Faculty

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

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

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

Modal Analysis, Analytical and Experimental Structural Dynamics

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.

Heat and Mass Transfer, Computational Fluid Dynamics

Composite Materials, Nanomanufacturing.

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

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

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

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

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

Industrial engineering, Network resiliency, Public sector operations research

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

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

Computational Fluid Dynamics, Thermal Plasma Processing

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

Solar Energy, Assistive Technologies, Robotics, Manufacturing Theory

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

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

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

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

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

Sustainable Energy Engineering; Plasma Science & Engineering; 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

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

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