Faculty
and Research Interests
A. V. Anilkumar
(Research Professor of the Practice of Mechanical
Engineering)
Experimental Fluid Dynamics: dynamics of reactive drops,
thermocapillary migration of bubbles; experimental gas
dynamics: shock-tube techniques; Space-based materials
processing: directional solidification, float zones and
nanotechnology.
Robert Joel Barnett
(Associate Professor of the Practice of Mechanical
Engineering)
Welding and welding controls, weld pool thermal and
fluid modeling, sensor
development, machine-vision-based quality control systems,
robotic weld-path programming and robotic welding,
alternative fuel engines, technical photography and imaging
systems.
Eric
Barth (Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering)
Dynamic systems and control. Design, modeling and control of mechatronic and fluid power systems, free-piston internal combustion and free-piston Stirling engines, power supply and actuation for autonomous robots, and applied non-linear control.
Michael
Goldfarb (Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director
of the Center for Intelligent Mechatronics)
Design, modeling, and control of electromechanical systems, design and
control of conventional scale robot manipulators and micromanipulators,
control of telerobotic and telemicrorobotic systems, biomechanics and
control of juman movement, applied nonlinear control. Haptic interfaces.
Haoxiang Luo (Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering)
Research interests include Theoretical and computational fluid
dynamics, Computational bio-mechanics, flow/structure interaction,
Micro-fluidics, thermal science, Numerical partial differential
equations, Immersed-boundary, boundary element, and finite/spectral
element methods, Applied mathematics, scientific computing, control
and optimization.
Deyu Li (Assistant Professor of Mechanical
Engineering)
Micro/Nano scale energy and molecular transport phenomena, Nanofabrication
techniques, Molecular dynamics and Monte Carlo Simulation, Micro/Nanofluidics.
Robert W.
Pitz (Department Chair, Professor of Mechanical Engineering
and Director of Undergraduate Studies)
Laser diagnostics, flame chemistry, turbulent combustion, turbulence-chemistry
interactions, pollutant formation, hypersonic propulsion, gas turbine
combustion, direct injection gasoline engine and natural gas appliances,
oxygen-enriched combustion; laminar and turbulent combustion; Raman scattering,
laser-induced fluorescence, free-electron laser diagnostics; molecular-tagging
velocimetry.
Carol A.
Rubin (Professor of Mechanical Engineering)
Theoretical and applied mechanics, finite element analysis, stress analysis,
rolling contract mechanics, vibrations of musical instruments.
Nilanjan Sarkar
(Director of Graduate Studies, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering,
Associate Professor of Computer Engineering)
Robotics
– design, modeling and control of robotic manipulators
and mobile robots; Human-Robot Interaction – affective
computing, emotion modeling, control of robotic systems
based on emotion sensitivity; Medical Robotics – robotic
and virtual reality based intervention of children with
autism, robot-assisted stroke rehabilitation, robotic
system for breast biopsy; Dynamics and Control –
Fault-adaptive control, hybrid control, and nonlinear
control.
