Virginia Tech College of Engineering 2014-2016 Faculty Expertise Guide by Virginia Tech College of Engineering

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Faculty Expertise Guide 2014-2016

Christopher Williams, assistant professor of mechanical engineering and of engineering education, far right, is the director of the Design, Research, and Education for Additive Manufacturing Systems (DREAMS) Laboratory at Virginia Tech. The DREAMS Lab focuses on design for additive manufacturing, process and materials research, and education, including K-12 science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) outreach. Williams is a National Science Foundation CAREER Award recipient.

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College of Engineering Faculty Expertise Listing 2014-2016

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Faculty Expertise Guide (Listed alphabetically by area of expertise) This brochure presents a listing of selected faculty of Virginia Tech’s College of Engineering and their areas of expertise. To contact a faculty member: w Use the telephone number next to his/her name w Call the main department or school number listed below w Or contact the News Office of the College of Engineering at 540 231 6641. Main Telephone Numbers Aerospace and Ocean Engineering..............540-231-6611 Biological Systems Engineering....................540-231-6615 Chemical Engineering...................................540-231-6631 Civil and Environmental Engineering............540-231-6635 Computer Science.........................................540-231-6931 Electrical and Computer Engineering............540-231-6646 Engineering Education..................................540-231-6555 Engineering Science and Mechanics............540-231-6651 Industrial and Systems Engineering..............540-231-6656 Materials Science and Engineering...............540-231-6640 Mechanical Engineering................................540-231-7183 Mining and Minerals Engineering..................540-231-6671 Myers-Lawson School of Construction..........540-231-3804 School of Biomedical Engineering and Sciences.............................................540-231-8191 Mailing Addresses You may correspond with a faculty member by using the individual’s name, accompanied by the name of the department, College of Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va. 24061. Links Internet: http://www.eng.vt.edu/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/VirginiaTechCollegeofEngineering Twitter: https://twitter.com/VTEngineering VT Engineering News Feed: http://www.eng.vt.edu/feeds/news/rss.xml Overview of Virginia Tech’s College of Engineering

The College of Engineering honors its Land Grant heritage by providing to the Commonwealth and to the Nation world class engineering programs through its various research, education, and outreach activities. The leading College of Engineering in the Commonwealth is the home to 13 departments 1

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and the Virginia Tech - Wake Forest School of Biomedical Engineering and Science and the Myers Lawson School of Construction. The College’s well-earned reputation for innovation and leadership includes life sciences research, from green engineering to human medicine. The opportunity and responsibility lies before the College to advance engineering curricula that will educate the engineer, researcher, chief executive officer, or other distinguished leaders for the 21st century; that is, to produce “The Engineer of 2020.” Counting undergraduate and graduate degrees, Virginia Tech provides over half of all the new engineers educated in the Commonwealth, and is consistently one of the top ten producers of new bachelor’s degrees in engineering in the nation. Selected Key Accomplishments w In its most recent survey of total engineering research expenditures at universities and colleges, the National Science Foundation ranked the Virginia Tech College of Engineering 10th. In 2005, the College ranked 13th in this survey, and as it moved to 10th, it surpassed some very good schools –– Stanford, Ohio State, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. w In U.S. News & World Report’s “America’s Best Colleges 2014” survey, released in September 2013, the College of Engineering’s undergraduate program ranked 15th among all undergraduate engineering programs that also offer the Ph.D., and sixth among public universities. The College’s Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics and the Grado Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering ranked 8th in the nation. Other notable department rankings are: the Charles E. Via Jr. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering’s two programs ranked 10th for civil and 11th for environmental; the Department of Aerospace and Ocean Engineering and the Department of Mechanical Engineering, 14th; the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, 15th; and the Department of Chemical Engineering, 20th. w The magazine’s “America’s Best Graduate Schools 2014” survey, released in March 2013, ranked the College’s graduate program 24th among all of the nation’s engineering schools. Among fellow public universities, it ranked 13th in the nation. By individual program, those in the top 20 are: the Charles E. Via Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, seventh, civil engineering programs and 13th among environmental engineering programs; the Grado Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, seventh for industrial/manufacturing programs; Department of Biological Systems Engineering, ninth among biological/agricultural programs; Department of Mechanical Engineering, 17th; Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, 19th; and the aerospace component of the Department of Aerospace and Ocean Engineering, 15th. w When The Wall Street Journal published its one-time survey of 479 of the largest public and private U.S. companies, nonprofits, and government agencies, Virginia Tech’s College of 2

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Engineering ranked as the number five pick for graduates best prepared and most able to succeed. The Journal’s research represented a systematic effort to assess colleges by surveying employers’ recruiters who decide where to seek out new hires. w For fall 2005, 4,800 prospective students applied for admission to the College of Engineering. By fall 2013, 7,414 applied, a 54% increase. In the entering 2013-2014 freshman class, the average SAT score for the general engineering student was 1293, with the average math score at 685 and the average verbal score at 608. The average high school grade point average was 4.11 on a weighted 4.0 scale. Females comprise 22.3 percent of the entering 2013 class. Members of under-represented populations make up 11.5 percent of the freshman class. When the students graduate, the 2013 average annual salary at the bachelor’s level exceeded $60,000. w In the spring of 2013 the Virginia Tech College of Engineering and College of Science jointly dedicated the inVenTs Laboratory’s Studio I on the second floor of Lee Hall. The inVenTs Residential Community provides a unique interdisciplinary living-learning space for students from engineering, science, and other disciplines to interact and together explore their ability to envision, create, and transform innovative ideas and – in the words of Virginia Tech’s tagline – Invent the Future. Approximately 1,270 students have used the facility since its fall 2012 opening. The inVenTs community includes students from four university groups, the Curie Learning Community and the Da Vinci Biological and Life Sciences Community, both in the College of Science, and the Galileo and Hypatia learning communities within the College of Engineering. w The Signature Engineering Building, housing sensors that currently makes it the most instrumented public building for vibrations in the world, opens for classes in the fall of 2014. The roughly 153,000-gross square-foot facility will serve as a leading center of engineering education in Virginia. Inside, a 15,000-pound Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 jet engine hangs 15 feet above the floor of the atrium, installed in the summer of 2012 by a team of engineers. The engine acts as an art centerpiece of the structure, and as a learning tool for our students for years to come. w The College of Engineering-led Institute for Critical Technology and Applied Science (ICTAS) is now housed in the Hugh and Ethel Kelly Building on campus, dedicated in the fall semester of 2013. Ethel Kelly’s estate provided $5 million to help cover the cost of the most recent of three buildings built for the institute. Another $1 million from the estate is supporting the new ICTAS Hugh and Ethel Kelly Lecture Series. Hugh Kelly, who died in 1989, earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees of electrical engineering in 1937 and in 1938, worked at AT&T’s Bell Laboratories, and played important roles in groundbreaking projects, including the 1962 launch of the Telstar communications satellite, the first private venture in space. Ethel Kelly, who died in 2012, generously supported Virginia Tech’s College of Engineering as a way of honoring her husband’s legacy. 3

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Existing Research Centers, Groups, and Initiatives That Involve Engineering Faculty NAME OF DIRECTOR CENTER / LABORATORY OR CONTACT

Advanced Vehicle Dynamics Laboratory................................ Corina Sandu Baker Environmental Hydraulics Laboratory.......................................Mark Widdowson and Clint Dancey Center of Advanced Separation Technology....................... Roe-Hoan Yoon Center for Bridge Engineering...........................................Thomas Cousins Center for e-Design................................................................... Richard Goff Center for Embedded Systems for Critical Applications.............................................. Patrick Schaumont Center for Energy and the Global Environment................... Saifur Rahman Center for Energy Harvesting Materials and Systems....... Muhammad Hajj Center for Enhancement of Engineering Diversity...............Bevlee Watford Center for Geospatial Information Technology..........................Peter Sforza Center for Geotechnical Practice and Research........................ George Filz Center for High End Computing Systems.............................. Kirk Cameron Center for High Performance Manufacturing.........................Jamie Camelio Center for Human-Computer Interaction...............................Doug Bowman Center for Injury Biomechanics............................................... Warren Hardy Center for Intelligent Material Systems and Structures................Dan Inman Center for Naval Systems.........................................................John Greene Center for Photonics Technology................................................ Anbo Wang Center for Power and Energy............................................. Virgilio Centeno Center for Power Electronics Systems.............................................Fred C. Lee / Dushan Boroyevich Center for Renewable Energy and Aerodynamic Testing........................................... William Devenport Center for Space Science and Engineering Research...........Wayne Scales Center for Tire Research (CENTIRE)........................................Saied Taheri Center for Turbomachinery & Propulsion Research ......... Walter F. Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Brien Center for Vehicle Systems and Safety............................. Medhi Ahmadian Commonwealth Center for Aerospace & Propulsion Systems..............................................................................Srinath Ekkad CS@VT Discovery Analytics Center...........................Naren Ramakrishnan Hume Center for National Security and Technology..........Charles Clancey Innovative Particulate Materials Laboratory....................................Kathy Lu Lab for Advanced Scientific Computing and Applications......Layne Watson Macromolecules and Interfaces Institute..........................S. Richard Turner Multidisciplinary Analysis and Design Center for Advanced Vehicles....................................................Rakesh Kapania National Institute of Aerospace (NIA)..........................Walter F. Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Brien, Jr. NEXTOR Center for Excellence in Aviations Operations Research...........................................................Antonio Trani Occupational Safety and Health Research Center..........Maury Nussbaum Performance Engineering Research Lab..........................Steve Southwind Renewable Materials Research Group..................................Justin Barone Software Technologies Laboratory.......................................... Mark Howard SyNeRGY Lab.................................................................................Wu Feng Technology, Open Organizing and Learning Sciences Lab (toolsLab).................................. Aditya Johri The Advanced Research in Information Assurance and Security (ARIAS) Lab................................................. Jung-Min Park Vibrations and Acoustics Laboratories.......................................Chris Fuller VIPER Services.................................................................Steve Southward Virginia Active Combustion Control Group.........................Uri Vandsburger Virginia Center for Autonomous Systems......................... Craig A. Woolsey Virginia Tech Advanced Research Institute.......................... Saifur Rahman Virginia Center for Coal and Energy Research................... Michael Karmis Virginia Tech Engineering Communications Center.................Lisa D. McNair and Marie C. Paretti Wireless @ Virginia Tech......................................................Jeffrey H. Reed 4

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3-D holographic Microscopy see Holography, Poon

3-D Information aND Image Processing see Holography, Poon

3-D PRINTING

see Computer-Aided Design and Manufacturing, Williams

ACOUSTICS

see also human factors engineering, Casali see also Materials, Viehland see also Vibration and dynamics, Parker

ACOUSTICS

Name: Michael J. Roan Department: Mechanical Engineering Office Phone: 540-231-5846 Fax: 540-231-9100 E-mail: mroan@vt.edu Specialty: Acoustical Signal Processing, Underwater Acoustics and Signal Processing, Detection and Estimation Theory, Information Fusion Applications: Radar; sonar; target detection and classification; intelligence/surveillance/reconnaissance Expertise: Development; implementation and testing of information theoretic approaches to acoustical and array signal processing Examples of Funding Sources: Office of Naval Research, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, U.S. Army

