Ahmed Aboelezz, Ph.D. Profile

  • Applied Aerodynamics
  • Drones for Harsh Environment
  • Flight Dynamics and Control of UAVs
  • Wind Energy Systems and Turbine Performance Optimization
  • Bio-inspired Design and its Applications in Aerospace Engineering

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

Christopher Mordaunt, Ph.D. Profile

  • Sooting Propensity of Liquid Hydrocarbon Fuels
  • Biomass Combustion
  • Combustion Characteristics of Coal-Based Liquid Fuels
  • Combustion Instability in Land-Based Gas Turbines

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

Kewei Xu, Ph.D. Profile

  • Bluff Body (Ships and Vehicles) Airwakes
  • Active Flow Control
  • Aircraft Aerodynamics
  • Wind Turbine
  • Turbomachinery and Engine Inlet

Xiaoxiao Zhao, Ph.D. Profile

  • Liquid Droplet Transport
  • PFAS-Free Surfaces
  • Liquid-Like Polymer Brushes
  • Micro/Nano Surface Patterning
  • Durable Superhydrophobic Surfaces