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, 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, 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.

Seungjin Kim, assistant professor of mechanical and nuclear engineering – Acoustics, noise reduction.

G. H. Koopmann, distinguished professor of mechanical engineering –Two-phase flow.

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, professor of mechanical engineering – Machine dynamics, machine design, and manufacturing.

M. M. Mench, associate 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, associate 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.

L. L. Pauley, professor of mechanical engineering – Computational fluid dynamics, boundary layer separation, shear layer stability.

M. B. Parkinson, Assistant Professor of SEDTAPP and Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering – design with specific application to human variability.

H. Perez-Blanco, professor of mechanical engineering – Heat and mass transfer, advanced heating and cooling cycles.

S. Piazza, associate 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, distinguished 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, 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, professor of mechanical engineering – Fluid mechanics, magnetohydro-dynamics, thin-film lubrication theory.

K. A. Thole, professor and head of mechanical and nuclear engineering – Fluid mechanics, and heat transfer.

S. T. Thynell, professor of mechanical engineering –Radiation heat transfer, combustion, thermal decomposition of energetic materials, FT-IR and time-of-flight mass 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, distinguished 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, John L. and Genevieve H. McCain chaired professor of mechanical engineering – Combustion, propulsion, computational fluid dynamics, acoustics.

S. Yavuzkurt, professor of mechanical engineering – Combustion, fluid dynamics, heat transfer.