ACOUSTICS AND ACTIVE / PASSIVE NOISE AND VIBRATION CONTROL Noise Control

Name: Chris R. Fuller Department: Mechanical Engineering Office Phone: 540-231-7273 Fax: 540-231-8836 E-mail: cfuller@vt.edu URL: www.VAL.me.vt.edu Specialty: Noise Control, Structural Acoustics, Active Control, Low Frequency Passive Noise and Vibration Control Applications: Active control of interior noise in aerospace applications; marine hull radiated noise; launch vehicle payload noise; automobile noise; passive control of low frequency sound in construction; industrial and defense applications Expertise: Analysis and experiments in structural acoustics; development and implementation of adaptive LMS control codes; active noise control systems; and low frequency passive noise and vibration control Examples of Funding Sources: NASA, Office of Naval Research, NSF, U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Boeing, Intel

ACOUSTICS AND HEAT TRANSFER see Fluids and Acoustics, Ng

ADHESION SCIENCE

see Mechanics of Materials, Dillard

ADVANCED DIAGNOSTICS

Name: Lin Ma Department: Aerospace and Ocean Engineering Office Phone: 540-213-2249 Fax: 540-231-9632 E-mail: linma@vt.edu URL: www.aoe.vt.edu/people/webpages/linma/index-linma.html Specialty: Laser Diagnostics, Combustion/Flow Instrumenta5

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tion, Optical Sensing, Volumetric (3-D) Measurements, Signal Processing and Analysis Applications: Aeropropulsion engines; rocket engines; internal combustion engines; power systems; environmental monitoring; non-intrusive measurements in hostile environments Expertise: High-speed (50 kHz) temperature measurement in aero-propulsion engines; high-speed (multi-kHz) 3-D combustion measurements; measurements of soot/particulate emissions from engines; thermal management of hybrid (battery) powertrain systems Examples of Funding Sources: U.S. Air Force, Rolls-Royce, National Science Foundation, Honda Motors

Advanced Manufacturing

Name: Zhenyu â&#x20AC;&#x153;Jamesâ&#x20AC;? Kong Department: Industrial and Systems Engineering Office Phone: 540-231-9762 Fax: 540-231-3322 E-mail: zkong@vt.edu Specialty: Statistical Signal Processing, Sensor Based Estimation and Predictive Modeling, Quality/Reliability Engineering, Data Mining, and Machining Learning Applications: Ultra precision manufacturing such as chemical mechanical polishing; large and complex manufacturing systems such as auto body assembly process; additive manufacturing Expertise: Modeling, synthesis and fault diagnosis for manufacturing systems; online real time quality monitoring for ultraprecision machining and additive manufacturing Examples of Funding Sources: National Science Foundation; Department of Transportation; Dimensional Control Systems, Inc.

AERODYNAMICS

see computational fluid dynamics, Roy see fluids and acoustics, Ng

AERODYNAMICS AND AEROACOUSTICS

Name: William J. Devenport Department: Aerospace and Ocean Engineering Office Phone: 540-231-4456 Fax: 540-231-9632 E-mail: devenport@vt.edu URL: www.aoe.vt.edu/people/faculty/devenport.html Specialty: Experimental Studies of Aerodynamics and Turbulent Flows with a Particular Emphasis on Revealing and Understanding Mechanisms Responsible for Sound Generation, Related Experimental Methods, Related Theoretical Methods and Analysis Techniques, Aerodynamic and Aeroacoustic Testing, Director of the Virginia Tech Stability Wind Tunnel Applications: Wind turbine aerodynamics and aeroacoustics; marine propulsors; airframe noise; fan noise; hull noise; aircraft engines; wind turbine noise Expertise: Hot-wire techniques for single and multi-point three component turbulence measurement; microphone systems for far-field acoustics; pressure-based systems for aerodynamic and boundary condition measurements; particle image velocimetry; surface microphones for pressure measurement; instrumentation development; multidimensional analysis of random data; dynamic calibration techniques Examples of Funding Sources: U.S. Office of Naval Research, NASA Glenn Research Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory

AEROELASTICITY

see aircraft, Kapania see fluid-structure interaction, Wang 6

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AERONAUTICS

Name: Joseph A. Schetz Department: Aerospace and Ocean Engineering Office Phone: 540-231-9056 Fax: 540-231-9632 E-mail: ptiger@vt.edu URL: www.aoe.vt.edu/people/faculty.php?fac_id=ptiger Specialty: Experimental and Computational Studies, High-Speed Flows Including Aerodynamics, Heat Transfer, and Jet Propulsion Expertise: Aerodynamics; aerospace propulsion; aircraft design; Instrumentation Examples of Funding Sources: NASA, U.S. Air Force

Aeropropulsion

see Advanced Diagnostics, Ma

Aerospace Engineering

Name: Robert A. Canfield Department: Aerospace and Ocean Engineering Office Phone: 540-23-5981 Fax: 540-231-9632 E-mail: bob.canfield@vt.edu URL: www.aoe.vt.edu/people/canfield.html Specialty: Structural Optimization, Structural Mechanics, Multidisciplinary Design Optimization, Aircraft Design, Aeroelasticity, Space Structures Applications: Aircraft and military vehicles; high altitude long endurance (HALE) aircraft; micro-air vehicle (MAV) design; sensorcraft; slotted waveguide antenna stiffened structures (SWASS) design Expertise: Structural analysis and optimization; aeroelasticity, integrated structure and control design; multidisciplinary design optimization methods; approximation methods for engineering design; numerical optimization; structural shape sensitivity methods Examples of Funding Sources: Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Air Force Research Laboratory

AEROSPACE ENGINEERING

Name: Mayuresh Patil Department: Aerospace and Ocean Engineering Office Phone: 540-231-8722 Fax: 540-231-9632 E-mail: mpatil@vt.edu Specialty: Structures and Dynamics Applications: Aircraft structures Expertise: Adaptive structures; aeroelasticity; dynamics and control; structural dynamics Examples of Funding Sources: U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research, NSF

AEROSPACE ENGINEERING

Name: Cornel Sultan Department: Aerospace and Ocean Engineering Office Phone: 540-231-0047 Fax: 540-231-9632 E-mail: csultan@vt.edu Specialty: Dynamics, Control, Structures Applications: Fixed and rotary wing aircraft guidance; dynamics and control; formation flying spacecraft; adaptive and deployable structures; cell mechanics Expertise: Flight dynamics and control; coordinated vehicles; structural dynamics Examples of Funding Sources: NASA, NSF, Institute for Critical Technology and Applied Science, United Technologies Research Center 7

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AGING

see biomechanics, Madigan see ergonomics, Nussbaum

Agriculture

see Biomass Harvest, Storage and Delivery, Grisso

AIRCRAFT

Structural Mechanics Name: Rakesh K. Kapania Department: Aerospace and Ocean Engineering Office Phone: 540-231-4881 Home Phone: 540-552-0475 Fax: 540-231-9632 E-mail: rkapania@vt.edu Specialty: Aerospace Structures, Finite Element Method, Multidisciplinary Design Optimization Applications: Analysis of aerospace structures flight loads; analysis of structures made of composites Expertise: Computational structural mechanics with emphasis on finite element method; inverse problems, probabilistic analysis and design; analysis of composite plates and shells under impact, blast, and other short duration loads; aeroelastic tailoring; computational aeroelasticity; random vibrations; multidisciplinary design optimization Examples of Funding Sources: U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research, NASA, Langley and Ames Research Centers, NASA Headquarters, NSF, Carilion Biomedical Institute, Office of Naval Research Small Business Technology Transfer, Luna Innovations, Department of Energy through U.S. Council for Automotive Research, Office of Naval Research, NextGen Aeronautics, NASA Headquarters, Air Force Research Laboratory, Airbus North America, Snecma, Zona Technology

AIR POLLUTION

see also environment, Little see also Transportation, Rakha

AIR POLLUTION

Name: Linsey C. Marr Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering Office Phone: 540-231-6071 Fax: 540-231-7916 E-mail: lmarr@vt.edu URL: www.cee.vt.edu/people/lmarr.html, www.airqual.cee.vt.edu Specialty: Air Quality Engineering Applications: Air quality management and planning; air quality modeling; air pollution control; environmental exposure and risk assessment; nanotechnology; infectious disease transmission Expertise: Air pollutant emissions; atmospheric transport, transformation and fate; measurement of gases and particles; greenhouse gases; motor vehicle emissions; nanoparticles; bioaerosols Examples of Funding Sources: NSF, Environmental Protection Agency, NIH, U.S. Department of Agriculture

AIR TRANSPORTATION AND AIRPORT ENGINEERING

Name: Antonio A. Trani Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering Office Phone: 540-231-4418 Fax: 540-231-7532 E-mail: vuela@vt.edu URL: www.cee.vt.edu/people/trani.html Specialty: Air Transportation Systems Modeling, Airport Engi8

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neering and Planning, Computer Modeling, Systems Engineering Analysis Applications: Development of large-scale aviation system planning models; development of airport simulation models; air transportation demand estimation; multi-model transportation planning and analysis Expertise: Airport capacity and delay estimation modeling; aviation system analysis; aircraft and airspace interaction analyses; high-speed rail transportation modeling Examples of Funding Sources: NASA Langley Research Center, NASA Glenn Research Center, Federal Aviation Administration, NSF, National Institute for Aerospace, National Consortium for Aviation Mobility

ALGORITHMS

Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, Complex Networks, Computational Genomics Name: Lenwood S. Heath Department: Computer Science Office Phone: 540-231-4352 Fax: 540-231-6075 E-mail: heath@vt.edu URL: people.cs.vt.edu/heath/ Specialty: Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Applications: RNA-Seq analysis; multimodal models of biological pathways and networks; computational genomics; complex networks; genetic sequence analysis; phylogeny; analysis of signal transduction pathways Expertise: Theoretical computer science; algorithms; graph theory; symbolic computation; computational algebra; computational biology; computational geometry; probabilistic algorithms and analysis; discrete computational models Examples of Funding Sources: NSF

ANTENNAS

see Radio Engineering, Ellingson

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE

see Environmental Engineering, Pruden

APPLIED MATHEMATICS

see Fluid Mechanics, Stremler

AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS

see environment, Hession see environment and fluvial hydraulics, Hester

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

see computer Vision, Parikh see game Theory, Jain see Machine learning, D. Batra see wireless communications and networking, MacKenzie

ATMOSPHERIC AND RADIO SCIENCE

Name: Wayne A. Scales Department: Electrical and Computer Engineering Office Phone: 540-231-5622 Home Phone: 540-953-2109 Fax: 540-231-3362 E-mail: wscales@vt.edu Specialty: Atmospheric and Radio Science Applications: GPS applications Expertise: Computation science; plasma science; global positioning systems Examples of Funding Sources: NSF, U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Naval Research, U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research, NASA 9

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ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCE see Remote Sensing, Bailey

AUGMENTED REALITY

Name: Joe Gabbard Department: Industrial and Systems Engineering Office Phone: 231-3559 Fax: 540-231-3322 E-mail: jgabbard@vt.edu Specialty: Augmented Reality; Virtual Reality; Visualization; User Experience (UX); Usability Engineering; Cognitive Engineering Applications: Embedded AR applications for transportation; enhanced military planning and training; handheld augmented reality for sustainable agriculture; novel user interfaces for STEM and graduate education; 3-D visualization of life science data Expertise: Human factors of novel user interface technologies; mobile augmented reality; color perception in augmented reality; usability evaluation; user interface design; humancomputer interaction; 3-D computer graphics Examples of Funding Sources: NSF, National Institutes of Health, USDA, U.S. Army, U.S. Navy

AUTOMOBILES

see acoustics, Fuller see injury biomechanics, Duma see see Vehicle dynamics, Ahmadian

