Department Directory

Associate Teaching Professor, 

Professor Emeritus, 

Contact mechanics including adhesion, friction, and plasticity; modeling and analysis of MEMS; modeling and analysis in nanomechanics

Assistant Co-op Coordinator, 

Assistant Professor, 

Applied operations research, healthcare, supply chain, large scale optimization, and big data analytics

Assistant Professor, 

Nonlinear dynamics, geophysical fluid dynamics, computational fluid mechanics, disaster response, experimental fluids

Associate Professor, 

Biomechanics, mechanobiology, biotransport

Professor, 

Densification and metallurgical bonding in high strain-rate deformation powder processing, modeling of rapid solidification

Assistant Professor, 

Research focus in the Bai group includes: Solid mechanics and large deformation; Mechanical failures: damage, fracture, fatigue, and debonding; Stimuli-responsive actuation and instability; Soft active materials: hydrogels, liquid crystal elastomers, and biomaterials; Multi-physics of materials: mechanics, thermodynamics, chemistry, optics, and electromagnetism

Affiliated Faculty, 

Senior Co-op Coordinator, 

Senior Advisor to the President, 

Assistant Professor, 

Geographic resource allocation, logistics, scheduling, multimodal transport systems, shared mobility, decentralized systems and resilient networks, data visualization, computational social science; Data-driven robust optimization, computational geometry, geometric probability theory, and geospatial analysis.

Professor, 

Healthcare systems engineering, operations research, quality and reliability engineering, statistical quality control, high reliability design, patient safety

Professor Emeritus, 

Associate Co-op Coordinator, 

Senior Research Engineer, 

WL Smith Chair and University Distinguished Professor, 

Nanomanufacturing; nano and microscale printing of sensors and electronics; nano and micro-scale defects in semiconductor manufacturing; high rate nanomanufacturing; power electronics, RF, NEMS devices and nanomaterials based nanoelectronics, flexible and hybrid electronics

Student Services & Data Manager, 

Postdoctoral Research Associate, 

Assistant Co-op Coordinator, 

Senior Co-op Coordinator & Assistant Director, 

Postdoctoral Research Associate, 

Assistant Professor, 

Mathematical Optimization, Data Mining, Machine Learning, Healthcare Analytics, Computational Neuroscience, Decision Support Systems

Professor Emeritus, 

Mathematical methods and modeling; thermodynamics; fluid dynamics; kinetic theory of gases; thermophoresis of aerosols