Mechanical Engineering - Engineering Mechanics Faculty and Staff Directory

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Tenured and Tenure - Track Faculty Lecturers \| Visiting and Adjunct Faculty \| Research Faculty \| Emeriti With Links to their Faculty Web Pages
	Faculty	Rank	Expertise
	Ossama Abdelkhalik	Assistant Professor	Space Mechanics, Spacecraft Dynamics
	Elias C. Aifantis	Professor	Mechanics and Materials Science
	Jeffrey S. Allen	Assistant Professor	Capillary Flow, Interfacial Transport Phenomena, Fuel Cells, Phase-Change Heat Transfer, Microgravity Fluid Physics
	Carl L Anderson	Professor	Heat Transfer, I. C. Engines, Torque Converter, Infrared Radiometry, Infrared & Microwave Telemetry
	John E. Beard	Associate Professor	Design of mechanical systems, Bioengineering, Manufacturing
	Jason R. Blough	Associate Professor	Vibrations, Unique Instrumentation/Data Acquisition, Digital Signal Processing, Noise Control
	Jaime A. Camelio	Assistant Professor	Assembly Systems, Dimensional Analysis of Manufacturing Processes, System Diagnosis
	Bo Chen	Assistant Professor	Mechatronic and embedded systems, agent technology, distributed control systems, intelligent transportation systems
	Roshan M. D'Souza	Assistant Professor	Manufacturing Planning, Optimization, Process Planning, Planning Automation
	William J. Endres	Associate Professor	Machining Dynamics, Cutting Mechanics, Manufacturing Processes
	Craig Friedrich	Professor	Micromechanical Systems, Nanotechnology
	John K. Gershenson	Professor	Life-cycle Engineering, Modular Product Architecture, Lean Engineering, Sustainable Product Design
	Thomas R. Grimm	Associate Professor	Mechanical engineering design, Computer-Aided design, Biomechanics
	Mahesh Gupta	Professor	Polymer Processing, Polymer Rheology, Design with Plastics and Composites, Finite Element Method
	Tammy L. Haut Donahue	Associate Professor	Biomedical Engineering, Orthopaedic Biomechanics, Finite Elements, Computational and Experimental Mechanics
	Gopal Jayaraman	Professor	Biomechanics, Orthopaedic Mechanics, Sports Safety
	L. Brad King	Associate Professor	Space propulsion, Plasma physics, Optical fluid diagnostics
	Edward Lumsdaine	Professor	Engineering Education, High-Tech Training, Noise and Vibrations, Heat Transfer, Entrepreneurship
	Spandan Maiti	Assistant Professor	Computational solid mechanics, multiscale modeling, failure and fracture of materials, dynamic fracture
	Dennis DeSheng Meng	Assistant Professor	Micro and nano technologies for energy and environmental applications, Microfluidics, Micro fuel cells, Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS), micro and nano fabrication
	Donna J. Michalek	Associate Professor Assistant Provost	CFD, Multi-Phase Flow, Atomization, Environmentally Responsible Manufacturing
	Michele H. Miller	Associate Professor	Grinding, Precision Engineering, MEMS, Human Factors
	Ibrahim Miskioglu	Associate Professor	Engineering Mechanics, Experimental Stress Analysis, Composite Materials
	Abhijit Mukherjee	Assistant Professor	Heat Transfer, Boiling, Interfacial Phenomena, Micro- and Nanofluidics
	Jeffrey D. Naber	Associate Professor	Internal Combustion Engines, Hydrogen and Biofuels, and After-Treatment
	Amitabh Narain	Professor	Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer, Condensing /Phase-change flows
	Gregory M. Odegard	Assistant Professor	Mechanics of Materials, Materials Science
	Sudhakar M. Pandit	Professor	Data-Dependent systems modeling, Computer control, Machine vision, Nanometrology
	Gordon G. Parker	Professor	Nonlinear Controls, Mechatronics, and Dynamics
	Chris E. Passerello	Professor	Dynamics, Vibrations, Finite elements
	Fernando Ponta	Assistant Professor	Theoretical and Computational Fluid Mechanics, Vortex Dynamics, Fluid-Structure Interaction, Wind-Turbine Aerodynamics, Renewable-Energy Sources, Energy Systems
	William W. Predebon	Professor	Ceramics, Impact Phenomena, Wave Propagation, Computer Simulation of Explosive-Metal Systems
	Mohan D. Rao	Professor	Acoustics, Vibrations, Noise Control, Damping and Auditory Science
	Reza Shahbazian-Yassar	Assistant Professor	Microstructure-Mechanical Property Relationships in bio- and nano-materials, In-Situ Electron Microscopy, crystal plasticity modeling, and Artificial Neural Network Modeling
	John W. Sutherland	Professor	Environmentally Responsible Manufacturing, Quality, Machining, Sustainability
	Madhukar Vable	Associate Professor	Computational Mechanics
	Charles D. Van Karsen	Associate Professor	Vibration, Modal Analysis, Acoustics
	Carl R. Vilmann	Associate Professor	Fracture mechanics, Stress analysis, Finite element methods, Magnetoelasticity
	Song Lin (Jason) Yang	Professor	Applied Computational Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer, Engine Flow Simulation, DPF and DOC Modeling and Simulation, Computational Aerodynamics

