ENME Faculty Research Interests
Anand, Davinder K.
Research Interests: Control systems; automation; manufacturing and energy.
Azarm, Shapour
Research Interests: Deterministic and stochastic (robust) design (single- and multi-objective; classical and evolutionary; single and multi-disciplinary) optimization; Multi-attribute design decision making under uncertainty; Multi-disciplinary multi-objective sensitivity analysis; Reduced-order modeling (approximation): Design of experiments and metamodeling; Integration of engineering design and marketing in retail dominated markets for single product, product line and product bundling design.
Balachandran, Balakumar
Research Interests: Nonlinear phenomena, dynamics and vibrations, and control.
Balaras, Elias
Research Interests: Multiscale/multiphysics modeling in physical and biological systems, applications of blood flow modeling in disease research, medical device design and surgical planning, insect flight biomechanics, fluid-structure interactions.
Bar-Cohen, Avram
Research Interests: Thermal management of Micro/Nano systems, including thermal design, ebullient heat transfer, and thermal phenomena in microelectronic, photonic, and biological systems, as well as technology forecasting and management of technology.
Barker, Donald
Research Interests: Electronic packaging; experimental mechanics; fracture mechanics; dynamic (high strain rate) material behavior; CAE/CAD/CALCE.
Baz, Amr
Research Interests: Active and passive control of vibration and noise; active constrained layer damping; magnetic composites, virtual reality design of smart structures, and active acoustic metamaterials.
Bergbreiter, Sarah
Research Interests: Microrobotics, networked multi-robot systems, and sensor networks.
Bernard, Peter
Research Interests: Fluid mechanics; turbulence theory; calculation of turbulent flows.
Bigio, David
Research Interests: Polymer processing with a focus on mixing dynamics and controls; quality improvement of corporate practices through Lean Six Sigma (BlackBelt).
Bruck, Hugh
Research Interests: Polymer processing of functionally graded materials, smart materials, multifunctional materials, and nanocomposites; particulate material processing of functionally graded materials and nanocomposites; thin film processing of nanostructured functionally graded materials; finite element modeling of functionally graded and multifunctional materials; microstructural and mechanical characterization of functionally graded materials, smart materials, multifunctional materials, nanocomposites, and biologically inspired heterogeneous structures; and mathematical techniques for optimizing the design of functionally graded and multifunctional materials.
Chopra, Nikhil
Research Interests: Control theory, robotics, bilateral teleoperation and synchronization theory.
Christou, Aris
Research Interests: Materials processing and manufacture technology, strained engineered materials for optoelectronics, physics-of-failure in electronic materials, opto-electronic monolithically integrated optoelectronics, analog mm-wave integrated circuits, molecular nanoelectronics devices using 1D and 2D Structures, tribology of ceramics and surface lubricants, finite element methods applied to metal alloys, metal-nonmetal composites and electronic packaging, phase transformations and defects in metastable structures.
Cukier, Michel
Research Interests: Fault tolerance; intrusion tolerance; and dependability and security evaluation.
Dasgupta, Abhijit
Research Interests: Mechanics of electronic packaging materials and “smart” composite materials; research focused on nanomechanics, micromechanics, damage mechanics and computational mechanics.
Desai, Jaydev
Research Interests: Medical robotics, haptic interfaces for robot-assisted surgery, surgical simulation, model-based teleoperation, and cellular surgery.
DeVoe, Don
Research Interests: MEMS and microfluidic systems.
Dieter, George
Research Interests: Materials processing; engineering design; quality engineering; engineering education.
diMarzo, Marino
Research Interests: Fire protection agents, fire sprinklers, large-scale test instrumentation and data analysis, nuclear reactor safety thermal hydraulics.
Duncan, James
Research Interests: Experimental and theoretical/numerical investigations of fluid flows: breaking water waves, growing and collapsing bubbles interacting with compliant boundaries, turbulent boundary layers interacting with compliant walls, and quantitative flow visualization.
Fourney, William
Research Interests: Dynamic fracture mechanics; rock fracture and fragmentation; experimental stress analysis.
Gupta, Ashwani
Research Interests: Swirl flows; combustion; sprays; alternative fuels; pollution; gas turbine combustion; flowfield modeling; nonintrusive diagnostics; highly preheated air combustion; thermal destruction of solid and liquid wastes; gasification; sensors; internal combustion engines; fouling and deposition; pulse detonation; and combustion in microengines.
Gupta, Satyandra
Research Interests: Computer Aided Design, Manufacturing Automation, and Robotics.
Han, Bongtae
Research Interests: Design of LED-based lighting system, Mechanical design of photonics and microelectronics devices; Hermeticity of MEMS devices; Moisture and gas diffusion in flexible electronics; Experimental micro and nanomechanics (optical methods and methodologies).
Herrmann, Jeffrey
Research Interests: Public health emergency preparedness, production scheduling, engineering design decision-making.
Jackson, Gregory
Research Interests: Solid oxide fuel cells (anode materials and chemistry, hydrocarbon tolerance, system integration), PEM fuel cells (system integration with fuel reformers, CO tolerant electrocatalysts), H2 production (production from hydrocarbons, membrane separators and reactors), catalytic oxidation (catalytic combustion, computational model development), combustion (premixed flame stability/extinction behavior, gas turbines), thermoelectric waste heat recovery.