AUTOMOTIVE POWERTRAINS / ENERGY SYSTEMS

Name: Douglas Nelson Department: Mechanical Engineering Office Phone: 540-231-4324 Fax: 540-231-9100 E-mail: doug.nelson@vt.edu URL: www.me.vt.edu/_bios/_primary/nelson_bio.html Specialty: Design, Modeling, Analysis, Testing and Research on Hybrid and Electric Vehicle Systems and Components Applications: Design of hybrid and electric vehicle powertrains to meet performance and fuel economy goals; construction, testing and validation of vehicle powertrain systems; battery energy storage systems; autonomous vehicle energy storage and propulsion Expertise: Energy use in vehicles; fundamentals of energy management and control strategies; vehicle systems design using model based design and software/hardware in the loop methods Examples of Funding Sources: U.S. Department of Energy, Argonne National Laboratory, General Motors

AUTOMOTIVE SAFETY

see Injury Biomechanics, Duma

AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS

see also control Theory, Woolsey see also Mechanical engineering, Wicks

AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS

Name: Kevin Kochersberger Department: Mechanical Engineering Office Phone: 540-231-5589 Fax: 540-231-9100 E-mail: kbk@vt.edu URL: www.me.vt.edu/unmanned Specialty: Design of Unmanned Systems, Design of Aircraft Systems, Vibration and Dynamic Test and Analysis, Stereo and Monofocal Vision Systems 10

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Applications: Sensing; surveillance; unmanned aircraft; noise and vibration; vision sensing and control Expertise: Mechanical and electrical system design and fabrication analysis; flight test Examples of Funding Sources: Defense Threat Reduction Agency, Air Force Research Lab

AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS

Name: Alexander Leonessa Department: Mechanical Engineering Office Phone: 540-231-3268 Fax: 540-231-8836 E-mail: leonessa@vt.edu Specialty: Nonlinear and Adaptive Control, Robotics, Dynamical Systems and Control Theory, Nonlinear System Identification, Autonomous Vehicles, Control and Navigation Systems, Functional Electrical Stimulation of Human Muscles Applications: Active control and modeling of propulsion systems; autonomous vehicle control systems; attitude stability and control; robot control; human-robot interaction; functional electrical stimulation Expertise: System design of robotic platforms; adaptive, self learning control of autonomous systems; dynamical systems and control theory Examples of Funding Sources: NSF, U.S. Office of Naval Research, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS

Control theory, Estimation theory Name: Dan Stilwell Department: Electrical and Computer Engineering Office Phone: 540-231-3204 Fax: 540-231-3362 E-mail: stilwell@vt.edu URL: www.ascl.ece.vt.edu Specialty: Advanced Control, Navigation, and Guidance for Autonomous Vehicle Systems; Autonomy and Decision Algorithms; Planning Algorithms; Collaborative Control and Estimation for Multi-Vehicle Systems Applications: Maritime robotic systems, including subsea and surface applications Expertise: Advanced field trials and experimentation for maritime robotics systems; applied guidance, navigation, and control systems; guidance and decision-making algorithms for autonomous vehicles Examples of Funding Sources: NSF, Office of Naval Research, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES

see automotive powertrains / energy systems, Nelson see Transportation, Rakha

BATS

see Bio-inspired Science and Technology, M端ller

Big-data

see bioinformatics and computational biology, Yu see computational science, Onufriev see computational science, Prakash see computer science, Feng see data Mining, Ramakrishnan see Machine learning, D. Batra

BIOENGINEERING

see Bio-inspired Science and Technology, M端ller

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BIOINFORMATICS

see algorithms, Heath see computational biology, Murali see computer science, Feng see data Mining, Ramakrishnan see human-computer interaction, North see optimization, Watson see problem solving environments, Shaffer

BIOINFORMATICS AND BIOIMAGING

Name: Yue “Joe” Wang Department: Electrical and Computer Engineering Office Phone: 703-528-5500 ext. 223 Fax: 703-528-5543 E-mail: yuewang@vt.edu Specialty: Bioinformatics, Bioimaging Applications: Molecular analysis and personalized treatment of human diseases; computational analysis of gene and protein expressions; predicting pathway gene regulatory networking; computed simultaneous imaging of multiple biomarkers; computer-aided diagnosis Expertise: Machine learning; neural networks; pattern recognition; computed imaging; multivariate visualization; signal detection and estimation; blind source separation; independent component analysis Examples of Funding Sources: National Institutes of Health, Department of Defense, NSF, Department of Energy

Bioinformatics and Computational Biology

Name: Guoqiang Yu Department: Electrical and Computer Engineering Office Phone: 571-858-3153 Fax: 571-858-3015 E-mail: yug@vt.edu URL: www.ece.vt.edu/faculty/gyu.php Specialty: Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Big Data Analysis for Biomedical Applications Applications: Interaction analysis for GWAS; copy number modeling for cancer; DNA next generation sequencing analysis; gene expression analysis; epigenetics; proteomics; deep phenotyping; precision medicine Expertise: Signal processing; machine learning; pattern recognition; computational statistics; optimization techniques; highdimensional; dynamic and complex data modeling Examples of Funding Sources: NIH, NSF

Bio-inspired science and technology

Name: Rolf Müller Department: Mechanical Engineering Office Phone: 540-231-6005 Fax: 540-231-9555 E-mail: rolf.mueller@vt.edu URL: www.me.vt.edu/people/faculty/Mueller.html Specialty: Adaptive Sensing Technology Inspired by the Biosonar System of Bats Applications: Advanced wave-based sensing methods in engineering; autonomous sensing Expertise: Biosonar; bio-inspired beamforming and signal processing; dynamic encoding of sensory information; extraction of design rules from nature Examples of Funding Sources: Army Research Office, NASA, NSF, NSF of China, Shandong Taishan Fund

Bio-inspired TECHNOLOGIES

see smart Materials and structures, Philen see Multifunctional and Materials and systems, Priya 12

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BIOLOGY

see Synthetic Biology, Ruder

BIOMASS HARVEST, STORAGE, AND DELIVERY

Name: Robert â&#x20AC;&#x153;Bobbyâ&#x20AC;? Grisso Department: Biological Systems Engineering Office Phone: 540-231-6538 Fax: 540-231-3199 E-mail: rgrisso@vt.edu Specialty: Analysis of Systems for the Harvest, Storage, and Delivery of Biomass Applications: Use of precision farming techniques for data collection; design of logistics systems to minimize cost of biomass delivery; use of GIS technology to optimize in-field hauling of round bales; analysis and design of receiving facility to handle herbaceous biomass delivered to a conversion plant Expertise: Analysis of systems of equipment used to harvest, store, and transport herbaceous biomass to a utilization point; design of machines for harvesting, handling, and preprocessing (wafering, pelleting, cubing) of herbaceous biomass Examples of Funding Sources: USDA, DOE, Oak Ridge National Lab

BIOMATERIALS AND TISSUE ENGINEERING

Name: Aaron S. Goldstein Department: Chemical Engineering and School of Biomedical Engineering and Sciences Office Phone: 540-231-3674 Fax: 540-231-5022 E-mail: goldst@vt.edu URL: www.che.vt.edu/people_agoldstein.php Specialty: Musculoskeletal Tissues Applications: Implantable materials for tissue regeneration Expertise: Mesenchymal stem cell culture; hydrodynamic shear stress; perfusion bioreactors; cell adhesion; bio-interfacial phenomena; polymer processing; electrospinning Examples of Funding Sources: National Institutes of Health, NSF

BIOMECHANICS

see also ergonomics, Agnew, Nussbaum see also fluid Mechanics, Stremler see also injury biomechanics, Duma see also neuroengineering, VandeVord see also nonlinear dynamics and control, Ross

BIOMECHANICS

Name: Raffaella De Vita Department: Engineering Science and Mechanics Office Phone: 540-231-5905 Fax: 540-231-4574 E-mail: devita@vt.edu URL: www.esm.vt.edu/~devita Specialty: Constitutive Modeling for Nonlinear Elastic, Viscoelastic, Liquid Crystal Biological Systems Applications: Ligament and tendon grafts; mechanical and biological heart valves; drug delivery systems; biological sensors and actuators Expertise: Continuum mechanics with emphasis on solid mechanics; cardiovascular mechanics; mechanics of ligaments and tendons; cellular mechanics Examples of Funding Sources: NSF

BIOMECHANICS

Name: Daniel M. Dudek Department: Engineering Science and Mechanics Office Phone: 540-231-0687 13

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Fax: 540-231-9187 E-mail: dmdudek@vt.edu URL: www.esm.vt.edu/~dmdudek Specialty: Biomaterials, Locomotion, and Comparative Organismal Biology Applications: Biologically inspired robotics; synthetic elastomers Expertise: Dynamics of running and climbing; mechanics of elastomeric proteins Examples of Funding Sources: NSF, National Institutes of Health, DARPA

BIOMECHANICS Crash Safety

Name: Clay Gabler Department: School of Biomedical Engineering and Sciences Office Phone: 540-231-7190 Fax: 540-231-0954 E-mail: gabler@vt.edu URL: www.sbes.vt.edu/gabler Specialty: Injury Biomechanics, Vehicle Crashworthiness, Crash Modeling, Crash Reconstruction Applications: Advanced airbag systems; active safety systems; event data recorders for cars; roadside crash safety; motorcycle crash safety; side impact safety Expertise: Articulated lumped mass modeling; nonlinear finite element modeling; epidemiology of highway accidents using national databases; social cost of highway accidents Examples of Funding Sources: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Federal Highway Administration, Transportation Research Board â&#x20AC;&#x201C; National Academy of Sciences, New Jersey Department of Transportation

BIOMECHANICS

Name: Michael L. Madigan Department: Engineering Science and Mechanics Office Phone: 540-231-1215 Fax: 540-231-4574 E-mail: mlmadigan@vt.edu URL: www.biomechanics.esm.vt.edu Specialty: Biomechanics, Biomedical Engineering Applications: Musculoskeletal injury prevention; effects of aging on physical performance, balance, and fall prevention Expertise: Biomechanical modeling; effects of neuromuscular fatigue and aging Examples of Funding Sources: NSF, National Institutes of Health

BIOMECHANICS

Name: Jake Socha Department: Engineering Science and Mechanics Office Phone: 540-231-6188 Fax: 540-231-0696 E-mail: jjsocha@vt.edu URL: www.esm.vt.edu/~jjsocha Specialty: Organismal (Comparative) Biomechanics Applications: Biomimetics and bio-inspired engineering Expertise: Animal locomotion; gliding flight in vertebrates; internal flows in insects (including respiration, feeding, and circulation); microtomography; synchrotron x-ray imaging; insects; reptiles Examples of Funding Sources: NSF, DARPA

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BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING

see also biomaterials and Tissue engineering, Goldstein see also biomechanics, Madigan see also computer-aided design and Manufacturing, BĂ¸hn see also computer science, Feng see also energy, Diller see also imaging science, Wyatt see also injury biomechanics, Duma

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING

Name: Lissett Ramirez Bickford Department: School of Biomedical Engineering and Sciences, Mechanical Engineering Office Phone: 540-231-7896 Fax: 540-231-9738 E-mail: Bickford@vt.edu Specialty: Drug Delivery, Nanomedicine, Biomedical Imaging and Diagnostics Applications: Translational oncology; development and validation of selective and nontoxic nanotherapies; design of medical devices for local cancer theranostics Expertise: Nanoparticle engineering; medical devices for drug delivery

