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Mechanical Engineering Faculty

Eric Barth

Research Focus: Dynamic systems and control. Design, modeling and control of mechatronic and fluid power systems, free-piston internal combustion and free-piston Stirling engines, power supply and actuation for autonomous robots, and applied non-linear control.
01Tenure/Tenure-Track

Leon Bellan

Research Focus: Microfluidics, microfluidic materials, smart materials, biomaterials, micro and nanotechnology, bioMEMS.
01Tenure/Tenure-Track

David Braun

Research Focus: Robotics, optimal control, system dynamics, compliant robot actuators, human performance augmentation technology
01Tenure/Tenure-Track

Joshua Caldwell

Research Focus: Nano-optics, polaritonics, nanophotonics, infrared and Raman spectroscopy, active photonics, infrared optics and imaging, power electronic materials, defects in semiconductors
01Tenure/Tenure-Track

Xiaoguang Dong

Research Focus: The design, manufacture and control of miniature soft robots, and their applications in minimally invasive medicine, microfluidics and biomechanics. The design, manufacture and control of miniature swarm robots, and their applications in biomedicine and biomechanics. The modeling, design, manufacture and control of intelligent soft materials
01Tenure/Tenure-Track

Michael Goldfarb

Research Focus: Design, modeling, and control of electromechanical devices and systems. Design of high-energy-density robotic actuators. Control of fluid-powered actuators and devices.
01Tenure/Tenure-Track

Deyu Li

Research Focus: Micro/Nano scale energy and molecular transport phenomena,. Nanofabrication techniques, Molecular dynamics and Monte Carlo Simulation, Micro/Nanofluidics.  
01Tenure/Tenure-Track

Haoxiang Luo

Research Focus: Computational fluid dynamics, biofluids, fluid-structure interaction, microfluidics; biomimetic aerial/underwater vehicles, biomedical flows.
01Tenure/Tenure-Track

Robert Pitz

Research Focus: Laser diagnostics, laminar & turbulent combustion, turbulence-chemistry interaction, pollutant formation, supersonic combustion, gas turbine combustion, rocket propulsion, Raman scattering, laser-induced fluorescence, molecular-tagging velocimetry.
01Tenure/Tenure-Track

Nilanjan Sarkar

Research Focus: analysis, design, and development of intelligent and autonomous systems that can work with people in a versatile and natural way
01Tenure/Tenure-Track

Nabil Simaan

Research Focus: Robotic systems for surgical assistance, theoretical kinematics of mechanisms, synthesis and optimization of robots and mechanisms, design of flexure mechanisms and flexible robots, parallel robots, actuation redundancy and kinematic redundancy
01Tenure/Tenure-Track

Alvin Strauss

Research Focus: Nuclear Propulsion, Friction Stir Welding, Direct Energy Conversion, Variational Methods in Mechanics, Mechanical Properties of Actinides, Macro-Engineering, Spacecraft Design
01Tenure/Tenure-Track

Jason Valentine

Research Focus: Optical metamaterials, plasmonics, transformation optics, nanophotonics, nanoimaging, active photonics, gradient index optics, high spatial resolution bioimaging and sensing, solar energy conversion, scalable 3D nanomanufacturing.
01Tenure/Tenure-Track

Greg Walker

Research Focus: Micro-scale heat transfer, heat flux measurement, energy transport processes, ultrasonic pyrometry, thermographic phospors, energy conversion devices, high-performance computing
01Tenure/Tenure-Track

Robert Webster

Research Focus: Image guidance, robotic surgery, screw theory, mechanics-based modeling, and optimal mechanism design
01Tenure/Tenure-Track

Karl Zelik

Research Focus: Biomechanics of legged locomotion, lower-limb prosthetics, assistive technology, dynamic walking principles, neural control, human-device interfaces, mobility, rehabilitation engineering
01Tenure/Tenure-Track

A. V. Anilkumar

Research Focus: Drop dynamics, aero-propulsion, energy conversion, design and development of experimental facilities, flow diagnostics and instrumentation
02Teaching

