Faculty and Staff Directory

Professor, 

Fundamentals of combustion such as burning speed and onset of autoignition measurement and flame stability analysis; development of chemistry reduction such as rate-controlled constrained-equilibrium method; non-equilibrium thermodynamics

Professor and Chair, 

Process-structure-properties relationships in polymer-based nano-composites fibers; polymer/nano-carbon interfacial interactions and interphase formations; lightweight composite materials; carbon-carbon composites

Assistant Co-op Coordinator, 

Assistant Professor, 

Cyber-Physical Manufacturing, Human-Machine Teaming, User-Centered Design, Use-Inspired Artificial Intelligence

Assistant Dean & Senior Co-op Coordinator, 

Departmental Programs: Bioengineering, Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Data Analytics, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Energy Systems, Engineering Management, Engineering Public Policy, Environmental Engineering, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering, Operations Research, Robotics, and Sustainable Building Systems.

Professor Emeritus, 

Virtual Environments; 3D Simulation and Open Source Game Engines

Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs, 

Cold-spray additive manufacturing; high-velocity impact of micron-scale particles; mechanics and tribology of axially moving materials; numerical simulation of tissue healing and bone remodeling

Assistant Teaching Professor, 

Associate Professor Emeritus, 

Biomechanics on respiratory systems, Turbine blade cooling

Professor, 

Biomechanics and mechanics

Research Coordinator, 

Senior Co-op Coordinator & Assistant Director of Co-op, 

Postdoctoral Research Associate, 

Computer Systems Manager, 

Research Assistant Professor, 

Associate Teaching Professor, 

Associate Teaching Professor, 

Assistant Co-op Coordinator, 

Assistant Teaching Professor, 

Professor Emeritus, 

Affiliated Faculty, 

Assistant Teaching Professor, 

Assistant Teaching Professor, 

Professor, 

tissue engineering of load-bearing matrix (bone, cornea); bioreactor design; multi-scale mechanobiochemistry; statistical mechanics; energetics microscopy; high-resolution imaging; biopolymer self-assembly

University Distinguished Professor, 

Health care initiatives; industrial engineering; operations research

Professor, 

Multi-scale bone biomechanics–how the structure and composition of bone influences its mechanical properties; mechano-adaptation of bone and joint– how tissue responds to mechanical signals

Professor, 

Robotic sensors, systems, platforms, and algorithms including high resolution optical and acoustic sensing; underwater vehicles (AUV, ROV, towed and manned vehicles), unmanned surface vehicles, and unmanned aerial systems; system architectures for navigation, docking and power; and the interactions between these subsystems

Professor, 

Control systems and mechatronics; stability analysis and control synthesis of dynamical systems with delays; interplay between stability, delays, and graphs; control-systems-aided human-machine systems; engineering education research; disability research; systems biology

Teaching Professor and Director for Lab Space and Safety, 

Director, 

Professor Emeritus, 

Industrial engineering/operations research

Professor, 

multiphase thermal transport phenomena, acoustic wave bio and chemical sensors and actuators, thermal management of fibers and films, thermal energy storage materials and processing, microchannel cooling systems, nanoimprinting process and applications, MEMS/NEMS fabrication, microfluidics and bioMEMS; nanoscale magnetic assembly and applications

Assistant Professor, 

Fluid mechanics, soft matter, microfluidics, active colloidal systems, electrokinetic flow, interfacial phenomena, complex fluids, reactive flow, biological flow; additive manufacturing, material synthesis and processing in flow, oil/gas recovery and remediation

Professor, 

Experimental and numerical research in gas turbine cooling technology, solar and wind energy, non-newtonian liquid droplet interactions with hydrophobic surfaces, nano-sensors

Assistant Teaching Professor, 

Professor, 

Computational techniques that span multiple scales, atomic- to continuum, to quantify the structure property relations in established and emerging material systems, both in technology and nature.

Professor, 

Cellular biomechanics; water filtration; thin film adhesion and characterization; subsurface mechano-sensing; shell adhesion; fundamental intersurface forces

Business Manager, 

Assistant Professor, 

Human-safe robots, medical robotics, soft robotics and soft material manufacturing, MEMS, microrobotics, bio-inspired design, flapping aerodynamics and insect flight

Assistant Professor, 

interpretable AI, IoT, computer simulation, data integrity and big data analytics, data-driven stochastic optimization, blockchain design and development for complex end-to-end cyber-physical system learning and risk management with applications, including biopharmaceutical manufacturing and supply chains, smart power grids with renewable energy, and health care

Professor, 

Mechanics; personalized medicine; simulation techniques and complex networks analysis

Assistant Teaching Professor - Seattle, 

Postdoctoral Research Associate, 

Associate Professor, 

Nanoscale thermal transport; Nanoengineered materials; Multifunctional composites; Microfluidics; Chemical and biological nanosensors; Renewable energy harvesting; Thermophotovoltaics; Photon-based radiative cooling