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING

Name: Yong W. Lee Department: School of Biomedical Engineering and Sciences Office Phone: 540-231-8484 Fax: 540-231-9738 E-mail: ywlee@vt.edu URL: www.vascular.sbes.vt.edu/ Specialty: Nanomedicine, Cellular and Molecular Biology Applications: Biomedical applications of nanotechnology Expertise: Targeted drug delivery; novel nanomaterials; nanotoxicology; cancer biology; vascular biology Examples of Funding Sources: National Institutes of Health, NSF

Biomedical Engineering

Name: Chang Lu Department: Chemical Engineering Office Phone: 540-231-8681 Fax: 540-231-5022 E-mail: changlu@vt.edu URL: www.microfluidics.che.vt.edu/ Specialty: Microfluidics, Single Cell Analysis, Laser-Induced Fluorescence, Gene Delivery, Electroporation Applications: Microfluidic devices for cancer diagnosis and staging; gene delivery for cell therapies; cellular analysis for epigenetic studies Expertise: Microfluidics design; fluid mechanics; laser spectroscopy; biophysics of electroporation Examples of Funding Sources: NIH, NSF, United States Department of Agriculture, Wallace Coulter Foundation

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING

Name: Marissa Nichole Rylander Department: Mechanical Engineering, School of Biomedical Engineering and Sciences Office Phone: 540-231-3134 Fax: 540-231-0970 E-mail: mnr@vt.edu Specialty: Bio-heat Transfer, Tissue Engineering, Cancer Research Applications: Development of multimodal cancer therapies using nanomaterials in combination with laser treatment and irreversible electroporation; creation of novel in vitro tumor mod15

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els and “holey scaffold” platform for imaging dynamic cancer processes and response to treatment; fiber optic microneedle device for combined light and nanomedicine delivery for cancer; real time monitoring, control, and modeling of dynamic biological processes (inflammation, tumor growth, and tissue regeneration), measuring and modeling bio-heat transport and tumor response to thermal therapies; and stress conditioning therapies for tissue regeneration Expertise: Bio-heat transfer; tissue regeneration; tumor engineering; computational modeling; stress conditioning Examples of Funding Sources: NSF, National Institutes of Health, Advance VT

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING

Name: Scott S. Verbridge Department: School of Biomedical Engineering and Sciences Office Phone: 540-231-6908 E-mail: sverb@vt.edu URL: www.verbridgelab.org Specialty: Cancer Microenvironment, Nanotechnology, Microfluidics, Tissue Engineering Applications: In the Laboratory for Integrative Tumor Ecology (LITE), 3-D, physiologically relevant engineered models of tumor tissues are developed to study the tissue level “ecological” interactions that drive tumor initiation, progression, and response to therapy Expertise: Microfluidic tumor models; optical measurement of chemical microenvironment; tumor stress response experiments Examples of Funding Sources: Virginia Tech Institute for Critical Technology and Applied Science

Biomedical Engineering

Name: Kimberly Forsten Williams Department: Chemical Engineering Office Phone: 412-335-4056 E-mail: kfw@vt.edu Specialty: Analysis of Biochemical Systems and Networks, Data Analysis, Computer Modeling of Complex Cellular Interactions Applications: Cell-cell interaction analysis; growth factor binding and trafficking studies; intracellular trafficking; drug delivery; wound healing Expertise: Design of biological cell experimental studies; computational modeling of biological cells; coupling of training in both chemical engineering and biochemistry Examples of Funding Sources: National Institutes of Health, NSF

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING

Name: Jason J. Xuan Department: Electrical and Computer Engineering Office Phone: 571-858-3151 Fax: 571-858-3000 E-mail: xuan@vt.edu Specialty: Bioinformatics and Biomedical Imaging Applications: Bioinformatics, including genomic data analysis and regulatory network modeling for cancer research; computational techniques are key to defining novel molecular diagnostics and discovering drugs for gene-based therapy; in particular, computational modeling is applied to study drug resistance in breast cancer and chemoresistance in ovarian cancer; biomedical imaging – this includes medical image segmentation, image analysis, and image registration; applications of biomedical image analysis include quantitative medicine and radiation therapy planning Expertise: Cancer bioinformatics; computational systems biology; genomic data analysis; reconstruction of gene regulatory networks; modeling of signaling networks and pathways; biomedical image analysis; radiation therapy planning 16

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Biomedical Imaging

see also Augmented Reality, Gabbard

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Virtual Reality

Name: Doug A. Bowman Department: Computer Science Office Phone: 540-231-2058 Fax: 540-231-9218 E-mail: bowman@vt.edu URL: people.cs.vt.edu/~bowman/ Specialty: 3-D User Interface Design, Virtual Environments, Augmented Reality, Human-computer Interaction, 3-D Computer Graphics Applications: 3-D gaming interfaces; 3-D architectural design and visualization; virtual and augmented reality for education and training; 3-D visualization of scientific and engineering data; virtual reality phobia therapy; 3-D modeling interfaces Expertise: Design and evaluation of user interfaces for immersive virtual environments; 3-D interaction techniques; comparison of 3-D display devices; comparison of 3-D input devices; software systems for virtual environments; human factors in virtual environments; interfaces for travel, wayfinding, object selection, object manipulation, system control, symbolic input in immersive virtual environments; presence and immersion in virtual environments Examples of Funding Sources: NSF, Office of Naval Research, DARPA

VISCOELASTICITY

see Mechanics of Materials, Dillard

VISUALIZATION

see computer science, Lu see human computer interaction, North see Materials, Kriz see problem solving environments, Shaffer

VLSI

see computer engineering, Hsiao see computers, Tront

WASTE DISPOSAL

see Environment, Knocke

WATER

see also computer science, Lu see also corrosion control, Edwards see also groundwater, Widdowson see also hydrology, Easton see also sustainable water, Sinha

WATER

Urban Stormwater Management, Geographic Information Systems Name: Randy Dymond Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering Office Phone: 540-231-9023 Fax: 540-231-7532 E-mail: dymond@vt.edu URL: www.cee.vt.edu/people/dymond.html Specialty: Hydrology, GIS, Best Management Practices, Land Development Applications: Stormwater best management practices; MS4 permit regulations; hydrologic assessment of land use change; floodplain modeling and delineation Expertise: Urban hydrology; stormwater control; GIS; land development design; water resources management; low impact development; real-time water monitoring Examples of Funding Sources: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, National Science Foundation, Virginia Department of 103

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Conservation and Recreation, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Virginia Water Resources Research

WATER

Name: Glenn E. Moglen Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering Office Phone: 703-538-3786 Fax: 703-538-8450 E-mail: moglen@vt.edu URL: www.filebox.vt.edu/users/moglen/index.html Specialty: Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Watershed Hydrology, Urban Hydrology, Climate Change Applications: Use of GIS to automate hydrologic analyses of watersheds for purposes of quantifying both water quality (floods or droughts) and water quality (nutrient loading, eutrophication); application of optimization techniques to land development decision-making (e.g. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Smart Growthâ&#x20AC;?) Expertise: Surface water hydrology; hydrologic modeling; urban hydrology; flooding; statistical hydrology; GIS for landscape analysis; land use change; remote estimation of impervious surfaces Examples of Funding Sources: Maryland State Highway Administration, Maryland Sea Grant/National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, Maryland Department of the Environment

WATER AND WASTEWATER TREATMENT see Environment, Boardman, Novak

WATER QUALITY

see also corrosion control, Edwards see also environment, Dietrich see also environmental engineering, Grizzard, Pruden see also hydrology, Easton

Water Quality

Name: Brian L. Benham Department: Biological Systems Engineering Office Phone: 540-231-5705 Fax: 540-231-3199 E-mail: benham@vt.edu Specialty: Watershed Management, Water Quality Modeling, Private Water Supply Systems Applications: Perform watershed assessments for the purpose of reducing primarily nonpoint source pollution, educate private water supply users about their water quality, and make recommendations to address water quality issues Expertise: Development and execution of watershed-scale water quality models; private water supply systems Examples of Funding Sources: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Environmental Protection Agency, Virginia Departments of Environmental Quality and Conservation and Recreation

WATERSHED MANAGEMENT see ecological engineering, Wynn see engineering education, Lohani see environment, Hession see hydrology, Easton

WETLANDS

see Environment and Fluvial Hydraulics, Hester

WIND LOADS

see Nonlinear Dynamics, Hajj

WIND POWER

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WIND TURBINES

see Aerodynamics and Aeroacoustics, Devenport

WIRELESS COMMUNICATION see Communications, Reed

WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKING

Name: Allen B. MacKenzie Department: Electrical and Computer Engineering Office Phone: 540-231-3565 Fax: 540-231-3362 E-mail: mackenab@vt.edu URL: mackenab.ece.vt.edu Specialty: Wireless Networks, Cognitive Radio, Cognitive Networks, Cross-Layer Optimization, Game Theory Applications: Interoperability in public safety communications; application of artificial intelligence to control communication and network parameters; power and topology control in wireless networks; dynamic spectrum sharing; analysis of networks using game theory Expertise: End-to-end evaluation of wireless networks; applications of decision theory, game theory, and artificial intelligence to analyze, optimize, and design cognitive wireless systems; analytical, simulation, and experimental methods to understand network and communication system performance Examples of Funding Sources: NSF, National Institute of Justice, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

WIRELESS NETWORKING

Name: Thomas Hou Department: Electrical and Computer Engineering Office Phone: 540-231-2950 Fax: 540-231-8292 E-mail: thou@vt.edu Specialty: Modeling, Analysis, and Optimization of Wireless Networks; Cross-Layer Optimization and Design for Multi-hop Wireless Networks; Cognitive Radio Ad Hoc Networks; MultiHop MIMO Networks;Â Cooperative Communications; Interference Management in Ad Hoc Networks; Applied Optimization and Algorithm Design for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks Applications: Wireless communication networks; military networks Expertise: Network modeling; cross-layer optimization; algorithm design Example of Funding Sources: NSF, Office of Naval Research

WIRELESS NETWORKS

see also computer science, Feng see also networks, DaSilva see also network and information security, Lou

WIRELESS NETWORKS

Name: Luiz DaSilva Department: Electrical and Computer Engineering Office Phone: 571-858-3145 E-mail: ldasilva@vt.edu Specialty: Wireless Network Architectures, Radio Resource Management, Cognitive Radios and Networks, Game Theory Applications: LTE and LTE-Advanced; cellular networks; dynamic spectrum access; heterogeneous networks; virtualization in wireless networks Expertise: Cooperation and competition in resource management for wireless networks; application of game theory to model networking problems; implementation- and prototypebased wireless research Examples of Funding Sources: National Science Foundation, Office of Naval Research, European Commission, Science 105

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Foundation Ireland, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Intel, U.S. Customs and Border Protection

WORK PLACE DESIGN

see Ergonomics, Nussbaum

WOOD PRODUCTS IN CONSTRUCTION

Name: Daniel Hindman Department: Myers-Lawson School of Construction Office Phone: 540-231-9442 Fax: 540-231-8868 E-mail: dhindman@vt.edu Specialty: Wood Structural Design, Wood Connections, Green Building, Construction Safety, Mechanical Testing, Analysis Applications: New building structures; truss construction; flooring installation Expertise: Design of wooden structures; design of safety methods for placing trusses; wood-flooring inspection Examples of Funding Sources: National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, USDA

