Faculty & Staff

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

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

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

Research center operations; experimental mechanics of sports equipment; material characterization of composite materials, foams, and wood; and high-speed imaging

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

• 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

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.

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.

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

Analytical Chemistry, Electrochemistry, Nanomaterials

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

Weather modeling, analysis and forecasting, boundary layer meteorology

Labor economics, the economics of disability, applied econometrics, scholarship of teaching and learning

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)

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

Environmental Economics and Policy, Risk, Natural Hazards, Disaster Mitigation, Climate Change

Control Systems, Power electronics, Battery modeling

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

Experimental Economics, Environmental Economics, Public Policy

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

Material Science, Optical & electronic properties of materials, Optical Spectroscopy, Devices

Geotechnical Engineering

Applied Macro and Micro Models, Energy & Environmental Economics, Economics of Occupational Health

Nano-composites, Coatings, Transparent conductive electrodes, Organic photo-voltaic, Collaborative research between faculty members, Industry and Government partners.

Photovoltaic materials and devices, nanomaterials, thermoelectric materials and devices, sensors, optical spectroscopies, optoelectronic materials and laser physics, nonliear optics

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

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

Combustion, Renewable Energy, Biofuels, Internal Combustion Engines

Signal Processing & Control

British and American modernist literature, composition and rhetoric, and gender studies.

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.

Electric machines and drives, Power electronics

Solar Energy, Assistive Technologies, Robotics, Manufacturing Theory

Materials Chemistry, Nanotechnology, Analytical Chemistry, Energy Materials, Photonics

Analytical & Environmental Chemistry

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

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

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

Environmental Health, Chemicals Policy, Pollution Prevention, Risk Assessment

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

Sustainable housing, environmental and occupational health, community economic development

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

Communication networks and Reliability

Structural Engineering, Infrastructure Materials

Data Fusion, Signal Processing

Aerodynamics, Computational Fluid Dynamics

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

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

Wastewater Treatment