Faculty

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

Nuclear nonproliferation, nuclear security and safeguards, nuclear energy for decarbonization.

Additive Manufacturing, Printed Electronics, Additive Packaging, Metamaterials, Functional Printable Inks, Electromagnetics and RF Devices

Processing: Additive Manufacturing/3D Printing, Compounding, Foaming, Injection Molding; Materials: Multifunctional Nanocomposites, Biopolymers & Biocomposites, 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

Semiconductor materials and devices, epitaxial growth, advanced characterization, design and fabrication of electronic/optoelectronic devices

Geotechnical engineering; infrastructure asset monitoring; coastal geotechnics; sustainable ground improvement materials; net-zero constructions

Neural Engineering, Extracellular Electrophysiology, Assay Development

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

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.

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

Plastics Recycling, Bioplastics, Microplastics, Safer Solvents and Chemicals, Biomass Conversion

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

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

Integral abutment bridges, Finite element modeling of structures, and the study of the behavior of bridges through data collection and data analysis.

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

Geotechnical Engineering

Optical Diagnostics, Laser Speckle Micro-rheology, Optical Imaging, Medical Devices, Tissue Biomechanics, Mechanobiology of Human Disease

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

Control Systems; Power and Energy

Structural health monitoring, Diagnostics and Prognostics, Structural dynamics, Vibrations, Acoustics, Signal processing, 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

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

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

Industrial engineering, Network resiliency, Public sector operations research

Geotechnical Engineering

Structural Engineering

Tissue Engineering; Biomaterials; Engineering Education; Workforce Development; Recruitment and Retention of Underrepresented Minorities; First Year Experience; Program Evaluation

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

Engineering and applied mechanics, computational modeling of materials and structures, and applied statistics

Optoelectronics, Photonics, Infrared lasers and photodetectors, and focal plane arrays, optical antennas

Computer Architecture, Network Systems

Combustion, Biofuels, Internal Combustion Engines, Machine Learning, Energy Resilience, Propulsion

Signal Processing & Control

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

Optical telescope, wavefront control system, and instrument design for the direct imaging of extra solar planets.

Solid State Devices, Biomedical Engineering, Biometrics

Sustainable approaches to polymers, additives and multifunctional materials, structure-property-utility relationships of plastics and elastomers. Polymers and additives from renewable resources. Thermal & morphological characterization of materials, prototyping and scalable 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

Robotics; Human Movement Biomechanics; Sensing; Mechanics

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

Geotechnical Engineering

Polymer Processing, Multiscale Fiber Manufacturing, Electrospinning, Polymer Nanocomposite, Extrusion, Additive Manufacturing, Hierarchical Structural Assembly, Smart Textile.

Solar Energy, Assistive Technologies, Robotics, Manufacturing Theory

Additive Manufacturing, Polyelectrolyte Processing, Cell-Material Interactions, Interfacial Phenomena, Packaging

Novel functional materials for printed electronics and additive manufacturing, Synthesis and characterization of different types of nanomaterials, RF and microwave device characterization, Rapid prototyping

Vibrations, Signal Processing, Analytical and Experimental Modal Analysis, Engineering Education

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

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 recycling, extrusion, nanocomposites, organic photovoltaics and electronics, rheology, scattering

High Performance Computing

Cellular Engineering, Engineering Education

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

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

Sustainable Energy Engineering; Plasma Science & Engineering; Computational Transport Phenomena

Distributed Computing

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

Industrial Engineering, Human Factors and Ergonomics, Usability Engineering, Design and Emotion, and Engineering Education. Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.

Cyber-Physical Systems, Network Optimization, Reliability, Smart Grids, Cyber-Security

Optical sensors and optical devices

Structural Engineering, Infrastructure Materials, Sustainable Construction Materials

Wireless Communication

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

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; catalysis; sustainability principles

Antennas, antennas in plasma

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

Transportation Engineering

Environmental Engineering, Subsurface Remediation, Environmental Interface Chemistry, Critical Mineral Recovery.

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

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

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

Applied Electromagnetics, High-Frequency Circuits and Systems

Wastewater Treatment