| Faculty Name |
Expertise |
|
| Jack Devletian, Ph.D. |
Welding metallurgy and design; properties of ferrous and non-ferrous welds; and soldering for electronic assembly |
| Faryar Etesami, Ph.D. |
Mechanical design; computer-aided design; mechanical tolerancing; and statistical process improvement |
| Victor Li, Ph.D. |
Computational modeling of heat transfer; microstructure evolution; residual stresses; distortion; and hydrogen diffusion in welding as well as in other thermal-mechanical material processing |
| Lemmy Meekisho, Ph.D. |
Numerical modeling and simulation of materials processes; thermal management; and reliability issues in electronic packages |
| Gerald Recktenwald, Ph.D. |
Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD); fluid mechanics; heat transfer; thermal management of electronic equipment; and numerical modeling |
| David Sailor, Ph.D. |
Modeling of heat island mitigation; urbanization of mesoscale climate models; energy consumption and weather/climate; and climate model downscaling facilities |
| Graig Spolek, Ph.D., Dept. Chair |
Computer simulation and experimentation in the areas of fundamental heat and mass transfer; HVAC systems design and control; industrial drying; and industrial energy utilization |
Derek Tretheway, Ph.D.
|
Micro particle image velocimetry; measurements of flow in microdevices; and non-Newtonian fluid flow
|
| Dave Turcic, Ph.D. |
Analysis and design of high speed mechanical systems; system design; motion synthesis for manufacturing and material handling processes; design for manufacturing, robotics, computer aided design and computer-aided manufacturing; geometric modeling; automatic controls; and experimental methods |
| Jim VanWinkle, Ph.D. |
Metallic and ceramic corrosion and electrochemistry; thin films; semiconductor manufacturing
|
| Mark Weislogel, Ph.D. |
Fluid-thermal/fluid-sciences; macroscale and microscale capillary-driven flows in complex geometries and over complex surface (wetting and spreading); capillary surface stability; passive cooling systems; microscale thermal devices; microgravity fluid mechanics; spacecraft thermal/fluid systems design
|
| Chien Wern, Ph.D. |
Mechanical testing; fatigue testing; fracture mechanics; manufacturing process optimization; instrumentation; and robotics |
| William Wood, Ph.D. |
Synthesis, structure, and properties of materials; analysis of the structure/property/compositional relationships of super-alloys; ultrahigh strength and structural steel alloys; hydrogen embrittlement delayed cracking; laser surface alloying; welding of thick section ferrous and nonferrous alloys; and electroslag surfacing |
| Sung Yi, Ph.D. |
Electronic packaging; delamination and failure mechanisms of integrated circuit packages and composites; constitutive modeling and characterization of engineering materials; munerical modeling and simulation of manufacturing process of polymer matrix composites; and integrated circuits packages |
| Hormoz Zareh, Ph.D. |
Design analysis and simulation with finite element techniques; computer-aided design; and design optimization |
