Energy Conversion, Transport, and Storage
| Specialization | Faculty | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Convective heat transfer, two-phase flows, liquid crystal thermography | Dr. D. Keith Hollingsworth | Professor |
| Gas turbine heat transfer, shock wave/boundary layer interaction, microfluidics | Dr. Phillip Ligrani | Professor and Eminent Scholar in Propulsion |
| Transport phenomena applied to electrochemical energy storage and conversion devices, energy systems modeling | Dr. George Nelson | Professor and Department Chair |
|
Transport phenomena and reaction kinetics in electrochemical energy systems, control strategies and system packaging |
Dr. Guangsheng Zhang | Associate Professor |
| Material synthesis and characterization, electrochemistry, hydrometallurgy, sustainability, recycling | Dr. Natalie Click | Assistant Professor |
Advanced Propulsion, Plasma Science, and Fusion
| Specialization | Faculty | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Solid, liquid, and hybrid propulsion, combustion instability, missile design | Dr. Robert Frederick | Professor and Director of the Propulsion Research Center |
| Fusion propulsion, pulsed electromagnetic plasma, accelerators, smoothed particle hydrodynamics | Dr. Jason Cassibry | Professor |
| Electric propulsion, plasma dynamics, biological applications of atmospheric plasmas, rotating detonation engines, laser produced plasmas, magnetized plasmas | Dr. Gabe Xu | Professor |
| Advanced propulsion, energy, detonation physics, rotating detonation engines, combustion science | Dr. John Bennewitz | Assistant Professor |
| Plasma catalysis, plasma chemical synthesis, nanoscale heat transfer | Dr. Yue Xiao | Assistant Professor |
Combustion and Turbulence Modeling
| Specialization | Faculty | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Computational fluid mechanics, acoustics, chemically reacting flows, supersonic and hypersonic turbulent flows | Dr. Kader Frendi | Professor |
| Direct and large-eddy simulations of turbulent combustion, wildland fire behavior | Dr. Shankar Mahalingam | Distinguished Professor and Dean of College of Engineering |
| Direct and large-eddy simulations of multiphase flows, plasma dynamics, and wildland fires | Dr. Babak Shotorban | Professor |
| Computational transport phenomena, combustion, radiative heat transfer | Dr. Sarma Rani | Professor |
Materials Engineering and Solid Mechanics
| Specialization | Faculty | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Experimental solid mechanics, finite element analysis, strain rate sensitivity and thermal softening, multiphysics modeling of couple mechanical-thermal-electrochemical response |
Dr. Nathan Spulak | Assistant Professor |
| Smart materials, actuators and sensors, health monitoring of composite material systems | Dr. Mark Lin | Associate Professor |
| Computational mechanics of materials, microstructure-property relationships, multiscale modeling of plasticity and damage, nonlocal continuum mechanics, dynamic material response | Dr. Nickolas Ginga | Assistant Professor |
| Mechanical behavior and characterization of materials, polymeric composites, friction stir welding, additive manufacturing | Dr. Judith Schneider | Professor |
| Adaptive structures, structural dynamics and health monitoring | Dr. Gang Wang | Associate Professor |
Unmanned Vehicles
| Specialization | Faculty | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Aerodynamics, propulsion, vehicle design | Dr. D. Brian Landrum (1992-2022) |
Associate Professor |
| Control theory and robotics applied to autonomous ground, marine, and aerial vehicles | Dr. Farbod Fahimi | Associate Professor |
| Fluid-structure interactions, flapping-wing aerodynamics | Dr. Chang-kwon Kang | Associate Professor |
| Active Flow Control, wing design, aircraft performance | Dr. Haiyang Hu | Assistant Professor |
