ME Faculty by Research Area

Click on the links below to see the faculty members involved in the research area named.

Bio-Mechanical/Bio-Medical Engineering

J. Abbott - medical robotics

S. Bamberg - bio-instrumentation, gait analysis

D. Bloswick - industrial ergonomics, occupational biomechanics, safety

J. Guilkey - mechanical characterization of multi-cellular constructs

K. Monson - head injury biomechanics, blood vessels mechanics

R. Sesek - occupational safety, human factors engineering, industrial ergonomics, ergonomics modeling

R. Roemer - biomedical systems

Composite Materials

D. Adams - mechanics of composite materials, micromechanics, damage mechanics

Controls

J. Abbott - haptics, wireless magnetic control

S. Bamberg - motion tracking

S. Mascaro - human-machine systems

S. Meek - biocontrol systems

M. Minor - control of robotic systems

W. Provancher - haptics

R. Roemer - biomedical systems

Design

J. Abbott - robotics, medical systems, haptic interfaces

E. Bamberg - precision design, product design, conceptual design tools

D. Hoeppner - quality based design, design reliability, aircraft integrity

S. Jacobsen - MEMS, robotics, servo systems, medical systems

S. Mascaro - Biological mechatronics, wet robotics

W. Provancher - design, tactile sensing and feedback

R. Roemer - biomedical systems

Energy and Environment

K. Chen - energy system optimization, solar energy, thermoelectrics

E. Pardyjak - wind energy

G. Sandquist - nuclear and environmental energy

K. Udell - energy production, sustainable energy use, subsurface energy storage, soil and groundwater clean-up

Ergonomics and Safety

D. Bloswick - ergonomics, occupational biomechanics, rehabilitation ergonomics

Fluid Mechanics

T. Ameel - microscale fluid dynamics

K. Chen - aerodynamics, propulsion

T. Harman - Computational Fluid Dynamics and fluid-structure interaction

P. McMurtry - CFD, turbulent mixing, fluid-structure interaction

M. Metzger - turbulent boundary layers, pollutant dispersion, sensor development, unmanned aerial vehicles, sensitivity analysis

E. Pardyjak - atmospheric turbulence, urban fluid mechanics, stratified flows

K. Udell - multiphase flow, interfacial phenomena, porous media

Heat Transfer

T. Ameel - microscale convection, heat exchangers

K. Chen - conduction in thin films, thermodiodes

R. Roemer - bio heat transfer

K. Udell - phase change, microscale heat transfer, porous media

Manufacturing

A.K. Balaji - CAD/CAM, modeling of machining processes, process planning

Microsystems and Nanosystems

T. Ameel - microfluidic systems

K. Chen - miniature energy systems, themal sensors and actuators

B. Gale - MEMS, microfluidics, bioMEMS

Thermodynamics

T. Ameel - microscale phase change processes

K. Chen - plasmas, non-equilibrium thermodynamics

K. Udell - energy conversion, phase change

Robotics

J. Abbott - medical robotics, haptics

S. Bamberg - bio-instrumentation

S. Jacobsen - exoskeleton systems, humanoid robots, virtual reality

S. Mascaro - human-machine systems, wet robotics

S. Meek - prosthetics

M. Minor - mobile robots

W. Provancher - development of smart materials in robotics

Solid Mechanics

D. Adams - damage mechanics, micromechanics

K.L. DeVries - adhesion, polymers, mechanical properties of materials

J. Guilkey - computational mechanics and fluid-structure interaction

D. Hoeppner - fretting, fretting fatigue, fracture mechanics, fatigue modeling, corrosion fatigue, design methods, Holistic Structural Integrity Design (HOLSID

K. Monson - biomechanics