Faculty and Staff Directory

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

Associate Co-op Coordinator, 

Assistant Professor, 

Human-Machine Teaming, Extended Reality, User-Centered Design, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning

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

Professor, 

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

Research Engineer II, 

Assistant Teaching Professor, 

Associate Professor Emeritus, 

Biomechanics on respiratory systems, Turbine blade cooling

Professor, 

Biomechanics and mechanics

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

Postdoctoral Research Associate, 

Professor, 

Industrial and software engineering; solving public problems

Computer Systems Manager, 

Assistant Professor, 

Advanced metal additive manufacturing, compressible flows, multiphase flows, heat and mass transfer, thermodynamics, and failure analysis

Associate Teaching Professor, 

Associate Teaching Professor, 

Assistant Teaching Professor, 

Professor Emeritus, 

Affiliated Faculty, 

Research Associate Professor, 

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

Professor Emeritus, 

Health care initiatives; industrial engineering; operations research

Research Engineer III, 

Assistant Professor, 

Machine learning, optimization and control, distributed and sequential learning, with a focus on developing computationally efficient methods for data analytics

Associate Dean for Space and Special Initiatives, 

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

Assistant Professor, 

Prosthetics and wearable robotics design and control, gait rehabilitation, preference optimization, and machine learning

Professor, 

Machine Learning for Fisheries, SLAM in the presence of Dynamic Moving Objects, Counter UAS methodologies , Manipulation Underwater, and Imaging in Visually Degraded Environments including underwater and in polar regions

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

Senior Student Services and Data Manager, 

Teaching Professor, 

Director, 

Assistant Professor, 

Modeling the neuromechanics of human movement and applying it to assistive devices and rehabilitation treatment

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

Professor, 

New magnetic and magnetoelectric materials and device physics; integrated magnetic, ferroelectric and multiferroic materials and microsystems for sensing, memory, power, RF and microwave electronics; novel electrochemical sensors for sensing different pathogens and biomarkers for the diagnosis of various diseases, including COVID-19, Alzheimer’s disease, lung cancer, drug abuse, diabetes, etc.

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

Postdoctoral Research Associate, 

Professor, 

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