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Sung Kwon Cho

  • MEMS design and fabrication
  • Micro/biofluidics
  • BioMEMS

Minking K. Chyu

  • Heat and mass transfer
  • Gas turbine cooling and durability
  • Fuel cells
  • Energy technology

William W. Clark

  • Adaptive and morphing structures
  • Energy harvesting
  • Active and passive-semi-active vibration control
  • Smart structures

Daniel G. Cole

  • Dynamic systems, measurement, and control
  • Iterative and adaptive control
  • Control of nanosystems
  • Nanomanipulation and fabrication
  • Optical traps
  • Adaptive optics

Giovanni P. Galdi

  • Linear and nonlinear stability
  • Fluid/particle interaction
  • Flow in channels and pipes

Peyman Givi

  • Turbulence
  • Combustion
  • Computational fluid dynamics
  • Propulsion
  • Stochastic processes

Mark Kimber

  • Energy and sustainability
  • Electronics cooling
  • Biomimetics
  • Thermal hydraulics in nuclear energy

Prashant N. Kumta

  • Nanostructured materials
  • Non-viral gene and protein delivery
  • Energy storage systems
  • Mineralized tissue engineering

Bong JAe Lee

  • Nanoscale heat transfer
  • Energy conversion
  • Biosensing

jung-kun lee

  • Solar cell application of nanostructured materials
  • Ion beam process and characterization
  • Functional oxide materials

Scott X. Mao

  • Experimental micro- and nanoscale mechanics
  • Materials science
  • Applied and fracture mechanics
  • Thin films
  • Metal/ceramic composites

Gerald H. Meier

  • High temperature oxidation
  • Coatings
  • Fuel cells
  • Gas turbines

Anne M. Robertson

  • Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluid dynamics
  • Cerebral vascular disease
  • Constitutive modeling of soft biological tissues

Laura Schaefer

  • Two-phase binary zeotropic flows
  • Fuel cells
  • Thermoacoustics
  • Hydrokinetic energy extraction

William S. Slaughter

  • Theoretical solid mechanics
  • Strain gradient plasticity
  • Sintered materials
  • Modeling of bioprostheic valves

Patrick Smolinski

  • Computational simulation and finite element analysis.
  • Orthopaedic device engineering, tissue characterization and tissue engineering.
  • Simulation and testing of surgical procedures and injury mechanisms.
  • Quantitative Anatomic characterization.

Jeffrey Vipperman

  • Acoustics, structural acoustics, noise control, and hearing loss prevention.
  • Applied control, including active noise and vibration control.
  • Control algorithm development (feedback and adaptive feedforward).
  • Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) design and fabrication.
  • Modeling and simulation of dynamic systems.
  • Smart structures and systems, including sensor and actuator development.

Qing-Ming Wang

  • Smart materials, including piezoelectrics and electrostrictives.
  • Thin films
  • Actuator and sensor development
  • MEMS design and fabrication
  • Micro fuel cells
  • BioMEMS

Lisa Mauck Weiland

  • Experimental mechanics of active materials
  • Ferroelectric ceramics intermediate rate regime characterization.
  • Ionic polymer nanoscale energetics
  • Nastic materials computational development

Jörg M.K. Wiezorek

  • The electron density, interatomic bonding and properties of tetragonal ferromagnetic intermetallics, e.g. comparing FePd and FePt.
  • The investigation of annealing phenomena, phase transformations and deformation mechanisms in bulk L1o-ordered intermetallic alloy systems, e.g. Fe-Pd, Fe-Pt, Mn-Al and Ti-Al compounds.
  • The nature of the ordering phenomena and evolution of microstructure and defect structure in ferromagnetic intermetallic thin films and nanoscale bulk intermetallics.
  • In-situ TEM, AFM and nanoindentation studies of the mechanisms of plasticity and fracture in nano-structured and layered materials systems.

Sylvanus N. Wosu

  • Impact physics/experimental mechanics
  • Composite materials
  • Biomechanics of cerebral oxygen metabolism

Judith C. Yang

  • Oxidation
  • Heterogeneous catalysis
  • Nanowires and nanomaterials
  • Advanced electron microscopy especially in situ ultra-high vacuum TEM.

Research Facilities

Benedum Hall

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