
- Fracture, damage and impact behavior on materials
- Analysis, design and testing of novel multifunctional lightweight polymer composite
materials
- High rate deformation in polymers
- Predictive modeling of fracture in brittle materials
- Biomechanics of artificial tissue and soft interfaces
- Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering—Engineering Mechanics
- Affiliated Associate
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Co-Advisor of Alternative Energy Enterprise
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Areas of Expertise
- Dynamic Systems Modeling and Control
- Powertrain/Vehicle Control
- Internal Combustion Engines
- Vehicular Emissions and Aftertreatment Systems
- Building Energy Controls
Research Interests
- Modeling and Control of Energy Systems
- Hybrid Electric Vehicles
- Connected Vehicles
- Advanced Combustion Engines
- Energy Control of Buildings in a Smart Grid
- HVAC/Climate Controls
- Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering—Engineering Mechanics
- Affiliated Assistant
Professor, Biomedical Engineering
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Areas of Expertise
- Cyber-Physical System
- Human-Machine Interaction
- Human Factors in Transportation
Research Interests
- Wireless Body Area Network and Wireless Health Care
- Non-contact Physiological Measurement System
- Data Mining in Human Fatigue Detection
- Transportation Safety
- Human Factors
- Nondestructive Testing (NDT)
- Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering—Engineering Mechanics
- SAE Aero Faculty
Advisor
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Areas of Expertise
- Ex-situ and in-situ characterization of transport properties through porous media
- Proton exchange membrane fuel cell in-situ diagnostics and modeling
- Fuel cell systems modeling and analysis
- Primary / secondary metal-air battery diagnostics and modeling
- Gas-liquid two-phase flows in microchannels
- Shock wave compression in microchannels
Research Interests
- Transport phenomena in multiscale/multiphase systems
- Thermo-fluid system diagnostics, modeling, and optimization
- Polymer electrolyte fuel cells for automotive application
- Renewable energy
- Combustion dynamics modeling
- Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering—Engineering Mechanics
Areas of Expertise
- Vibration
- Modal Analysis
- Acoustics
Research Interests
- Experimental Vibro-Acoustics
- NVH (Noise, Vibration, and Harshness)
- Structural Dynamics
- Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics
Areas of Expertise
- Design under uncertainty
- Uncertainty quantification
- Model calibration and validation
- Metamodeling
Research Interests
- Design for reliability and system resilience
- Prognostics and health management
- Design of engineered material systems
- Uncertainty management
- Professor, Mechanical Engineering—Engineering Mechanics
Areas of Expertise
- Applied Computational Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer
- Engine Flow Simulation
- DPF and DOC Modeling and Simulation
- Computational Aerodynamics
Research Interests
- Computational fluid dynamics (CFD)
- Modeling and numerical simulation of diesel particulate trap (DPF) performance during
loading and regeneration
- Diesel oxidation catalyst (DOC) converter code development
- Lattice Boltzmann Method for Porous/Disordered Media
