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Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering

José Bicudo - livestock systems, waste management, water quality, air quality, wastewater treatment

Donald Colliver - Residential housing and environmental design; analysis and simulation of building envelope heat transfer and renewable energy production and use; analysis of building design weather data.

Czarena Crofcheck - Downstream Processing and Product Recovery

George Duncan - Tobacco mechanization, facilities and marketing; horticultural facilities; 4-H projects; agriculture structures and energy

Dwayne Edwards - Tobacco mechanization, facilities and marketing; horticultural facilities; 4-H projects; agriculture structures and energy

Richard Gates - Controlled environment research and instruction, knowledge-based engineering, systems simulation

Sam McNeill - Processing and Storage of Agricultural Products, primarily grains, Post-Harvest Process Engineering, and Precision Agricultural Practices for Monitoring Grain Quality.

Michael Montross - Drying, storing, and processing of grains and oilseeds; granular mechanics; finite element modeling

Sue Nokes - biomass conversion to biofuel and industrial products through fermentation

Douglas Overhults - Planning, analysis, and engineering design in the areas of livestock facilities, environmental control systems, manure management, and grain/feed storage system

Fred Payne - Optical Sensor for Food Process, Monitoring and Control

Scott Shearer - Assessment of Grain Yield Monitoring Accuracy; Dynamic Testing of Force-Impetus Yield Monitors Under Rough Terrain Conditions; Investigation of Machinery and Controls Limitations on Input Management Resolution; Swine and Dairy Waste Management Using Precision Agriculture; Field Demonstration of Variable-Rate P, K and Lime Application; Spatial Applications for Agriculture: Educational Case StudiesTimothy Stombaugh - Precision Agriculture; Instrumentation and Controls; Automatic Guidance; Remote Sensing; Machinery

Joseph Taraba - Economics of waste management systems; Pollution potential of land applied animal wastes; Microbial dynamics of wastes; Groundwater quality assessment

Larry Turner - Engineering planning; design and analysis in the areas of livestock environment and facilities; biological systems simulation; and energy utilization and management
Dr. Linus R. Walton - Tobacco curing and mechanization; heat and mass transfer in foliar materials

Dr. Larry Wells - Machine-soil relationships; Analysis and simulation of machine systems; Machine development; Tobacco mechanization; Prime farmland reclamation

Dr. Stephen Workman - Watershed modeling, wetlands, drainage, stream management zones

Chemical and Materials Engineering - top

Kim Anderson - cell adhesion to surfaces, biocompatible sensors, cell-based biosensors, biofouling.

D. B. Bhattacharyya - Membrane Separation/Functionalization, Tunable Membranes and Biocatalysis, Dechlorination of Hazardous Organics by Nano-Structured Metals

Paul Dunbar - Environmental, Biochemical modeling, and Electrochemical

Ari Geertsema - Industrial applications of coal and gas conversion, Coal gasification, Direct coal liquefaction, Natural gas reforming, Gas-to-liquid technologies, Fischer-Tropsch technology, Petrochemical catalytic processing, Techno-economic viability of ventures, Technology management.

Peter Gillis - Principles of mechanics and solid state physics with application to materials

Eric Grulke - Advanced Carbon Materials; Diffusion in Polymers, Polymerization

Bruce Hinds - Nano-scale device fabrication, molecular electronics/spintronics, thin film processes, semiconductor interface states, inorganic chemical synthesis.

Gerald Huffman - Liquefaction of Waste Materials and the coliquefaction of waste materials with Coal

Frank Huggins - Energy, Environment, Element Speciation, XAFS Spectroscopy, Particulate Matter

Doug Kalika - polymers, plastics, rheology, membranes

Mark Keane - Heterogeneous Catalysis; Adsorption Phenomena; Zeolites; Environmental Pollution Control; Catalytic Enantioselectivity; Growth of Highly Ordered Carbon by Catalysis; Kinetic Modeling.

Richard Kermode - Control and Process Design for Improving the Synthesis of Moderately Complex Processes

Barbara Knutson - Compressed and supercritical fluid technology; Phase behavior of fluorinated and CO2-expanded liquids for synthesis, separation, and materials processing; Whole cell and enzymatic synthesis and product recovery; Interactions of macromolecules and biomolecules at compressible fluid interfaces.