Kiger, Kenneth
Research Interests: Fluid mechanics and experimental techniques, specifically in the topics of multi-phase flows, particle/turbulence interaction, and turbulent mixing in complex geometries. Current project topics include applying Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) to the suspension of sediment in turbulent channel flows, air entrainment by plunging liquid jets, fundamental dynamics of spray cooling for electronic applications, and the effects of turbulent mixing on safety issues within Pressurized Water Reactors of nuclear power plants.
Kim, Jungho
Research Interests: Phase change heat transfer process as applied to electronic cooling; investigation of fundamental heat transfer mechanisms in boiling and spray cooling in Earth and microgravity environments; high temperature radiation absorbance measurements.
Li, Teng
Research Interests: Mechanics of the micro/nano structures in flexible macroelectronics, innovative micro/nano scale patterns as general platforms for flexible macroelectronics, deformation instability of thin films and multilayers, and mechanics of biomembrane and cytoskeleton in the cells.
Magrab, Edward
Research Interests: Integration of design and manufacturing, capture and retrieval of design intent, vibrations, acoustics.
McCluskey, F. Patrick
Research Interests: High temperature electronic packaging; computer-aided risk assessment of microelectronics.
Modarres, Mohammad
Research Interests: Probabilistic risk assessment, probabilistic modeling of failure mechanisms, reliability analysis of complex engineering systems, nuclear safety analysis.
Mosleh, Ali
Research Interests: Risk and safety assessment, reliability analysis, and decision analysis.
Mote Jr., Clayton Daniel
Research Interests: Dynamic systems, vibration, biomechanics.
Ohadi, Michael
Research Interests: Heat and mass transfer at the meso, micro and nano-scales with applications to thermal/fluid system miniaturization, smart heat exchangers, electronic cooling, and innovative energy systems.
Pecht, Michael
Research Interests: Reliability assessment of electronic products; electronic product design and manufacture and supply chain management.
Radermacher, Reinhard
Research Interests: Advanced Energy Conversion Systems, Cooling, Heating and Power (CHP) Systems, Optimization of Thermal Systems, Vapor Compression Heat Pump and Refrigeration Systems, Single and Multi-Stage Absorption Systems, Design, Testing and Simulation, Sorption Heat Pumps: Design, Testing and Simulation, Energy and Environment, Working Fluid Mixtures.
Sandborn, Peter
Research Interests: Electronic packaging and reliability; life cycle cost analysis of electronic systems; technology obsolescence management (DMSMS); technology tradeoff analysis; supply chain management and parts selection and management for electronic systems; prognostics and health management (PHM) for electronic systems; design for environment of electronic systems.
Schmidt, Linda
Research Interests: System and product design theory and methodology; developing designer assistance tools for system and product design; engineering student team training; preservation of proprietary design knowledge; conceptual design processes.
Shih, Tien-Mo
Research Interests: Computational fluid dynamics and heat transfer; computational engineering.
Smela, Elisabeth
Research Interests: Micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS), combining organic materials with silicon to make new devices, and conjugated polymer micro-actuators.
Solares, Santiago
Research Interests: Multi-scale simulations ranging from quantum to continuum mechanics, nanorobotics, surface characterization methods (primarily atomic force microscopy and chemical force microscopy), and surface reconstruction and functionalization.
Sreenivasan, Katepalli
Research Interests: Fluid turbulence; complex fluids, combustion, cryogenic helium, and nonlinear dynamics.
Wallace, James
Research Interests: Experimental turbulence; methods of turbulent flow drag reduction; social implications of science and technology.
Yang, Bao
Research Interests: Micro/nanoscale thermal transport and energy conversion; thermal science and its applications in electrical engineering, optical engineering, and material science; micro/nano devices; MEMS and nanotechnology.
Youn, Byeng Dong
Research Interests: System risk assessment and design (multiphysics, multicomponent, and multiscale systems); prognostic health monitoring; Verification & Validation (V&V); Bayesian Information Toolkit (BIT); Bayesian reliability analysis and design.
Yu, Miao
Research Interests: Optical sensors, sensor mechanics and material behavior at multiple spatial scales, micro-scale and nano-scale sensor systems, sensors for civil, mechanical, electrical, biochemical, biomechanics, biology, medical, and environmental applications, and sensor networks; adaptive optics, wavefront sensing and control, imaging through turbulence; smart materials and structures; and theoretical and experimental mechanics.
Zachariah, Michael
Research Interests: NanoParticle Science, Manufacturing and Measurements, Microcombustion, Energetic Materials and Reacting Flows (Combustion and Thermal CVD Processes), Fundamentals of Gas-Phase Chemical Kinetics: Measurement and Theory, Ab-Initio Computational Chemistry and Classical Molecular Dynamics, Numerical Simulation of Reacting Flows with Complex ChemistryMolecular-Beam and Single Particle Mass-Spectrometry.
Zhang, Guangming
Research Interests: Manufacturing systems, rapid prototyping, dynamics of mechanical structures, engineering statistics, and computer engineering.
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