José R. Simões Moreira

    Visiting Professor

    • Email: jrsimoes@utah.edu
    • Office: 2568 MEK

    Research Interests:
    Renewable Energies
    Gas mixture separation by supersonic techniques
    Concentrated solar energy
    H2 production from natural gas by plasma technology
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    Darshan Bamney

    Assistant Professor

    • Email: darshan.bamney@utah.edu
    • Office: 1341 MEK

    Research interests:
    Multiscale materials modeling,
    Plasticity and failure,
    Microstructure-property relationships,
    Materials response in extreme environments, 
    Scale-/technique-bridging

    Nelson Vieira De Carvalho

    Associate Professor

    • Email: nelson.carvalho@utah.edu
    • Office: 1549 MEK

    Research Interests:
    Damage tolerance of advanced composites systems
    Fatigue and fracture simulation
    Finite Element Method development
    Polymer Matrix Composites, Ceramic Matrix Composites, Carbon/Carbon and Ablators
    Thermal Protection Systems
    Material processing and multi-physics simulation
    Optimization of composite systems
    Surrogate and reduced order modeling

    Kate Youmans

    Associate Professor (Lecturer)

    • Email: kate.youmans@utah.edu
    • Office: 1543 MEK

    Research & Teaching Interests:
    Engineering education
    Design education in engineering
    Empathy and human-centered product design
    Makerspaces and constructionist learning

    Amy Lenz

    Assistant Professor

    • Phone: 801-587-2471
    • Email: amy.lenz@utah.edu
    • Office: 2465 MEK

    Research Interests:
    Advanced medical imaging
    Form and function
    Human movement
    Image-based computational modeling
    Musculoskeletal modeling
    Neuromusculoskeletal disorders
    Orthopaedic biomechanics
    Osteoarthritis and disease progression
    Robotic cadaveric experiments
    Statistical shape modeling
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    Dhiraj Singh

    Research Assistant Professor

    Research Interests:
    Experimental fluid dynamics
    Atmospheric turbulence
    Precipitation measurements
    Instrumentation development
    Interfacial dynamics
    Quantitative life sciences
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    Elham (Emma) Davoodi

    Assistant Professor

    Research Interests:
    3D Bioprinting,
    Metal Additive Manufacturing,
    Biofabrication,
    Regenerative Medicine,
    3D Printed Electronics
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    Hossein Montazerian

    Assistant Professor

    • Email: h.montazerian@utah.edu
    • Office: 2558 MEK

    Research Interests:
    Biomaterials
    Medical devices
    Minimally Invasive Therapies
    Micro and Nanotechnology
    Bioelectronic Systems
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    Mark Maier

    Professor (Lecturer)

    • Phone: 801-581-4774
    • Email: mark.maier@utah.edu
    • Office: 2552 MEK

    Teaches Systems Architecting, Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE), and other systems topics. He brings over 30 years of aerospace industry experience in systems architecting and engineering, MBSE, and satellite design. He was previously a Technical Fellow at The Aerospace Corporation and is the author of “The Art of Systems Architecting” a standard textbook in the field and publications in systems-of-systems, satellite constellation design, architecture methods, and unconventional sensors.