Lecturers
	Faculty	Rank	Expertise
	Olanrewaju Aluko	Senior Lecturer	Stresses and failure analysis, composite materials and structures
	Komaravolu, V.C. Rao	Principal Lecturer

Research Faculty
	Faculty	Rank	Expertise
	Qingli Dai	Research Assistant Professor	Computational Mechanics, Mechanics of Materials, Multiscale Modeling, Composite Materials
	John H. Johnson	Research Professor, Professor Emeritus	Internal combustion engines
	Klaus J. Weinmann	Research Professor, Professor Emeritus	Sheet metal forming, Tribology in metal forming, Metal cutting

Visiting and Adjunct Faculty
	Faculty	Rank	Expertise
	Bernhard P. Bettig	Adjunct Assistant Professor	Computer-Aided design, Geometric modeling, Knowledge based systems
	Peck Cho	Adjunct Professor	Combustion
	Nels S. Christopherson	Instructor	Mechanical design, Mechanics of materials, Dynamics
	Adam Loukus	Visiting Assistant Professor	Experimental Mechanics, Hydroforming, Metal Matrix Composites, Ceramic Processing
	Josh E. Loukus	Instructor	Nano-Ceramic Partical Dispersion, Manufacture of Metal Matrix Composites
	Henry Sodano	Assistant Professor	Smart Structures, Vibration Control, Power Harvesting, Structural Health Monitoring, Deployable Satellites
	Ghatu Subhash	Professor	Experimental mechanics, Constitutive behavior of ceramics, Composites and metals, Fracture mechanics, and High strain rate behavior of materials
	Robert L. Whipple	Research Engineer Scientist II	Engineering Mechanics, Experimental Methods, Biomechanics, Phytomechanics
	Byeng Dong Youn	Assistant Professor	Reliability-Based Design, Statistical Information Technology (SIT), Design Sensitivity Analysis, Biomechanics

Emeriti Faculty
	Faculty	Rank	Expertise
	Oner Arici	Professor Emeritus	Automotive climate control, Solar energy, Computational fluid dynamics
	Harold A. Evensen	Professor Emeritus	Noise control, Vibrations, Signal analysis
	Larry Evers	Professor Emeritus	Engines
	John B. Ligon	Professor Emeritus	Experimental mechanics, Phytomechanics
	William Shapton	Professor Emeritus	Noise, Vibration and Harshness (NVH)
	N. V. Suryanarayana	Professor Emeritus	Convective Heat Transfer, Heat Transfer with Phase Change