Full-Time Faculty
- Christina L. Bloebaum, Professor
- (Ph.D., Aerospace Engineering, University of Florida, 1991)
- Multidisciplinary design synthesis, concurrent design, visual design steering, artificial intelligence applications in design, and visualization applications in optimization and design.
- Harsh Chopra, Professor
- (Ph.D., Materials Science, University of Maryland, College Park 1993)
- Functional and smart materials; spintronics; ballistic transport; quantized conductance in atomic point contacts; multiferroic materials: magnetic shape memory alloys, magnetostrictive materials, complex correlated systems etc.; interfaces and interactions in multilayered systems; magnetic-based non-destructive evaluation & methods.
- Deborah D. L. Chung, Professor
- (Ph.D., Materials Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1977)
- Materials science and engineering, particularly smart materials, concrete, thermal management, battery electrode materials, carbon fibers and filaments, composites processing and interfaces, metal-matrix composites, electronic packaging materials, and activated carbon.
- Gary F. Dargush, Professor, Department Chairman
- (Ph.D., Civil Engineering, University at Buffalo, 1987)
- Computational mechanics, boundary element methods, finite element methods, earthquake engineering, structural dynamics, geomechanics, thermomechanics, computational fluid dynamics.
- Paul E. DesJardin, Associate Professor
- (Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University, 1998)
- Computational fluid dynamics, multiphase reacting flows, fire and combustion, fluid-structure simulation.
- James D. Felske, Professor
- (Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, 1974)
- Heat & mass transfer, fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, radiative transfer, spectroscopy, combustion.
- David Forliti, Assistant Professor
- (Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota, 2001)
- Experimental fluid mechanics, turbulent combustion, gas dynamics, hydrodynamic stability, multi-phase flows.
- John Y. Fu, Assistant Professor
- (Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Pennsylvania State University at University Park,
2004)
- Multifunctional materials and devices, mesoscopic material physics, nano
dielectrics, nano ferroelectrics, nano ferromagnetism, and flexoelectric effects
in biomaterials and liquids.
- Thenkurussi Kesavadas, Professor
- (Ph.D., Industrial and Management Systems Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, 1995)
- Manufacturing automation, robotics, CAD, bioengineering, virtual reality for engineering applications such as interactive automation of manufacturing and design processes for rapid product development.
- Venkat N. Krovi, Associate Professor
- (Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania, 1998)
- Mechanical and mechatronic systems (design, modeling, control, and prototyping); rapid virtual and physical prototyping; human user customization; multi-robot cooperation.
- Kemper E. Lewis, Professor, Executive Director, NYSCEDII, Professor for Competitive Product & Process Design
- (Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1996)
- Collaborative design and decision making, visual design steering, multiobjective optimization, strategic product design, flexible systems design, hybrid optimization.
- Cyrus K. Madnia, Professor
- (Ph.D., Aerospace Engineering, The University of Michigan, 1989)
- Computational fluid dynamics, turbulence, combustion, nanoscale energy transfer, transport phenomena, compressible flows.
- John Medige, Associate Professor
- (Ph.D., Mechanics,Illinois Institute of Technology, 1966)
- Biomechanics, bone remodeling, plates and shells, numerical methods, plasticity, dynamics, applied mathematics.
- Hui Meng, Professor
- (Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, University of Houston, 1994)
- Biomedical Engineering, hemodynamics and vascular biomechanics, advanced laser flow diagnostics, computational fluid dynamics.
- Joseph C. Mollendorf, Professor
- (Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Cornell University, 1971)
- Design, heat transfer and fluid mechanics, mathematical modeling, manufacturing processes, biomedical engineering.
- D. Joseph Mook, Professor
- (Ph.D., Engineering Mechanics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, 1986)
- Controls, dynamics, system identification, estimation theory, modeling, nonlinear and chaotic dynamic systems.
- Abani Patra, Professor
- (Ph.D., Computational & Applied Mathematics, University of Texas at Austin, 1995)
- Computational mechanics, solution adaptive finite element methods, parallel and high performance computing, applications to biomechanical systems.
- Matthew J. Ringuette, Assistant Professor
- (Ph.D., Aeronautics, California Institute of Technology, 2004)
- Experimental fluid mechanics, bio-inspired propulsion for autonomous vehicle design, unsteady vortex dynamics, fluid-structure interactions
- Tarunraj Singh, Professor
- (Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, University of Waterloo, 1991)
- Target tracking, human-vehicle control, optimal control, nonlinear control, dynamics & control of flexible structures.
- Puneet Singla, Assistant Professor
- (Ph.D., Department of Aerospace Engineering, Texas A&M University, 2006)
- Autonomous systems, intelligent and multi-scale modeling, attitude estimation, large scale optimization, astrodynamics.
- Andres Soom, Professor
- (Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1976)
- Tribology, machinery diagnostics, mechanical design, acoustics & noise control, dynamic testing & modeling.
- Dale B. Taulbee, Professor
- (Ph.D., Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, University of Illinois, 1964)
- Fluid mechanics, computational methods, turbulent flows, transport processes in the lung, aerosol mechanics.
