Mechanical Engineering Research Laboratories
- Additive & Digital Manufacturing Laboratory
- Aerospace Laboratory
- Biorobotics & Biomechanics Laboratory
- Fabrication & Processing Laboratory
- Marine Hydrodynamics Laboratory
- Materials Laboratory
- Radiative Heat Transfer Laboratory
- Solar Thermal Energy Laboratory
- The Knowledge & Innovation for Next Generation Manufacturing Laboratory
- Vibrations & Impact Testing Laboratory
- Wind Energy & Marine Operations Laboratory
Research Areas
Vincent Caccese, Ph.D., P.E. Profile
- Design, Testing and Analysis of Impact Attenuating Materials
- Design and Monitoring Systems for Assistive Devices
- Structural Testing, and Finite Element Analysis Computer Modeling
- Dynamic Systems Modeling and Testing
- Fatigue Response of Connections
Sheila Edalatpour, Ph.D. Profile
- Near- and Far-Field Radiative Energy Transfer
- Computational Heat Transfer
- Electromagnetic Light Scattering
- High-Performance Computing
- Thermal Energy Transport at Micro/Nanoscale
Wilhelm “Alex” Friess, Ph.D. Profile
- Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and Lighter-Than-Air Vehicles
- Engineering Education
- Energy Efficiency in the Build Environment (Extreme Climates) and Advanced Infiltration Diagnostics
Andrew Goupee, Ph.D. Profile
- Numerical Methods in Floating Offshore Structures
- Model Testing of Floating Offshore Structures
- Experimental Techniques
- Structural Optimization
- Multiscale Methods for Heterogeneous Materials
Babak Hejrati, Ph.D. Profile
- Robotics and Robot-Assisted Gait Rehabilitation
- Controls and Dynamic Systems
- Biomechanics and Motion Analysis
- Haptics and Virtual Reality
- Mechanical Design and Manufacturing
Zhihe Jin, Ph.D. Profile
- Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures
- Thermal Stresses and Thermal Shock Failure of Advanced Ceramics and Composites
- Fluid Migration Through Fracture Propagation in Geological Materials
- Thermo-Poroelasticity
- Continuum Theory of Thermoelectric Energy Conversion Materials
Bashir Khoda, Ph.D. Profile
- Digital Manufacturing
- CAD/CAM/CAE
- Additive Manufacturing/ 3D Printing
- Bio-Manufacturing
Richard Kimball, Ph.D. Profile
- Offshore Wind Energy: Floating systems development and testing
- Marine diesel engine performance testing and emissions reduction research
- Low emissions fuel development
- Computer design of propellers and turbines
- Tidal energy systems
Philip King, Ph.D. Profile
- Additive and Convergent manufacturing
- Design for additive manufacturing (DfAM)
- Sustainable manufacturing
- Large-scale manufacturing
- Metal casting
Justin Lapp, Ph.D. Profile
- Solar Thermal Energy and Thermochemistry
- Numerical Heat Transfer Modeling for High Temperature Systems
- Thermal Radiation
- Material Behavior Under Solar Thermal Cycling
- Determination of Optical and Thermal Properties of Materials
Sharmila Mukhopadhyay, Ph.D. Profile
- Multifunctional nanomaterials: design, synthesis, characterization and testing
- Compact lightweight components for energy, environment, and biomedical applications
- Surface and interface phenomena
Olivier Putzeys, Ph.D., P.E. Profile
- Combustion and Fire Science
- Smoldering Combustion and the Transition to Flaming
- Combustion in Oxygen-Enriched Atmospheres
- Thermal Modeling of Animals using Infrared Thermography
Masoud Rais-Rohani, Ph.D., P.E. Profile
- Structural and Multidisciplinary Design Optimization
- Design Optimization of Multiscale Systems
- Mechanics of Thin-Walled (Aircraft, Automotive, and Composite) Structures
- Probabilistic and Non-Probabilistic Approaches for Uncertainty Quantification
- Reduced Order and Surrogate Modeling
James Sucec, M.S., P.E. Profile
- Skin Friction and Heat Transfer in Turbulent Flow over Aerodynamically Rough Surfaces
- Transient, Conjugated Forced Convection
Senthil S. Vel, Ph.D. Profile
- Mechanics of Composite Materials
- Computational Solid Mechanics
- Micromechanical Modeling of Heterogeneous Materials
- Multiscale Modeling
- Thermoelastic Properties, Seismic Anisotropy and Creep of Rocks, Ice and Polycrystalline Materials
Amrit S. Verma, Ph.D. Profile
- Offshore Wind Turbine Technology: Installation, Operation and Maintenance
- Structural Testing and Finite Element Analysis of Composite and Sandwich Structures
- Leading Edge Erosion of Wind Turbine Blades
- Probabilistic Methods and Analysis
- Structural Response to Impact Loads