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Ali Beskok
Professor and Department Chair, ad interim
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- Thermal Science and Fluid Mechanics
- Micro- and nano-scale thermal/fluidic transport processes
- Bio-microfluidics, nanotechnology and energy systems
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Xin-Lin Gao
Professor
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- Solid Mechanics and Mechanics of Materials
- Solid and structural mechanics, higher-order continuum theories
- Multi-scale materials modeling and micro- and nano-mechanics
- Traumatic brain injury, biomechanics, mechanics of soft materials
- 3-D printed materials, nanocomposites, cellular and porous materials, textile and ballistic materials
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Yildirim Hurmuzlu
Professor
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- Dynamics and Control
- Dynamic systems
- Control/Biomechanics
- Robotics, medical visualization, and vibration suppression
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MinJun Kim
Professor |
- Thermal Science and Fluid Mechanics; Dynamics and Control
- Microbiorobotics
- Soft robotics
- Single molecule biophysics
- Single cell analysis
- Micro/nanofluidics
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Paul S. Krueger
Professor and Dean, ad interim |
- Thermal Science and Fluid Mechanics
- Unsteady flows
- Vortex ring formation in starting and pulsed jets for application to propulsion, flow control, and biological locomotion
- Particulate flows
- Fluid flow in additive manufacturing
- Quantitative flow visualization
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José Lage
Professor |
- Thermal Science and Fluid Mechanics
- Analysis and design of heat and mass transfer processes and equipment
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Xu Nie
Associate Professor |
- Solid Mechanics and Mechanics of Materials
- Dynamic behavior of materials and structures
- Novel Kolsky bar-based high-strain rate characterization techniques
- Non-destructive damage characterization in heterogeneous materials and X-ray computed micro-tomography.
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Volkan Otugen
Professor |
- Thermal Science and Fluid Mechanics; Solid Mechanics and Mechanics of Materials
- Experimental and theoretical fluid mechanics
- Plasma applications to aerodynamics
- Micro-optical sensor technology
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Peter E. Raad
Professor |
- Thermal Science and Fluid Mechanics
- Adaptive thermal modeling and laser-based measurements of deep-submicron electronic devices
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Edmond Richer
Associate Professor
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- Dynamics and Control
- Robotics
- Haptic interfaces
- Bio-Instrumentation
- Soft and wearable robotics
- Additive Biomaterials
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Wei Tong
Professor
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- Solid Mechanics and Mechanics of Materials
- Plasticity and its engineering applications
- Micromechanics study of materials
- Digital image correlation strain mapping techniques
- Biomechanics and biomaterials
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David A. Willis
Associate Professor
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- Thermal Science and Fluid Mechanics
- Thermal-based laser micro- and nano-processing, with an emphasis on heat transfer, phase change, and fluid flow occurring during these processes. Applications include laser micromachining of electronic, photonic, and fluidic devices; laser-induced forward transfer (LIFT); nanoparticle fabrication, and fabrication of superhydrophobic surfaces
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