Affiliated Researchers: Engineering

Sanaz M. Takaghaj

Assistant Teaching Professor in Engineering Design (Behrend)

Hanrui Zhang

Huanyu "Larry" Cheng

Associate Professor and Dorothy Quiggle Career Development Professor in Engineering, Engineering Science and Mechanics
Top research keywords: Stretchable, Silicon, Laser-Induced Graphene, Surface (Surface Science), Composite Material

Lauren McPhillips

Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Top research keywords: Stormwater, Greenhouse Gas Emission, Denitrification, Methane, Solar Farm

Kai Wang

Assistant Research Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
Top research keywords: Cyanides, Gold, Chromium, Plastics, Corrosion

Susan Sinnott

Department Head and Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
Top research keywords: Molecular Dynamics Simulation, Density, Surface (Surface Science), Carbon Nanotube, Computer Simulation

Felecia Davis

Associate Professor, Architecture
Top research keywords: Textile, Expression, Computational Textiles, Designer, Viewer

Venkatraman Gopalan

Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
Top research keywords: Ferroelectric Material, Thin Films, Domain Wall, Film, Lithium Tantalate

Mónica Medina

Professor, Biology
Top research keywords: Coral, Symbiodinium, Symbiont, Microbiome, Reef-building Corals

Joel Landry

Assistant Professor, John and Willie Leone Department of Energy & Mineral Engineering (EME)
Top research keywords: Biofuels, Land Market, Housing Market, Pork, Savings

David K. Hall

Assistant Professor, Aerospace Engineering
Top research keywords: Boundary Layer, Propulsion System, Transport Aircraft, Propulsor, Boundary Layer Ingesting

Nikhil Menon

Top research keywords: Automated Vehicle, Statistical Analysis, COVID 19 Epidemic, Transport, Transportation Network

Herschel Elliott

Professor, Agricultural & Biological Engineering
Top research keywords: Biosolids, Biosolid, Phosphorus, Soils, Manures

John Hellmann

Senior Associate Dean for Graduate Education and Research, College of Earth & Mineral Sciences
Top research keywords: Fibers, Sapphire, Fiber, Composite Materials, Float Glass

Azar Eslam Panah

Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Division of Engineering, Business & Computing (Berks)
Top research keywords: Vortex Flow, Vorticity, Airfoils, Leading Edges, Vortices

Mark Miller

Assistant Professor, Aerospace Engineering
Top research keywords: Reynolds' Number, Reynolds Number, Compressed Air Motors, High Reynolds Number, Tunnel

Kenji Uchino

Professor, Electrical Engineering
Top research keywords: Lead Zirconate Titanate, Ceramic, Ferroelectric Materials, Ceramics, Piezoelectric Ceramics

Stefan Thynell

Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Top research keywords: Thermolysis, Decomposition, Propellants, Radiation, RDX

Jennifer Wagner-Lawlor

Professor, Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Top research keywords: Utopian, Utopia, Utopian Literature, Literature, Narrative

Kenneth Brentner

Professor, Aerospace Engineering
Top research keywords: Rotors, Rotorcraft, Noise Prediction, Rotor, Acoustics

Daniel Haworth

Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Top research keywords: Flame, Turbulence, Radiation, Simulation, Probability Density Function

Vincent Meunier

Professor, Engineering Science and Mechanics
Top research keywords: Graphene, Nanoribbon, Density, Electronic Properties, Carbon Nanotube

Uday V. Shanbhag

Gary and Sheila Bello Chair Professor, Marcus Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
Top research keywords: Game, Nash Equilibrium, Variational Inequality Problem, Convex Optimization, Stochastic Optimization

Linxiao Zhu

Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Top research keywords: Radiative Heat Transfer, Near-field, Radiative Cooling, Near-field Radiative Heat Transfer, Thermal Radiation

Herschel Pangborn

Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Top research keywords: Predictive Control Model, Hierarchical Control, Zonotopes, Thermal Management System, Thermal Management

Robert D. Shannon

Associate Professor, Agricultural & Biological Engineering
Top research keywords: Peatland, Methane, Manure Application, Peatlands, Michigan

Andisheh Ranjbari

Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Top research keywords: Transport, Curb, Curbs, USA, Strategic Management

Yiqi Zhang

Associate Professor, Marcus Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
Top research keywords: Lead Time, Automated Vehicles, Connected Vehicle Systems, Situation Awareness, Takeovers

Mehrdad Mahdavi

Associate Professor, Computer Science and Engineering
Top research keywords: Harmony Search, Neural Network, Optimization Problem, Gradient Descent, Approximation (Algorithm)

Sven Schmitz

Professor, Aerospace Engineering
Top research keywords: Rotors, Rotor Hub, Compressed Air Motors, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Rotor

Chao-Yang Wang

William E. Diefenderfer Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Top research keywords: Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell (PEMFC), Proton-Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells, Gas Diffusion Layer, Direct Methanol Fuel Cell, Catalyst Layer

William Groves

Associate Professor, John and Willie Leone Department of Energy & Mineral Engineering (EME)
Top research keywords: Microsensor, Fatality, Surface Acoustic Wave, Sensor Array, Physiologic

Richard Yetter

Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Top research keywords: Combustion, Ignition, Burning Rate, Oxidizer, Flow Reactor

Roberto Fernández

Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Top research keywords: Earth Surface Sediment Transport, Siltation, Mississippi, Bedform, Plastic Pollution

Rongming Chu

Professor, Electrical Engineering
Top research keywords: Heterojunctions, AlGaN-GaN, Transistor, Heterojunction, GaN HEMT

Vikash Gayah

Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Top research keywords: Macroscopic Fundamental Diagram, Traffic Signal, Safety Performance, Urban Network, Traffic Network

Mary Frecker

Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Top research keywords: Compliant Mechanism, Actuation, Actuator, Topology Optimization, Minimally Invasive Surgery

Mark Horn

Professor, Engineering Science and Mechanics
Top research keywords: Thin Films, Film, Lithography, Oxide Compound, Vanadium

Margaret Byron

Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Top research keywords: Metachronal, Intermediate Reynolds Number, Reynolds' Number, Propulsion, Ctenophore

Daning Huang

Assistant Professor, Aerospace Engineering
Top research keywords: Hypersonic, Aerothermoelastic, Aerothermoelastic Analysis, Reduced Order Model, Hypersonic Flows