Degree Programs Offered: Master of Engineering, Master of Science, Doctor of Philosophy
Director of Graduate Program: Professor Alexander V. Neimark, Engineering Building C150B, Busch Campus (732-445-4950)
Members of the Graduate Faculty
Ioannis P. Androulakis, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering,
SE; Ph.D., Purdue
Systems biology; bioinformating; data mining; complex
reaction modeling; optimization; system analysis
Fred R. Bernath, Associate Professor of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Rutgers
Biomedical engineering; transport phenomena
Helen M. Buettner, Associate Professor of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Pennsylvania
Neurobiology; cell motility; biomedical engineering
Yee C. Chiew, Professor of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Pennsylvania
Complex fluids; thermodynamics; molecular simulations; interfacial phenomena
Alkis Constantinides, Professor of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, SE; D.E.Sc., Columbia
Biochemical engineering; modeling of fermentation processes
Alberto M. Cuitiño, Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace
Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Brown
Powder mechanics; micromechanics;
computer methods
Burton Davidson, Professor of Chemical and
Biochemical Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Northwestern
Alternate fuels;
control theory; safety systems engineering
Panos G.
Georgopoulos, Associate Professor of Environmental and Community
Medicine, UMDNJ-RWJMS; Ph.D., California Institute of Technology
Environmental chemical engineering; turbulent transport; reactive flows
Benjamin J. Glasser, Professor of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Princeton
Multiphase flows and reactors; granular materials and particulate suspensions; nonlinear dynamics of transport processes
Masanori Hara, Professor of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, SE;
Ph.D., Kyoto (Japan)
Polymer physics; structure-property relationships of
ion-containing polymers in solid and solution
Marianthi G.
Ierapetritou, Professor of Chemical and Biochemical
Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Imperial College (UK)
Process systems engineering;
process design, planning, and scheduling; uncertainty and environmental
considerations; nonlinear and mixed integer optimization
Sastry S. Isukapalli, Assistant Professor of Environmental and Occupational Medicine, UMDNJ-RWJMS; Ph.D., Rutgers
Computational modeling for health risk analysis and uncertainty reduction
Johannes G. Khinast, Associate Professor of Chemical and Biochemical
Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Graz (Austria)
Reaction and environmental engineering;
reactive flows; numerical analysis of large dynamical systems
Sobin Kim, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, SE; Ph.D.,
Columbia
Genotyping; DNA sequencing; MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry; DNA
tagging; gene expression analysis; DNA pooling
Michael T.
Klein, Board of Governors Professor of Engineering, SE; Sc.D.,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Kinetics, catalysis, and reaction
engineering; automated kinetic modeling; hydrocarbon conversion;
reactions in supercritical fluids
Joachim B. Kohn, Professor
of Chemistry, SAS; Ph.D., Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel)
Biotechnology; bioorganic chemistry; new methods for drug delivery
Bozena Michniak-Kohn, Professor of Pharmaceutics, EMSP; Ph.D., Leicester
Topical and transdermal drug delivery
Prabhas V. Moghe, Professor of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Minnesota
Bioengineering and microarchitecture of polymeric tissue analogs;
cell-biomaterial interactions; tissue engineering of liver, skin, and
blood vessels; fluid flow and "cellular stress engineering";
quantitative 3-D reconstructive confocal microscopy
Gaetano T. Montelione, Professor of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, SAS; Ph.D., Cornell
Nuclear magnetic resonance studies of proteins; protein molecular design; mechanisms of protein folding
Fernando Muzzio, Professor of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Massachusetts (Amherst)
Mixing; chaos and randomness; transport phenomena; pharmaceutical engineering
Alexander V. Neimark, Professor of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, SE; Ph.D., D.Sc., Moscow State (Russia)
Thermodynamics
and statistical mechanics; molecular simulations of nanophases and
nanostructured materials; characterization of porous materials;
adsorption; micro- and nanofluids of biofluids
Henrik Pedersen, Professor of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Yale
Biochemical engineering; reactor design; plant cell culture
Richard E. Riman, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Hydrothermal synthesis; microencapsulation; solid-state synthesis;
mixedness; reactive sol-gel halide synthesis; solution thermodynamics;
crystallization; granulation
Charles M. Roth, Associate Professor of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Delaware
Molecular bioengineering; gene-based technologies; cell systems engineering
Alvin J. Salkind, Professor of Surgery, UMDNJ-RWJMS; D.Ch.E., Polytechnic Institute of New York
Electrochemical engineering; energy; metal recovery
Jerry I. Scheinbeim, Professor of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering,
SE; Ph.D., Pittsburgh
Polymer electroprocessing;
structure-electroactive properties relationships in electroactive
polymeric materials; ferroelectric, peizoelectric, pyroelectric,
dielectric, and electrostrictive properties of polymers
Troy Shinbrot, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Maryland
Nonlinear dynamics; mixing, control, and granular flow
David I. Shreiber, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, SE;
Ph.D., Pennsylvania
Mechanotransduction; injury biomechanics; tissue
and cellular engineering; nerve regeneration
Paul Takhistov, Associate Professor of Food Engineering, SEBS;
Ph.D., Ukraine National Academy of Sciences
Colloid and interface science; biosensors; functional materials; nanotechnology
Silvina
Tomassone, Associate Professor of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering,
SE; Ph.D., Northeastern
Molecular dynamics of chain surfactants at the
air/water interface
Kathryn E. Uhrich, Professor of Chemistry, SAS/SE; Ph.D., Cornell
Polymer design, synthesis, and characterization; microlithography
Shaw S. Wang, Professor of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Rutgers
Biochemical engineering; food science and technology
Martin L. Yarmush, Visiting Professor of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Rockefeller
Applied immunology; bioseparations; artificial organs and tissue engineering
Associate Members of the Graduate Faculty
William Craelius, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Northwestern
Cardiac and neural electrophysiology
Carlos B. Rosas, Distinguished Visiting Professor and Administrative
Director, Pharmaceutical Engineering Program; M.E., Stevens
Fine
chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and biologicals
K. Venkatasubramanian, Visiting Professor of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Rutgers
Applied molecular biology; biochemical process economics