Faculty

• Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering

• Department Chair, ad interim

• Primary research area are advanced haptic interfaces and virtual modeling and prototyping and design and control of high-performance actuators.

richer@lyle.smu.edu

• Associate Dean for Research Innovation and Industry Partnerships

• George R. Brown Chair, Mechanical Engineering

• Professor, Mechanical Engineering

• Primary research area are micro-and nano-scale transport and bio-microfluidics and lab on a chip technologies. 

abeskok@lyle.smu.edu

• Altshuler Distinguished Professor

• University Distinguished Professor

• Professor, Mechanical Engineering

• Primary research area are rigid-body collisions of planar kinematic chains with smooth external contacts and locomotion.

hurmuzlu@lyle.smu.edu

• Professor of Practice and Director, Mechanical Engineering

• Primary research area are thermal systems design and corporate innovation management practices. 

sllerner@lyle.smu.edu

• Professor, Mechanical Engineering

• Primary research area are alveolar gas exchange and transport in porous media. 

jll@lyle.smu.edu

• Professor, Mechanical Engineering

• Robert C. Womack Chair in Engineering

• Primary research area are microbiorobotics and single molecule biophysics.

mjkim@smu.edu

• Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering

• Primary research area are high-rate experimental mechanics and techniques and microstructure and damage evolution in engineering materials under dynamic loading.

xnie@lyle.smu.edu

Professor and Provost

• Professor and Mary and Richard Templeton Dean

dean@lyle.smu.edu

• Professor of Practice & Director
• Manufacturing Systems Management Program

jrwebb@lyle.smu.edu

• Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
• Associate Chair
• Primary research area are heat transfer and phase change and short-pulse laser-assisted microfabrication.

dwillis@lyle.smu.edu

•  Professor, Mechanical Engineering

• George R. Brown Endowed Chair, Mechanical Engineering

• Primary research area are experimental and theoretical fluid mechanics and heat transfer and photonic sensors.

otugen@lyle.smu.edu

• Professor, Mechanical Engineering
• Acting Director, Research Center for Advanced Manufacturing
• Primary research area are laser welding and additive manufacturing and experimental solid mechanics

wtong@lyle.smu.edu

• Professor, Mechanical Engineering

• Primary research area are multiscale and multi-physics modeling of materials and traumatic brain injury, biomechanics.

xlgao@smu.edu

• Senior Lecturer, Mechanical Engineering
• Undergraduate Advisor
• Primary research area are vibrations and control theory.

eborzova@smu.edu

• Professor

praad@smu.edu