Robert Joel Barnett

Research Focus: Welding and welding controls, weld pool thermal and fluid modeling, sensor development, machine-vision-based quality control systems, robotic weld-path programming and robotic welding, alternative fuel engines, technical photography and imaging systems.
02Teaching

Kenneth Frampton

Research Focus: Vibrations, Acoustics, and Controls
02Teaching

Jason Mitchell

Research Focus: Human augmentation through engineering, wearable sensors, exoskeletons, prosthetics; mechanical simulation and design
02Teaching

Ranjana Sahai

Research Focus: Design, simulation, development, and testing of bio-inspired, robotic systems and microfluidic devices
02Teaching

Thomas Withrow

Research Focus: Development, design and testing of surgical robots, improvement of design methods, cyber physical systems, biomechanics, especially the biomechanics of the ACL and injury prevention.
02Teaching

Shannon Faley

03Research

Kevin Galloway

Research Focus: Design of robotic systems from the micro- to the macro-scale, soft robotics, rapid prototyping materials and methods, human-centered design, mechanical design, medical device design, assistive technology.
03Research

William Emfinger

Research Focus: Cyber-Physical Systems, Control Systems, Model-Integrated Computing, Model-Based Engineering / Model-Driven Development
04Adjunct/Adjoint

Kelsey Hatzell

Research Focus: Interfaces, solid state batteries, inorganic ion conductors, intermediate temperature fuel cells, low-dimensional carbide materials
04Adjunct/Adjoint

Ahad Nasab

04Adjunct/Adjoint

Peiyong Wang

Research Focus: Combustion laser diagnostics, Laminar combustion, Turbulent combustion model, NOx formation mechanism in turbulent combustion.
04Adjunct/Adjoint

Joseph Wehrmeyer

Research Focus: Combustion Phenomona, Laser Diagnostics for Combustion, Chemical Propellents for Robotic Propulsion
04Adjunct/Adjoint

Douglas Adams

Research Focus: Nonlinear structural dynamics and vibrations, structural health monitoring/diagnostics and damage prognosis, noise and vibration control, aerospace and automotive systems, energy systems, defense and security platforms
05Affiliated

Ravindra Duddu

Research Focus: Computational solid mechanics, multi-scale and multi-physics fracture mechanics, constitutive modeling, cohesive zone modeling of fatigue delamination, extended finite element method and level set method, computational geophysics.
05Affiliated

Sankaran Mahadevan

Research Focus: Structural mechanics, materials durability, reliability and risk engineering, structural health diagnosis and prognosis, computational model uncertainty, optimization under uncertainty.
05Affiliated

Justus Ndukaife

Research Focus: Nanophotonics, microfluidics, novel bio-inspired soft actuators and robots
05Affiliated

Caglar Oskay

Research Focus: Multiscale computational failure modeling of solids and structures, life prediction and performance assessment of structures, computational modeling of composites and other heterogeneous materials, modeling of multiphysics systems
05Affiliated

Bernard Rousseau

05Affiliated

Thomas Cruse

Research Focus: Mechanical system reliability and design, solid mechanics, fracture mechanics, stress analysis, composite materials, thermal barrier coatings, design, boundary integral equation methods.
06Emeritus

Donald Kinser

Research Focus: Electronic ceramics and glass science with emphasis on adverse environmental effects upon systems containing glasses and electronic ceramics.
06Emeritus

Carol Rubin

Research Focus: Theoretical and applied mechanics, finite element analysis, computer aided design.
06Emeritus

Taylor Wang

Research Focus: Microgravity science and applications; drop physics; physical acoustics; biotechnology
06Emeritus

John Williamson

Research Focus: Fluid dynamics, modeling of turbulent flow; aerodynamic levitation of solid and liquid shapes; optimal shapes in fluid mechanics; metal hydide energy storage; hydrogen fuel for IC engines
06Emeritus