Graduate School Bulletin

Faculty of Mechanical Engineering Department

Professors

Chiang, Fu-pen, Distinguished Professor, Ph.D., 1966, University of Florida: Experimental mechanics; solid mechanics; photoelasticity; moiré and laser methods for stress analysis; mechanics of soft tissues and heart.

Ge, Q. Jeffrey, Professor and Chair, Ph.D., 1990, University of California, Irvine: Design kinematics; robotics; CAD/CAM; mechanical systems analysis and simulation.

Kao, Imin, Professor. Ph.D., 1991, Stanford University: Robotics; stiffness control; wiresaw manufactururing process; manufacturing automation; Taguchi methods.

Longtin, Jon P. Professor, P.E., Ph.D., 1995, University of California, Berkeley: Heat transfer at fast time scales; ultrafast laser liquid- and laser- solid interactions; laser processing, sensors, building energy, energy efficiency, novel heating and cooling technologies.

Nakamura, Toshio, Professor, Ph.D., 1986, Brown University: Solid mechanics, composite materials, computational fracture mechanics, mechanics of thermal sprayed coatings.

Associate Professors

Chakraborty, Nilanjan, Associate Professor, Ph. D., 2008, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: Robot motion planning, multi-robot coordination, human-robot interaction, mechanism design, multi-body dynamics, distributed intelligent systems for energy automation, sensor networks, Distributed Algorithms, Combinatorial Optimization.

Chen, Shikui, Associate Professor. Ph.D., 2010, Northwestern University: Mechanical Engineering. Ph.D., 2006, Chinese University of Hong Kong: Automation and Computer Aided Engineering.

Colosqui, Carlos, Associate Professor, Ph.D. 2009, Boston University: Thermal-fluids, microfluidics, colloidal systems, fuel cells, and nano/ micro-electromechanical Systems (N/MEMS).

Cubaud, Thomas, Associate Professor, Ph.D., 2001, Paris-Sud University/ESPCI, France: microfluidics, interfacial fluid phenomena and wetting, multiphase flows, miscible flows, and complex fluids.

Gao, Jie, Associate Professor, Ph.D., 2012, Columbia University: Optical nanostructures, 2D materials, light emission devices, optical sensing and imaging, nanomanufacturing, optical and thermal energy harvesting, opto-mechanics and quantum optics.

Hwang, David (Jae-Seok), Associate Professor. Ph.D., 2005, University of California at Berkeley: Micro-and nanoscle heat transfer, laser-assisted solar photovoltaic manufacturing and diagnostics, advanced diagnostics of light-matter interaction.

Kirane, Kedar, Assistant Professor. Ph.D. 2014, Northwestern University: Solid mechanics, fracture mechanics, scaling, fatigue quasibrittle materials, geo-mechanics, poro-mechanics, poly-crystal plasticity, probabilistic mechanics, multi-scale modeling

Kukta, Robert V., Associate Professor, Ph.D., 1998, Brown University: Solid mechanics; mechanics of thin films; micromechanical modeling of defects in crystals, crystal growth, self-assembly, surface science.

Ladeinde, Foluso, Associate Professor, Ph.D., 1988, Cornell University: Turbulent flows, high-speed chemically reacting flows; noise source prediction and propagation.

Wang, Lifeng, Associate Professor. Ph.D., 2006, Tsinghua University: materials modeling, computational mechanics, micro- and nano-mechanics, materials testing and characterization, rapid prototyping and 3D printing, and composites.

Assistant Professors

Assanis, Dimitris, Assistant Professor. Ph.D., 2016, University of Michigan: Power generation and propulsion systems with an emphasis on advanced combustion modes and alternative fuels for internal combustion engines. Assessment of energy and environmental implications of connected & automated vehicles.

Purwar, Anurag, Assistant Professor. Ph.D., 2005, Stony Brook University: CAD/CAM, computational kinematics, design automation, robotics

Stewart, William, Assistant Professor. Ph.D., 2018, North Carolina State University: Aerial/Soft/Multimodal Robotics, Soft Structures, Experimental Mechanics, Dynamics, Aerodynamics.

Yao, Shanshan, Assistant Professor. Ph.D., 2016, North Carolina State University: Nano/micro materials and structures, nano/micro manufacturing, flexible and stretchable electronics, soft actuators and robotics.

Zimmerman, Spencer, Assistant Professor. Ph.D., 2019, University of Melbourne: Fluid mechanics, turbulent transport of mass, momentum and energy, hydroacoustics, interferometric and conventional flow imaging, anemometry.

Number of teaching, graduate, and research assistantships, Spring 2022: 24