Paducah Faculty and Staff

University of Kentucky Faculty

John Baker

Associate Professor

Research Areas: Vibrations, Finite Element Methods, Stability in Machining

Vincent R. Capece

Associate Professor

H.E. Katterjohn Professor

Research Areas: Turbomachinery, Aero-mechanics, Computational Fluid Dynamics

Dr. Derek L. Englert

Assistant Professor

Research Areas:

Microfluidic technology for studying biological processes, Tissue culture/engineering, Biomass conversion to biofuels and higher value products

Y. Charles Lu

Associate Professor

Research Areas: solid mechanics; micromechanics and nanomechanics; materials; polymers, elastomers and composites; finite element modeling and design; vibration.

William E. Murphy

Professor

Research Areas: Heating, Ventilating, Air-Conditioning, Thermal Sciences

Jeffrey Seay

Assistant Professor

Research Areas: Sustainability, Green Engineering, Biofuels, Computer Aided Process Engineering,
Process Design, Process Safety

David L. Silverstein

Director of Engineering Extended Campus Programs – Paducah

PJC Board of Trustees Engineering Professor

Professor

Research Areas: Fluids modeling in porous media; colloids and interfacial phenomena; surface kinetics; surfactant induced water movement; model-based process control; distance learning; interactive multimedia educational software.

Jim Smart

Associate Professor

Research Areas: Use of Membranes for Water Purification

Murray State Faculty

James Benson

Associate Professor Electromechanical Engineering Technology

Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering

John Crofton

Associate Professor

Research Areas: Wide Band-Gap Semiconductor Microelectronics

Hamid R. Kobraei

Professor

Research Areas: Investigate the Microscopic Nucleation and Dynamics of Phase Transitions, Apply Statistical Mechanics to Theory of Condensation, Examine the Evolution, Growth, Removal, and Coagulation of Multi-component Aerosol System, and Study the Computer Simulation of Aerosol Systems