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Faculty and Staff

Academic Faculty | Adjunct/Research Faculty | Support Staff | Machine Shop Staff

The Department of Mechanical Engineering has 22 tenure-track faculty members, six adjunct professors, and two distinguished emeritus. Four faculty members are fellows within their respective professional organizations, seven are editors or associate editors for journals within their respective areas, and 11 of the faculty are licensed engineers.

Academic Faculty

Name		Title	Research Focus	Office/Contact
	Dr. Jamil Khan	Chair Professor	Heat transfer; Fluid dynamics	300 Main, A224 e-mail 803.777.1578
	Dr. Sourav Banerjee	Asst. Professor	Mechanics of Materials, Acoustic wave, phonon field modeling, Multiscale Information Migration, Material Characterization, NDE / SHM, CBM+	300 Main, A117 e-mail 803.777.4596
	Dr. Sarah Baxter	Assoc. Professor	Micromechanics of Composites, Probabilistic Micromechanics	300 Main, A124 e-mail 803.777.0239
	Dr. Abdel Bayoumi	Director, BME Professor, ME	Health Monitoring Systems; Condition Based Maintenance; Design and Manufacturing.	300 Main, A223 e-mail 803.777.1845
	Dr. Yuh J. Chao	John Ducate, Sr. Prof. of Mech Eng	Fracture mechanics, impact mechanics, welding, and durability of fuel cells	300 Main, A123 e-mail 803.777.5869
	Dr. Fanglin "Frank" Chen	Assoc. Professor	Advanced materials for separation membranes and electrochemical devices for energy conversion and storage	300 Main, A117 e-mail 803.777.4875
	Dr. Xiaomin Deng	Professor	Nanomechanics; Fracture mechanics; Manufacturing process	300 Main, A130 e-mail 803.777.7144
	Dr. Victor Giurgiutiu (jurjutzu)	Professor	Adaptive Materials and Smart Structures; Laboratory for Adaptive Materials and Smart Structures, Vibration Management Enhancement Program.	300 Main, A222 e-mail 803.777.8018
	Dr. Kevin Huang	Assoc. Professor	Fundamental studies of electrochemical phenomena in energy-related devices	300 Main, A112 E-mail 777.0204
	Dr. Xinyu Huang	Asst. Professor	Mechanics and Durability of Functional and Structural Composite Materials	300 Main, A113 E-mail 777.6834
	Dr. Djamel Kaoumi	Asst. Professor	Advanced alloys for structural and fuel-cladding applications; charged particle irradiation; in-situ TEM techniques.	300 Main, A213 e-mail 803.777.0926
	Dr. Addis Kidane	Asst. Professor	Mechanics and behavior of multifunctional material under dynamic loading and extreme environments	300 Main, A214 e-mail 803-777-2502
	Dr. Travis W. Knight	Assoc. Professor	Advanced nuclear fuels and materials; Space nuclear power and propulsion; Production of hydrogen from nuclear energy.	300 Main, A120 e-mail 803.777.1465
	Dr. Chen Li	Asst. Professor	Development and fabrication of stuctures/films at micro/nanoscale; Novel applications in renewable energy harvest and storage; Multi-scale modeling	300 Main, A214 e-mail 803.777.7155
	Dr. Xiaodong Li	CEC Distinguished Professor	Nanofabrication; Nanomechanical characterization; Nanostructures and Reliability Laboratory.	300 Main, A117 e-mail 803.777.8011
	Dr. Jed Lyons	Professor	Engineering education, composites and reinforced plastics, design and manufacturing of renewable materials.	300 Main, A132 e-mail 803.777.9552
	Dr. Prasun Majumdar	Asst. Professor	Manufacturing, Multi-Physics Analysis, Micro-/Nano-Mechanics, Prognosis and Life Prediction of Heterogeneous materials, Multi-scale and Multi-functional Composites	541 Main, R336e-mail 803.777-0183
	Dr. Dale McCants	Instructor	Nanofluids, electronics cooling, heat transfer, fluid mechanics, and thermodynamics.	300 Main, A116 e-mail 803.777.2252
	Dr. Steve McNeill	Assoc Prof/ Undergrad Director	Computer Vision, Digital Image Correlation, Microprocessors, Experimental Mechanics, Reverse Engineering.	300 Main, A133 e-mail 803.777.3407
	Dr. Jeff Morehouse	Assoc. Professor	Thermodynamics; Solar energy system design; HVAC control in humid climates.	300 Main, A125 e-mail 803.777.3017
	Dr. Wally Peters	Professor T&P Chair	Complex Systems Study and Design.	300 Main, A212 e-mail 803.777.4327
	Dr. Kenneth Reifsnider, NAE	Professor	Fuel cell science and engineering; Material systems; Performance and life behavior	300 Main, A116 e-mail 803.777.0084
	Dr. Tony Reynolds	Professor	Friction Stir Welding, fatigue and fracture, experimental micro-mechanics, quantitative fractographic analysis.	300 Main, A127 e-mail 803.777.9548
	Dr. David Rocheleau	Assoc. Prof. Graduate Director	Engineering design, mechanisms and robotics; Advanced Actuators Group.	300 Main, A131 e-mail 803.777.9395
	Dr. Joshua Tarbutton	Asst. Professor	Manufacturing, high performance computing' system identification, linear and non-linear control systems, dynamics, signal processing.
	Dr. Tarek Shazly	Asst. Professor	Biomaterials design and Synthesis; Mechanical and computational modeling	300 Main, A113 e-mail 803.777.4678
	Dr. Michael Sutton	Carolina Distinguished Professor	Optics applications; Experimental mechanics; Digital image processing; Computer Vision; Finite elements modeling of cracked bodies.	300 Main, A129 e-mail 803.777.7158
	Dr. Guiren Wang	Asst. Professor	Micro/Nanofluidics: Lab-on-a-chip, Biomechanics drug delivery; Fluid mechanics	300 Main, A221 e-mail 803.777.8013
	Dr. Xingjian ("Chris") Xue	Asst. Professor	Fuel cells; Electrolysis; Electrochemcial Impedance Spectroscopy; Mathematical Modeling.	300 Main, A119 e-mail 803.576.5598
	Dr. Jinkyu "JK" Yang	Asst. Professor	Phononic granular crystals; Advanced composites; Novel sensing and actuation devices; NDE/SHM; Advanced Structures Laboratory	300 Main, A220 e-mail 803.777.0070
	Dr. "Lucy" Yu	Asst. Professor	Structural health monitoring and diagnosis	300 Main, A111 e-mail 803.777.4902

