Faculty – Lexington Campus
Nelson Akafuah, Ph.D.
Assistant Research Professor
Research Areas: Combustion, Droplet transport and behavior in spray applications, Electrostatic effect on paint spray transport and deposition, Energy, Energy conversion and conservation, Energy efficiency of industrial processes, Nondestructive evaluation of surface and subsurface defects in coated surfaces, Renewable Energy, Renewable energy conversion from biomass sources
Fazleena Badurdeen, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Research Areas: Application of Metaheuristics, Manufacturing Systems, Mass Customization, Optimization
Sean Bailey, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Research Areas: coherent structures, homogeneous turbulence, microelectromechanical systems, scaling wall-bounded flows, turbulent drag reduction, turbulent flows, unsteady vortex flows, wake turbulence, wall flows
Louis M. Brock, Ph.D.
Professor
Research Areas: Elastic Wave Propagation, Mechanics, Thermoelasticity
Alexander Chapman, Ph.D.
Part-Time Assistant Professor
Research Areas: Computational implementation of physically significant eigenfunction solutions to the 3D Helmholtz equation
Christine Goble, Ph.D.
Lecturer
Research Areas: Civil Engineering Materials, Engineering Education, Mechanics, Structural Steel Design
Mark Hanson, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Research Areas: Edge effects on concentrated contacts, Fracture Mechanics, Fragmentation, Tribology
Tom Henninger, Ph.D.
Lecturer
David Herrin, Ph.D.
Director, Vibro-Acoustics Consortium
Associate Professor
Research Areas: acoustic materials, Acoustics, mufflers and silencers, structural dynamics
Donna Hewett
Lecturer
Jesse Hoagg, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Research Areas: adaptive control, Aerospace, flow control, robust control, structural control, System Identification, vibration control
Patrick Hu, Ph.D.
Adjunct Assistant Professor
I. S. Jawahir, Ph.D.
James F. Hardymon Chair in Manufacturing Systems Professor
Director of Institute for Sustainable Manufacturing
SME Fellow
Research Areas: Computer Integrated Manufacturing, Manufacturing Process
Haluk Karaca, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Research Areas: active materials for actuators, Composition-processing-microstructure-mechanical property relationships, Energy Harvesting, high strength shape memory alloys, high temperature shape memory alloys, iron ore sintering, magnetic refrigeration, magnetic shape memory alloys, nanotube fabrication, phase transformations, severe plastic deformation, shape memory composites, shape memory polymers, thermodynamical modeling
Tianxiang Li, Ph.D.
Associate Research Professor
Research Areas: Combustion and Energy Utilization, Material Synthesis, Nanotechnology, Pollutant Generation and Control
Alexandre Martin, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Research Areas: ablation, Aerospace, Aerothermodynamics, compressible aerodynamics, Computational Fluid Dynamics, gas surface interactions, Heat Transfer, Hypersonic, material response, Numerical Methods, Re-entry
James McDonough, Ph.D.
Director of Graduate Studies
Professor
Research Areas: Applied Mathematics, Combustion, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Convective Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics
James K. Neathery, Ph.D.
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Johné M. Parker, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Research Areas: Image-Processing, Imaging Sensor/System Modeling, Vision System Hardware/Software Design
Patrick Poole, Ph.D.
Senior Lecturer
Kozo Saito, Ph.D.
Tennessee Valley Authority Professor in Mechanical Engineering
Director, Institute of Research for Technology Development (IR4TD)
Research Areas: Automobile Surface Coating and Inspection, Combustion, Fire Research, Lean Manufacturing, Nano-Technology, Scale Modeling
T. Michael Seigler, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Research Areas: Aerospace, inflatable satellite structures, intelligent material systems, modeling and control of nonlinear mechanical systems, morphing aircraft, piezoelectric actuated devices, shape-memory alloy actuated robotics
Dusan P. Sekulic, Ph.D.
Professor
Research Areas: Heat Exchanger Theory and Design, Thermodynamics, Transport phenomena for materials processing
Andrew Seybert, Ph.D.
Professor
Research Areas: Noise and Vibration Control, Noise and Vibration Modeling and Prediction
Suzanne Weaver Smith, Ph.D.
Donald and Gertrude Lester Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Research Areas: Aerospace, Flexible and Nonlinear Structures, Structural Analysis, System Identification, Vibration Testing and Composites
L. Scott Stephens, Ph.D.
Chair
Engineering Alumni Association Professor
Research Areas: Bearing and Sealing Systems, Controls, Machine Design, Magnetic Suspensions
Gerry Swan, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor – College of Education
Joint Appointment in Mechanical Engineering
Research Areas: computer managed instruction/research, interactive media with instruction
Kaveh A. Tagavi, Ph.D.
Professor
Associate Dean for Assessment
Research Areas: Boiling and Two Phase Flow, Heat Transfer
Christine Trinkle, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Research Areas: Biologically-Inspired Design, MEMS, Micro-scale Design and Fabrication, Microfluidic Systems, Precision Machine Design
Hornsen (H.S.) Tzou, Ph.D.
Professor
Research Areas: Design with Smart Materials, Distributed Control of Shell/Plate Structures, Multi-field Hybrid Photo-magneto-piezoelectric-thermoelastic/Control System Integration, Precision Micro-/Nano-Actuation, Smart Structures and Structronic Systems
Jonathan Wenk, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Research Areas: Cardiovascular Mechanics, Finite Element Methods, Fluid-Structure Interaction Modeling, Multi-scale Modeling, Nonlinear Solid Mechanics, Numerical Optimization
Michael Winter, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Research Areas: Optical Plasma Diagnostics, Spectral Simulation in Equilibrium & Non-equilibrium Airborne Observation of Re-entry Development of Flight Experiments for Re-entry Electric Spacecraft Propulsion
Tingwen Wu, Ph.D.
Professor
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Research Areas: Acoustics and Vibration, Boundary Element Methods
Faculty – Paducah Campus
John Baker, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Research Areas: Vibrations, Finite Element Methods, Stability in Machining
James Benson, Ph.D.
Associate Professor Electromechanical Engineering Technology
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Research Areas: Electro-hydraulic Systems & Control, Automation & Process Control Systems, Machine Design & Control, Fluid & Thermal Systems Design, Manufacturing Operations and Financial Management
Vincent R. Capece, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
H.E. Katterjohn Professor
Research Areas: Turbomachinery, Aero-mechanics, Computational Fluid Dynamics
Sarah Shen Liu, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Research Areas: Dynamic Systems and Controls, Finite Element Methods, Piezoelectric Sensors
Y. Charles Lu, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Research Areas: composites, elastomers, finite element modeling, Materials, micromechanics, nanomechanics, polymers, Solid Mechanics, vibration
William E. Murphy, Ph.D.
Professor
Research Areas: Heating, Ventilating, Air-Conditioning, Thermal Sciences
James W. Rogers, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Ted Thiede, Ph.D.
Professor
Emeritus Faculty
Millard F. Beatty, Jr.
Roy D. Burberry
Oscar Dillon
Bob Drake
O.J. Hahn
Alan Male
M. Keith Marshall
Harry Mason
M. Pinar Mengüç, Ph.D.
Shiva Singh
Orville W. Stewart
Theodore R. Tauchert
Bill Young
Staff
Heather-Michele Adkins
Charles Arvin
Ann Becker
Nick Cprek
Josh Duruttya
Peter Hayman
Amy Luchsinger
Herb Mefford
Thomas Suggs
Carol White
Cathy Wolford