Additional Faculty
The faculty listed above regularly teach for the Penn State World Campus Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering program. View the complete Department of Mechanical Engineering Faculty and Staff directory.
Design optimization, nonlinear and dynamic finite element analysis.
Engineering cognition research; methods development for engineering education research; mixed methods research; eye-tracking methods.
Ground vehicle dynamics and automation, mechatronics and embedded systems, data representations for map-based localization and robot guidance.
Motion of both passive particles and aquatic organisms in turbulent flow, focusing on intermediate scales and Reynolds numbers; scale-dependent complexity of organism/environment interaction.
Multiphase heat transfer, thermal processing of materials, nuclear reactor thermal hydraulics and safety.
Fluid dynamics, flow visualization, wind tunnels, neutron radiography, turbulence, computational fluid dynamics (CFD), turbulence modeling, turbomachinery, air pollution, stratified tanks, indoor air quality, heat pipes, instrumentation, hydroturbines.
Optimal design, compliant mechanisms, smart structures, medical device design.
Mechanical, electrical and thermal properties of ultrathin films; insitu transmission electron microscopy; MEMS; nano-scale materials behavior.
Numerical modeling of chemically reacting turbulent flows. Computational fluid dynamics. Reciprocating-piston internal combustion engines.
Computational solid mechanics, finite element analysis, numerical modeling, blast physics, high- performance computing.
Computational fluid dynamics, multiphase flows, turbomachinery, nuclear reactor thermal-hydraulics and thermal management analysis.
Convective heat transfer and turbulent boundary layers, gas turbine heat transfer and aerodynamics, advanced experimental diagnostics.
The Reacting Flow Dynamics Laboratory focuses on issues of reacting flows for energy and propulsion applications. High-speed laser diagnostics and other state-of-the-art experimental techniques are used in research areas like combustion and hydrodynamics.
Smart materials, with a particular focus on design and development of unique combinations of mechanical-electrical-chemical coupling in polymers and polymer nanocomposites;Â characterization of dielectric materials for sensing, actuation and energy storage.
Computational fluid dynamics, boundary layer separation, large-eddy simulation, direct numerical simulation, cavitation inception, engineering education.
Dynamic systems modeling, design, analysis, and control with applications to flexible structures;Â biologically inspired robotics;Â smart material actuators, sensors, and energy harvesters;Â and electrochemical energy storage.
Sustainable thermal-fluid energy systems, waste heat recovery, multiphase flow heat and mass transfer, high performance computing.
Turbine blade vibration, magnetic bearings, active vibration control, sliding mode control, robust control, neural network.
Kinematics, biomechanics, mechatronics, robotics, machine vision, unmanned aircraft.
Molecular dynamics simulations on reactive and nonreactive systems; applications to combustion, catalysis and material failure.
Multiphase transport, batteries, and fuel cells.
Computational fluid dynamics, turbulent combustion, soot formation, numerical methods, uncertainty quantification.
Combustion/environmental science, combustion chemistry, heterogeneous combustion, materials synthesis, propellant combustion, combustion generated pollutants, atmospheric plume chemistry and chemical processing.
The faculty listed above regularly teach for the Penn State World Campus Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering program. View the complete Department of Mechanical Engineering Faculty and Staff directory.
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