Rhonda Lee-DeSautels - Powder Technology, Interparticle Forces, Gas-Solid Fluidization, Wastewater Treatment Modeling

James Morris - Deformation and recrystallization texture studies, Recrystallization kinetic, Formability studies

Kenji Okasaki - Nanocrystalline materials, Dental Implants

Lynn Penn - Fundamental aspects of adhesion at interfaces, heterogeneous phase chemical modification of solid surfaces, tethered polymer chains, responsive surfaces, fiber-reinforced polymers (composites), and nanocomposites.

Steve Rankin -Materials, Synthesis, Self-Assembly, Simulation, Organic-inorganic Hybrids

Asit Ray - Light Scattering, Physical Chemical Processes Associated with Microparticles, Synthesis of Micro and Nano-sized Particles, Optical Microsensors Based Spherical Microparticles.

Philip Reucroft - Surface analysis and structural characterization of single layer and multilayer materials that have been fabricated by CVD and PVD techniques. Wear resistant coatings on machine tools. Thermodynamics of gas and vapor interactions with microporous/mesoporous carbons and polymers. Surface analysis of novel materials, heterogeneous catalysts and carbonaceous materials. Electrical characteristics of semiconducting and metallic systems

J. Thomas Schrodt - Viscosity non-idealities, kinetic mechanism(s)

David Silverstein - 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 - membrane; environmental; pervaporation; water purification; remediation

Tate Tsang - Least-squares finite element method, Parallel computation of three-dimensional transport of reactive species in air pollution modeling, Large eddy simulation.

Fuqian Yang - Micromechanics of Advanced Materials, Microelectromechanical Systems, Smart Materials and Structures, Electromechnical Behavior of Dielectric Materials.

Tongguang Zhai - Metal Fatigue and Fracture, Micro- and Macro-texture, Structure/Property relations, Electron Microscopy and Acoustic Microscopy, Powder Metallurgy Magnetic Materials, and Failure Analysis.

Civil Engineering - top

George Blandford - Structural Computational Mechanics

Gail Brion - Water Treatment, Water Reuse, Fate of Pathogens in Water Environments, Control of Waterbourne Disease, Disinfection, Public Health, Environmental Virology

Mei Chen - transportation engineering, network modeling, intelligent transportation systems

Hans Gesund - Structural engineering, reinforced concrete, slabs.

Paul Goodrum - Applied and equipment technology in construction; Productivity analysis and Improvement; Construction safety; Economics of the construction industry; Workforce issues and strategies in construction

Donn Hancher - Construction Management and Administration, Estimating and Value Engineering, Planning and Scheduling, Construction Equipment and Methods, Total Quality Management

Bobby Hardin - Geotechnical Engineering, Constitutive Relations of Soils, Experimental Methods in Geotechnical Engineering, Foundation Vibrations, Dynamic Soil Problems, Geo-Environmental Engineering

Issam Harik - Structural Engineering, Seismic Evaluation, Fiber Reinforced Composite Materials, Bridges.

Michael Kalinski - Soil Dynamics, Engineering Geophysics, Geotechnical Engineering, Nondestructive Testing

Srinivasa Lingireddy - Water Distribution Systems (steady, and transient, water quality modeling), Surface water quality modeling, Groundwater Modeling, Systems Analysis, Artificial Intelligence (Genetic Algorithms, Neural Networks, and Expert Systems), Physical (laboratory) Modeling

Kamyar Mahboub - Materials Engineering; Pavement Design, Construction and Management; Transportation Engineering

Bill Maloney - Management of Construction Organizations; High Performance Work Organizations; Labor-Management Cooperative Programs; Work Organization including the integration of Psychological, Sociological, and Technological factors; Learning Organizations in Engineering and Construction

Lindell Ormsbee - Mathematical Modeling of Hydraulic and Hydrologic Systems, GIS/Simulation Model Interface/Environmental Informatics, Water Supply Planning, Watershed Management, Genetic Algorithms/Artificial Neural Networks, Water Distribution Network Modeling, TMDL Modeling and Methodologies, Operations Research/Systems Analysis

Jerry Rose - Railway Engineering with emphasis on trackbed design, construction and maintenance.

