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.

    Cristian Clavijo

    Associate Professor (Lecturer)

    • Email: c.clavijo@utah.edu
    • Office: MEK 2550

    Professor Clavijo teaches courses in engineering management and leadership along with classical mechanical engineering topics involving thermal fluids (heat transfer, fluid mechanics, thermodynamics). Professor Clavijo has about 10 years of industry experience working for Fortune 100/500 companies in the areas of medical devices and life sciences. He is a graduate of Becton Dickinson’s Technology Leadership Development Program and was a Staff Program Manager at Thermo Fisher Scientific. His research expertise is on droplet impingement dynamics on heated superhydrophobic surfaces.

    Vahid Azadeh Ranjbar

    Assistant Professor (Research)

    • Email: vahid.azadeh@utah.edu
    • Office: 2467 MEK

    Research Interests:
    Large Language Models
    Computer Vision
    Microfluidic Devices
    Design Automation
    Stereo Digital Image Correlation

    Laura Hallock

    Assistant Professor

    • Email: laura.hallock@utah.edu
    • Office: 2339 MEK

    Research interests:
    robotic assistance and rehabilitation
    neuromusculoskeletal sensing
    human–robot control interfaces
    machine learning and system identification
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