Faculty Expertise - Mechanical and Materials Engineering

Faculty Name Expertise

Jack Devletian, Ph.D. Welding metallurgy and design; properties of ferrous and non-ferrous welds; and soldering for electronic assembly
Faryar Etesami, Ph.D. Mechanical design; computer-aided design; mechanical tolerancing; and statistical process improvement
Victor Li, Ph.D. Computational modeling of heat transfer; microstructure evolution; residual stresses; distortion; and hydrogen diffusion in welding as well as in other thermal-mechanical material processing
Lemmy Meekisho, Ph.D. Numerical modeling and simulation of materials processes; thermal management; and reliability issues in electronic packages
Gerald Recktenwald, Ph.D., Chair
 Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD); fluid mechanics; heat transfer; thermal management of electronic equipment; and numerical modeling
David Sailor, Ph.D. Urban climate measurements and modeling; characterization of the urban heat island and assessment of mitigation potential; building energy efficiency and green building technologies; regional and local climate interactions with energy systems; including impacts on demand and renewable resources
Graig Spolek, Ph.D. Performance measurement and design of green roof systems; HVAC systems design and control; industrial drying; and industrial energy utilization
Derek Tretheway, Ph.D.
 Micro particle image velocimetry; measurements of flow in microdevices; and non-Newtonian fluid flow
Dave Turcic, Ph.D. Analysis and design of high speed mechanical systems; system design; motion synthesis for manufacturing and material handling processes; design for manufacturing, robotics, computer aided design and computer-aided manufacturing; geometric modeling; automatic controls; and experimental methods
Jim VanWinkle, Ph.D. Metallic and ceramic corrosion and electrochemistry; thin films; semiconductor manufacturing
Mark Weislogel, Ph.D. Fluid-thermal/fluid-sciences; macroscale and microscale capillary-driven flows in complex geometries and over complex surface (wetting and spreading); capillary surface stability; passive cooling systems; microscale thermal devices; microgravity fluid mechanics; spacecraft thermal/fluid systems design
Chien Wern, Ph.D. Mechanical testing; fatigue testing; fracture mechanics; manufacturing process optimization; instrumentation; and robotics
William Wood, Ph.D. Synthesis, structure, and properties of materials; analysis of the structure/property/compositional relationships of super-alloys; ultrahigh strength and structural steel alloys; hydrogen embrittlement delayed cracking; laser surface alloying; welding of thick section ferrous and nonferrous alloys; and electroslag surfacing
Sung Yi, Ph.D. Electronic packaging; delamination and failure mechanisms of integrated circuit packages and composites; constitutive modeling and characterization of engineering materials; munerical modeling and simulation of manufacturing process of polymer matrix composites; and integrated circuits packages
Hormoz Zareh, Ph.D. Design analysis and simulation with finite element techniques; computer-aided design; and design optimization

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