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FACULTY
OVERVIEW
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 perspective professional organizations, seven are editors
or associate editors for journals within their perspective areas, and 11 of the faculty
are licensed engineers.
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Dr. Sarah C. Baxter - Associate Professor
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Micromechanics of Composites, Probabilistic Micromechanics.
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Dr. Abdel Bayoumi - Professor RESEARCH INTERESTS
Information Technology, MEMS/NEMS/Mechatronics, Materials and
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Dr. Jeff Bischoff - Adjunct
Professor
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Biomedical Engineering, passive mechanics of soft tissue, theoretical framework for modeling growth in tissue, analysis of structural and constitutive evolution in artificial tissue scaffolding, and constitutive testing and modeling of hypertrophic scars.
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Dr. Mel Buckner - Adjunct
Professor
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Plutonium disposition, advanced fuel cycle initiatives, and
the SRS energy park including nuclear hydrogen production and
university research reactor.
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Dr. Yuh J. Chao - John Ducate, Sr. Professor of Mechanical Engineering
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Theoretical and experimental studies on
failure, fracture and fatigue of materials and structures, welding modeling for residual stress
and distortion, impact mechanics for material
characterization and failure criterion. Biomechanics and
nanomechanics.
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Dr. Jeff Darabi, Adjunct Professor Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS),
Microfluidic Systems, BioMEMS, Microscale Heat Transfer, Thermal Management of Microelectronics
and Nanotechnology
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Dr. Fanglin (Frank) Chen - Assistant Professor
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Synthesis and characterization of materials for energy conversion
and storage, microstructure property relationship, electroceramics and solid state ionic devices,
electrochemical performance evaluation, materials and designs for solid oxide fuel cells
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Dr. Xiaomin Deng - Professor
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Nanomechanics/atomistic simulation;
fracture mechanics/crack-growth simulation; manufacturing process
modeling/simulation (friction stir welding, metal cutting, GMA
welding).
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Xiaoming He, Ph.D.
Assistant
Professor RESEARCH INTERESTS
Heat and mass transfer in medicine and biotechnology;
Cryobiology
and biopreservation;
Thermal therapy,
hyperthermia, and cryosurgery; Molecular,
cellular, and tissue engineering; Biomechanics
and
biothermodynamics;
Bionanotechnology
and bioMEMS. MORE INFORMATION
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Dr. Marc Garland -
Adjunct Professor RESEARCH INTERESTS
Production of radioisotopes in nuclear reactors and particle
accelerators, medical applications of radioisotopes
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Dr. Victor Giurgiutiu (jurjutzu) -
Professor
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Adaptive Materials and Smart Structures, Machinery Diagnostics and Prognostics, Structural Health Monitoring, Mechatronics,
Laboratory for Adaptive Materials and Smart Structures,
Vibration Management
Enhancement Program.
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Mr. Donald Keating - Associate Professor
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Technology Management.
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Dr. Jamil Khan - Chair and Professor
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Heat transfer during manufacturing processes, heat transfer and fluid flow with phase change
(Solidification/Melting in Casting, Welding), computational and experimental
fluid dynamics related to contaminants transport in rooms, heat transfer in porous media,
micro-channel heat transfer, environmentally conscious manufacturing/re-manufacturing.
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Dr. Arash Kheradvar -
Assistant Professor
RESEARCH INTERESTS
| Cardiovascular Engineering, biofluid mechanics,
technology for minimally invasive procedures,
cardiovascular imaging, heart valve and stent
engineering, cardiac macro and micro mechanics |
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Dr. Travis W. Knight - Assistant Professor
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Advanced nuclear fuels and materials, reactor design, advanced
fuel cycles, space nuclear power and propulsion, and application
of nuclear power in future energy economies for sustainability
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Dr. Xiaodong Li - Associate Professor
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Nanofabrication, nanostructured materials/devices, reliability of
nanostructures/devices, nanomechanical characterization,
Nanostructures and
Reliability Laboratory.
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Mr. Val Loiselle - Adjunct Professor
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Nuclear engineering; environmental remediation, emphasis on
waste management and disposal; transportation and disposal of EPA pond
closures, and metal recycle manufacturing.
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Dr. Jed Lyons - Professor
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Engineering education, composites and reinforced plastics, design and manufacturing of renewable
materials.
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Dr. Steve McNeill - Associate Professor
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Computer Vision, Digital Image Correlation, Microprocessors, Experimental Mechanics, Reverse Engineering.
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Dr. Jeff Morehouse - Associate Professor
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Dr. Morehouse and his students have investigated a broad range of
thermodynamic heat engine applications, ranging from space-based fuel
cell power systems to ground-coupled heat pumps to phase-change
storage systems. Dr. Morehouse has long been associated with solar
energy system design and analyses and is currently involved in a
conventional HVAC control project and with evaporative system
applications in humid climates.
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Dr. Wally Peters - Professor
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Complex Systems Study and Design.
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Dr. Bill Ranson - Professor
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Scale invariant computer vision applications to
the measurement of mechanical systems, mathematical modeling of mechanical systems
measurements to the system life predictions,
application of technology to learning systems.
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Ken
Reifsnider,
NAE
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Durability,
damage tolerance, and strength-life relationships in material
systems; Performance and life prognosis, aging, material state
changes, long term behavior; Fuel cell science and engineering. MORE INFORMATION
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Dr. Tony Reynolds - Professor
and Graduate Director
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Friction Stir Welding, fatigue and fracture, experimental micro-mechanics,
quantitative fractographic analysis.
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Dr. Curtis Rhodes - Professor
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Computer-aided design, engineering, and
manufacturing; computational fluid dynamics.
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Dr. Elwyn Roberts - Adjunct Professor
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Materials performance in nuclear reactors, product design, manufacturing and concurrent
engineering.
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Dr. David Rocheleau - Associate Professor
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Engineering design and product development, applied mechanisms and robotics,
mechatronics,
Center for Manufacturing and Technology (CMAT),
Advanced Actuators Group.
OFFICE HOURS
- Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday 3:00 - 4:00 pm
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Dr.
Bill Summers - Adjunct Professor
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Nuclear engineering, fuel cells, nuclear hydrogen
production
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Dr.
Balendra Sutharshan - Adjunct Professor
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Thermal hydraulics and two-phase flows
fission converter for boron neutron capture therapy.
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Dr. Michael Sutton
- Carolina Distinguished Professor
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Coherent and incoherent optics applications, experimental mechanics, digital image processing,
Computer Vision,
applications of integral methods and experimental mechanics,
boundary value problems, plastic fracture mechanics, finite elements
modeling of cracked bodies. MORE INFORMATION
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Dr. Phil Voglewede - Assistant Professor
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Robotics, controls, mechanism design, theoretical kinematics, robotic
locomotion, and parallel manipulators. MORE INFORMATION
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Dr. Guiren Wang -
Assistant Professor
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Micro/Nanofluidics, sensor, lab-on-a-chip, biomechanics drug delivery,
fluid mechanics, turbulence and mixing, optical measurement,
flourescence, bioreactor and tissue engineering
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Dr. Xingjian (Chris) Xue - Assistant Professor
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Multiphysics modeling and analysis of solid oxide fuel cells, microstructure design and manufacturing, high
temperature measurement in material processing and
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