Francis College of Engineering

Joseph C. Hartman, Ph.D., P.E.

Krishna Vedula, Ph.D.

Chemical Engineering

Robert Malloy, Ph.D.

Plastics product design, polymer processing, recycling of thermoplastics.

Stephen Orroth, M.S.

Extrusion, die design, processing, thermoforming, blow molding, & rotational molding

Christopher Niezrecki, Ph.D.

Modeling & control of vibrations  & acoustics, smart structures & materials

Stephen McCarthy, Ph.D.

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

Tzuyang Yu, Ph.D.

Radar NDE, Structural Engineering, Concrete Materials, Structural Stability & Dielectric Dispersion of Materials

Sukesh Aghara, Ph.D.

Alkim Akyurtlu, Ph.D.

Electromagnetics

Alireza V. Amirkhizi, Ph.D.

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

Craig Armiento, Ph.D.

Printed Electronics, Photonics, Semiconductor Devices, Fiber Optic Communications

Peter Avitabile, D.Eng.

Modal Analysis, Analytical and Experimental Structural Dynamics

Carol Barry, D.Eng.

Extrusion, injection molding, electrorheology, novel processing techniques & more...

Frank J. Bonner, Ph.D.

Gilbert J. Brown, Ph.D.

Energy Engineering, Nuclear Engineering

Clifford Bruell, Ph.D.

Environmental Engineering

Bridgette Budhlall, Ph.D.

Synthesis & applications of polymer colloids & soft matter towards stimuli-responsive materials. Emulsion polymers. Photoresist polymers for nanolithography, nanofluidic devices & microcapsules & hybrid nanoparticles for biomedical devices, drug delivery systems & biosensors.

Stephen Burke Driscoll, M.S.

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

Kavitha Chandra, D. Eng.

Communications networks

Majid Charmchi, Ph.D.

Heat and Mass Transfer, Computational Fluid Dynamics

Julie Chen, Ph.D.

Composite Materials, Nanomanufacturing.

George Cheney, M.S.

Embedded Systems, Analog/Digital Design

Chunxiao (Tricia) Chigan, Ph.D.

Communication Networks & Network Security

Aldo Crugnola

Mechanical-physical properties, process-induced changes in physical molecular structure

Rebecca Darlington

Paul DeStefano, Ph.D., P.E., SECB

Structural & Geotechnical Engineering, Civil Infrastructure Systems

Glenn Dissinger, Ph.D.

Process Modeling and Simulation; Dynamics; Process Control

Alfred A. Donatelli, Ph.D.

Heat & mass transfer to non-Newtonian fluids; permeation through polymer films and membranes; mathematical modeling, simulation & control of dynamic processes.

Patrick Drane, M.S.M.E.

Experimental Mechanics of Baseball Bats & Other Sports Equipment, Composite Materials, High-Speed Imaging, Laboratory Setup & Management, Conference & Symposium Management, STEM Engagement in K-12

John Duffy, D.Sc.

Mechanical engineering, control systems science, solar engineering, environmental engineering, education, statistics and manufacturing systems

Susan Faraji, Ph.D.

Structural Engineering

Nathan Gartner, Sc.D

Transportation Engineering

Michael J. Geiger, Ph.D.

Computer architecture, embedded systems

Jennifer Gorczyca, D.Eng.

Theodore Grosch, Ph.D.

RF & microwave circuit design, radar systems, cellular systems, & commercial product development.

Steven Grossman, Ph.D.

Structure-property relationships of plastics, reactive processing of polymers, polyblends and additives, & new polymerization reactions

Zhiyong Gu, Ph.D.

Nanomaterials and nanotechnology, nanowires

Edward L. Hajduk, D.Eng, PE

Geotechnical Engineering

Christopher Hansen, Ph.D.

Materials science, self-healing materials, micro-patterning & additive manufacturing techniques

Nabil Hourani

Geotechnical Engineering

Maureen A. Howley, Ph.D.

Tingshu Hu, Ph.D.

Dynamic Systems & Control

Jan Chan Huang, Ph.D.

Physical properties of polymers, conducting polymers, thermodynamics of solutions, modeling and numerical methods

Oliver Ibe, Sc.D

Mobile & Converged Communications

Murat Inalpolat, Ph.D

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

Stephen Johnston, Ph.D.

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

David Kazmer, Ph.D

Plastics product design & process engineering

Pradeep Kurup, Ph.D.

Geotechnical Engineering

Fang Lai, Ph.D.

Plastics processing, process control and instrumentation, powder technology, industrial hazard assessment, SQC/SPC, & statistical methods

Carl W. Lawton, Ph.D.

