Faculty

Electrochemical energy conversion and storage, mass/charge transport phenomena, electrochemical reaction kinetics, flowable slurry electrodes.

Electromagnetics, metamaterials, printed electronics, antennas, and RF devices

• Processes: Additive Manufacturing/3D Printing, Foaming, Injection Molding
• Materials: Multifunctional Polymer Nanocomposites, Bio-Based Polymers, and Composites, Advanced Polymeric Foams

Applied Mechanics, Mechanics of Materials, Dynamic Behavior of Materials, Composites, and Structures

Printed Electronics, Photonics, Semiconductor Devices, Fiber Optic Communications

Modal Analysis, Analytical and Experimental Structural Dynamics

Plastics processing, including extrusion, injection molding, and novel processing techniques; nanomanufacturing with polymers; 3D printing

Energy Engineering, Nuclear Engineering

Environmental Engineering

Polymer colloids, soft matter, stimuli-responsive polymers, emulsion polymerization and water-based polymer coatings, inks and adhesives. Photoresist polymers for nanolithography, nanofluidic devices & microcapsules & hybrid nanoparticles for nanomedicine, biomedical devices, drug delivery devices and biosensors.

Applying engineering and decision-making models to find solutions to climate change and environmental problems, energy and process modeling, multi-objective optimization, sustainability, system modeling and optimization for energy resilience, life cycle assessment (LCA), techno-economic analysis (TEA), climate smart housing, food insecurity in the cold supply chain, and handprint assessment.

Biomaterials, Tissue Engineering, Personalized Medicine, Hydrogels, Additive Manufacturing, Microfabrication, Cardiovascular Diseases, Biomineralization, Point of Care Diagnostics

Rational design of nanomaterials for functional applications; Plasma catalysis and interaction mechanisms between plasma, molten metals and porous materials; Growth mechanisms of nanowires; Porous crystalline membranes for chemical separations.

Communications networks

Heat and Mass Transfer, Computational Fluid Dynamics

(Electro)-Catalysis, Multi-Scale Modeling (DFT, microkinetic modeling, CFD), Electric Field, Microwave Heating, CO2 Conversion, Light Alkane Activation, Machine learning

Composite Materials, Nanomanufacturing.

Connected Automated Vehicle, Traffic flow theory, Traffic control, Simulations, Intelligent Transportation System

Advanced manufacturing processes, brain-machine interface, soft and hard tissue cutting processes, biomedical design & manufacturing, additive manufacturing for custom healthcare.

Embedded Systems, Analog/Digital Design

Communication Networks & Network Security

Healthcare Engineering, Human Factors, Operations Management, Lean Healthcare, Decision-Making, Predictive Modeling, Engineering Education, and Community-Based Participatory Research.

Structural & Geotechnical Engineering, Civil Infrastructure Systems

Process Modeling and Simulation; Dynamics; Process Control

New polymeric materials, additives, fillers, economic evaluations, elastomers, & rheology

Biomedical image reconstruction and analysis

Structural Engineering

Medical Devices, Biomedical Optics, Computational Modeling

Traffic and Transportation Engineering, Methods of Systems Analysis

Computer architecture, embedded systems

Geotechnical/Civil Engineering, Experimental and Computational Geomechanics, Emerging Geomechanics for Energy and Environment, Constitutive and Numerical Modeling in Geotechnics, Finite Element Analyses, Computer Aided Design (CAD)

Nanomaterials and nanotechnology, nanowires

Nonlinear control, hybrid systems, legged robots, exoskeletons, human biomechanical modeling

Geotechnical Engineering

Materials science, self-healing materials, additive manufacturing (i.e. 3D printing) techniques

Control Systems, Power electronics, Battery modeling

Structural health monitoring, diagnostics and prognostics, damage detection, structural dynamics, acoustics, signal processing, mechanical design and nonlinear dynamics

Micro-Robotics, Piezoelectric Actuation and Sensing, Flapping-Wing Vehicles, Bio-Inspired Engineering

Self-organized dynamics in complex systems, Multi-agent systems, Connected and autonomous vehicles, System reliability and prognostics, Robotic ensembles

Computer-aided engineering, computer-aided manufacturing, process control, injection molding, part design, mold design, finite element analysis

Plastics product and process design, process simulation, instrumentation, and control

Medical Device Design, Medical Device Manufacturing, Flexible Hybrid Electronics, Prosthetics and Orthotics, Optical Compounding

Advanced Manufacturing, Manufacturing Processes, Additive Manufacturing, Process Planning, Material Behavior, Industrial Engineering, and Engineering Education

Organic Chemistry, Polymer Chemistry, Polymer Science, Materials Science, Nanoscience & Technology, Opto-electronic devices, Photophysical characterization

Heat and Mass Transport in Porous Media, Phase Change Processes, Nano-Porous Thermal Insulation and Radiation Control Technologies, Thermal Storage, Building Physics, Building Integrated Solar Technologies, Building Energy Efficiency, Building Envelope Materials and Systems

Geotechnical Engineering

Structural Engineering

Engineering education, STEM student recruitment and retention, tissue engineering and biomaterials pedagogy

Designed, printed, and measured the coplanar waveguide device connected to the High Electronic Mobility Transistor (HEMT) on a flexible substrate; Designed, manufactured, and characterization of the machine learning chip using the Resistive Random-Access Memory (RRAM) device.

