ENME Faculty Research Interests
Anand, Davinder K.
Research Interests: Control systems; automation; manufacturing and energy
Azarm, Shapour
Research Interests: Design optimization; multi-attribute design decision making.
Balachandran, Balakumar
Research Interests: Nonlinear phenomena, dynamics and vibrations, and control.
Balaras, Elias
Research Interests: Computational biomedical fluid flows; fluid-solid interactions, turbulence and transition.
Bar-Cohen, Avram
Research Interests: Thermal design and optimization of micro- and nano- systems, thermofluid modeling and analysis of boiling and two-phase flow, thermal manufacturing processes, technology foresight and management.
Barker, Donald
Research Interests: Experimental stress analysis; fracture mechanics; high strain rate behavior of materials; thermo-mechanical and vibrational stress in printed circuit boards; engineering uses of microcomputers.
Baz, Amr
Research Interests: Active and passive control of vibration and noise, control of intelligent structures and continuous systems.
Bergbreiter, Sarah
Research Interests: Microrobotics, networked multi-robot systems, and sensor networks.
Berger, Bruce
Research Interests: Dynamic systems, machine tool vibrations, numerical methods.
Bernard, Peter
Research Interests: Fluid mechanics; turbulence theory; calculation of turbulent flows.
Bernstein, Joseph B.
Research Interests: Electronic systems reliability in aerospace and military applications; electronic device physics of failure, including lifetime behavior of ultra thin gate dielectrics; laser programmable interconnect routing for programmable analog and digital arrays.
Bigio, David
Research Interests: Polymer processing and manufacturing; special interest in mixing of fluid systems and chaos theory on mixing, controls of polymer processes; special applications to extrusion, electronic packaging and injection molding.
Bruck, Hugh
Research Interests: Fabrication, characterization, and modeling for the design of functionally graded and multifunctional materials; experimental methods for microscale and nanoscale materials characterization.
Chopra, Nikhil
Research Interests: Control theory, robotics, bilateral teleoperation and synchronization theory.
Christou, Aris
Research Interests: Electronic packaging materials, thin film semiconductors, reliability of electronic systems.
Cukier, Michel
Research Interests: Fault tolerance, intrusion tolerance, dependability and security evaluation, distributed sytems, software testing.
Cunniff, Patrick
Research Interests: Product engineering and manufacturing.
Dasgupta, Abhijit
Research Interests: Analysis and experimental characterization of fiber-reinforced composite materials; damage mechanics of heterogeneous materials; thermomechanical and vibrational fatigue damage in micro-electronic components.
Desai, Jaydev
Research Interests: Medical Robotics, Haptic interfaces for Robot-Assisted surgery, Surgical simulation, Model-based teleoperation, and Cellular surgery.
DeVoe, Don
Research Interests: Research Interests: Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS), bioMEMS, and microfluidic systems for bioanalysis.
Dieter, George
Research Interests: Materials processing; engineering design; quality engineering; engineering education.
diMarzo, Marino
Research Interests: Transport phenomena in change of phase; extinguishment of solid fuel fires; thermal hydraulics of nuclear power plants (nuclear reactor safety).
Duncan, James
Research Interests: Fluid mechanics: breaking waves, bubble dynamics and solid/fluid interactions; computer vision: 3-D position and motion from the analysis of stereo images and optical flow.
Fourney, William
Research Interests: Dynamic fracture mechanics; rock fracture and fragmentation; experimental stress analysis.
Gupta, Ashwani
Research Interests: Swirl flows; combustion in micro-engines, gas turbines and furnaces; high temperature air combustion; fuel sprays; fuels; air pollution; flowfield modeling and laser diagnostics; alternative fuels; thermal destruction of solid and liquid wastes.
Gupta, Satyandra
Research Interests: Integration of product design and manufacturing, geometric reasoning algorithms for computer aided design and manufacturing, manufacturing process simulation, and manufacturing automation.
Han, Bongtae
Research Interests: Experimental stress analysis; nanomechanics; mechanical design of micro-electronic devices; mechanics of composite materials; optical methods.
Herrmann, Jeffrey
Research Interests: Design, decision-making, and control systems in product development organizations and manufacturing systems.
Jackson, Gregory
Research Interests: Combustion and flame stability, liquid-fed combustion, catalytic combustion, fuel cells for automotive applications, fuel reforming.
Kiger, Kenneth
Research Interests: Fluid mechanics, turbulence and multi-phase flows, experimental instrumentation.
Kim, Jungho
Research Interests: Phase change heat transfer, microgravity, electronic cooling, MEMS, heat transfer in turbomachinery.
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: Electronics packaging for extreme temperature environments, power electronics packaging, computer-aided risk assessment of micro-electronic devices, electronic materials and semiconductor manufacturing.
Modarres, Mohammad
Research Interests: Probabilistic risk assessment, functional modeling, intelligent systems in reliability and safety, deterministic-probabilistic integrated modeling.
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
Heat and mass transfer; smart heat exchangers, micro and nano thermal systems.
Pecht, Michael
Research Interests: Reliability assessment of electronic products; electronic product design and manufacture and supply chain management.
Piomelli, Ugo
Research Interests: Computational fluid dynamics; numerical analysis; turbulence.
Radermacher, Reinhard
Research Interests: Energy conversion, combined cooling heating and power systems, refrigeration and air-conditioning, alternative refrigerants, thermal system optimization.
Riley, Donald
Research Interests: Knowledge-based systems for design and manufacturing, computer-aided mechanism analysis and design.
Roush, Marvin
Research Interests: Probabilistic risk assessment, system reliability and availability.
Sandborn, Peter
Research Interests: Inter-disciplinary technology tradeoff analysis, computer aided design and virtual prototyping tools, design-to-cost for system assembly, substrate fabrication, and die preparation; known good die, and design-for-environment.
Sanford, R.J.
Research Interests: Experimental and numerical fracture mechanics, optical mechanics, experimental stress analysis, strength of materials.
Schmidt, Linda
Research Interests: Computational design and optimization; development of design formalisms.
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.
Smidts, Carol
Research Interests: Probabilistic dynamics for complex systems, human reliability and software reliability.
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.
Suhir, Ephraim
Research Interests: Physical design, reliability and packaging of micro- and optoelectronic systems; materials engineering; applied probability; predictive modeling; nano-materials and nano-engineering; fiber-optic systems; shock and vibration analyses; thermal stresses; thin films; bonded joints.
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.
Zhang, Guangming
Research Interests: Manufacturing systems, dynamics of mechanical structures, control systems, engineering statistics, computer-aided engineering automation and machine learning.
Research | Staff | Research Faculty | Lecturers | Fellows | Research Labs
