Faculty
Edmond Richer, Ph.D.
- Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
- Department Chair, ad interim
- Primary research area are advanced haptic interfaces and virtual modeling and prototyping and design and control of high-performance actuators.
Ali Beskok, Ph.D.
- Associate Dean for Research Innovation and Industry Partnerships
- George R. Brown Chair, Mechanical Engineering
- Professor, Mechanical Engineering
- Primary research area are micro-and nano-scale transport and bio-microfluidics and lab on a chip technologies.
Yildirim Hurmuzlu, Ph.D.
- Altshuler Distinguished Professor
- University Distinguished Professor
- Professor, Mechanical Engineering
- Primary research area are rigid-body collisions of planar kinematic chains with smooth external contacts and locomotion.
Steve Lerner, Ph.D.
- Professor of Practice and Director, Mechanical Engineering
- Primary research area are thermal systems design and corporate innovation management practices.
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José Lage, Ph.D.
- Professor, Mechanical Engineering
- Primary research area are alveolar gas exchange and transport in porous media.
MinJun Kim, Ph.D.
- Professor, Mechanical Engineering
- Robert C. Womack Chair in Engineering
- Primary research area are microbiorobotics and single molecule biophysics.
Xu Nie, Ph.D.
- Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
- Primary research area are high-rate experimental mechanics and techniques and microstructure and damage evolution in engineering materials under dynamic loading.
Elizabeth Loboa, Ph.D.
Professor and Provost
Nader Jalili, Ph.D.
- Professor and Mary and Richard Templeton Dean
James Webb, D.Mgt.
- Professor of Practice & Director
- Manufacturing Systems Management Program
David Willis, Ph.D.
- Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
- Associate Chair
- Primary research area are heat transfer and phase change and short-pulse laser-assisted microfabrication.
Volkan Otugen, Ph.D.
- Professor, Mechanical Engineering
- George R. Brown Endowed Chair, Mechanical Engineering
- Primary research area are experimental and theoretical fluid mechanics and heat transfer and photonic sensors.
Wei Tong, Ph.D.
- Professor, Mechanical Engineering
- Acting Director, Research Center for Advanced Manufacturing
- Primary research area are laser welding and additive manufacturing and experimental solid mechanics
Xin-Lin Gao, Ph.D.
- Professor, Mechanical Engineering
- Primary research area are multiscale and multi-physics modeling of materials and traumatic brain injury, biomechanics.
Elena Borzova, Ph.D.
- Senior Lecturer, Mechanical Engineering
- Undergraduate Advisor
- Primary research area are vibrations and control theory.
