Faculty

Staff

  • Patrick Drane, Ph.D.
    Patrick Drane, Ph.D.
    Research Associate Professor, Director, Assistant Director, Technical Program Manager, SHAP3D Technical Program Manager and Industry Liaison Officer
    Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Center for Sports Engineering and Performance, Center for Energy Innovation, Advanced Composite Materials & Textile Research Lab (ACMTRL), Harnessing Emerging Research Opportunities to Empower Soldiers (HEROES), WindSTAR, SHAP3D, Sports Collaborative for Open Research and Education (SCORE)

    Sports equipment mechanics, composite and foam characterization, research center operations

  • Helga Krieger, Ph.D.
    Helga Krieger, Ph.D.
    Post-Doctoral Research Associate
    Mechanical Engineering

    Textile Engineering, Composite Materials, Textile Material Modeling, Experimental Shear and Drape Analysis, Drape Simulation, Biomimicry

  • Sagar Shah, Ph.D.
    Sagar Shah, Ph.D.
    Postdoctoral Research Associate
    Mechanical Engineering, Advanced Composites Materials & Textile Research Lab (ACMTRL)

    Composite Process Modeling, Computational Micromechanics, Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (ICME), Multiscale Analysis, Composite Manufacturing and Testing, Finite Element Analysis (FEA), Fracture Mechanics

  • Weidi Wang, Ph.D.
    Weidi Wang, Ph.D.
    Adjunct Faculty, Research Scientist
    Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

    Wave propagation, mechanical metamaterials, impact mitigation, reduced order modeling, deep learning

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