Department: Mechanical Engineering
Nelson Kudzo Akafuah, Ph.D.
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
Rodney Andrews, Ph.D.
Research Areas: Activated carbon materials, Agriculture, Biotechnology, carbon fiber formation, Carbon materials, Energy, Environment, Nanotube synthesis, Nanotube-polymer and nanotube-carbon composite materials, Pitch chemistry and characterization
Fazleena Badurdeen, Ph.D.
Research Areas: Application of Metaheuristics, Manufacturing Systems, Mass Customization, Optimization
Sean C. Bailey, Ph.D.
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.
Research Areas: Elastic Wave Propagation, Mechanics, Thermoelasticity
Alexander Chapman, Ph.D.
Research Areas: Computational implementation of physically significant eigenfunction solutions to the 3D Helmholtz equation
Oscar Dillon, Ph.D.
Research Areas: Continuum Mechanics, Coupled Thermoelasticity, Materials Science
Mark Hanson, Ph.D.
Research Areas: Edge effects on concentrated contacts, Fracture Mechanics, Fragmentation, Tribology
David W. Herrin, Ph.D.
Research Areas: acoustic materials, Acoustics, mufflers and silencers, structural dynamics
Jesse B. Hoagg, Ph.D.
Research Areas: adaptive control, Aerospace, flow control, robust control, structural control, System Identification, vibration control
Ibrahim Jawahir, Ph.D.
Research Areas: Computer Integrated Manufacturing, Manufacturing Process
Haluk E. Karaca, Ph.D.
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
Thomas W. Lester, Ph.D.
Research Areas: Combustion, Waste Incineration
Tianxiang Li, Ph.D.
Research Areas: Combustion and Energy Utilization, Material Synthesis, Nanotechnology, Pollutant Generation and Control
Y. Charles Lu, Ph.D.
Research Areas: composites, elastomers, finite element modeling, Materials, micromechanics, nanomechanics, polymers, Solid Mechanics, vibration
Alexandre Martin, Ph.D.
Research Areas: ablation, Aerospace, Aerothermodynamics, compressible aerodynamics, Computational Fluid Dynamics, gas surface interactions, Heat Transfer, Hypersonic, material response, Numerical Methods, Re-entry
James M. McDonough, Ph.D.
Research Areas: Applied Mathematics, Combustion, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Convective Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics
Johné M. Parker, Ph.D.
Research Areas: Image-Processing, Imaging Sensor/System Modeling, Vision System Hardware/Software Design
Keith Rouch, Ph.D.
Research Areas: Dynamics, Finite Elements, Vibrations
Kozo Saito, Ph.D.
Research Areas: Automobile Surface Coating and Inspection, Combustion, Fire Research, Lean Manufacturing, Nano-Technology, R4D, Scale Modeling, Thermal Sensing and Control
T. Michael Seigler
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.
Research Areas: Heat Exchanger Theory and Design, Thermodynamics, Transport phenomena for materials processing
Andrew Seybert, Ph.D.
Research Areas: Noise and Vibration Control, Noise and Vibration Modeling and Prediction
Suzanne Weaver Smith, Ph.D.
Research Areas: Aerospace, Flexible and Nonlinear Structures, Structural Analysis, System Identification, Vibration Testing and Composites
L. Scott Stephens, Ph.D.
Research Areas: Bearing and Sealing Systems, Controls, Machine Design, Magnetic Suspensions
Gerry Swan, Ph.D.
Research Areas: computer managed instruction/research, interactive media with instruction
Kaveh A. Tagavi, Ph.D.
Research Areas: Boiling and Two Phase Flow, Heat Transfer
Christine Trinkle, Ph.D.
Research Areas: Biologically-Inspired Design, MEMS, Micro-scale Design and Fabrication, Microfluidic Systems, Precision Machine Design
Hornsen (H.S.) Tzou, Ph.D.
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 F. Wenk, Ph.D.
Research Areas: Cardiovascular Mechanics, Finite Element Methods, Fluid-Structure Interaction Modeling, Multi-scale Modeling, Nonlinear Solid Mechanics, Numerical Optimization
Tim Wu, Ph. D.
Research Areas: Acoustics and Vibration, Boundary Element Methods