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INDEX BY SUBJECT 3-D Holographic Microscopy (see Holography)........................................... 5 3-D Information and Image Processing (see Holography).......................... 5 3-D Printing (see Computer-Aided Design and Manufacturing).................. 5 Acoustics (see Human Factors Engineering, Materials, Vibration and Dynamics)........................................................................................ 5 Acoustics..................................................................................................... 5 Acoustics and Active/Passive Noise and Vibration Control......................... 5 Acoustics and Heat Transfer (see Fluids and Acoustics)............................ 5 Adhesion Science (see Mechanics of Materials)......................................... 5 Advanced Diagnostics................................................................................. 5 Advanced Manufacturing............................................................................. 6 Aerodynamics (see Computational Fluid Dynamics, Fluids and Acoustics)......................................................................................... 6 Aerodynamics and Aeroacoustics............................................................... 6 Aeroelasticity (see Aircraft, Fluid-Structure Interaction).............................. 6 Aeronautics................................................................................................. 7 Aeropropulsion (see Advanced Diagnostics)............................................... 7 Aerospace Engineering............................................................................... 7 Aging (see Biomechanics, Ergonomics)...................................................... 8 Agriculture (see Biomass Harvest, Storage, and Delivery)......................... 8 Aircraft......................................................................................................... 8 Air Pollution (see also Environment, Transportation).................................. 8 Air Transportation and Airport Engineering................................................. 8 Algorithms................................................................................................... 9 Antennas (see Radio Engineering)............................................................. 9 Antibiotic Resistance (see Environmental Engineering).............................. 9 Applied Mathematics (see Fluid Mechanics)............................................... 9 Aquatic Ecosystems (see Environment, Environment and Fluvial Hydraulics).............................................................................................. 9 Artificial Intelligence (see Computer Vision, Game Theory, Machine Learning, Wireless Communications and Networking)............. 9 Atmospheric and Radio Science................................................................. 9 Atmospheric Science (see Remote Sensing)............................................ 10 Augmented Reality.................................................................................... 10 Automobiles (see Acoustics, Injury Biomechanics, Vehicle Dynamics)................................................................................. 10 Automotive Powertrains / Energy Systems............................................... 10 Automotive Safety (see Injury Biomechanics)........................................... 10 Autonomous Systems (see also Control Theory, Mechanical Engineering).......................................................................................... 10 Autonomous Systems..........................................................................10, 11 Autonomous Vehicles (see Automotive Powertrains/Energy Systems, Transportation).......................................................................11 Bats (see Bio-inspired Science and Technology).......................................11 Big-Data (see Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Computational Science, Computer Science, Data Mining, Machine Learning)..............11 Bioengineering (see Bio-inspired Science and Technology)......................11 Bioinformatics (see Algorithms, Computational Biology, Computer Science, Data Mining, Human-Computer Interaction, Optimization, Problem Solving Environments)............................................................ 12 Bioinformatics and Bioimaging.................................................................. 12 Bioinformatics and Computational Biology................................................ 12 Bio-inspired Science and Technology........................................................ 12 Bio-inspired Technologies (see Smart Materials and Structures, Multifunctional and Materials and Systems).......................................... 12 Biology (see Synthetic Biology)................................................................. 13 Biomass Harvest, Storage, and Delivery................................................... 13 Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering........................................................ 13 Biomechanics (see also Ergonomics, Fluid Mechanics, Injury Biomechanics, Neuroengineering, Nonlinear Dynamics and Control).......................................................................................... 13 Biomechanics...................................................................................... 13, 14 107

College of Engineering Faculty Expertise Listing 2014-2016 Biomedical Engineering (see also Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering, Biomechanics, Computer-Aided Design and Manufacturing, Computer Science, Energy, Imaging Science, Injury Biomechanics)............................................................................. 15 Biomedical Engineering....................................................................... 15, 16 Biomedical Imaging (see also Optical Imaging)........................................ 17 Biomedical Imaging................................................................................... 17 Biomedical Microfluidics............................................................................ 17 Biomedicine (see Electronics)................................................................... 17 Biometrics (see Computer Vision)............................................................. 17 Bionanomedicine (see Polymers).............................................................. 17 Bioremediation (see Environmental Engineering)..................................... 17 Brain-inspired Computer Architecture....................................................... 17 Bridge Design............................................................................................ 17 Cancer (see Biomedical Engineering, Biomedical Imaging, Biomedical Microfluids)......................................................................... 18 Carbon Sequestration, Mineral and Energy Resources (see Mining, Natural Gas/Coal Mining)...................................................................... 18 Catalysis.................................................................................................... 18 Cell Biomechanics (see Synthetic Biology)............................................... 18 Cellular Engineering (see Synthetic Biology)............................................ 18 Ceramics................................................................................................... 19 Chaos (see Fluid Mechanics, Nonlinear Dynamics and Control).............. 19 Chemical Engineering............................................................................... 19 Civil Engineering....................................................................................... 19 Climate Change (see Energy, Transportation).......................................... 20 Cloud Computing (see Energy Systems).................................................. 20 Coal Gasification (see Computational Fluid Dynamics)............................ 20 Coal Mining (see Mining)........................................................................... 20 Coastal Engineering (see also Geotechnical Engineering)....................... 20 Coastal Engineering.................................................................................. 20 Cognitive Radio (see Wireless Networks)................................................. 21 Combustion (see Advanced Diagnostics, Control Systems, Energy Systems, Fire Science, Heat Transfer)..................................... 21 Communications (see also Computer and Communications Engineering, Athanas Wireless Networks, Inc...................................... 21 Communications........................................................................................ 21 Complex Networks (see Transportation)................................................... 21 Complex System Prognosis (see Mechanics of Advanced Materials)...... 21 Composites............................................................................................... 21 Computational Biology (see also Biomedical Engineering)....................... 21 Computational Biology.............................................................................. 22 Computational Biology Bioinformatics....................................................... 22 Computational Fluid Dynamics (see Coastal Engineering)....................... 22 Computational Fluid Dynamics............................................................ 22, 23 Computational Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer.................................... 23 Computational Materials Science.............................................................. 23 Computational Mechanics (see Fluid-Structure Interaction)..................... 24 Computational Multiscale Methods (see Computational Fluid Mechanics)............................................................................................ 24 Computational Science............................................................................. 24 Computational Science and Engineering (see Computational Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer, Computer Science, Data Mining, Parallel Computing)............................................................................... 24 Computer-Aided Design and Manufacturing............................................. 25 Computer and Communications Engineering............................................ 25 Computer Engineering........................................................................ 26, 27 Computer-Generated Holography (see Holography)................................ 27 Computer Science (see also Computer Engineering)............................... 27 Computer Science......................................................................... 27, 28, 29 Computer Security (see Software Engineering, Software Systems)......... 29 Computer Simulation (see Materials)........................................................ 29 Computer Systems (see Computer Science, Power Electronics)............. 29 Computers (see also Computer Science, Optimization)........................... 29 108

College of Engineering Faculty Expertise Listing 2014-2016 Computers................................................................................................. 29 Computer Vision (see also Machine Learning).......................................... 30 Computer Vision........................................................................................ 30 Computing (see Computer Science, Computer and Communications Engineering, Networking....................................................................... 31 Concrete (see Bridge Design, Construction Materials)............................. 31 Construction (see Human Factors Engineering / Ergonomics)................. 31 Construction Engineering and Management............................................. 31 Construction Materials (see also Wood Products in Construction)........... 31 Construction Materials............................................................................... 31 Construction Safety (see Human Factors Engineering / Ergonomics, Wood Products in Construction)........................................................... 32 Contaminants (see Environmental Engineering)....................................... 32 Control Systems........................................................................................ 32 Control System Security............................................................................ 32 Control Theory (see also Autonomous Systems)...................................... 32 Control Theory........................................................................................... 32 Control Theory / Autonomous Systems..................................................... 33 Corrosion Control...................................................................................... 33 Crash Safety (see Biomechanics)............................................................. 33 Cyber Security (see also Computer Engineering)..................................... 33 Cyber Security........................................................................................... 33 Dam Engineering (see Geotechnical Engineering)................................... 34 Data Mining (see also Advanced Manufacturing)...................................... 34 Data Mining............................................................................................... 34 Databases (see Computer Science)......................................................... 34 Decision Making (see Optimization, Stimulation)...................................... 34 Decision Making in Organizations and Complex Systems........................ 34 Decision Making Under Uncertainty (see Investment).............................. 34 Design (see Engineering Education)......................................................... 34 Digital Signal Processing..................................................................... 34, 35 Distance Learning (see Instructional Technology)..................................... 35 Distribution (see Logistics)........................................................................ 35 Dreaming (see Brain-Inspired Computer Architecture)............................. 35 Drug Delivery (see Biomechanics, Fluid Dynamics, Polymer and Colloid Chemistry)................................................................................. 35 Drug Design.............................................................................................. 35 Durability (see Mechanics of Materials).................................................... 35 Dynamics (see Aerospace Engineering, Fluid Mechanics)....................... 35 Dynamical Systems................................................................................... 36 Dynamics and Control............................................................................... 36 Dynamics, Vibrations, Controls (see also Nonlinear Dynamics and Control).......................................................................................... 36 Dynamics, Vibrations, Controls................................................................. 36 Earthquake Engineering (See also Structural Engineering, Geotechnical Engineering).................................................................... 37 Earthquake Engineering............................................................................ 37 Ecological Engineering.............................................................................. 37 Elasticity (see Mechanics of Materials)..................................................... 37 Electric Power..................................................................................... 37, 38 Electric Vehicles (see Automotive Powertrains)........................................ 38 Electromagnetics (see also Energy Conversion Systems)........................ 38 Electromagnetics....................................................................................... 38 Electronic Textiles (see Computer Engineering)....................................... 38 Electronics........................................................................................... 38, 39 Embedded Systems (see Computer Engineering).................................... 39 Energy (see also Biomass Harvest, Storage, and Delivery, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Structures and Materials, Transportation)...................................................................................... 39 Energy....................................................................................................... 39 Energy and Materials (see also Mechanics of Materials).......................... 40 Energy and Materials................................................................................ 40 Energy Conversion Systems..................................................................... 40

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College of Engineering Faculty Expertise Listing 2014-2016 Energy Harvesting (see Multifunctional Materials and Systems, Nonlinear Dynamics, Thermal Management)........................................ 41 Energy Management (see Fluids and Acoustics)...................................... 41 Energy Storage and Conversion............................................................... 41 Energy Systems (see also Automotive Powertrains / Energy Systems................................................................................................ 41 Energy Systems........................................................................................ 41 Engineering (see also Environment, Transportation)................................ 42 Engineering Design................................................................................... 42 Engineering Education (see also Machine Health Monitoring, Motivation, and Problem Solving Environments).................................. 42 Engineering Education.................................................................. 42, 43, 44 Environment (see also Air Pollution, Transportation)................................ 44 Environment.................................................................................. 44, 45, 46 Environmental Engineering................................................................. 46, 47 Environment and Fluvial Hydraulics.......................................................... 47 Environment and Nanotechnology............................................................ 47 Ergonomics (see also Human Factors / Ergonomics)............................... 48 Ergonomics............................................................................................... 48 Estimation Theory (see Autonomous Systems)......................................... 48 Falls (see Materials, Biomechanics).......................................................... 48 Fiber Optics (see Photonics, Materials).................................................... 48 File and Storage Systems......................................................................... 48 Finite Element Method / Computational Mechanics.................................. 49 Fire Science and Combustion................................................................... 49 Flooding (see Water)................................................................................. 49 Fluid Dynamics (see also Mechanics of Thin and Flexible Structures, Nonlinear Dynamics)............................................................................. 49 Fluid Dynamics.................................................................................... 49, 50 Fluid Dynamics and Diagnostics............................................................... 50 Fluid Mechanics (see also Computational Fluid Dynamics, High-End Parallel Computing)............................................................................... 50 Fluid Mechanics.................................................................................. 50, 51 Fluid Mechanics / Heat Transfer................................................................ 51 Fluid-Structure Interaction......................................................................... 51 Fluids and Acoustics.................................................................................. 51 Fluvial Forms and Processes (see Environment)...................................... 52 Flywheels (see Machine Health Monitoring)............................................. 52 Fracture Mechanics (see Mechanics of Materials).................................... 52 Fuel Cells (see Automotive Powertrains, Energy Systems, Mechanics of Materials, Polymers)......................................................................... 52 Fusion Energy Science (see Plasma Physics).......................................... 52 Game Theory (see Decision Making in Organizations, Wireless Communications and Networks, Wireless Networks)........................... 52 Game Theory............................................................................................. 52 Gas Turbines............................................................................................. 52 Gene-Based Therapy (see Biomedical Engineering)................................ 53 Gears / Transmissions (see Vibration and Dynamics)............................... 53 Genome Analysis (see Computer Science)............................................... 53 Genomics (see Algorithms, Computational Biology)................................. 53 Geographic Information Systems (GIS) (see also Computer Science, Transportation, Water).......................................................................... 53 Geosciences (see Natural Gas / Coal Mining).......................................... 53 Geospacial Analysis (see Transportation)................................................. 53 Geotechnical Engineering................................................................... 53, 54 Global Warming (see Energy)................................................................... 55 Green Computing (see Computer Science, Parallel and Distributed Systems and Applications).................................................................... 55 Greenhouse Emissions (see Air Pollution, Catalysis, Transportation)...... 55 Groundwater.............................................................................................. 55 Hardware Design (see Computer Engineering)........................................ 55 Hazardous Waste (see Environment)........................................................ 55 Healthcare (see Decision Making in Organizations, Investment).............. 56 Hearing Protection (see Human Factors Engineering).............................. 56 110

