A.S. Arena Jr
Professor and L. Andrew Maciula Professor of Engineering

• Aerospace Vehicle Stability and Control
• Unsteady and High Angle of Attack Aerodynamics
• Aeroelasticity
• Nonlinear Flight Dynamics
• Aircraft Performance

F.W. Chambers, P.E.
Associate Professor

• Basic and Applied Fluid Dynamics, Heat Transfer, and Acoustics
• Flow Visualization, Flow Field Measurements and Instrumentation
• Turbulent and Transitional Boundary Layers and Free Shear Flows
• Boundary Layer Drag Reduction and Active Flow Control
• Aerodynamic Noise and Flow-Acoustic Interactions
• Fluid Dynamics of Air Filtration and Filter Testing
• Industrial Aerodynamics and Flow Control

L. Cremaschi
Assistant Professor

• Energy Systems Optimization
• Electronics Cooling
• Microchannel Heat Exchanger Design for Unitary Heat Pump Systems
• Micro-Refrigeration Systems and Novel Micropumps
• HVAC Systems Using Alternative Natural Refrigerants
• Dynamic Systems Controls

R.D. Delahoussaye
Adjunct Professor

• Computer Aided Engineering, Design, and Manufacturing
• Interactive Computer Graphics
• Design Optimization
• Finite Element Analysis
• Mechanism Design and Analysis
• Robotics
• Modeling and Simulation of Dynamic Systems

D.E. Fisher
Professor

• Building energy analysis and load calculation
• Numerical heat transfer and fluid flow
• Thermal system simulation and design
• Displacement ventilation and chilled ceiling systems
• Simulation of Building Systems

A.J. Ghajar, P.E.
Regents Professor
Director of Graduate Studies

• Two-Phase Flow Heat Transfer
• Heat Transfer in Mini/Micro Channels
• Mixed Convection Heat Transfer
• Computational Heat Transfer and Fluid Mechanics

J.K. Good, P.E.
Professor
Noble Foundation Chair

• Structural Mechanics
• Mechanical Design
• Experimental Analysis

J.C. Hanan
Assistant Professor

• Advanced Materials
• Automation and data processing
• Energy absorbing materials
• Holographic data storage
• Increasing useful service life
• Non-destructive analysis, including 4-D methods

S.P. Harimkar
Assistant Professor

• Laser Processing of Materials: Machining, Forming, Rapid Prototyping, Micromachining
• Surface Engineering: Advanced Ceramic-, Composite-, and Amorphous-Coatings
• Biomaterials: Processing, Characterization and Mechanical/Bio-properties
• Nanotechnology: Nanocomposites and Nanocoatings
• Ceramic Processing: Surface Densification and Novel Sintering
• Thermal Modeling

L.L. Hoberock, P.E.
Professor
Department Head

• Dynamics and Control of Mechanical and Electromechanical Systems
• Robotic and Machine Vision Systems
• Machine Design
• Vibrating Screen Technology
• Drilling Mechanics

J.D. Jacob, P.E.
Associate Professor

• Aerodynamics
• UAV Design & Flight Testing
• Vortex Dynamics
• Flow Control
• Bio-Fluid Flow
• Plasma Physics
• inflatable Aerostructures

A.K. Kalkan
Assistant Professor

• Nanostructured Materials
• Nanodevices, Nanosensors
• Bottom-Up Nanofabrication via Plasma/Solution Chemistry
• Single Molecule Detection and Imaging
• Biomedical Monitoring

R. Komanduri
Regents Professor
A.H. Nelson Jr. Endowed Chair in Engineering

• Materials Processing, Manufacturing and Tribology
• Diamond Coatings and Multiple Nanocoatings on Cutting Tools and Non-Traditional Processing
• Mechanics of Machining and Grinding
• Ultra-Precision and High-Speed Machining
• Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Nanometric Cutting and Tribology
• Thermal Aspects of Manufacturing Processes and Tribology

D.G. Lilley, P.E.
Professor

• Fire Dynamics
• Fuels, Flammability, Fires and Flames
• Fire Investigation Technical Aspects
• Computer Simulations and Modeling
• Combustion, Aerodynamics, Fires, Fuels, Sprays, Heat Transfer and Fluid Dynamics
• Computational Fluid Dynamics
• Numerical Methods in Engineering
• Swirl Flows

R.L. Lowery
Professor Emeritus

• Acoustics
• Instrumentation
• Vibrations
• Desigs

H. Lu
Professor

• Experimental Mechanics
• Viscoelasticity
• Fracture Mechanics
• Mechanics in Web Handling

D.A. Lucca, CMFgE
Regents Professor
Tom J. Cunningham Chair

• Surface mechanics/surface engineering
• Nanomechanical behavior of materials
• Ion-solid interactions
• Precision engineering
• Ultraprecision manufacturing and synthesis processes

P.M. Moretti, P.E.
Professor Emeritus
Tom J. Cunningham Chair

• Web Flutter, Flow-Induced Vibrations
• Bi-Stable Flows, Stratified Flows, and Alternative Energy

J.A. Morton
Adjunct Assistant Professor

• Engineering Education Software
• Approximation Theory and Computational Modeling
• Acoustics
• Optimization of Complex Systems

P.R. Pagilla
Professor

• Nonlinear systems and control
• Adaptive control
• Mechatronics
• Large-scale systems
• Robotics
• Constrained mechanical systems
• Web handling processes

C.E. Price, P.E.
Professor Emeritus

• Material Properties and Processing
• Mechanical Behavior
• Fatigue, Embrittlement and Stress Corrosion Cracking
• Corrosion
• Failure Analysis

D.A. Rubenstein
Assistant Professor

• Tissue Engineering of Blood Vessels
• Biofluid Flow within the Microcirculation and Macrocirculation
• Platelet Activation Potentials
• Coagulation Cascade
• Nanofabrication
• Two-phase, Multi-Scale Modeling

K.A. Sallam
Assistant Professor

• Fluid Dynamics
• Laser Diagnostics
• Holography
• Atomization & Sprays
• Microfluidics
• Nanotechnology
• Bioengineering

R.P. Singh
Associate Professor

• Experimental Mechanics and Advanced Materials
• Composites
• Polymer Nanocomposites
• Polymer Derived Ceramics

J.D. Spitler, P.E.
Regents Professor
C.M. Leonard Professor

• Building Energy Analysis and Load Calculations
• Thermal Systems Simulation and Design
• Ground Source Heat Pumps
• Building and Thermal Systems Research Group
• Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning Analysis and Design

W. Yin
Assistant Professor

• Flow Induced Vascular Endothelial Cell Activation
• Flow Induced Platelet Activation and Thrombosis
• Endothelial Cell - Platelet Interactions and Atherosclerosis
• Inflammatory Responses in Atherosclerosis, Myocardial Infarction and Other Cardiovascular Diseases
• Numerical Simulation of Blood flow Field Under Various Disease Conditions
• Multi-Scale Modeling of Vascular Endothelial Cells, Platelets, Leukocytes and Erythrocytes Interaction

G.E. Young, P.E.
Professor

• Dynamic Systems and Control
• Nonlinear Uncertain Systems
• Real-Time Distributed Systems