Mechanical Engineering

Faculty and Staff

Full Time Faculty

• Michael T. Boyle – Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
• Vincent Caccese – Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Graduate Coordinator
• Michael P. Davis- Lecturer of Mechanical Engineering
• Wilhelm Alexander Friess – Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering Education and Director of the Brunswick Engineering Discovery Program at Maine Advanced Technology and Engineering Center (MATEC), Brunswick, Maine
• Zhihe Jin – Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
• Eric L. Martin – Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering
• Michael “Mick” Peterson – Libra Foundation Professor of Mechanical Engineering
• Justin Poland – Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
• Alireza S. Sarvestani – Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering
• Richard Sayles – Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
• Mohsen (Mo) Shahinpoor – Richard C. Hill Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Department Chair
• James Sucec – Professor of Mechanical Engineering
• Krish P. Thiagarajan -Alston D. and Ada Lee Correll Presidential Chair in Energy and Professor of Mechanical Engineering
• Senthil S. Vel - Arthur O. Willey Professor of Mechanical Engineering
• Xudong Zheng - Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Cooperating Professor

• Elizabeth DePoy, PhD., Professor, Interdisciplinary Disability Studies and Social Work

Part-Time Faculty

• Donald A. Grant, Ph.D., Professor and Chair Emeritus
• Karyn S. Kunzelman,  Ph.D., Graduate Faculty and Research Professor (Biomedical Engineering)
• S. David Dvorak, Ph.D., Graduate Faculty (Fuel Cell Engineering)
• David S. Rubenstein,  Ph.D., Research Associate Professor (Aerospace Engineering)
• Paul A. Wlodkowski, Ph.D., Graduate Faculty (Reliability Engineering and Marine Systems Engineering)
• Becky L. Woodward , Ph.D., Research Assistant Professor (Ocean Engineering)
• Andy Goupee, Ph.D., Research Assistant  Professor and Graduate Faculty (Solid Mechanics/Micromechanics Modeling)
• Michelle E. Toder, MD, F.A.C.S., External  Graduate Faculty (Robotic Surgery, Bariatric), EMMC, Bangor, ME
• Richard P. Cochran, MD, External  Graduate Faculty and Research Professor (Cardiovascular/Heart Surgery)
• Ali (Iradj) Khavari, MD, External  Graduate Faculty (Robotic Surgery, Prostatectomy, Bladder Surgery), EMMC, Bangor, ME
• Krishna Bhatta, MD, External  Graduate Faculty (Robotic Surgery, Bladder Surgery), EMMC, Bangor , ME
• Daniel Devereaux, MD, External  Graduate Faculty (Robotic Surgery, General Surgery), EMMC, ME
• David Soltanpour, MD, External  Graduate Faculty (Ophthalmic/Eye MicroSurgery), New York Eye & Ear Infirmary, NY, NY
• Alireza Ghaffariyeh, MD, External  Graduate Faculty (Ophthalmology/Eye Microsurgery, Robotic Microsurgery),
• W. Andrew Hodge, MD, FACS Eastern Maine Medical Center, Chief of Orthopaedics and Surgery
• Kenneth R. Morse, M.D., Down East Orthopedics, Bangor, Maine
• Katie Olson Hilo, PT, DPT, PCS, Eastern Maine Medical Center (Doctor of Physical Therapy)

Emeritus Faculty

• Ashley S. Campbell
• Ben Chapman
• Donald A. Grant, PE
• Richard (Dick) Hill, PE
• Jeremy (Jay) Johnson
• John Lyman
• William Rivard

Staff

• Karen Fogarty - Administrative Assistant II
• Art Pete- Laboratory Associate/Technician
• Matthew G. Hale-Information Technology Staff
• Diane M. Maguire- Laboratory Engineer

External Graduate Faculty

• Joel Bennett, Ph.D., Professor, Emeritus Staff Member, Los Alamos National Laboratory
• Michelle E. Toder, MD, F.A.C.S., Eatern Maine Medical Center, Bangor, ME
• Frank Fish, Ph.D.,  Professor, Professor Department of Biology, West Chester University
• Mark Johnson, Ph.D., Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, Woods Hole, MA
• Richard W. Kimball, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Maine Maritime Academy
• Karyn Kunzelman, Ph.D., Professor,  External Graduate Faculty, Formerly Director of Research, Central Maine Medical Center, Superior Surgical Solutions, Inc.
• John Letcher Jr., Ph.D., Professor, President, AeroHydro Inc.
• Benjamin McCool , Ph.D., Professor, Staff Scientist Exxon-Mobil Research
• Tom Plona, Ph.D., Schlumberger Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts
• Lawrence Thompson, Ph.D., Applied Thermal Sciences, Sanford, Maine
• Sean Todd, Ph.D., College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, Maine
• Becky Woodward, Ph.D.,  Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, Woods Hole, MA
• Richard P.  Cochran, MD, Maui Memorial Medical Center, Wailuku, Hawaii
• Iradj Khavari, MD, Eastern Maine Medical Center, Bangor, Maine
• Krishna Bhatta, MD, Eastern Maine Medical Center, Bangor, Maine
• Daniel Devereaux, MD, Eastern Maine Medical Center, Bangor, Maine
• David Soltanpour, MD, Newyork Eye and Ear, New York, NY
• S. David Dvorak, PE, School of Engineering Technology, University of Maine
• David S. Rubenstein,  Maine Aerospace Consulting
• Paul A. Wlodkowski, Maine Maritime Academy, Castine, Maine
• Alireza Ghaffariyeh, MD, External  Graduate Faculty (Ophthalmology/Eye Microsurgery, Robotic Microsurgery)
• W. Andrew Hodge, MD, FACS Eastern Maine Medical Center, Chief of Orthopaedics and Surgery
• Kenneth R. Morse, M.D., Down East Orthopedics, Bangor, Maine
• Quan Guo, Ph.D., Scientific Advisor and Research Fellow, M-I SWACO, TX.
• Douglas Read, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Maine Maritime Academy, ME.
• Rajesh Kumar, MD, Physician, Bridgeport Hospital, CT.
• Steven Katona, Ph.D., Managing Director, Ocean Health Index, Conservation International, Arlington, VA.
• John Bridge, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Engineering, Maine Maritime Academy, Castine, ME
• Paul Heyliger, Ph.D., Professor, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO.
• Xiao Hu Liu, Ph.D., Research Staff Member, IBM TJ Watson Research Center, NY