Holli Burgon

    Assistant Professor (Clinical)

    • Phone: 801-581-3036
    • Email: H.Burgon@utah.edu
    • Office: 1620 WEB

    Focused on helping people do their best work, Holli teaches professional communications to undergraduates. Her Ph.D. research focused on technology innovators’ career success strategies. While a postdoctoral researcher in the University of Illinois College of Engineering, Holli studied the cultivation and assessment of creative capacity. As a coach and consultant, she has helped individuals and organizations grow talent and leadership potential. Holli’s teaching and research interests include leadership, practical wisdom, career and talent development, and creativity and innovation.

    Stephanie Menhart

    Assistant Professor (Clinical)

    • Phone: 801-646-5991
    • Email: s.menhart@utah.edu
    • Office: 2883 WEB

    Stephanie teaches professional communication to undergraduates in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Her Ph.D. research focused on the impact of generative AI on communication and workplace practices. Her research and teaching interests include emerging technology, the future of work, media psychology, and ethical technology development.

    Russ Askren

    Associate Instructor (Clinical)

    • Phone: (801) 587-3723
    • Email: russ.askren@utah.edu
    • Office: 1603 WEB

    Russ spent more than 20 years in the software development industry working in the area of large system administration and integration in both technical and managerial roles. His classroom focus is upon workplace writing and presentation, engineering ethics and the role of technology and engineering in society. Russ holds a Ph.D. from the University of Utah in philosophy with a specialization in applied ethics. His interests focus upon the application of philosophy to public policy in the areas of technology, business, medicine and global justice

    Joseph Kirchhoff

    Assistant Professor

    • Email: joseph.kirchhoff@utah.edu

    Research Interests:
    Advanced composite manufacturing
    Process monitoring and in-situ sensing
    Inverse problems and state estimation
    Digital twins for manufacturing
    Google Scholar Citations

    Erik Andersen

    Assistant Professor (Lecturer)

    • Email: erik.andersen@utah.edu

    Research & Teaching Interests:
    Engineering Educational Pedagogy
    Wireless Power Transfer
    Engineering Design Process
    System Dynamics

    John Murray

    Assistant Professor

    • Email: john.murray@utah.edu

    Research Interests:
    Reacting Flows
    Hypersonics
    Plasmas
    Laser Spectroscopy

    Mark Plecnik

    Associate Professor

    • Email: m.plecnik@utah.edu
    • Office: 2342 MEK

    Research Interests
    AI tools for the kinematic design of robots
    Computational invention
    Swimming, hopping, flapping, and running robots
    Deployable drones
    Robot arms and grippers
    Parallel mechanisms

    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
    Google Scholar Citations

    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