College of Engineering Faculty Expertise Listing 2014-2016 Heat Transfer (see Biomedical Engineering, Computational Fluid Dynamics and High-End, Parallel Computing)...................................... 56 Heat Transfer............................................................................................. 56 High Performance Computing (see Computational Fluid Dynamics and High-End Parallel Computing, Computational Science, Computer Architecture, Computer Science, File and Storage Systems, Optimization, Parallel and Distributed Systems, Parallel Computing)............................................................................... 56 Higher Education (see Engineering Education)........................................ 57 High Speed Rail (see Air Transportation and Airport Engineering)........... 57 Holography................................................................................................ 57 Homeland Security (see Electronics)........................................................ 57 Human-Computer Interaction (see also Computer Science, Virtual Environments)............................................................................ 57 Human-Computer Interaction.............................................................. 57, 58 Human Factors Engineering (see also Augmented Reality, Ergonomics, Industrial Hygiene)........................................................... 58 Human Factors Engineering...................................................................... 58 Human Factors Engineering / Ergonomics / Acoustics............................. 59 Human Factors Engineering / Ergonomics................................................ 59 Hybrid Vehicles (see Automotive Powertrains / Energy Systems)............ 60 Hydrodynamics.......................................................................................... 60 Hydrology (see also Ecological Engineering, Engineering Education, Environment, Environmental and Fluvial Hydraulics)............................ 60 Hydrology.................................................................................................. 60 Image Processing (see Computer Vision)................................................. 60 Imaging Science........................................................................................ 60 Indoor Air Pollution (see Air Pollution, Environment, Industrial Hygiene)................................................................................................ 61 Industrial and Systems Engineering (see also Logistics).......................... 61 Industrial and Systems Engineering.......................................................... 61 Industrial Engineering and Management Systems Engineering................ 61 Industrial Engineering, Simulation, Systems Modeling............................. 61 Industrial Hygiene...................................................................................... 62 Industrial Systems and Management Engineering.................................... 62 Infectious Disease Transmission (see Air Pollution).................................. 62 Information Technology (see Computer Science, Geographic Information Systems............................................................................. 62 Infrastructure (see Pavements)................................................................. 62 Infrastructure Development (see Public-Private Partnerships)................. 62 Infrastructure Management (see Public-Private Partnerships).................. 62 Injury Biomechanics.................................................................................. 62 Instructional Technology............................................................................ 63 Instrumentation (see Gas Turbines).......................................................... 63 Investment................................................................................................. 63 K-12 Engineering Education (see Machine Health Mentoring)................. 63 Landfills (see Geotechnical Engineering).................................................. 63 Landmine Detection (see Multifunctional Materials and Systems)............ 63 Ionospheric and Space Physics................................................................ 63 Logistics.................................................................................................... 64 Machine Health Monitoring and Structural Health Monitoring (A) and Engineering Education (B)............................................................. 64 Machine Learning (see also Computer Vision).......................................... 65 Machine Learning...................................................................................... 65 Macromolecules and Interfaces (see Polymers)....................................... 65 Magnetic Bearings (see Machine Health Monitoring)................................ 65 Manufacturing (see also Computer-Aided Design and Manufacturing) ..................................................................................... 65 Manufacturing............................................................................................ 65 Manufacturing Design (see also Engineering Design).............................. 65 Manufacturing Processes / Systems (see Advanced Manufacturing)....... 65 Manufacturing Systems (see also Logistics)............................................. 65 Manufacturing Systems............................................................................. 66 Marine Renewable Energy (see Coastal Engineering)............................. 66 111

College of Engineering Faculty Expertise Listing 2014-2016 Materials (see Construction Materials, Mechanics of Materials, Membranes).......................................................................................... 66 Materials........................................................................................ 66, 67, 68 Mathematical Analysis (see Optimization, Stimulation)............................. 68 Mechanical Engineering............................................................................ 68 Mechanical Systems (see Vibrations and Dynamics)................................ 69 Mechanics of Advanced Materials (see also Mechanics of Materials).......................................................................................... 69 Mechanics of Advanced Materials............................................................. 69 Mechanics of Materials (see also Composites, Mechanics of Thin and Flexible Structures)............................................................ 69 Mechanics of Materials........................................................................ 69, 70 Mechanics of Thin and Flexible Structures................................................ 70 Membranes............................................................................................... 71 Metallurgy.................................................................................................. 71 Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) (see Electronics, Finite Element and Method, Fluid Mechanics, Multifunctional Materials)....... 71 Microelectronics (see Materials)................................................................ 72 Microfluidics (see Biomedical Engineering, Electronics)........................... 72 Microscale Gas Simulations (see Computational Fluid Dynamics) .......... 72 Mineral Processing.................................................................................... 72 Mining.................................................................................................. 72, 73 Mining and Minerals Engineering / Environmental Engineering................ 74 Mixing (see also Fluid Mechanics)............................................................ 74 Modeling and Analysis (see Optimization)................................................ 74 Molecular Biology (see Environmental Engineering)................................. 74 Molecular Level Simulations (see Finite Element Method / Computational Mechanics).................................................................... 74 Molecular Modeling (see Computational Science).................................... 74 Motivation.................................................................................................. 74 Multifunctional Materials and Systems...................................................... 74 Multimedia (see Computers)..................................................................... 75 Multiscale Computing (see Fluid-Structure Interaction)............................ 75 Nanobiotechnology (see Materials)........................................................... 75 Nanocomposites........................................................................................ 75 Nanomaterials (see Multifunctional Materials).......................................... 75 Nanoscale Materials Characterization....................................................... 75 Nanoscience (see Nuclear Engineering)................................................... 75 Nanostructures (see Finite Element Method / Computational Mechanics, Multifunctional Materials)........................... 76 Nanotechnology (see Air Pollution, Biomedical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Environment, Fluid Mechanics, Heat Transfer, Materials, Optoelectronics, Theoretical and Experimental Solid Mechanics) ........................................................................................... 76 Natural Gas / Coal Mining......................................................................... 76 Naval Architecture..................................................................................... 76 Networks (see Computer Science, Wireless Networks)............................ 76 Network and Information Security............................................................. 76 Network Dynamics (see Construction Engineering and Management)..... 77 Network Security (see also Network and Information Security)................ 77 Network Security....................................................................................... 77 Networking and Computing....................................................................... 77 Neuroengineering...................................................................................... 77 Noise (see Human Factors Engineering).................................................. 78 Nondestructive Evaluation (NDE) (see Mechanics of Advanced Materials)............................................................................. 78 Nonlinear Dynamics.................................................................................. 78 Nonlinear Dynamics and Control............................................................... 78 Nuclear Power (see Two-Phase Flow)...................................................... 78 Nuclear Science and Engineering....................................................... 78, 79 Ocean (see Geotechnical Engineering).................................................... 79 Operations Research (see also Game Theory, Industrial Engineering Simulation, Optimization, Simulation)................................................... 79 Operations Research................................................................................ 79 112

