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  Graduate School-New Brunswick 2005-2007 Programs, Faculty, and Courses Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering 650  

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering 650

Degree Programs Offered: Master of Science, Doctor of Philosophy

Director of Graduate Program: Professor Haim Baruh, B229 Engineering Building, Busch Campus (732/445-3680)

Web Site: http://mechanical.rutgers.edu/graduate

Members of the Graduate Faculty

Prosenjit Bagchi, Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Illinois (Urbana) Computational fluid dynamics; multi-phase flow; particulate flow; turbulence; bio-fluid mechanics

Haim Baruh, Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Virginia Polytechnic Institute
Structural dynamics; control of vibration; smart structures

Haym Benaroya, Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Pennsylvania
Aerospace structures; structural dynamics; probabilistic mechanics; lunar development

William J. Bottega, Associate Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Yale
Composite structures; applied mechanics

David G. Briggs, Professor Emeritus of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Minnesota
Heat transfer; thermodynamics; numerical modeling

Yu Chen, Professor Emeritus of Mechanics, SE; Sc.D., Harvard
Numerical simulation of thermomechanical phenomena; applied mechanics

Alberto Cuitiño, Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Brown
Computational solid mechanics

Mitsunori Denda, Associate Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Harvard Fracture mechanics; computational solid mechanics

Ellis H. Dill, University Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, SE; Ph.D., California (Berkeley)
Continuum mechanics; computational mechanics; finite element methods

Hae Chang Gea, Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Michigan
Design and structural optimization; finite element

Yogesh Jaluria, Chairperson and Board of Governors Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Cornell
Convection; numerical methods in heat transfer; materials processing

Mukund V. Karwe, Associate Professor of Food Science, CC; Ph.D., Rutgers
Thermal processing of food materials; numerical modeling

Doyle D. Knight, Mary Raisler Distinguished Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, SE; Ph.D., California Institute of Technology
Compressible fluid mechanics; turbulence; computational fluid dynamics; automated optimal design; high-performance computing; aerodynamics

Noshir A. Langrana, Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Cornell
Computer-aided design; biomechanics; artificial intelligence in design

Yen-Wen Lu, Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, SE; Ph.D., California (Los Angeles) Design; fabrication; system integration in MEMs and nanotechnology

Michael R. Muller, Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Brown
Fluid mechanics, waves; rotating flows; fluidized beds

Andrew N. Norris, Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Northwestern Dynamics of solids; wave propagation; mechanics of composite materials

Kook D. Pae, Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Pennsylvania State
Polymer mechanics; high-pressure effects on properties of polymers; surface modification of polymers

Assimina A. Pelegri, Associate Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology Fracture mechanics; electromechanical systems; smart structures

Richard L. Peskin, Professor Emeritus of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Princeton
Computational fluid dynamics

Constantine E. Polymeropoulos, Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace
Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Cornell Combustion; heat transfer

Kyung T. Rhee, Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Wisconsin
Internal-combustion engines; flame propagation

Tobias Rossmann, Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Stanford Experimental fluid mechanics; laser diagnostics and spectroscopy; mixing and combustion; gas dynamics; multiphase flows

Valentinas Sernas, Professor Emeritus of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Toronto
Optical techniques; boiling heat transfer; experimental methods

Jerry Shan, Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, SE; Ph.D., California Institute of Technology Experimental fluid mechanics; scalar transport and mixing; micro- and nanoscale flows; turbulence; laser diagnostics

Peng Song, Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, SE; Ph.D.,  Pennsylvania Medical robotics; multi-body dynamics; rehabilitation engineering and mechanical design; virtual prototyping; robot manipulation

Samuel Temkin, Professor Emeritus of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Brown
Fluid mechanics; acoustics; droplet dynamics

Stephen D. Tse, Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, SE; Ph.D., California (Berkeley) Combustion and propulsion, heat and mass transfer, materials synthesis, fire safety

Timothy Wei, Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Michigan
Fluid mechanics and turbulence

George J. Weng, Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Yale
Micromechanics of composite materials; phase transformation

Norman J. Zabusky, State of New Jersey Professor of Computational Fluid
Dynamics, SE; Ph.D., California Institute of Technology Fluid dynamics: computational and analytical; nonlinear dynamical systems

Abdelfattah Zebib, Deputy Dean and Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace
Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Colorado Hydrodynamic stability; computational fluid mechanics

Dajun Zhang, Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, SE; Ph.D., CUNY
Bone mechanics, biophysics, tissue damage mechanics, poroelasticity, experimental mechanics


 
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