Mechanical Engineering

Faculty

Staff

External Advisory Board

Postdocs & Visitors

Graduate Students

Undergraduate Students

Graduate Alumni

Distinguished Alumni

Faculty

Erik K. Antonsson
Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Computer-aided engineering design, design of micro-electrical/mechanical systems, spatial computer vision

Kaushik Bhattacharya
Professor of Mechanics and Materials Science; Executive Officer for Mechanical Engineering
Continuum mechanics, mechanics of materials, phase transformations, shape-memory alloys, ferroelectrics, thin films

John F. Brady
Chevron Professor of Chemical Engineering and Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Fluid mechanics and transport processes; Complex and multiphase fluids

Christopher E. Brennen
Richard L. and Dorothy M. Hayman Professor of Mechanical Engineering; Undergraduate Option Representative for Mechanical Engineering
Applied fluid mechanics, two-phase flow, cavitation, turbomachinery, granular flow

Joel W. Burdick
Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Bioengineering; Deputy Director, Center for Neuromorphic Systems Engineering
Robotics, kinematics, mechanical systems

Jean-Lou Chameau
President; Professor of Civil Engineering, Environmental Science and Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering
Sustainable technology, environmental geotechnology, soil dynamics, earthquake engineering, and liquefaction of soils

Tim Colonius
Professor of Mechanical Engineering; Option Representative for Mechanical Engineering
Aeroacoustics, turbulence, computational fluid dynamics

	David G. Goodwin Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Physics Chemical vapor deposition of thin films, combustion synthesis of materials, thin film growth models, reacting flow simulation, optical diagnostics, diamond films
	Julia R. Greer Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Mechanical Engineering All things nano: experimental mechanics of nano structures, microstructure of nano-scale materials, micro-fabrication, and nano-scale plasticity

Melany L. Hunt
Professor of Mechanical Engineering; Vice Provost
Multi-phase flows, convective heat transfer

Nadia Lapusta
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Geophysics
Computational mechanics, fracture and frictional processes, mechanics and physics of earthquakes

Richard M. Murray
Thomas E. and Doris Everhart Professor of Control and Dynamical Systems
Feedback control systems

Michael Ortiz
Dotty and Dick Hayman Professor of Aeronautics and Mechanical Engineering
Solid mechanics, computational mechanics, nonlinear and failure processes in solids

Rob Phillips
Professor of Applied Physics and Mechanical Engineering; Option Representative for Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics (BMB)
Nano mechanics of materials including biological membranes and proteins, synthesis of atomistic and continuum perspectives

Guruswami Ravichandran
John E. Goode, Jr., Professor of Aeronautics and Mechanical Engineering;
Associate Director of the Graduate Aeronautical Laboratories; Option Representative for Aeronautics
Solid mechanics, fracture mechanics, computational mechanics, mechanical behavior of advanced materials

Ares J. Rosakis
Theodore von Karman Professor of Aeronautics and Mechanical Engineering; Director of the Graduate Aeronautical Laboratories
Solid mechanics, dynamic deformation and failure in modern monolithic materials and composite structures

Joseph E. Shepherd
C. L. "Kelly" Johnson Professor of Aeronautics and Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Explosions, deflagration, detonation, and shock waves

Yu-Chong Tai
Professor of Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and BioEngineering; Executive Officer for Electical Engineering
Micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS), micromachines, sensors/actuators, microfluidics, and biochips

Sandra M. Troian
Professor of Applied Physics, Aeronautics, and Mechanical Engineering
Micro/nano transport phenomena in liquid films and interfaces; biological flows and Marangoni stresses; micro/optofluidics; evanescent wave sensors; lithographic patterning of nanofilms

Visiting Faculty

Kenneth Pickar
Visiting Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Product development process optimization in rapidly changing design environments

Instructors

Jorge Cham

Curtis Collins

Emeritus Faculty

Allan J. Acosta
Richard L. and Dorothy M. Hayman Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Emeritus
Applied fluid mechanics, cavitation, turbomachines

Fred E. C. Culick
Richard L. and Dorothy M. Hayman Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Professor of Jet Propulsion, Emeritus
Combustion, active control of combustion dynamics, nonlinear acoustics, propulsion

Frank E. Marble
Richard L. and Dorothy M. Hayman Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Professor of Jet Propulsion, Emeritus
Combustion, fluid mechanics, propulsion

Fredric Raichlen
Professor of Civil Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, Emeritus
Coastal engineering, wave mechanics, wave breaking, run-up, harbor resonance, structure-wave interactions, and earthquake generated sea-waves (tsunamis)

Rolf H. Sabersky
Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Emeritus
Heat transfer, granular flow