Faculty List

Richard Arnold

Engineering mechanics, power plant design, vibrations, and railroad support facilities and vehicles.

John P. Barton

Laser beam/particle interactions, acoustics, experimental methods, data acquisition and analysis.

Karen Coen-Brown

CAD, computer modeling, and engineering graphics.

Kevin D. Cole

Green's functions, transient heat conduction, inverse heat transfer, thermal sensors, fluid flow.

Shane M. Farritor

Robotics for planetary exploration, design and control of field robotic systems, modular design, planning methods for planetary exploration and field robots.

George Gogos

Numerical heat transfer/fluid flow, combustion, multiphase flows, droplets.

David Y.S. Lou

Thermodynamics, heat transfer, modeling of thermal and fluid processes.

John D. Reid

Crashworthiness of vehicles, roadside safety, nonlinear FEA.

Brian W. Robertson

Quantitative electron microscopy, microcharacterization of materials.

Suzanne L. Rohde

Thin film deposition and characterization of materials.

George R. Schade

Automatic control, probabilistic design methods, dynamics of machinery.

Jeffrey Shield

Microstructural evolution during processing, nanomaterials, magnetic materials, materials characterization.

Wieslaw M. Szydlowski

Dynamics of machinery, kinematics, computer simulation of machines.

Cho Wing Solomon To

Sound and vibration studies, random vibration, nonlinear finite element analysis, system dynamics, controls.

Xinwei Wang

Micro- and nanoscale heat transfer, ultrafast laser materials interaction.

Zhaoyan Zhang

Numerical and experimental studies of laser-material interactions, and diesel engine emission control.

William N. Weins

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