Faculty Research Interests | Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

Wenbo Selina Cai Assistant Professor	Intertemporal pricing, consumer behavior in operations management, game theory and mechanism design
Rong-yaw Chen Professor Emeritus	Theoretical deposition of dust particles, thermo-fluid systems, heat exchangers
Shawn Chester Assistant Professor	Solid mechanics and materials, large deformation elasticity and plasticity, multiphysics behavior of materials, computational mechanics.
Dibakar Datta Assistant Professor	Modeling of energy storage systems such as rechargeable batteries, Mechanics and electronics of nanomaterials (e.g., graphene) and other two-dimensional materials such as Transition Metal Dichalcogenides (TMDs), Modeling of imperfections in crystalline materials, and Nanomaterials for biological problems
Ian S. Fischer Professor	Spatial mechanisms, dual-number kinematics, robotics
Pasquale J. Florio Associate Professor	Thermo-fluid systems, multi-component fluid flow, turbulent heat transfer
Avraham Harnoy Professor	Lubrication, tribology, dynamic friction, viscoelastic fluid flow, polymer melts
Zhiming Ji Associate Professor	Biomechanics: postural stability, rehabilitation and movement therapy. System Integration and Robotics: design and control of mechanical and electromechanical systems (Mechatronics).
Bernard Koplik Professor	Piping and pressure vessel design, vibrations of plates and shells, dynamic response of structures, design of dental implants
Eon Soo Lee Assistant Professor	Research interests in new and renewable energy systems and fluid and thermal energy systems. Experimental investigations on flow and heat transfer in energy and electronic devices, and Optical imaging and methodology in microscale phenomena: - Fuel cells and Renewable energy systems and materials:
Lu Lu Assistant Professor	Control, robotics, manufacturing, mechatronics, human-robot interaction
Siva P. Nadimpalli Assistant Professor	Experimental Solid Mechanics with an emphasis on nano and micro mechanics of materials, Energy Storage Materials, Fracture Mechanics, Plasticity, Finite Element Modeling and Microelectronic Packaging
Kwabena A. Narh Professor	Crystallization kinetics and phase transitions, plastics processing, polymer degradation, melt extrusions
I. Joga Rao Professor	Mechanics of fluids and solids. Modeling of non-linear phenomenon observed in mechanics with an emphasis on applications in biomechanics, manufacturing processes and polymers.
Anthony D. Rosato Professor	Mechanics and behavior of granular flows and materials, discrete element simulations, discrete dynamics, Monte Carlo methods
Pushpendra Singh Professor	Computational fluid dynamics, multi-phase and particulate flows, stability of Newtonian and viscoelastic flows, free boundary problems
Rajpal S. Sodhi Professor	Mechanical design, computer methods in design, kinematics, linkage synthesis, rehabilitation engineering, demanufacturing processes
Chao Zhu Professor	Particulate multiphase flows, pollution control, membrane separation