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Finding a Faculty Advisor

Below is a list of all the current Faculty members in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Along with the names of the Professors is the main Interest Area of their research and their research interests. If you see an individual that you would be interested in working with or having them as your faculty advisor, please feel free to contact them. 

Name Interest Area(s) Research Interests
Igor Adamovich EFT Supersonic flow control and combustion control, by plasmas, nonequilibrium MHD flows, and generation of stable, high-pressure nonequilibrium plasmas.
Tunc Aldemir EFT, NUC Probabilistic risk assessment, probabilistic system dynamics, maintenance optimization, numerical methods, and nuclear plant dynamics.
Taylan Altan DM Net shape manufacturing, metal forming, hydroforming, high speed machining, stamping, and forging. 
Stephen Bechtel AM Modeling of manufacturing processes, material characterization, design of advanced materials. 
Necip Berme AM, DM Biomechanics, mechanisms, machine design, experimental mechanics. 
Bharat Bhushan  AM, DM Nano/Bio research (tribology, mechanics, biomimetics), MEMS/NEMS, superhydrophobicity,  gecko adhesion, beauty care, probe based data storage.
Thomas Blue DSC, NUC Space nuclear systems, advanced nuclear reactor instrumentation, including semiconductor sensors, static and dynamic characterization of radiation-induced degradation of semiconductor power devices, accelerator-based Boron Neutron Capture Therapy (BNCT) for cancer.
Henry Busby  AM, DM Inverse problems, composite materials, finite elements, solid mechanics/ 
A. Terrence Conlisk EFT Micro and nanofluidics modeling, electrokinetic phenomena, mass transfer, helicopter aerodynamics, and vortex dominated flows.
Marcelo Dapino AM, DSC Smart materials, nonlinear constitutive modeling, experimental characterization, mechatronic systems, adaptive vehicle systems . 
Richard Denning NUC Reactor safety and risk analysis, areas of reactor safety, probabilistic risk assessment, and nuclear analysis.
Michael Dunn EFT Experimental methods for unsteady aerodynamics and heat transfer, and high-speed instrumentation. 
Rebecca Dupaix AM Mechanical behavior of materials, mechanics of polymers, biomaterials, and composite materials at the micro and nano-scale, deformation processing of polymers, finite element analysis. 
Robert Essenhigh EFT Heterogeneous reaction kinetics, pyrolysis and combustion of coal particles, polymers, carbon, paper, oils, gases, and solid waste. 
Somnath Ghosh AM, DM Computational mechanics, multi-scale materials modeling, molecular dynamics modeling, manufacturing processes and design, composite materials, thermal barrier coatings, biomaterials, fatigue & structural reliability of automotive and aerospace components. 
Amos Gilat AM Experimental mechanics, plasticity, mechanics of materials. 
Dennis Guenther DSC Vehicle dynamics, crash simulation, automotive engineering.
Yann Guezennec EFT Structure of turbulent flows and methods to affect their transport characteristics, use of statistical or stochastic tools to explore the spatio-temporal structure of turbulent fl ows, and fuel cell and hybrid-electric vehicles. 
Brian Hajek NUC Reactor operations, nuclear instrumentation, and hydraulics and measurements, and has done research in reactor simulations, artificial intelligence applications, safety system design, neutron radiography, neutron activation analysis, core flux mapping, and gang-mode rod movements in an operating BWR.
Brian Harper AM Viscoelasticity, polymer mechanics, biomechanics, engineering education. 
Joseph Heremans EFT Experimental research on the transport of heat and electricity in solids and liquids, with emphasis on nanoscale phenomena. Synthesis and characterization of thermoelectric materials and nanomaterials, and solid-state energy converters.
Donald Houser DM Gear dynamics and noise, vibrations, measurements.
Ahmet Kahraman AM, DSC Dynamics and vibration, fatigue, engineered surfaces and wear, power transmission and gearing.
Noriko Katsube AM Computational mechanics, biomechanics, advanced materials, continuum mechanics.
Gary Kinzel DM CAD/CAM, rapid design prototyping, kinematics, sheet metal forming, design of machine elements.
Seppo Korpela EFT Heat transfer and fluid dynamics, thermal systems, and applied mathematics.