Emeritus Faculty

Name		Title	Research Focus	Office/Contact
	Dr. Bill Ranson	Distinguished Professor Emeritus	Scale invariant computer vision; Mathematical modeling; Application of technology to learning systems	300 Main, A121 e-mail 803.777.7053
	Dr. Curtis Rhodes	Distinguished Professor Emeritus	Computer-aided design, engineering, and manufacturing; computational fluid dynamics.	300 Main, A122 e-mail 803.777.9136

Adjunct/Research Faculty

Name		Title	Research Focus	Office/Contact
	Dr. Thad Adams	Adjunct Prof.	Nuclear fuels, advanced materials for nuclear systems, spent nuclear fuel storage, disposal technologies for special nuclear materials, high temperature materials for thermochemical hydrogen production	e-mail
	Dr. Rita Baranwal	Westinghouse	e-mail	Nuclear fuels and Materials
	Dr. Jeff Bischoff	Adjunct Prof.	Biomedical Engineering; Passive mechanics of soft tissue	e-mail 574.371.8394
	Dr. Mel Buckner	Adjunct Prof.	Plutonium disposition, advanced fuel cycle initiatives, and the SRS energy park including nuclear hydrogen production and university research reactor.	e-mail 803.442.6373
	Dr. Jeff Darabi	Adjunct Prof.	Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS), Microfluidic Systems, BioMEMS, Microscale Heat Transfer, Thermal Management of Microelectronics and Nanotechnology.
	Dr. Max Gorensek	Adjunct Prof.	Nuclear hydrogen production, Thermochemical and hybrid hydrogen production process development, steady-state and dynamic flow sheet simulation and optimization, and high level waste treatment	e-mail 803.725.1314
	Dr. L Larry Hamm	Savannah River National Laboratory	Multi-component solution thermodynamics; multi-fluid thermal-hydraulics of nuclear reactors and waste tanks; reactor safety analysis; radioactive contaminent transport within the environment	e-mail
	Mr. Val Loiselle	Adjunct Prof.	Nuclear engineering; Environmental remediation; Waste management and disposal; Metal recycle manufacturing.	e-mail 803.666.5598
	Dr. Elwyn Roberts	Visiting Prof.	Materials performance in nuclear reactors, product design, manufacturing and concurrent engineering.	300 Main, A116 e-mail 803.777.2252
	Dr. Bill Summers	Adjunct Prof.	Nuclear engineering, fuel cells, nuclear hydrogen production.	e-mail
	Dr. Wei Tang	Res. Asst. Prof.		300 Main, A142 e-mail 803.777.0753
	Dr. Adrian E. Mendez Torres	Savannah River National Laboratory	Safeguards Technologies, nuclear non proliferation, sensors developments, wide band gaps electronics, diamond and nanodiamond, quantum dots, materials for harsh environment and shielding, biocompatible materials for drug delivery systems (DDS) and cancer treatment, spectroscopy techniques and advanced nuclear systems	e-mail
	Prof. James Tulenko	Adjunct Prof.	Nuclear fuel cycle, radioactive wastes, reactor analysis, engineering application of radioisotopes, robotics, intelligent databases, system analysis	e-mail 352.392.1401, x314
	Dr. Shaowen Xu	Res. Asst. Prof.		300 Main, A014 e-mail 803.777.3587
	Dr. Jianzheng Zuo	Res. Prof.		300 Main, A143 e-mail 803.777.8646

Support Staff

Name		Title	Office	Phone	E-mail
	Renee Jenkins	Student Svcs. Admin. Asst.	300 Main, A229	803.777.9549	e-mail
	Shannon Lackey	Bus. Mgr.	300 Main, A242	803.777.7513	e-mail
	Misty O'Donnell	Admin. Asst.	300 Main, A224	803.777.3082	e-mail
	Lalitha Ravi	Admin. Asst.	300 Main, A224	803.777.4185	e-mail
	Glenn Severt	IT Manager	300 Main, A115	803.777.6646	e-mail
	David Westbury	Lab Engineer	300 Main, A114	803.777.1452	e-mail
	Dan Wilhelm	Assoc. Eng. I	300 Main, C008	803.777.1595	e-mail