Sergio Serrano - Surface and Groundwater Hydrology, Stochastic Analysis of Water Systems, Physics of Pollution Transport

Nick Stamatiadis - Traffic operations, Highway safety, Highway design, Simulation

Shein T. Jim Wang - stability, steel, structural failure, design.

Y. T. Ed Wang - Water Pollution Control, Kinetics of Anaerobic l Processes, Biotransformation of Metals

Scott Yost - Numerical Modeling of Surface-Water Environments, Hydrologic Modeling of Watersheds, Parameter Estimation and Optimization Techniques, Fluid Mechanics, Hydraulics, Open Channel Flow.

Computer Science - top

Anthony Baxter - Software Engineering, Database Design, Operating Systems, Computer Science Education.

Kenneth Calvert - Computer network protocols and architectures; active networks; network security; formal methods.

Fuhua "Frank" Cheng - Computer-aided geometric design, computer graphics, collaborative CAD.

Alexander Dekhtyar – Databases

Craig Douglas - Computational sciences, parallel computing, numerical analysis

Zongming Fei - Networking

Raphael Finkel - Distributed algorithms, logic programming, informatics.

Judy Goldsmith - computational complexity, stochastic models, planning, computational learning theory; probabilistic databases.

James Griffioen - Computer networks, operating systems

Jane Hayes - Verification and validation, interface-based system testing, automatic test data generation, software maintainability

Jerzy Jaromczyk - Computational geometry, algorithms

Christopher Jaynes - Computer Vision, Image Processing, Artificial Intelligence and Perception

Andrew Klapper - Cryptography, Coding Theory, Pseudorandom Sequences

D. Manivannan - Distributed Computing, Mobile Computing, Wireless Networks

Victor Marek - Logical foundations of AI, theory of databases, logic programming

W. Brent Seales - Image processing, graphics

Mukesh Singhal - Wireless Networks and Mobile Computing, High-Speed Computer Networks, Operating Systems, Distributed Computing Systems, Computer Networks Security.

Mirek Truszczynski - Artificial intelligence, declarative programming, constraint satisfaction

Grzegorz Wasilkowski - Numerical Analysis, Approximation, Information-Based Complexity

Jun Zhang - Scientific and parallel computing, computer simulation, information retrieval and data mining.

Electrical and Computer Engineering - top

Robert Adams - Electromagnetics and wireless communications

Jimmie Cathey - electric drives, electric machine design, power electronics applied to power systems

Zhi Chen - nanoelectronic devices, carbon nanotubes, nanotechnology, transistors

William Dieter - Computer Systems, High Performance Computing, Checkpointing, Embedded Systems

Hank Dietz - Parallel Processing, Compilers, Hardware Architectures and Networking, Operating Systems, Digital Imaging

Kevin Donohue - Medical Imaging with Ultrasound, Ultrasound NDE, MRI-Chemical Shift Imaging, Order Statistics

Stephen Gedney - Computational Electromagnetics; Electromagnetic Scattering; Microwave Circuit Modeling and Design; Full wave simulation of printed circuits; mixed signal systems; parasitic extraction of passive interconnect networks

Laurence Hassebrook - Signal and Image Processing

Robert J. Heath - Modeling, Development, and Experimental Validation of Application Specific Processors and Computing Systems

Larry Holloway - Discrete-event control synthesis, Automated fault monitoring of manufacturing systems, Active sensing policies for uncertain systems

Daniel Lau - image processing, automated surveillance, human-computer interaction, depth video

Cai-cheng Lu - Electromagnetic wave propagation and scattering, Inverse scattering, microwave imaging , Fast numerical algorithms for Computational Electromagnetics , Antenna analysis and design

James Lumpp - Advanced Networking, Parallel & Distributed Processing, Wireless Classroom Project.

