Energy conversion, transport, and storage SpecializationFacultyTitle Convective heat transfer, two-phase flows, liquid crystal thermography Dr. D. Keith Hollingsworth Professor and Department Chair 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 Associate Professor Transport phenomena and reaction kinetics in electrochemical energy systems, control strategies and system packaging Dr. Guangsheng Zhang Assistant Professor Rocket Propulsion and Plasma Engineering SpecializationFacultyTitle 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 Associate Professor Electric propulsion, plasma dynamics, biological applications of atmospheric plasmas, rotating detonation engines Dr. Gabe Xu Associate Professor Advanced propulsion, energy, detonation physics, rotating detonation engines, combustion science Dr. John Bennewitz Assistant Professor Combustion and Turbulence Modeling SpecializationFacultyTitle 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 Associate Professor Materials Engineering and Solid Mechanics SpecializationFacultyTitle Mechanics of materials, deformation, fatigue, fracture, dynamic impacts 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 SpecializationFacultyTitle 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. Konstantinos Kanistras Assistant Professor Estimation, multi-sensor fusion, Control and coordination for multi-agent unmanned systems Dr. Naga Venkat Adurthi Assistant Professor