J.K. Lee AM Computational mechanics of material processing, sheet metal forming, micro-nano scale simulation.
Walter Lempert EFT Application of optical diagnostic methods to the study of non-equilibrium combustion, and compressible and non-compressible flow, including development of new laser/optical technology.
Blaine Lilly DM High precision injection molding, product design, design for manufacturability. 
Anthony Luscher DM Design and analysis of advanced fastening and joining, plastic part and gear design, injection molding. 
Sandip Mazumder AM, EFT Catalytic conversion, fuel cells, thermal radiation, plasma processing, chemical vapor deposition, and thin films.
Daniel Mendelsohn AM Fracture and damage mechanics, wave propagation, vibrations, nondestructive evaluation, boundary element methods. 
Chia-Hsiang Menq DM, DSC Measurement and control, instrumentation and precision engineering, and imaging and manipulation of biological systems.
Don Miller DSC, NUC Nuclear reactor dynamics, instrumentation, and control.
Michael Moran EFT Engineering thermodynamics, thermoeconomics, and thermal systems design and optimization.
Robert Parker AM, DSC Vibration of mechanical systems; nonlinear dynamics; helicopter and automotive systems; analytical methods and experimental research.
Giorgio Rizzoni DSC Model-based fault diagnosis, automotive powertrain dynamics and control, mechatronics. 
Mohammad Samimy EFT Aeroacoustics, jet flow and noise control, development of actuators, compressible turbulence, and development and application of advanced laser based diagnostics in high-speed flows. 
James Schmiedeler DM Machine design, kinematics and dynamics of robotic systems, legged locomotion, biomechanics of human movement.
Ahmet Selamet EFT Internal combustion engines, linear/nonlinear wave dynamics, noise and pollutant emission control, combustion, heat transfer, and fluid mechanics. 
Rajendra Singh DSC Acoustics, vibration, non-linear dynamics.
Robert Siston DM Medical device design and evaluation, experimental and computational musculoskeletal biomechanics.
Carol Smidts EFT, NUC Nuclear systems, probabilistic risk assessment, software reliability, software testing, software safety and digital systems reliability. 
Krishnaswamy Srinivasan DSC Controls, fluid power, automotive powertrains, manufacturing processes.
George Staab AM, DM Experimental mechanics, engineering education. 
Vish Subramaniam EFT Analytical, numerical, and experimental investigations of non-equilibrium phenomena occurring in reacting fluids or plasmas (ionized gases) or when laser beams interact with materials.
Xiaodong Sun EFT, NUC Thermal-hydraulics and reactor safety, two-phase flow and instrumentation, boiling and condensation, interfacial area transport and bubble dynamics, and high-temperature compact heat exchangers. 
Jeffrey Sutton EFT Turbulent combustion, small-scale mixing in turbulent reacting flows, application of advanced laser diagnostics and imaging techniques to combustion environments, fl ame chemistry, multi-phase flow and combustion, pollutant formation, bio-fuels.
Vadim Utkin DSC Control theory and practice, sliding mode control, electromechanical systems. 
Mark Walter AM Mechanics of fuel cell materials, thermal barrier coatings, and wear coatings, experimental techniques, fracture and damage evolution.
Gregory Washington DSC Smart materials modeling and control, smart sensors for dynamic impact and modal sensing.
Sheng-Tao (John) Yu EFT High-fidelity simulations of unsteady fl ows with complex physical processes using advanced numerical methods in conjunction with Beowulf cluster computers.

AM = Applied Mechanics                                                                                                                                                                    DM = Design and Manufacturing                                                                                                                                                       DSC = Dynamic Systems and Controls                                                                                                                                          EFT = Energy, Fluid, and Thermal Systems                                                                                                                                    NUC = Nuclear Engineering

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