FACULTY and RESEARCH FACULTY

• Charles Campbell, Professor; Two-phase flow, flow of granular material, heat transfer, slurry flows, fluidized beds, comminutron, particle fracture
• Julian Domaradzki, Professor; Associate Fellow of AIAA, Fellow of APS; computational fluid mechanics, environmental and geophysical fluid mechanics, turbulence
• Marijan Dravinski, Professor; Propagation, and diffraction of elastic waves, geophysical wave propagation, earthquake engineering
• Fokion Egolfopoulos, William E. Leonhard Professor in Engineering; Fellow of ASME; Associate Fellow of AIAA; Aerodynamic and Kinetic Processes in Flames, High-speed air-breathing propulsion, Microgravity Combustion, Mechanisms of Combustion-Generated Pollutants, Heterogeneous Reacting Flows, Conventional and Alternative Fuels, Detailed Modeling of Reacting Flows, Laser-Based Experimental Techniques
• Veronica Eliasson, Assistant Professor; Shock wave behavior in gases and liquids, shock wave focusing, shock wave-solid interactions
• Henryk Flashner, Professor; Dynamics and control of systems, control of structurally flexible systems, analysis of nonlinear systems, biomechanics
• Roger Ghanem, Professor; Risk assessment and mitigation, computational mechanics and computational stochastic mechanics, dynamics and identification, inverse problems and optimization under uncertainty, multiscale modeling; applications of these to problems in science and engineering
• Andrea Hodge, Assistant Professor; Metallic materials, nanomechanics, nanocrystalline materials processing, high temperature mechanics, thin and thick film coatings, biomaterials mechanics, foam processing
• Yan Jin, Professor; Collaborative engineering, design theory and methods, knowledge-based design and manufacturing systems, intelligent agents for engineering support
• Eva Kanso, Associate Professor; Dynamical systems, animal hydrodynamic propulsion
• Michael E. Kassner, Professor; Fellow of ASM; Fellow of ASME; Fellow of AAAS; Metal plasticity theory, creep, fracture, phase diagrams, fatigue, and semi-solid forming
• Tony Maxworthy, Smith International Professor; Member of NAE; Fellow of APS; Fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences; experiments in aerodynamics, environmental and geophysical fluid mechanics, turbulence, convection, and solidification, bio-fluid dynamics
• Paul Newton, Professor; nonlinear dynamical systems, fluid mechanics, vortex dynamics, probabilistic game theory, mathematical modeling of cancer metastasis
• Denis Phares, Associate Professor; Aerosol mechanics, aerosol mass spectrometry, atmospheric aerosols, microscale fluid flow
• Larry Redekopp, Professor; Fellow of APS; theoretical fluid mechanics, nonlinear waves and stability, geophysical fluid dynamics
• Paul Ronney, Professor; Combustion, micro-scale power generation and propulsion, biophysics and biofilms, turbulence, internal combustion engines and control systems, low-gravity phenomena, radiative transfer
• Satwindar Sadhal, Professor; Fellow of ASME; Drops and bubbles in acoustic fields, thermo-capillary flows with drops in low gravity, heat conduction in composite solids
• Geoffrey R. Shiflett, Associate Professor; Kinematics and dynamics of mechanical systems, computer-aided design, optimal design techniques, micro-electromechanical systems
• Geoff Spedding, Professor; Fellow of APS; geophysical fluid dynamics, animal aero- and hydrodynamics, turbulence
• Firdaus Udwadia, Professor (Civil Engineering, Systems Architecture Engineering, Mathematics, Information and Operations Management); Fellow of AIAA; Fellow of ASME; Dynamics and control, mechanics and mathematics, collaborative engineering, engineering management, structural dynamics, system identification
• Hai Wang, Professor; Northrop Chair in Engineering; Combustion chemistry, high-temperature chemical kinetics, soot formation and its effects on climate forcing, nano-material synthesis, characterization and modelling, transport theory of nanomaterials, chemical sensors, catalysis and photocatalysis.
• Bingen Yang, Professor; Fellow of ASME; Dynamics, vibration and control of mechanical systems, distributed-parameter systems, modeling and control of space structures, computational mechanics

FACULTY OF ENGINEERING PRACTICE

• M. Oussama Safadi, Associate Professor of Engineering Practice; Structural Dynamics, finite element, stress analysis, fracture mechanics

EMERITUS FACULTY

• Ron Blackwelder, Professor; Fellow of APS; experimental fluid mechanics, flight aerodynamics, turbulence
• Fred Browand, Professor Emeritus; Fellow of APS; experimental fluid mechanics, environmental and geophysical fluid mechanics, flight and transportation aerodynamics, turbulence
• Terence G. Langdon, Professor Emeritus of AME, Materials Science, and Earth Sciences; Fellow of RAE, Fellow of EAS; Fellow of AAAS; Fellow of ASM; Fellow of ACeramS; Fellow of MRS; Fellow of TMS; Fellow of Inst. Phys; Fellow of Inst. Mater.; Honorary Member of JIM; Mechanical properties of metals and ceramics, creep, superplasticity, processing and properties of ultrafine-grained materials, severe plastic deformation
• Don Shemansky, Professor Emeritus; astrophysics, space science, surface phenomena

RESEARCH FACULTY

• Adam Fincham, Research Associate Professor; experimental fluid mechanics, environmental and geophysical fluid mechanics, turbulence and waves, optical diagnostics

Abbreviations

AAAS: American Academy for the Advancement of Science
AIAA: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
ACeramS: American Ceramic Society
APS: American Physical Society
ASM: American Society for Materials
ASME: American Society of Mechanical Engineers
EAS: European Academy of Sciences
IAE: Institute for Advancement of Engineering
Inst. Mater.: Institute of Materials (U.K.)
Inst. Phys.: Institute of Physics
JIM: Japan Institute of Metals
MRS: The Materials Research Society
NAE: National Academy of Engineering
RAE: Royal Academy of Engineering (U.K.)
TMS: The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society

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