The School of Engineering has a long tradition of faculty who are
leaders in their respective disciplines. Two of the most prestigious
distinctions a faculty member can achieve are the National Science
Foundation Early Career Award and membership in the National Academy
of Engineering.
| National Academy of Engineering Members |
| Name |
Title |
Research Areas |
Civil and Environmental
Engineering |
| Ricardo
Dobry » |
Professor, Director, Geotechnical Centrifuge Research
Center |
Geotechnical earthquake engineering. |
Chemical Engineering |
| Georges
Belfort» |
Russell Sage Endowed Professor of Chemical and
Biological Engineering |
Membrane separation processess; adsorption processes;
biocatalysis; and bioseparations. |
Decision Sciences &
Engineering Systems |
| Daniel
Berg» |
Institute Professor |
The relationship of technology and the service
sector: management of technological organization, innovation,
policy, manufacturing strategy, robotics, policy issues of research
and development in the service sector. |
| James
Tien» |
Professor and Dept Chair |
Systems modeling, queueing theory, public
policy, decision analysis, information systems, expert systems
and computational cybernetics. |
Mechanical, Aerospace &
Nuclear Engineering |
| George
J. Dvorak» |
Professor |
Mechanics of solids, composite materials
and structures, fracture and fatigue. |
|
Richard
T. Lahey, Jr.» |
The Edward E. Hood Professor of Engineering |
Multiphase flow and heat transfer technology,Nuclear
reactor thermal-hydraulic and safety technology. |
National Science Foundation Early Career Award* |
| Name |
Year Received :: Title |
Research Areas |
Biomedical Engineering
|
|
Natacha DePaola» |
1996 :: Professor |
Biofluids and Cellular Bioengineering |
Chemical Engineering |
| Steven
Cramer» |
1989 :: Professor |
Displacement Chromatography, Optimization
of Preparative Chromatography, Molecular Modeling of Chromatographic
Selectivity, High Throughput Screening, Chromatography on
a Chip, Environmental Research |
| Shekhar
Garde» |
2001 :: Associate Professor |
Molecular thermodynamics and simulation of
biological systems, statistical mechanics of liquids, solvation
phenomena, water structure |
Civil and Environmental Engineering |
| Jacob
Fish» |
1992 :: Professor |
Computational mechanics, finite element methods,
micromechanics, mathematical modeling. |
| José
Holguín Veras» |
2001 :: Associate Professor |
Information technology and information systems
to support model building and enhance decision making; Large
scale optimization techniques to model equilibrium of markets
and transportation networks; and Integration of transportation
economics principles into transportation modeling. |
| James (Chip) Kilduff |
2000 :: Associate Professor |
Application of membrane and adsorption processes
to potable water and industrial wastewater treatment. |
| Marianne
Nyman» |
2001 :: Assistant Professor |
Fate (and transport) of hydrophobic organic
compounds (HOCs) in natural and engineered systems, aquatic
chemistry, method development for HOCs, sorption/desorption
processes, abiotic degradation of HOCs, modeling and mass
spectrometry |
| Michael D. Symans |
1996 :: Associate Professor |
- Structural Dynamics
- Earthquake Engineering
- Seismic Protection Systems
- Smart Structures
|
| Mourad Zeghal |
2000 :: Assistant Professor |
Soil dynamics and goetechnical earthquake
engineering, computational geomechanics, geo-technical system
identification and seismic response monitoring, damage diagnosis
and nondestructive evaluation, and seismic risk analyses.
|
Decision Sciences and Engineering Systems |
| Wan Kin “Victor” Chan» |
2007 :: Assistant Professor |
Developing better computer simulation methodologies to improve systems from healthcare to military operation and airport security. |
Electrical, Computer and Systems Engineering |
| Alhussein Abouzeid» |
2006 :: Assistant Professor |
Wireless networks |
| Murat
Arcak» |
2003 :: Assistant Professor |
Intelligent control, robotics and automation |
| Partha Dutta |
2001 :: Assistant Professor |
Solid State Physics, Electronic Engineering Design,
Optoelectronics, Semiconductor Materials Growth, Processing
and Devices, Photonics,
Nanotechnology, Free Space Optical Communication |
| W.
Randolph Franklin» |
1984 :: Associate Professor |
Intelligent Control, Robotics and Automation
Engineering Education and Interactive Learning |
| Richard
Radke» |
2003 :: Assistant Professor |
Image and video processing, computer vision, pattern
recognition, synthetic video, watermarking, neural networks |
| Biplab
Sikdar» |
2004 :: Assistant Professor |
"Immunization" techniques to safeguard
against the spread of computer viruses |
Materials Engineering |
| Daniel Gall » |
2007 :: Professor |
Gall's research is on nitrides, building highly specialized arrays of nanopipes and nanorods. The research will use two distinct techniques for controlling the nanostructure form: glancing angle deposition and low-energy ion-assisted growth. |
|
Pawel Keblinski» |
2001 :: Associate Professor |
Computational atomic and mesoscopic-level
modeling, structure property relationships, metals, covalent
materials, ionic ceramics |
| Ganapathiraman
Ramanath» |
2000:: Associate Professor |
Thin film processing, characterizing the sequence,
kinetics and atomistic mechanisms of interfacial reactions,
phase transformation, and microstructural evolution in thin-film
structures during deposition and annealing |
| Linda
S. Schadler» |
1994 :: Professor |
Polymer and glass matrix composites, micromechanical
behavior, strains and interference properties, micro-Raman
spectroscopy, environmental effects |
Mechanical, Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering |
| Kurt
S. Anderson» |
1998 :: Associate Professor
|
Multibody dynamics, parallel computing, vehicle
dynamics. |
| Thierry
A. Blanchet» |
1994 :: Associate Professor |
Tribology, solid lubrication, surface science,
contact mechanics. |
| Theodorian Borca-Tasciuc» |
2003 :: Assistant Professor |
Nanoscale/ Microscale Heat Transfer and Thermal
Phenomena, Micro-Electro-Mechanical-Systems (MEMS), Nanotechnology,
Energy Conversion |
| Kenneth
E. Jansen» |
1999 :: Associate Professor |
Computational mechanics, parallel computing,
computational fluid dynamics. |
| Nikhil
Koratkar» |
2004 :: Assistant Professor |
Synthesis of carbon nanostructures, and their
integration into multi-scale structural systems. |
| Antoinette
M. Maniatty» |
1993 :: Associate Professor |
Continuum mechanics, mechanics of materials
|
| Daniel
Walczyk» |
1998 :: Associate Professor |
Rapid tooling, environmentally conscious design,
machine design. |
| Xie
George Xu» |
1999 :: Associate Professor |
Health/medical physics instrumentation and
dosimetry, 3-D medical imaging and biomedical simulation,
Monte Carlo radiation transport, environmental health physics |
| This
list includes earlier versions of the NSF Early Career Award:
Principal Young Investigator; Young Investigator; Early Career
Development Award; Young Investigator Award
|
