Two are members of the National Academy of Engineering, one is a Fellow of the
Royal Academy of Engineering.

• Ron Blackwelder, Professor; Fellow of APS; experimental fluid mechanics, flight aerodynamics, turbulence
• Fred Browand, Professor; Fellow of APS; experimental fluid mechanics, environmental and geophysical fluid mechanics, flight and transportation aerodynamics, turbulence
• Charles Campbell, Professor; Two-phase flow, flow of granular material, heat transfer, slurry flows, fluidized beds, comminutron, particle fracture
• Julian Domaradzki, Professor; 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, Professor; 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
• 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; 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, Assistant Professor; Dynamical systems, animal hydrodynamic propulsion
• Michael E. Kassner, Professor; Fellow of ASM; Metal plasticity theory, creep, fracture, phase diagrams, fatigue, and semi-solid forming
• Terence G. Langdon, William E. Leonhard Professor of Engineering, Professor of AME, Materials Science and Earth Sciences; Member of EAS; Fellow of RAE; Fellow of ASM; Fellow of ACeramS; 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
• Stephen C.-Y. Lu, David Packard Chair in Manufacturing Engineering (Industrial and Systems Engineering, Computer Science); Collaborative design, innovative product development, manufacturing systems, concurrent engineering, knowledge-based expert systems, AI-based machine learning technologies.
• 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
• E. Phil Muntz, Arthur B. Freeman Professor; Member of NAE; Fellow of AIAA; Fellow of APS; hypersonics, gas kinetics and plasmas, high performance materials, micro-mechanical devices, space science
• Paul Newton, Professor; theoretical fluid mechanics, nonlinear dynamical systems, waves and stability
• Denis Phares, Assistant Professor; Aerosol mechanics, aerosol mass spectrometry, atmospheric aerosols, microscale fluid flow
• Tait Pottebaum, Assistant Professor; Convective heat transfer, bluff-body aerodynamics, fluid-structure interactions, 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; 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; 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

• Don Shemansky, Professor Emeritus; astrophysics, space science, surface phenomena

STAFF

• Jerry Chen, Instructional Laboratory Manager
• Silvana Martinez-Vargas, Budget/Business Technician
• April Mundy, Administrative Budget Assistant
• Patt Pholnukulkit, Budget/Business Technician
• Dennis Plocher, Research Engineer
• Elsie Reyes, Business Manager
• Ewald Schuster, Research Lab Technician III
• Christine Welch, Student Services Tech III

ADJUNCT FACULTY

• John McIntyre, Adjunct Professor; aerospace structures, orbital dynamics, control

RESEARCH FACULTY

• Adam Fincham, Research Associate Professor
• Maria-Teresa Perez-Prado, Research Assistant Professor

FACULTY WITH JOINT APPOINTMENTS IN AME

• Daniel Erwin, Associate Professor (Astronautics); advanced propulsion, hypersonics, gas kinetics and plasmas
• Mike Gruntman, Professor (Astronautics); spacecraft design and space missions, propulsion, space science and space instrumentation, gas kinetics and plasmas
• Petros Ioannou, Professor (Electrical Engineering); control systems and applications, intelligent transportation systems
• Joseph Kunc, Professor (Astronautics); Fellow of APS; hypersonics, gas kinetics and plasmas, space science, molecular and radiative processes
• Sami Masri , Professor (Civil Engineering); Modeling and control of nonlinear systems, structural health monitoring
• Steven R. Nutt , Professor (Materials Science); Fellow of ACeramS; Composite materials, deformation and damage mechanisms of metal- and ceramic-matrix composites, interface structures and defects, electron microscopy
• Costas Sioutas Fred Champion Professor (Civil Engineering); Technologies for measuring physicochemical characteristics of air pollutants, toxic properties, and novel technologies for reducing the emissions of air pollutants Air pollution, aerosol technology, particle sampling, pollution control
• Costas Synolakis , Professor (Civil Engineering); computer tomography, free surface hydrodynamics

Abbreviations

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 (U.K.)
JIM: Japan Institute of Metals
NAE: National Academy of Engineering
RAE: Royal Academy of Engineering (U.K.)
TMS: The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society

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