College of Engineering Faculty Expertise Listing 2014-2016 Optical Imaging......................................................................................... 79 Optical Microscopy (see Optical Imaging)................................................. 80 Optical Sensing (see Advanced Diagnostics)............................................ 80 Optimization (see also Manufacturing, Transportation)............................. 80 Optimization.............................................................................................. 80 Optoelectronics......................................................................................... 81 Organizations (see Industrial Engineering and Management Systems Engineering).......................................................................................... 81 Ozone (see Air Pollution, Catalysis).......................................................... 81 Parallel and Distributed Systems and Applications................................... 81 Parallel Computing.................................................................................... 81 Pathogens (see Environmental Engineering)............................................ 82 Pattern Recognition (see Computer Vision, Machine Learning)................ 82 Pavements................................................................................................ 82 Performance (see Industrial Engineering and Management Systems Engineering).......................................................................................... 82 Personalized Medicine (see Biomedical Engineering).............................. 82 Photonics (see also Materials).................................................................. 82 Photonics................................................................................................... 82 Photonic Materials (see Optoelectronics, Materials)................................. 83 Plasma Physics......................................................................................... 83 Plasma Propulsion (see Plasma Physics)................................................. 83 Polymer and Colloid Chemistry................................................................. 83 Polymers (see also Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering, Mechanics of Materials, Supercritical Fluids).......................................................... 83 Polymers................................................................................................... 84 Power Electronics (see also Materials)..................................................... 84 Power Electronics................................................................................ 84, 85 Power Systems Analysis........................................................................... 85 Power Systems Protection and Control..................................................... 85 Precision Farming (see Biomass Harvest, Storage, and Delivery)........... 85 Prestressed Concrete (see Bridge Design)............................................... 86 Problem Solving Environments................................................................. 86 Process System Engineering.................................................................... 86 Production Planning (see Manufacturing, Logistics)................................. 86 Prognosis (see Mechanics of Advanced Materials)................................... 86 Propagation (see Radio Engineering)....................................................... 86 Proteomics (see Bioinformatics and Computational Biology).................... 86 Public-Private Partnerships....................................................................... 86 Radar (see Acoustics, Energy Conversion Systems, Ionospheric and Space Physics).............................................................................. 87 Radiation (see Nuclear Engineering)........................................................ 87 Radio Engineering..................................................................................... 87 Radio Science (see Atmospheric and Radio Science, Electromagnetics)................................................................................. 87 Rapid Prototyping (see Computer-Aided Design and Manufacturing)...... 87 Reacting Flows (see also Computational Fluid Dynamics)....................... 87 Reinforced Concrete (see Bridge Design)................................................. 87 Reliability and Quality Control................................................................... 87 Remote Sensing (see also Advanced Diagnostics)................................... 87 Remote Sensing........................................................................................ 87 Renewable Energy (see Power Electronics)............................................. 88 Robotics (see Autonomous Systems, Control Theory, Control Theory / Autonomous Systems, Dynamical Systems, Engineering Design, Mechanical Engineering)....................................................................... 88 Robotics.................................................................................................... 88 Rotor Dynamics (see also Machine Health Monitoring)............................ 88 Scientific Computing (see Data Mining).................................................... 88 Security (see Control System Security)..................................................... 88 Sediment Transport (see Coastal Engineering)........................................ 88 Semiconductor (see also Optoelectronics)................................................ 88 Semiconductor Materials and Devices...................................................... 88 Semiconductor Technology....................................................................... 89 Sensors (see Energy, Theoretical and Experimental Solid 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College of Engineering Faculty Expertise Listing 2014-2016 Ship Design (see also Optimization, Semiconductor Materials and Devices)......................................................................................... 89 Ship Design............................................................................................... 89 Signal Processing (see Acoustics, Advanced Diagnostics, Computer and Communications Engineering, Digital Signal Processing, Dynamics and Control, Electric Power)................................................. 89 Simulation (see Software Engineering)..................................................... 90 Simulation, Optimization............................................................................ 90 Six Sigma (see Computer-Aided Design and Manufacturing)................... 90 Smart Grids (see Electric Power, Energy, Power Electronics).................. 90 Smart Materials (see Transportation, Vehicle Dynamics).......................... 90 Smart Materials and Structures................................................................. 90 Smart Structures (see Finite Element Method)......................................... 90 Software Engineering.......................................................................... 90, 91 Software Systems............................................................................... 91, 92 Soil (see also Civil Engineering)................................................................ 92 Solar and Renewables (see Energy)......................................................... 92 Solar Energy (see Energy, Energy and Materials).................................... 92 Solid Mechanics (see Construction Materials, Mechanics of Materials).......................................................................................... 92 Space (see Atmospheric and Radio Science, Plasma Physics, Remote Sensing).................................................................................. 92 Space Science.......................................................................................... 92 Space Plasma Physics (see Plasma Physics).......................................... 92 Space Structures Analysis (see Aircraft)................................................... 92 Space Weather (see Ionospheric and Space Physics)............................. 92 Spacecraft Hardware and Instrumentation................................................ 93 Sports Biomechanics (see Biomechanics, Injury Biomechanics).............. 93 Statistical Signal Processing (see Advanced Manufacturing)................... 93 Steel (see Structural Engineering and Design, Thin-Walled Structures)............................................................................................. 93 Streams (see Ecological Engineering, Environment and Fluvial Hydraulics)............................................................................................ 93 Structural Dynamics and Control (see Smart Materials and Structures)...................................................................................... 93 Structural Engineering............................................................................... 93 Structural Engineering Design................................................................... 94 Structural Mechanics (see also Aircraft, Composites, Mechanics of Materials, Thin-Walled Structures).................................................... 94 Structural Mechanics................................................................................. 94 Structural Safety and Reliability................................................................ 94 Structural Stability (see Thin-Walled Structures)....................................... 94 Structures and Materials........................................................................... 95 Supercritical Fluids.................................................................................... 95 Supply Chain Management (see Logistics)............................................... 95 Surface Chemistry and Engineering.......................................................... 95 Surface Science (see Catalyst)................................................................. 96 Sustainable Water..................................................................................... 96 System Health Monitoring (SHM) (see Mechanics of Advanced Materials).............................................................................................. 96 Systems Biology (see Computational Biology, Control Systems).............. 96 Systems and Signal Processing (see Biomedical Imaging)...................... 96 Synthetic Biology....................................................................................... 96 Theoretical and Experimental Solid Mechanics (see also Mechanics of Materials).......................................................................................... 96 Theoretical and Experimental Solid Mechanics........................................ 96 Thermal Management............................................................................... 97 Thin-Walled Structures.............................................................................. 97 Tires (see Vehicle Dynamics).................................................................... 97 Tissue Engineering (see also Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Biomedical Imaging, Materials, Neuroengineering)................................................................................ 97 Tissue Engineering.................................................................................... 97 Toxicology (see Environment)................................................................... 98 114

College of Engineering Faculty Expertise Listing 2014-2016 Transportation (see Air Transportation, Automotive Powertrains / Energy Systems, Combustion and Fire Science, Computer Science, Geospatial Decision Making, Vehicle Dynamics).................................. 98 Transportation..................................................................................... 98, 99 Turbulence (see Computational Fluid Dynamics and High-End Parallel Computing)............................................................. 100 Turbulence and Turbulent Flows (see Aerodynamics and Aeroacoustics).................................................................................... 100 Turbulence Modeling and Simulation (see Computational Fluid Dynamics)........................................................................................... 100 Two-Phase Flow...................................................................................... 100 Uncertainty Quantification (see Computational Fluid Dynamics)............ 100 Underwater Acoustics (see Acoustics).................................................... 100 Underwater Vehicle Design (see Hydrodynamics).................................. 100 Unmanned Systems (see Automotive Powertrains / Energy Systems, Autonomous Systems, Control Theory, Fluid-Structure Interaction).......................................................................................... 100 Uranium (see Mining).............................................................................. 100 User-Centered Design (see Augmented Reality).................................... 100 User Experience (UX) (see Augmented Reality)..................................... 100 Vehicle Design (see Automotive Powertrains / Energy Systems)........... 100 Vehicle Dynamics............................................................................ 100, 101 Verification and Validation of Computer Simulations (see Computational Fluid Dynamics).......................................................... 102 Vibration (see also Dynamics, Dynamics and Control)........................... 102 Vibration.................................................................................................. 102 Vibration and Dynamics (see also Autonomous Systems)...................... 102 Vibration and Dynamics........................................................................... 102 Virtual Reality (see also Augmented Reality).......................................... 102 Virtual Reality.......................................................................................... 103 Viscoelasticity (see Mechanics of Materials)........................................... 103 Visualization (see Computer Science, Human Computer Interaction, Materials, Problem Solving Environments)......................................... 103 VLSI (see Computer Engineering, Computers)....................................... 103 Waste Disposal (see Environment)......................................................... 103 Water (see also Computer Science, Corrosion Control, Groundwater, Hydrology, Sustainable Water)............................................................ 103 Water............................................................................................... 103, 104 Water and Wastewater Management (see Environment)........................ 104 Water Quality (see also Corrosion Control, Environment, Environmental Engineering, Hydrology).............................................. 104 Water Quality........................................................................................... 104 Watershed Management (see Ecological Engineering, Engineering Education, Environment, Hydrology)................................................... 104 Wetlands (see Environment and Fluvial Hydraulics)............................... 104 Wind Loads (see Nonlinear Dynamics)................................................... 104 Wind Power (see Energy Systems)......................................................... 104 Wind Turbines (see Aerodynamics and Aeroacoustics).......................... 105 Wireless Communication (see Communications).................................... 105 Wireless Communications and Networking............................................. 105 Wireless Networking................................................................................ 105 Wireless Networks (see also Computer Science, Networks, Network and Information Security)...................................................... 105 Wireless Networks................................................................................... 105 Work Place Design (see Ergonomics)..................................................... 106 Wood Products in Construction............................................................... 106

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INDEX BY NAME • Primary listing is in BOLD TYPE Abaid, Nicole............................................................................. 36, 88 Abbott, Lynn.............................................................................. 17, 30 Achenie, Luke.................................................................................. 19 Adams, Stephanie G....................................................................... 42 Adel, Greg T..................................................................................... 72 Agah, Masoud......................................................... 17, 38, 57, 71, 72 Agnew, Michael J...................................................................... 13, 48 Ahmadian, Mehdi........................................................ 10, 90, 98, 100 Al-Haik, Marwan.................................................................. 76, 89, 96 Aning, Alex O................................................................................... 71 Asryan, Levon V............................................................ 76, 81, 83, 88 Athanas, Peter................................................................ 21, 25, 31,89 Back, Godmar................................................................................. 27 Bailey, Scott......................................................................... 10, 87, 92 Baird, Donald G............................................................. 17, 52, 65, 84 Baker, Joseph B.H........................................................................... 92 Balci, Osman................................................................................... 90 Batra, Dhruv.............................................................. 9, 11, 30, 65, 82 Batra, Romesh C..................................................... 49, 71, 74, 76, 90 Battaglia, Francine................................................... 20, 22 39, 50, 87 Baumann, William T............................................................. 21, 32, 96 Beex. A.A. (Louis) ..................................................................... 34, 89 Behkam, Bahareh............................................................................ 88 Benham, Brian L............................................................................ 104 Benson, Richard.............................................................................. 94 Bickford, Lissett Ramirez..................................................... 15, 18, 76 Bish, Douglas R............................................................................... 79 Bish, Ebru K........................................................................ 34, 56, 63 Boardman, Gregory D....................................................... 44, 98, 104 Bøhn, Jan Helge............................................................ 15, 25, 87, 90 Bowman, Doug A..................................................................... 57, 103 Brandon, Thomas L................................................................... 34, 53 Broadwater, Robert......................................................................... 37 Brown, Alan J.................................................................................. 89 Brown, Eugene F....................................................................... 50, 76 Butt, Ali R................................................................................... 48, 56 Camelio, James A..................................................................... 66, 86 Cameron, Kirk W................................................................. 55, 56, 81 Canfield, Robert A............................................................................. 7 Cao, Guohua................................................................................... 17 Cao, Yang........................................................................................ 28 Casali, John G........................................................... 5, 48, 56, 59, 78 Case, Scott W.................................................... 40, 66, 69, 83, 92, 96 Charney, Finley A...................................................................... 37, 93 Chen, Ing-Ray........................................................................... 31, 77 Clark, David E................................................................................. 19 Corcoran, Sean G........................................................................... 66 Cox, David F.............................................................................. 18, 96 DaSilva, Luiz............................................................... 21, 52, 76, 105 Davalos, Rafael V...................................................................... 17, 18 Davis, Richey M........................................................................ 35, 83 de la Garza, Jesus M...................................................................... 31 De Vita, Raffaella....................................................................... 13, 35 Devenport, William J......................................................... 6, 100, 105 Dietrich, Andrea M................................................................... 44, 104 Dillard, David A.................................................. 5, 35, 52, 69, 83, 103 Diller, T.E....................................................................... 15, 21, 39, 89 Dingus, Thomas A........................................................................... 58 Dowling, Norman E. .................................................................. 70, 92 Druschitz, Alan P.............................................................................. 71 Ducker, William................................................................................ 95 Dudek, Daniel M. ............................................................................ 13 Duke, John C. Jr...................................................... 21, 69, 78, 86, 96 Duma, Stefan.......................................................... 10, 13, 15, 62, 93 Duncan, J. Michael.................................................................... 34, 53 Dymond, Randy........................................................... 49, 53, 62, 103 Earle, Gregory D............................................................................. 93 Easterling, W. Samuel............................................................... 93, 94 116

