Research
Prof. Ron Averill
Computational mechanics, composite structures, laminated plate theory, crashworthiness, design optimization, finite element method.
Prof. Seungik Baek
Cardiovascular mechanics and characterization of biomaterials, in particular theoretical modeling and computational simulations of cardiovascular diseases and their clinical interventions, constitutive modeling of biological tissues and biomaterials, and characterization of thermally and biochemically induced changes in material properties of soft tissues.
Prof. Andre Benard
Transport phenomena in materials processing, heat transfer, polymers and composites microstructures, multiphase problems, finite elements.
Prof. Giles Brereton
Turbulence and its prediction, unsteady fluid mechanics, IC engine flows, cardiovascular flows, nucleation and non-equilibrium thermodynamics, nonlinear acoustics.
Prof. Jongeun Choi
Systems and control, system identification, and Bayesian methods, with applications to mobile robotic sensors, environmental adaptive sampling, engine control, neuromusculoskeletal systems, and biomedical problems.
Prof. Gary Cloud
Experimental mechanics, optical techniques in strain measurement, fracture, fasteners, mechanics of composite materials.
Prof. Alejandro Diaz
Optimal design of structures and materials, topology optimization, finite element methods.
Prof. Abraham Engeda
Experimental thermo-fluids, turbomachinery flow analysis and design, design and testing of centrifugal and regenerative flow compressors and pumps, gas turbine combustion, biogas for power generation.
Prof. Brian Feeny
Dynamics and vibration, with current activities in nonlinear dynamics, chaos, proper orthogonal decomposition, friction dynamics, and system identification. Some current applications include wind-turbine blade dynamics, vibrations of sports equipment and power tools, vibration absorbers, and bio-locomotion.
Prof. John Foss
Analytical experimentation (determination of governing phenomena using flow field measurements), general fluid mechanics, turbulent shear flows, vorticity measurements, and automotive applications.
Prof. Farhad Jaberi
Thermal-fluid science and engineering, turbulence, mixing and reaction, large scale and high performance computations, statistical modeling, multiphase transport, propulsion, micro-scale transport and combustion.
Prof. Manooch Koochesfahani
Turbulent shear flows and turbulent mixing, unsteady fluid mechanics and aerodynamics, stability of shear flows, IC engine flow and control, micro and nano flows, optical diagnostics techniques, molecular tagging diagnostics, Quantum Dot (QD) imaging of fluid flow.
Prof. Patrick Kwon
Material issues in design and manufacturing, manufacturing processes, mechanical behavior of materials, microstructured and graded materials.
Prof. Tonghun Lee
Laser imaging of advanced propulsion, combustion and alternative advanced energy conversion systems.
Prof. Peter Lillehoj
BioMEMS, nanotechnology, microfluidics, biosensors, and point-of-care diagnostics. Specifically, developing microsystems for current and emerging applications in clinical diagnosis, biosecurity and food/water safety.
Prof. Dahsin Liu
Impact dynamics of materials and structures, mechanics of composite materials, photomechanics, nonlinear computational structures.
Prof. Al Loos
Heat transfer and flow phenomena in materials processing, mathematical modeling of manufacturing processes, mechanics of materials, finite element analysis, polymeric composite manufacturing, mechanics of composite materials.
Prof. Norbert Mueller
Turbomachinery, centrifugal compressors, wave rotors, refrigeration and HVAC (Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning) with natural refrigerants, micro-fabricated energy systems such as Brayton and Rankine cycle devices, heat exchangers and fuel cells with integrated nano sensors, highly efficient and environmentally friendly energy conversion systems, including the use of solar, wind, tidal, geothermal energy and clean fuels, high-speed drives and bearings, mechatronics.
Prof. Ranjan Mukherjee
Robotics, computer assisted surgical procedures, motion planning and feedback stabilization of nonholonomic systems, active magnetic bearings.
Prof. Ahmed Naguib
Experimental fluid dynamics, particularly in the field of turbulence and transition physics and control, development of innovative sensors for wall-pressure and wall-shear-stress measurements using conventional and MEMS technology, and applications of innovative digital signal processing to the anaysis of databases of flows.
Prof. Tom Pence
Mechanical behavior and mathematical modeling of materials under large deformation. Application Areas: elastomers and rubber elasticity, crystallographic phase transformation, shape memory effects, corrosion, material and structural instability, buckling, composite materials, thin films, biological tisssue mechanics, nonlinear wave propagation.
Prof. Farhang Pourboghrat
Warm forming, metal and composite sheet thermo-hydroforming, tube hydroforming, temperature and rate-dependent material models, polycrystalline plasticity models, temperature dependent forming limit diagrams (FLD), fracture and damage mechanics.
Prof. Nikolai Priezjev
Molecular simulations of complex fluids, interfacial phenomena, slip boundary conditions, transport phenomena in micro and nanofluidic systems, thermocapillary fluid motion, hybrid multiscale methods, liquid crystals, and statistical mechanics.
Prof. Clark Radcliffe
Design of dynamic systems, modeling, and control of mechatronic systems, numerical and experimental methods for dynamic model validation, software for optimal vibration isolation system design, acoustic response measurement, acoustic modeling and active control, Statistical Energy Analysis (SEA) of automotive structures, active control of continuous structures, controllable fluids such as electrorheological fluids, and magnetorheological fluids internet-based, distributed, engineering design.
Prof. Tamara Reid Bush
Biomedical, spinal mechanics, musculoskeletal dysfunction, decubitis ulcers, biomechanical analysis of seats: automotive, office and medical, human body mechanics: force, pressure and motion, sports biomechanics, hand function.
Prof. Harold Schock
Thermodynamics, combustion, optical diagnostics, turbulence, internal combustion engines.
Prof. Steve Shaw
Dynamics, vibrations, and nonlinear systems. Applications to vibration absorbers, engine dynamics and vibrations, resonant MEMS/NEMS (micro/nano-electro-mechanical-systems) sensors, rotor systems.
Prof. Craig Somerton
Transport phenomena in porous media, computer aided design of thermal systems, convective heat transfer, heat transfer in automotive applications, continuous quality improvement in engineering education.
Prof. Rod Tabaczynski
Thermodynamics, internal combustion engines, turbulent microscales, sustainable energy, electrification of the automobile and biofuels.
Prof. Brian Thompson
High speed machinery, composite materials, smart materials, design methodologies.
Prof. Indrek Wichman
Combustion and flame studies related to fire and theoretical combustion, analytical modeling (fire, ignition, quenching, flame spread, instabilities), computational modeling (flame spread, triple flames, instabilities, solid pyrolysis, microgravity flames), experimentation (MSU fire tunnel, thermal property measurement, flames in small enclosed spaces [micro flames], burner flame attachment.)
Prof. Neil Wright
Measuring multi-axial thermophysical properties of elastomers and biological soft tissues that are subjected to finite multi-axial deformation; thermomechanically-induced damage to proteins, cells, and tissues; Biomedical; polymer; nonlinear mechanics.
Prof. Xinran Xiao
Mechanical behaviors of engineering materials, fatigue, fracture, creep, impact, crashworthiness and extreme loadings; polymers, polymer composites, metals, lithium-ion batteries; constitutive modeling, multiscale, multiphysics modeling.
Prof. George Zhu
Closed loop combustion control, automotive system ID and control, optimal control of hybrid powertrain systems, powertrain system modeling and HIL simulation, combustion sensing, control of TEG (thermo-electric generator), application of the smart material to automotive systems.