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Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Faculty
Hameed
Metghalchi,
Department Chair
Emanuel
Melachrinoudis, Associate Chair
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| Professors |
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| Adams,
George G., College of Engineering Distinguished Professor |
PhD,
University of California at Berkeley; contact mechanics
and tribology; MicroElectroMechanical Systems (MEMS); adhesion;
nano-mechanics; friction-induced vibration; mechanics and
tribology of information storage systems |
| Ando,
Teiichi |
PhD,
Colorado School of Mines; physical metallurgy, rapid solidification,
processing, powder metallurgy, spray forming, droplet-based
materials processing and manufacturing, microstructural
evolution in materials processing |
| Busnaina,
Ahmed A., William Lincoln Smith Professor of Mechanical
Engineering |
PhD,
Oklahoma State; Nano-scale particle adhesion and removal,
contamination-free manufacturing in semiconductor processes,
disk drive and image display, microcontamination control,
computational fluid dynamics, transport phenomena |
| Cipolla,
Jr., John W., Donald W. Smith Professor of Mechanical
Engineering; College of Engineering Distinguished Professor |
PhD,
Brown University; laser-aerosol interactions including thermophoresis,
heat and mass transfer, radiative transfer, kinetic theory |
| Cullinane,
Thomas P. |
PhD,
Virginia Polytechnic and State University; manufacturing
systems, facilities planning, project management |
| Gupta,
Surendra M. |
PhD,
Purdue University; simulation, operations research, production
systems, stochastic modeling, environmentally conscious
manufacturing |
| Hashemi,
Hamid N. |
PhD,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology; materials, composite
materials, nondestructive evaluation, mechanics, finite-elements,
fatigue, wear, reliability-centered maintenance |
| Levendis,
Yiannis A., College of Engineering Distinguished Professor |
PhD,
California Institute of Technology; combustion, incineration,
air pollution, chemical kinetics, aerosol physics, internal
combustion engines |
| Mavroidis,
Constantinos |
PhD,
University of Paris VI; robotics and mechatronics, biomolecular
nanorobotics and nanomechanisms, rapid prototyping of mechanisms
and robotic systems, smart materials based actuators, design
of mechanisms |
| Metghalchi,
Hameed |
ScD,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology; laminar and turbulent
Flame propagation, stability in internal combustion engines,
energy conversion, air pollution, chemical kinetics, advanced
thermodynamics |
| Mourant,
Ronald R. |
PhD,
Ohio State University; human factors, software engineering,
virtual environments and visualization, simulators for driving
and manufacturing |
| Soyster,
Allen L. |
PhD,
Carnegie Mellon University; total quality management in
acquisition process, applications of expert systems and
artificial intelligence to building production scheduling
systems, mathematical optimization of data analysis, modeling
of energy distribution and transfer process |
| Taslim,
Mohammad E. |
PhD,
University of Arizona; computational and experimental fluid
mechanics and heat transfer with applications in gas turbines,
film cooling |
| Yener,
Yaman, College of Engineering Distinguished Professor |
PhD,
North Carolina State University; heat and mass transfer,
radiative transfer, aerosolthermophoresis with radiation,
thermal stability, spectral methods |
| Zeid,
Ibrahim |
PhD,
University of Akron; CAD/CAM, design, manufacturing, case-based
reasoning, Java and Web-based engineering applications |
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| Associate
Professors |
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| Benneyan,
James C. |
PhD,
University of Massachusetts; quality engineering, statistical
quality control, inspection error models, computer simulation,
industrial experiments, application in manufacturing and
healthcare, including semiconductor fabrication and cancer
screening |
| Fard,
Nasser |
PhD,
University of Arizona; reliability analysis, quality engineering,
stochastic modeling |
| Isaacs,
Jacqueline |
PhD,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology; processing and properties
of metal matrix composites, environmental and life cycle
issues in advanced and emerging technologies, manufacturing
economics of materials processing in automotive industry |
| Kamarthi,
Sagar |
PhD,
Pennsylvania State University; neural networks and knowledge-based
systems in design and manufacturing, process monitoring
and control, sensor integration, and product realization
in mass customization |
| Kowalski,
Gregory J. |
PhD,
University of Wisconsin-Madison; combined modes of heat
transfer in participating media, solar energy, thermal electronic
packaging, combined heat and mass transfer |
| Melachrinoudis,
Emanuel |
PhD,
University of Massachusetts; operations research, stochastic
modeling, facilities planning and location, supply chain
managment |
| Muftu,
Sinan |
PhD,
University of Rochester; fluid-structure interactions, flexible
webs, gas lubrication, wave propagation in moving shells,
contact wear and friction |
| Narusawa,
Uichiro |
PhD,
University of Michigan; natural and double-diffusive convection
in enclosures and saturated porous media, two-phase flows,
thermocapillary flow |
| Ruberti,
Jeffrey |
PhD,
Tulane University; biomechanics and biotransport in hydrated
soft-tissue, tissue-engineering (artificial cornea), mechanical
stabilization of collagen, natural and synthetic biomaterials |
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| Assistant
Professors |
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| Jung,
Yung Joon |
PhD,
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; synthesis and application
of one-dimensional nanomaterials (carbon nanotube and nanowire)
and their architectures as multifunctional device |
| Kharoufeh,
Jeffrey P. |
PhD,
The Pennsylvania State University; applied probability and
stochastic processes, queueing theory, reliability theory,
optimal maintenance of degrading systems, performance analysis
of wireless sensor networks |
| Lin,
Yingzi |
PhD,
University of Saskatchewan, human system integration and
evaluation, intelligent adaptive human-machine interface
design, information system engineering, modeling of cybernetic
critical infrastructure system and human operation/management |
| Sipahi,
Rifat |
PhD,
University of Connecticut; system dynamics and control |
| Wan,
Kai-tak |
PhD,
University of Maryland; thin film mechanics, phospholipids
vesicle mechanics and adhesion, membrane biomechanics |
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| Graduate
Program Advisers |
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| CAD/CAM |
Prof. Zeid |
| Engineering Management
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Prof.
Cullinane |
| Engineering Software
Design |
Prof. Mourant |
| Human Factors
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Prof. Lin |
| Industrial Engineering |
Prof.
Gupta |
| Materials Science
and Engineering |
Prof. Ando |
| Mechanics and
Design |
Prof. Hashemi |
| Operations Research |
Prof.
E. Melachrinoudis |
| Thermofluids Engineering
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Prof. Taslim |
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