Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering 650
Degree Programs Offered: Master of Engineering, Master of Science, Doctor of Philosophy
Director of Graduate Program: Professor Jerry Shan, B226A Engineering Building, Busch Campus (848-445-3653)
Website: http://mech.rutgers.edu/graduate-program-overview
Members of the Graduate Faculty
Prosenjit Bagchi, Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace
Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Illinois (Urbana)
Computational fluid dynamics;
multiphase flow; particulate flow; turbulence; biofluid mechanics
Xiaoli Bai, Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace
Engineering, Ph.D., Texas A&M;
Modeling, control, and analysis of next generation air transportation
system
Haim Baruh, Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Virginia Polytechnic Institute
Structural dynamics; control systems; smart structures
Haym Benaroya, Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Pennsylvania
Probabilistic mechanics; structural
dynamics; aerospace/space structures; lunar development
William J. Bottega, Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Yale
Composite structures; delamination and fracture; dynamics and stability of solids
and structures; mechanics of the retina
Kimberly Cook-Chennault, Associate Professor of Mechanical
and Aerospace Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Michigan
Design of hybrid energy systems for energy
scavenging, generation, and storage
Alberto Cuitiño, Chair and Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Brown
Computational solid mechanics
Mitsunori Denda, Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace
Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Harvard
Fracture mechanics; computational solid
mechanics
Francisco
Javier Díez-Garias, Associate Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace
Engineering, SE; Ph.D.,
Michigan
Experimental thermal and fluid
sciences; microfluidics; sprays; flow diagnostics; turbulence; combustion
Ellis H. Dill, University Professor Emeritus of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, SE; Ph.D., California (Berkeley)
Continuum mechanics; computational mechanics; finite element methods
German Drazer, Associate Professor/Lab Director of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Cuyo and Instituto Balseiro (Argentina)
Transport phenomena; fluid mechanics and statistical physics; stochastic processes
Thomas N. Farris, Dean of the School of Engineering and Professor of
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, SE; Ph.D.,
Northwestern
Aerospace structures and
materials; tribology; manufacturing processes; fatigue and fracture
Hae Chang Gea, Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Michigan
Design and structural optimization; finite element
Zhixiong
Guo, Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, SE;
Ph.D.,
Polytechnic
Heat transfer; laser-material (tissue) interactions; bioimaging and sensing; microscale
phenomena; numerical modeling
Yogesh Jaluria, Distinguished Professor 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, Professor of Food Science, SEBS; Ph.D., Rutgers
Extrusion; high-pressure processing; effects of processing on
health value of foods; mathematical modeling and numerical simulation
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
Joachim B. Kohn, Professor of Chemistry, SAS; Ph.D., Weizmann (Israel)
Interaction of living cells with artificial surfaces
Noshir A. Langrana, Distinguished Professor and Chair of Biomedical Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Cornell
Computer-aided design; biomechanics; artificial intelligence in designHowon Lee, Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace
Engineering, Ph.D., Illinois (Urbana-Champaign)
Development of innovative micro-/nano-manufacturing
technologies for soft active materialsHao
Lin, Associate Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, SE;
Ph.D., California (Berkeley)
Micro- and nanoscale science
and engineering; micro- and nanofluidic devices; biofluid mechanics
Liping Liu, Associate Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Minnesota
Mechanics and materials; multiscale-multiphysics analysis and modeling
Adrian Mann, Associate Professor of Materials
Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Oxford
Biomaterials; atomic force microscopy
Aaron Mazzeo, Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Micro- and nanomanufacturing; energy harvesting; soft materials; flexible electronics; robotics; design; control; modeling; mechatronics; metrology; combustion
Michael R. Muller, Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Brown
Fluid mechanics, waves; rotating flows; fluidized beds
Andrew N. Norris, Distinguished Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
SE; Ph.D.,
Northwestern
Acoustics; elasticity; dynamics
of composite materials
Assimina
A. Pelegri, Professor, Undergraduate Program Director of Mechanical and Aerospace
Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Georgia Institute of
Technology
Experimental
mechanics; fractures; smart structures; tissue characterization and modeling
Constantine E. Polymeropoulos, Professor Emeritus of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, SE; Ph.D.,
Cornell
Combustion; heat transfer
Jerry Shan, Professor, Graduate Program Director 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
Shahab Shojaei-Zadeh, Assistant Professor of Mechanical and
Aerospace Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Carnegie-Mellon
Micro- and nanofluidics; interfacial phenomena;
soft condensed matter
Jonathan Singer, Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aeropsace Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The generation of hierarchically structured via scalable
micro/nanomanufacturingM.
Silvina Tomassone, Associate Professor of Chemical and Biochemical
Engineering, SE; Ph.D.,
Northeastern
Molecular dynamics; thermodynamics and statistical mechanics of fluids;
nanoparticles; nanotribology; self-assembly and dynamics of
surfactants; spreading of fluids
Stephen D. Tse, Director of Outreach, Professor and Mary W. Raisler Distinguished Teaching Chair, Mechanical and Aerospace
Engineering, SE; Ph.D., California (Berkeley)
Microgravity; combustion; gas-phase synthesis of nanomaterials
George J. Weng, Distinguished Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Yale
Micromechanics plasticity and creep of polycrystals; micro-macro transition; mechanics of composite materials
Jingang Yi, Associate Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace
Engineering, SE; Ph.D., California (Berkeley)
Autonomous robotic systems; dynamic systems and control; mechatronics; automation science and engineering
Norman J. Zabusky, State of New Jersey Professor Emeritus of
Computational Fluid Dynamics, SE; Ph.D., California Institute of
Technology
Fluid dynamics:
computational and analytical; nonlinear dynamical systems
Qingze Zou, Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace
Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Washington
Precision positioning; inversion-based
control theory; scanning probe microscopy; nanofabrication
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