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Easton, Zachary M.......................................................... 60, 103, 104 Eatherton, Matthew R................................................................ 37, 93 Edwards, Marc A............................................................. 33, 103, 104 Ekkad, Srinath V........................................................................ 41, 97 Ellingson, Steven W.............................................................. 9, 86, 87 Ellis, Kimberly.......................................................... 35, 64, 65, 86, 95 Evrenosoglu, Cansin Yaman........................................................... 85 Farhood, Mazen........................................................................ 33, 88 Farkas, Diana.................................................................................. 23 Feng, Wu......... 11, 12, 15, 24, 28, 29, 35, 53, 55, 56, 57, 62, 76, 105 Ferris, John B................................................................................ 101 Filz, George................................................................... 34, 37, 54, 63 Flintsch, Gerardo W................................................................... 62, 82 Fox, Edward A............................................................... 28, 29, 31, 62 Fuller, Chris R...................................................................... 5, 10, 100 Gabbard, Joe............................................................. 10, 58, 100, 102 Gabler, Clay............................................................................... 14, 33 Garvin, Michael J....................................................................... 62, 86 Goff, Richard M. ....................................................................... 34, 42 Goldstein, Aaron S.............................................................. 13, 15, 83 Gracanin, Denis............................................................................... 57 Grasley, Zachary................................................................. 31, 66, 92 Green, Russell A................................................................. 34, 37, 54 Grisso, Robert “Bobby”.................................................... 8, 13, 39, 85 Grizzard, Thomas J................................................................. 46, 104 Ha, Dong S...................................................................................... 39 Haghighat, Alireza........................................................................... 78 Hajj, Muhammad R...................................................... 41, 49, 78, 104 Hancock, Kathleen L................................................................. 53, 98 Hanna, James..................................................................... 49, 69, 70 He, Zhen.......................................................................................... 45 Heath, Lenwood S................................................................. 9, 12, 53 Hendricks, Scott L................................................................... 36, 102 Hession, W. Cully.............................................. 9, 45, 52, 60, 93, 104 Hester, Erich T............................................................... 9, 47, 60, 104 Hin, Celine....................................................................................... 41 Hindman, Daniel...................................................................... 31, 106 Holmes, Douglas..................................................... 37, 69, 70, 83, 92 Hou, Thomas................................................................................. 105 Hsiao, Michael S............................................................... 26, 55, 103 Hudait, Mantu K......................................................................... 88, 89 Huxtable, Scott.......................................................................... 56, 76 Irish, Jennifer L................................................................................ 20 Jain, Manish.......................................................................... 9, 52, 79 Jin, Ran........................................................................................... 65 Jung, Sunghwan........................................................................ 35, 49 Kafura, Dennis........................................................................... 29, 91 Kapania, Rakesh K............................................................ 6, 8, 92, 94 Karmis, Michael........................................................... 18, 20, 72, 100 Kasarda, Mary................................................... 42, 52, 63, 64, 65, 88 Kennedy, John M....................................................................... 21, 94 Kiran, Erdogan.......................................................................... 83, 95 Kleiner Brian M.................................................................... 31, 32, 58 Knight, David B.......................................................................... 43, 57 Knocke, William R................................................................... 45, 103 Kochersberger, Kevin...................................................... 10, 100, 102 Koelling, C. Patrick.................................................................... 61, 79 Kong, Zhenyu “James”.................................................... 6, 34, 65, 93 Kornhauser, Alan A.............................................................. 21, 41, 52 Kriz, Ronald D................................................................... 29, 66, 103 Lai, Jason........................................................................................ 84 Lattimer, Brian..................................................................... 21, 49, 98 Lee, Fred C................................................................... 29, 84, 88, 90 Lee, Yong W.................................................................................... 15 Leon, Roberto.................................................................................. 37 Leonessa, Alexander......................................................... 11, 88, 100 Lesko, John J. “Jack”................................................................ 39, 95 Little, John C......................................................................... 8, 46, 61 Liu, Y.A............................................................................................ 86 Liu, Yang.................................................................................. 78, 100 Lohani, Vinod K................................................................. 43, 60, 104 117

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Lou, Wenjing...................................................................... 76, 77, 105 Lowe, K. Todd.................................................................................. 50 Lu, Chang........................................................................................ 15 Lu, Chang-Tien.............................................................. 29, 34, 53, 98 Lu, Guo-Quan (G.Q.)........................................................... 67, 72, 84 Lu, Kathy................................................................................... 67, 76 Luttrell, Gerald H............................................................................. 72 Luxbacher, Kray........................................................................ 20, 73 Ma, Lin................................................................... 5, 7, 21, 80, 87, 89 MacKenzie, Allen B............................................................. 9, 52, 105 Madigan, Michael L................................................... 8, 14, 15, 48, 93 Manteghi, Majid......................................................................... 38, 87 Marand, Eva.............................................................................. 66, 71 Marr, Linsey C............................................... 8, 44, 55, 61, 62, 76, 81 Martin, Stephen M..................................................................... 19, 38 Martin, Tom...................................................................................... 26 Matusovich, Holly M.................................................................. 42, 74 McCrickard, D. Scott........................................................................ 57 McCue-Weil, Leigh.......................................................................... 76 McNair, Lisa DuPree....................................................................... 43 Mili, Lamine M..................................................................... 38, 89, 90 Mitchell, James K...................................................................... 19, 92 Moen, Cristopher D............................................................. 93, 94, 97 Moglen, Glenn E............................................................................ 104 Müeller, Rolf...............................................................................11, 12 Murali, T.M..................................................................... 12, 22, 53, 96 Murayama, Mitsuhiro (Mitsu)........................................................... 75 Murray-Tuite, Pamela...................................................................... 98 Nachlas, Joel A................................................................................ 87 Nain, Amrinder Singh................................................................ 67, 97 Nazhandali, Leyla............................................................................ 35 Nelson, Douglas.................................. 10, 11, 38, 41, 52, 60, 98, 100 Neu, Wayne L.......................................................................... 60, 100 Ng, Wing-fai....................................................................... 5, 6, 41, 51 Ngo, Khai......................................................................................... 85 North, Chris....................................................................... 12, 58, 103 Novak, John................................................................ 42, 46, 55, 104 Nussbaum, Maury A................................................ 8, 13, 48, 58, 106 O’Brien, Walter F....................................................................... 52, 63 Odendaal, Willem G............................................................ 38, 40, 87 Onufriev, Alexey....................................................................11, 24, 74 Orlowski, Marius.............................................................................. 89 Oyama, S. Ted..................................................................... 18, 55, 81 Paretti, Marie C............................................................................... 44 Parikh, Devi............................................................... 9, 30, 60, 65, 82 Park, Jung-Min................................................................................ 77 Parker, Robert............................................................... 5, 53, 69, 102 Pasupathy, Rahgu......................................................... 34, 68, 79, 90 Patil, Mayuresh.................................................................................. 7 Patterson, Cameron D......................................................... 32, 56, 88 Paul, JoAnn M........................................................................... 17, 35 Paul, Mark................................................................................. 51, 76 Pérez-Quiñones, Manuel A............................................................. 58 Philen, Michael.................................................................... 12, 90, 93 Pickrell, Gary..................................................... 48, 68, 75, 76, 82, 83 Pierson, Mark A................................................................... 75, 79, 87 Pitchumani, Ranga.................................................................... 40, 92 Poon, Ting-Chung................................................................. 5, 27, 57 Prakash, B. Aditya......................................................................11, 24 Priya, Shashank.......................................... 12, 41, 63, 71, 74, 75, 76 Pruden, Amy................................................ 9, 17, 32, 47, 74, 82, 104 Rahman, Saifur....................................................... 20, 39, 55, 90, 92 Rahmandad, Hazhir........................................................................ 61 Rakha, Hesham A................. 8, 11, 20, 21, 39, 42, 44, 55, 80, 90, 99 Ramakrishnan, Naren............................................. 11, 12, 24, 34, 88 Reed, Jeffrey H........................................................................ 21, 105 Ribbens, Cal........................................................................ 24, 56, 81 Ripepi, Nino......................................................................... 18, 53, 76 Roan, Michael............................................................... 5, 87, 89, 100 Roberts-Wollmann, Carin L........................................... 17, 31, 86, 87 Rodriguez-Marak, Adrian........................................................... 37, 54 118

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Rojiani, Kamal B.............................................................................. 94 Ross, Shane D. ............................................................ 13, 19, 36, 78 Roy, Christopher J................................................. 6, 22, 72, 100, 102 Ruder, Warren C.................................................................. 13, 18, 96 Ruohoniemi, J. Michael....................................................... 63, 87, 92 Ryder, Barbara G...................................................................... 29, 91 Rylander, Marissa Nichole............................................. 15, 18, 56, 97 Sandu, Adrian............................................................................ 24, 56 Sandu, Corina............................................................................... 101 Sarver, Emily................................................................................... 74 Scales, Glenda R...................................................................... 35, 63 Scales, Wayne A................................................................... 9, 87, 92 Schaumont, Patrick......................................................................... 26 Schetz, Joseph A............................................................................... 7 Seidel, Gary Don............................................................................. 75 Shaffer, Clif.................................................................. 12, 42, 86, 103 Sherali, Hanif D................................................. 29, 34, 68, 74, 79, 80 Shukla, Sandeep K.................................................. 27, 33, 39, 55, 76 Sinha, Sunil............................................................................. 96, 103 Socha, Jake..................................................................................... 14 Southward, Steve C.......................................................... 36, 89, 102 Srinivasan, Bhuvana........................................................... 52, 83, 92 Staples, Anne E......................................................................... 23, 24 Stark, Nina............................................................................ 20, 54 79 Stilwell, Dan................................................................... 11, 32, 48, 88 Stremler, Mark A............................................ 9, 13, 19, 35, 51, 71, 74 Sturges, Robert H., Jr.......................................................... 42, 65, 88 Sultan, Cornel.............................................................................. 7, 35 Tafti, Danesh......................................................... 23, 24, 50, 56, 100 Taheri, Saied........................................................................... 97, 101 Tam, Kwa-Sur.................................................................................. 41 Tarazaga, Pablo A......................................................................... 102 Taylor, G. Don............................................................................ 61, 64 Taylor, John E............................................................................ 31, 77 Thompson, Theresa (Tess) Wynn............................... 37, 60, 93, 104 Thorp, James S............................................................................... 85 Tilevich, Eli...................................................................................... 92 Trani, Antonio A..................................................................... 8, 57, 98 Triantis, Konstantinos (Kostas)........................................................ 62 Tront, Joseph D................................................................. 29, 75, 103 Van Aken, Eileen................................................................. 61, 81, 82 VandeVord, Pamela J.......................................................... 13, 77, 97 Verbridge, Scott S......................................................... 16, 18, 72, 76 Vick, Brian....................................................................................... 56 Viehland, Dwight.......................................................................... 5, 68 Vikesland, Peter........................................................................ 47, 76 Walters, Robert W........................................................................... 50 Wang, Anbo............................................................................... 48, 82 Wang, Chao..................................................................................... 27 Wang, Kevin G............................................................ 24, 51, 75, 100 Wang, Linbing.................................................................................. 99 Wang, Yue “Joe”.................................................. 6, 12, 18, 82, 96, 97 Watson, Layne T...................................................... 12, 35, 56, 80, 89 Wernz, Christian.................................................................. 34, 52, 56 Westman, Erik C........................................................................ 20, 73 Whittington, Abby R......................................................................... 97 Wicks, Alfred L. .................................................................... 10, 68, 88 Widdowson, Mark A................................................................. 55, 103 Williams, Kimberly Forsten.............................................................. 16 Williams, Christopher................................................ 5, 25, 65, 87, 90 Woolsley, Craig A........................................................ 10, 32, 88, 100 Wyatt, Christopher L.................................................................. 15, 60 Xiao, Henry.................................................................... 20, 22, 66, 88 Xuan, Jason J................................................................ 16, 18, 21, 53 Yao, Danfeng (Daphne)................................................................... 33 Yoon, Roe-Hoan........................................................................ 20, 73 Young-Corbett, Deborah Elspeth......................................... 58, 61, 62 Yu, Guoqiang........................................................................11, 12, 86 Zhang, Liqing............................................................................. 22, 53 Zhu, Yizheng....................................................................... 17, 79, 80 119

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