Donald Leitch, M.S.

Structural Engineering

Xuejun Lu, Ph.D.

Optoelectronics, Nanophotonics & Fiber Optics

Yan Luo, Ph.D.

Computer Architecture

Eric Maase

Hunter Mack, Ph.D.

Combustion, Renewable Energy, Biofuels, Internal Combustion Engines

Mufeed Mah'd, Ph.D.

Digital Signal and Image Processing

Sanjeev Manohar, Ph.D.

Martin Margala, Ph.D.

Digital & Mixed-Signal VLSI Design & VLSI Testing

John McKelliget, Ph.D.

Computational Fluid Dynamics, Thermal Plasma Processing

Joey Mead, Ph.D.

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

Dalila Megherbi, Ph.D.

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

Samson Mil'shtein, Ph.D.

Solid State Devices, Biomedical Engineering, Biometrics

Ramaswamy Nagarajan, Ph.D.

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

Eugene E. Niemi, Jr. Ph.D.

Aerodynamics, Wind Tunnel Testing, Thermofluids

Nese Orbey, Ph.D.

Samuel Paikowsky, Sc.D.

Geotechnical Engineering

Robert E. Parkin, Ph.D.

Robotics, Control, Manufacturing

Justin Pounders, Ph.D.

Radiation transport; nuclear reactor modeling and simulation; computational science.

Kanti Prasad, Ph.D.

Michele Putko, Ph.D.

Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

Prakash Rai, Ph.D.

Theranostic Nanomedicine

Tenneti K. Rao, Ph.D.

Electromagnetics

Ioannis Raptis, Ph.D.

Nonlinear dynamic systems theory and control design, robotics, fault detection and failure prognosis.

Md. Mamunur Rashid, Ph.D., P.E.

Environmental and Water Resource Engineering

Emmanuelle Reynaud, Ph.D.

Materials Science, Nanomanufacturing

Ziyad Salameh, Ph.D.

Power & Energy

Daniel F. Schmidt, Ph.D.

Materials preparation and structure/properties relationships in polymer nanocomposites, polymer crosslinking and network formation, pre-ceramic polymers, sol-gel chemistry and materials analysis (porosimetry, permeation testing, thermal analysis, x-ray diffraction & spectroscopic techniques)

Nick Schott

Extrusion, injection molding, process control, mixing requirements, and product design.

James A. Sherwood, Ph.D., P.E.

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

Sammy Shina, Ph.D.

Electronic manufacturing, six sigma applications, design of experiments, collaborative engineering, quality & product design

Meg Sobkowicz-Kline, Ph.D.

Renewable polymers, nanocomposites, organic photovoltaics, rheology, scattering

Seung Woo Son, Ph.D.

High Performance Computing

Chronis Stamatiadis, Ph.D.

Transportation Engineering

Daniel J. Sullivan, Ph.D.

Hongwei Sun, Ph.D.

Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS), Microfluidics

Glenn Sundberg, Ph.D.

Amad Tayebi

Fibrous materials and composites.  mechanical behavior, performance and failure of plastics products.  air filtration and respiratory protective devices, automated assembly systems. Patent law.

Joel Therrien, Ph.D.

Nanoelectronic Devices

Walter Thomas, Ph.D.

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

Charles Thompson, Ph.D.

Acoustics, Systems & Field Theory

Lawrence Thompson, PhD, PE

Mechanical Design and Analysis

John Ting, Sc.D., P.E.

Anh Tran, Ph.D.

Logic Design & Switching Theory

Frank Tredeau, Ph.D.

Power Electronics, Renewable Energy, Electric Vehicles, Battery Management Systems, Battery Evaluation

Juan Pablo Trelles, Ph.D.

Renewable energy engineering, plasma science & engineering, semiconductor manufacturing, computational transport phenomena

Vinod Vokkarane, Ph.D.

Communication networks and Reliability

John W. Walkinshaw, Ph.D.

Dean Wang, Ph.D.

Computational Reactor Analysis, Reactor Modeling and Simulation, Reactor Safety

Xingwei Wang, Ph.D

Optical biosensing & biomedical devices

Ming Wei, D.Eng

Nanomanufacturing, polymer blends, surface chemistry, polymer characterization, project management

Jay A. Weitzen, Ph.D.

Wireless Communication

John R. White, Ph.D.

David J. Willis, Ph.D.

Aerodynamics, Computational Fluid Dynamics

Hsi-Wu Wong, Ph.D.

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

Yuanchang Xie, Ph.D., P.E.

Transportation Engineering

Seongkyu Yoon, Ph.D.

Xiaoqi (Jackie) Zhang, Ph.D.

Environmental Engineering