People

Faculty
	Melvyn C. Branch Joseph Negler Professor Emeritus Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1971 Experimental and theoretical research on characterization of combustion processes; energy conversion; air pollution control
	Victor M. Bright Alvah and Harriett Hovlid Professor, Department Chair, and Faculty Director for Discovery Learning Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology, 1992 Micro- and nanoelectromechanical systems, microfabrication, microsensors, microactuators, materials and devices, opto-electronics, electronics, and micro/nano systems packaging and integration
	Tim Brower Director, CU-Mesa State College Engineering Partnership Ph.D. Colorado State University, 1997 Engineering education, fluid mechanics
	Scott Bunch Assistant Professor Ph.D., Cornell University, 2008 Fabrication and characterization of nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS) from atomically thin membranes such as graphene - single atomic layers of graphite
	Lawrence E. Carlson Professor D.Eng., University of California, Berkeley, 1971 Research in engineering education, design of upper-limb prostheses
	John W. Daily Professor Ph.D., Stanford University, 1975 Biomass gasification, wild land fire chemistry, MEMS for propulsion, optical cancer detection, laser diagnostics of reacting flows, combustion
	Subhendu K. Datta Professor Emeritus Ph.D., Jadavpur University, 1962 Ultrasonic material characterization and nondestructive evaluation, guided waves, scattering, acoustic phonon dispersion
	Olivier Desjardins Assistant Professor Ph.D., Stanford University, 2008 Large-eddy simulation and direct numerical simulation of turbulent liquid atomization, Advanced numerical methods for complex reacting turbulent flows and for multiphase flows, Lagrangian and Eulerian spray modeling, Modeling of turbulent multiphase combustion
	Yifu Ding Assistant Professor Ph.D., University of Akron, 2005 Structure and dynamics of glass formers, Fabrication and characterization of nanostructured materials, Stability and Instability of polymer nanostructures, Inelastic light/neutron scattering spectroscopy, Nanoimprint Lithography
	Martin L. Dunn Victor Schelke Professor, Industrial Relations Chair, and Associate Dean for Research Ph.D., University of Washington, 1992 Micro/nanomechanics of materials and structures, heterogeneous media, active materials
	Virginia Ferguson Assistant Professor Ph.D., University of Colorado at Boulder, 2001 Nano-scale characterization of materials; multi-scale structure-property-function relationships for biological tissue; aging, unloading, disease and genetics for musculoskeletal system
	Thomas L. Geers Professor Emeritus Ph.D., MIT, 1967 Radiation and scattering, structural dynamics, hydrodynamics, structure-medium interaction, finite-and boundary-element methods
	Alan R. Greenberg Professor, Associate Chair, and Executive Director, Membrane Applied Science and Technology Center Ph.D., Drexel University, 1978 Physical and mechanical behavior of polymeric materials, membranes and thin-films, real-time techniques for nondestructive measurement
	Michael Hannigan Assistant Professor Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, 1997 Characterization of air pollution, impact of air quality on health, energy links to air quality
	Daven Henze Assistant Professor Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, 2007 Aerosols and air quality, Climatology and atmospheric chemistry, Adjoint sensitivity analysis, Data assimilation and remote sensing
	Jean R. Hertzberg Associate Professor and Undergraduate Chair Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1986 Flow visualization, fluids education, experimental vortex dominated fluid dynamics and applications in combustion and biomechanics
	David R. Kassoy Professor Emeritus Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1965 Solid rocket motor chamber flow dynamics, detonation initiation, bubble dynamics in oscillating pipe flows, response of gases to local thermal power deposition on the sub-microsecond time scale, applications of asymptotic methods to multiple-scale problems
	Daria Kotys-Schwartz Instructor Ph.D., University of Colorado at Boulder, 2007 Novel manufacturing techniques, development of student assessment measures, gender disparity in engineering, curriculum development, innovative instructional methods
	Frank Kreith Professor Emeritus Doctorate in Applied Science, University of Paris, 1965 Heat transfer, thermal engineering, solar engineering
	Hassel Ledbetter Adjunct Professor Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1969 Materials science, elastic properties of materials, anelastic phenomena, phase transformations
	Sehee Lee Associate Professor Ph.D., Seoul National University, 1997 Nanostructured materials for battery, electrochromic device, electrochemical supercapacitor, opto-electronic, and sensor applications, thin film rechargeable lithium batteries, intercalation materials.
