Technical Specialties of MME Faculty

	The faculty of the Mechanical and Materials Engineering Department is organized into three groups: Design and Manufacturing, Materials Science, and Thermal and Fluid Sciences. The organization reflects the research interests of the faculty, and the courses each group is responsible for teaching.

Design and Manufacturing Group
	Name	Specialty
	Faryar Etesami	Mechanical Design, Computer-Aided Design, Mechanical Tolerancing, and Statistical Process Improvement
	Dave Turcic	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.
	Chien Wern	Mechanical testing, fatigue testing, fracture mechanics, manufacturing process optimization, instrumentation, and robotics.
	Sung Yi	Electronic Packaging, Delamination and Failure mechanisms of IC packages and Composites, Constitutive Modeling and Characterization of Engineering Materials, Numerical Modeling and Simulation of Manufacturing Process of Polymer Matrix Composites and IC Packages.
	Hormoz Zareh	Design Analysis and simulation with Finite Element techniques, Computer-Aided Design, Design optimization.

Materials Science Group
	Name	Specialty
	Jack Devletian	Welding metallurgy and design, properties of ferrous and non-ferrous welds, soldering for electronic assembly.
	Sean Kohles	Bioengineering; Biomechanics (Tissue Mechanics and Kinesiology); Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering Development; Biomedical Technology Design (Orthopedic, Dental, Cardiovascular, Minimally Invasive); Biostatistics and Mathematical Modeling.
	Victor Li	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	Numerical modeling and simulation of thermal-mechanical behavior of materials processes; micro manufacturing of MEMS devices; reliability issues in electronic packages.
	Jim VanWinkle	Metallic and ceramic corrosion and electrochemistry; thin films; semiconductor manufacturing (experimental CMP)
	William Wood	Synthesis, structure, and properties of materials. Analysis of the structure/property/compositional relationships of super-alloys, ultrahigh strength and structural steel alloys, hydorgen embrittlement delayed cracking, laser surface alloying, welding of thick section ferrous and nonferrous alloys, and electroslag surfacing.

Thermal and Fluid Science Group
	Name	Specialty
	Raul Cal	Turbulent Boundary Layers: Pressure Gradients, Surface Roughness, Upstream Conditions, Free-stream Turbulence; Wind Turbine Arrays/Boundary Layer Interaction; Laser-based Experimental Techniques
	Gerald Recktenwald	Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), Fluid mechanics, Heat transfer, Thermal management of electronic equipment, Numerical modeling
	David Sailor	Modelling of heat island mitigation, urbanization of mesoscale climate models, energy consumption and weather/climate, climate model downscaling, facilities.
	Graig Spolek	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	Micro Particle Image Velocimetry, Measurements of flow in microdevices, non-Newtonian fluid flow
	Mark Weislogel	Fluid-thermal/Fluid-sciences, macroscale and microscale capillary-driven flows in complex geometries, passive cooling systems, microscale thermal devices, microgravity fluid mechanics.

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