Janet Lumpp - Materials, lasers and microelectronics

Arthur Radun - Power electronic converters/motor drives, electro-mechanics, and solid state power devices

Vijay Singh - Electronic Devices Flat-Panel Displays; Thin Film Solar Cells; Electroluminescence ; Photovoltaics; Electronic Materials; Thin-film Technology

William Smith - electromagnetic compatibility, antennas, circuit analysis

Fred Trutt - Power systems and electric machines

Bruce Walcott - Control Systems

Yu-Ming Zhang - Manufacturing, welding, automation, machine vision, control

Mechanical Engineering - top

Louis Brock - Mechanics, Elastic Wave Propagation, Thermoelasticity

Vincent Capece - Turbomachinery, Aero-mechanics, Computational Fluid Dynamics

Dayong Gao - Heat-Mass Transfer, Cryobiology, Artificial Kidney, Microwave Irradiation, Artificial and Biological Membranes, Cryopreservation of Living Biological Cells and Organs

O. John Hahn - Spray Cooling, Heat Transfer, Industrial Safety

Mark Hanson - Tribology, contact, fracture, elasticity

George Huang - Computational Fluid Dynamics

Jamey Jacob - Aerodynamics, Vortex Flow, Turbulence, and Experimental Methods

I. S. Jawahir - Manufacturing Process, Computer Integrated Manufacturing

Marwan Khraisheh - Superplasticity and Superplastic Forming; Plastic Deformation of metals; Metal Forming and Formability; Mechanical testing and characterization; and Manufacturing processes.

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Jack Leifer - Mechanics of Gossamer Structures and Flexible Membranes, Numerical Analysis of Gossamer Structures and Flexible Membrane, Close Range Photogrammetry, Non-contact sensing of displacement

John Main - Mechanics, Aerospace Structures and Systems, Machine Dynamics

Alan T. Male - Processing of Metals and Alloys

James McDonough - computational numerical analysis, especially computational fluid dynamics (CFD), but also including computational heat and mass transfer and combustion; nonlinear dynamical systems, especially data analysis and application to modern turbulence models; incompressible flow code development; new, high-fidelity synthetic-velocity turbulence models for both nonreacting and reacting flows; investigation of 3-D immersive visualization in research and instruction; some specific problems of interest include turbine blade cooling, spread of forest fires, freezing of liquids/melting of solids, use of immersive visualization in analysis of these problems, and in delivering classroom lectures

Pinar Menguc - Particle characterization via elliptically polarized light scattering techniques; Nanoscale transport phenomena modeling; Radiative Transfer; Applied Optics

William Murphy - Air-conditioning, heat pumps, geothermal, energy efficiency, heat transfer

Johné Parker - Vision System Hardware/Software Design, Imaging Sensor/System Modeling, Image-Processing Algorithms

Keith Rouch - Finite Elements, Dynamics, and Vibrations

Kozo Saito - Painting Technology, Combustion, Fire Research, Thermal Sensing and Control, Scale Modeling and Lean Manufacturing

Andrew Seybert - Acoustics, Noise Control, Vibration Control

Suzanne Smith - Flexible and Nonlinear Structures, System Identification, Structural Analysis, Vibration Testing and Composites

Scott Stephens - Bearing and Sealing Systems, Magnetic Suspensions, Machine Design, and Controls

Kaveh Tagavi - Heat Transfer, Boiling and Two Phase Flow

Theodore Tauchert - Mechanics of composite Materials, Thermal Stress Analysis, Pressure Vessel Design and Analysis

H. S. Tzou - Vibrations, Controls, CAD/CAM

Ryan Vallance - Precision Engineering and Design of Tooling, Machines, and Manufacturing Systems

Tim Wu - Boundary Elements, Acoustics

Mining Engineering - top

Rick Honaker - Coal and Minerals Processing, Fine Particle Processing, Automation and Control, Optimization of Unit Processes, Applied Surface Chemistry.

G.T. Lineberry - Performance engineering, operations research, safety and health in mining and small construction, distance-based engineering education.

Joseph Sottile - Mine Power Systems, Monitoring, and Control

Richard Sweigard - Geotechnology, Groundwater, Soil Reconstruction, Surface Mining

Daniel Tao - Particle separation; filtration; corrosion; coal upgrading; phosphate beneficiation.

Kot Unrug - Underground Construction, Mine Design, Strata Control

Andrzej Wala - Mine Ventilation, Mine Electricity, Elements of Mining

Jon Yingling - Operations Research and Industrial Engineering in Mining, and Mineral Preparation

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