	Yung-Cheng Lee Professor and Director, iMINT Center Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1984 Design, packaging, and interconnects for micro/nano-systems integrating microelectronic, optoelectronic, microwave, micro and nanoelectromechanical devices
	Kurt Maute Associate Professor of Aerospace Engineering Sciences and Joseph H. Smead Fellow Ph.D., University of Stuttgart, 1998 Design optimization for structural and coupled multiphysics problems, topology and shape optimization, reliability and stochastic analysis and design, numerical methods and parallel computing
	Jana B. Milford Professor and Professionalism Chair Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University, 1988 Photochemical air quality modeling, source apportionment of air pollution, air quality management
	Shelly L. Miller Associate Professor and Graduate Chair Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1996 Indoor air quality, engineering controls for air pollutants, aerosols and bioaerosols, source apportionment methods
	Kamran Mohseni Associate Professor of Aerospace Engineering Sciences Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, 2000 Mobile sensor networking platforms, micro/nano transport, flow control, bio-propulsion, wind energy, computational fluid mechanics, turbulence, electron transport in semiconductor devices, bioengineering
	Todd Murray Associate Professor Ph.D. Materials Science and Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, 1998 Materials Characterization, Laser Ultrasonics, Optical Sensors and Biomedical Optics
	Harold S. Park Assistant Professor and Mechanical Engineering Chair's Faculty Fellow Ph.D., Northwestern University, 2004 Computational NEMS, surface effects on nanowires, coupled physics behavior and properties of nanowires
	Gary Pawlas Instructor and Director, I/UCPC Ph.D., University of Toledo, 1991 Computational fluid dynamics, fluid mechanics, heat transfer
	John Pellegrino Research Professor Ph.D., University of Colorado-Boulder, 1983 Modification, formation, characterization, and performance of membranes, Electrokinetic processes, Water treatment and supply, Biomass-to-fuels process development
	H. Jerry Qi Assistant Professor and Mechanical Engineering Chair's Faculty Fellow Sc.D., MIT, 2003 Mechanics and physics of polymers and elastomers, shape memory materials, soft tissues, and cells, constitutive models
	Rishi Raj Professor Ph.D., Harvard University, 1970 Polymer-derived ceramics, stochastic high temperature materials science, metal-ceramic and charged interfaces
	Derek Reamon Senior Instructor and Co-Director, Integrated Teaching and Learning Program & Laboratory Ph.D., Stanford University, 1999 Mechatronics, computer-controlled machines, smart product design, robotics, engineering education, design education, and assessment
	Mark Rentschler Assistant Professor Ph.D., University of Nebraska, 2006 Medical device and surgical tool design, tissue mechanics characterization and dynamic modeling, robotics and mechatronics
	Timothy F. Scott Assistant Research Professor PhD, Monash University, 2006 Polymer photochemistry, Exploitation of free radicals in polymeric materials, Active and stimuli-responsive biomaterials and structures
	Robin Shandas Research Professor Ph.D., University of California, San Diego, 1993 Cardiovascular bio/fluid dynamics; medical ultrasonics and imaging; MEMS-based biosensors
	Conrad R. Stoldt Associate Professor Ph.D., Iowa State University, 1999 Nanomaterials synthesis; Semiconductor corrosion; Energy conversion and storage
	Wei Tan Assistant Professor Ph.D., University of Illinois, Chicago, 2002 Cardiovascular bioengineering; bioMEMS; cell and tissue engineering biomaterials
	Oleg V. Vasilyev Associate Professor Ph.D., University of Notre Dame, 1996 Computational fluid dynamics, wavelet methods, multiscale phenomena, theoretical and numerical studies in turbulence, thermal convection flows, fluid dynamics of geological processes
	Patrick D. Weidman Professor Emeritus Ph.D., University of Southern California, 1973 Fluid mechanics, heat transfer, hydrodynamic stability, mathematics
	Ronggui Yang Assistant Professor Sanders Faculty Fellow Ph.D., MIT, 2006 Micro/nanoscale and ultrafast energy transport, micro and nanotechnology for energy conversion, nanostructured materials (nanocomposites, nanoporous materials)
	Jack L. Zable Industry Professor of Mechanical Engineering Design Ph.D., Purdue University, 1969 Mechanical design methods, shock and vibration, high-speed mechanisms, design and measurement of sports equipment and medical devices

Department Staff
	Vicki Bain Accounting
	Micah Emery IT Technician
	Larry Monke Undergraduate Coordinator
	Greg Potts Laboratory Coordinator
	Sharon Anderson Graduate Coordinator
	Linda Rose I/UCPC Administrator
	Patti Siegfried Administrative Assistant

iMINT Center Staff
	Dan Fitzstephens iMINT Center Sponsor Coordinator

MAST Center Staff
	Kathryn Michel Accountant, MAST Center

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