Smart power grid, renewable energy, cyber-physical resilience, data analytics

Electrochemical energy generation and storage, Solar energy conversion through photo-electrochemical reactions, Ion-conductive membranes for electrochemical systems, Nanostructured materials, CFD simulation of energy conversion devices

Product Development, Medical Device Design, Computer Aided Design, Automation and Robotics Design and Implementation, Start-up Launch and Operations, Venture Financing

Optoelectronics, Nanophotonics & Fiber Optics

Computer Architecture, Network Systems

Combustion, Renewable Energy, Biofuels, Internal Combustion Engines

Signal Processing & Control

Digital & Mixed-Signal VLSI Design & VLSI Testing

Medical devices, biodegradable polymers, mechanical behavior, applications of CAD/CAM

Computational Fluid Dynamics, Thermal Plasma Processing

Rubber technology, thermoplastic elastomers, design, properties and processing of elastomers, nano materials.

Digital Image Processing, Computer Vision, AI, Networking, Distributed & Embedded Systems

Solid State Devices, Biomedical Engineering, Biometrics

Biocatalysis, greener advanced materials (electronic, photo-responsive polymers, molecularly integrated hybrid nanomaterials, materials for energy conversion/storage), elastomers, thermal & morphological characterization of materials, roll to roll manufacture of flexible electronic products.

Renewable energy systems, wind turbine dynamics, structural dynamic and acoustic systems, smart structures, signal processing, optical sensing, structural health monitoring, non-destructive inspection, and smart materials

• Clinical Trial Data Analysis & Biostatistics
• Medical Image Analysis
• Programming (R, MATLAB)

Environmental fate of emerging contaminants; Low-cost water treatment; Environmental systems modeling

Geotechnical Engineering

Electric machines and drives, Power electronics

Solar Energy, Assistive Technologies, Robotics, Manufacturing Theory

Additive Manufacturing, Controlled Release, Polyelectrolyte Processing, Finite Element Analysis, Cell-Material Interactions, Interfacial Phenomena

Photovoltaic (PV) Performance and Durability Analysis, PV Prototyping, Buildings Integrated PV (BIPV) applications, Failure Analysis for manufacturing industries, Fracture Mechanics, Company Audits

Nuclear Reactor Safety and Thermal-Hydraulics; Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD); Two-Phase Flow and Heat Transfer Modeling, Experiments, and Simulations

Additive Manufacturing (3D Printing), Printed Electronics, RF, Microwaves, Metasurface, IR-Vis and THz Photonics

Solid Mechanics, Composite Materials, Sports Engineering, Finite Element Modeling

Electronic manufacturing, Green design and manufacturing, Six Sigma applications, design of experiments, collaborative engineering, quality and product design

Renewable polymers, Plastics processing, nanocomposites, organic photovoltaics and electronics, rheology, scattering

High Performance Computing

Transportation Engineering

Solid Mechanics, Composite Materials, Textiles, Multi-Scale Modeling, Finite Element Modeling, Adhesively Bonded Joints, Sandwich Structures, Tissue Engineering, Discrete Element Method

Nanoelectronic Devices, Scanning Probe Microscopy, Wide badgap semiconductors and sensors

Solar Energy, Photovoltaics, Net-Zero Buildings, Advisor for Solar Energy Club

Acoustics, Systems & Field Theory

Solid Mechanics, Composite Materials, Mechanical Design, Finite Element Modeling

Geotechnical Engineering, Computational Mechanics, Predictive Analytics

Logic Design & Switching Theory

Sustainable energy engineering, solar energy processing, plasma science & engineering, semiconductor manufacturing, radiation transport, computational transport phenomena

Multi-phase/reacting flows, Combustion, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), Lagrangian-Eulerian methods, Verification, validation, uncertainty quantification (VVUQ), Machine learning, Internal combustion engines, Energy conversion devices

Materials Science and Engineering, Engineering Education, International Partnerships

Communication networks and Reliability

Optical sensors and optical devices

Medical Devices, Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Diseases, Machine Learning, Computer Simulation, Experiment, Medical Image Processing

Wireless Communication

Experimental characterization of textiles and composites, finite element modeling, composite manufacturing process simulation

Data Fusion, Signal Processing

Aerodynamics, Computational Fluid Dynamics

Biomedical Robotics, Connected Healthcare, Biomedical/Rehabilitative/Assistive Device Design and Control, Biosignal Interfaces, Applied Linear/Nonlinear Control and Estimation

Reaction engineering; chemical kinetics; reactor design; detailed kinetic modeling

Antennas, antennas in plasma

Transportation Engineering

Biochemical Engineering, Bioprocess Modeling and Control, Metabolic Engineering, Fermentation Technology, Industrial Biotechnology

Process System Engineering, Systems Biology, PAT/QbD, Modeling and Simulation

Radar NDE, Structural Engineering, Concrete Materials, Structural Stability, Dielectric Measurement and Modeling of Materials, NDT, SHM, Applied Mathematics, Applied Physics

Biomedical Imaging, Medical Image Reconstruction, Medical Image Processing & Analysis

Wastewater Treatment

Applied Electromagnetics, High-Frequency Circuits and Systems