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Mechanical Engineering
Faculty and their Research
Faculty
and their research:
A.
D. Belegundu, professor of mechanical engineering – Optimal
design, numerical analysis, finite elements, reliability.
J.
G. Brasseur, professor of mechanical engineering – Fluid
mechanics, turbulence, biomechanics, computational fluid
dynamics, acoustic propagation, scientific visualization.
S.
Brennan, assistant professor of mechanical engineering – Vehicle
dynamics and control, mechatronics and control theory.
J.
S. Brenizer, Jr., professor of nuclear and mechanical
engineering – Radiation detection, neutron
radiography, neutron activation analysis, nuclear test
ban treaty monitoring and aerogel materials.
M.
Carpino, professor of mechanical engineering – Mechanical
systems, machine design, tribology, advanced computer aided
engineering tools.
L.
Chang, professor of mechanical engineering – Tribology,
lubrication, computational modeling.
F.
B. Cheung, professor of mechanical and nuclear
engineering – Heat transfer, thermal system.
J.
M. Cimbala, professor of mechanical engineering – Fluid
dynamics, flow visualization, wind tunnels, neutron radiography,
turbulence, computational fluid dynamics, turbulence modeling.
M.
I. Frecker, associate professor of mechanical
engineering – Mechanical design, design
automation, design optimization, kinematics, compliant
mechanisms.
M.
A. Haque, assistant professor of mechanical
engineering – Micro-electro-mechanical
systems (MEMS) for mechanical and biological studies, nano-scale
behavior of thin films and interfaces.
D.
C. Haworth, associate professor of mechanical
engineering – Computational thermal-fluid
sciences; turbulence and turbulent combustion fundamentals,
modeling, and applications; numerical methods; IC engines.
L.
E. Hochreiter, professor of nuclear and mechanical
engineering – Heat transfer, two-phase
flow, nuclear reactor engineering and safety.
G.
H. Koopmann, distinguished professor of mechanical
engineering – Acoustics, noise reduction.
A.
K. Kulkarni, professor of mechanical engineering – Fluid
mechanics, heat transfer, and combustion.
K.
K. Kuo, distinguished professor of mechanical
engineering – Combustion, fluid dynamics,
heat transfer, propultion and ballistics.
J.
S. Lamancusa, professor of mechanical engineering – Computer-aided
design, vibrations, noise control, mechatronics.
T.
A. Litzinger, professor of mechanical engineering – Combustion,
internal combustion engines, gas turbines and propulsion.
E.
R. Marsh, associate professor of mechanical
engineering – Machine dynamics, machine
design, and manufacturing.
M.
M. Mench, assistant professor of mechanical
engineering – Fuel cells, propellant and
metal combustion, energetic materials, heat and mass transfer.
P.
Michaleris, associate professor of mechanical
engineering – Nonlinear solid mechanics,
heat transfer, and dynamics as applied to computer aided
design and manufacturing process modeling.
E.
M. Mockensturm, assistant professor of mechanical
engineering – Solid mechanics, dynamics,
thermodynamics, vibrations, and stability of axially moving
continua.
M.
F. Modest, professor of mechanical engineering – Thermal
systems, radiative heat transfer, heat transfer during materials
processing with lasers.
M.
Ogot, associate professor of engineering design
and graphics and mechanical engineering – Machine
design, engineering pedagogy.
L.
L. Pauley, professor of mechanical engineering – Computational
fluid dynamics, boundary layer separation, shear layer stability.
H.
Perez-Blanco, professor of mechanical engineering – Heat
and mass transfer, advanced heating and cooling cycles.
S.
Piazza, assistant professor of kinesiology and
mechanical engineering – Computer simulation
of musculo-skeletal systems, modeling of gait and total
joint replacement.
C.
D. Rahn, professor of mechanical engineering – Analytical
foundations of control engineering, automatic control systems,
nonlinear control and stability, advanced mechatronics.
A.
Ray, distinguished professor of mechanical engineering – Intelligent
instrumentation, decision and control, signal processing,
and mechanics of materials.
D.
A. Santavicca, professor of mechanical engineering – Combustion,
internal-combustion, gas turbine and rocket engines.
R.
J. Santoro, George L. Guillet, professor of
mechanical engineering – Combustion, particle
formation, chemical reacting flows, spray combustion, combustion
instability, chemical kinetic modeling.
G.
S. Settles, professor of mechanical engineering – Fluid
dynamics, flow visualization, optical instruments.
K. V.
Sharp, assistant professor of mechanical
engineering – Experimental fluid dynamics,
microfluidics, micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS),
bio-MEMS.
T. W.
Simpson, associate professor of mechanical engineering
and industrial engineering – Engineering
design, statistical approximation, multidisciplinary design
optimization, and computer-aided design.
A. Sinha,
professor of mechanical engineering – Robotics,
system dynamics and control, turbomachinery, and propulsion.
H. J.
Sommer, III, professor of mechanical engineering – Kinematics,
robotics, machine vision, biomechanics.
G. Talmage,
associate professor of mechanical engineering – Fluid
mechanics, magnetohydro-dynamics, thin-film lubrication
theory.
S. T.
Thynell, professor of mechanical engineering – Radiation,
heat transfer, combustion, energetic materials, waste
heat recovery, FT-IR spectroscopy.
M. W.
Trethewey, professor of mechanical engineering – Dynamics,
vibrations, computer-aided design, noise control.
S.
R. Turns, professor of mechanical engineering – Combustion,
heat transfer, internal-combustion engines, rocket engines,
pollutant formation.
C.
Y. Wang, professor of mechanical engineering – Multiphase
heat and mass transfer alloy solidification, battery
and fuel cell systems.
K.
W. Wang, William E. Diefenderfer chaired professor in
mechanical engineering – Vibration,
structural dynamics, controls.
Q.
Wang,
assistant professor of mechanical engineering – Robust
control, system dynamics, optimization and soft computing,
application of control theory in information and computer
systems.
V.
Yang, distinguished professor of mechanical
engineering – Combustion, propulsion, computational
fluid dynamics, acoustics.
S.
Yavuzkurt,
professor of mechanical engineering – Combustion,
fluid dynamics, heat transfer.
R.
A. Yetter, professor of mechanical engineering – Combustion
and environmental science.
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