First name,Last name,Preferred title,Overview,Position,Department,Individual
Sai,Lau,Professor,I have research interests in internal turbine blade cooling with and without rotation; local convective heat transfer with naphthalene sublimation technique and heat and mass transfer analogy; local convective heat transfer with steady and transient methods using thermochromic liquid crystals; heat transfer enhancement for single phase convection and boiling; heat exchangers; electronic package cooling; and conjugate heat transfer.,Professor,Mechanical Engineering,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n01799b2e
Meinhard,Schobeiri,Professor,"Our research at TPFL covers a wide range of topics dealing with all aspects of aero-thermodynamic design and development of turbomachinery, particularly turbine components. This includes steady and unsteady aerodynamics, heat transfer, film cooling, and design and off-design performance of power and thrust generation gas turbines.",Professor,Mechanical Engineering,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n01e0e333
Alan,Palazzolo,Professor,"I have research interests in Rotordynamics, Magnetic Bearings, Active Vibration and Noise Control, Fluid Film Bearings, Vibrations, Finite and Boundary Elements, Seal and Impeller Leakage Flow, Piping Systems, Machine Design, Flywheels, Machinery Couplings, Expert Systems, Microgravity Vibration Isolation, Electromechanical Systems, CFD flow in pumps and compressors, Heart pumps (VAD), drillstring vibration, and RO desalination.",Faculty Affiliate||Professor,Mechanical Engineering||Energy Institute,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n04155d20
Robert,Ambrose,Professor,,Professor,Mechanical Engineering,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n0d67adc3
Eric,Petersen,Professor,"My laboratory specializes in the study of combustion, gas dynamics and propulsion. We conduct experiments and analyses on reacting flows, chemical kinetics, and shock waves for applications ranging from advanced propellants and rockets to optical diagnostics and gas turbine engines.",Faculty Affiliate||Professor||Director,Mechanical Engineering||Energy Institute||The Turbomachinery Laboratory,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n11d4d7de
Bryan,Rasmussen,Professor,"Our research is focused on using advanced control strategies to achieve higher energy efficiency, reduced environmental impact, and increased performance for conventional and alternative energy systems. We take a holistic approach to research by incorporating modeling, simulation, design, and experimental evaluation into each project.",Professor||Faculty Affiliate,Mechanical Engineering||Energy Institute,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n1d013ed4
David,Claridge,Professor,I conduct research focusing on energy efficiency in buildings. He works to improve the existing building commissioning process and continues to improve methods used for measurement and verification of energy savings in buildings. I am also developing a disruptive refrigerant-free air conditioner technology.,Professor||Faculty Affiliate,Mechanical Engineering||Energy Institute,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n20ba9fc0
Yassin,,Distinguished Professor,,Professor||Professor and Head||Faculty Affiliate,Mechanical Engineering||Energy Institute||Nuclear Engineering,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n24b7e601
Ying,Li,Professor,"The research in our laboratory focuses on advanced materials and processes for sustainable energy and clean environment. Our group is specialized in synthesis of nanomaterials and multifunctional materials, catalysis and photocatalysis, carbon capture and conversion, natural gas utilization, solar photochemical and thermochemical processes, rechargeable batteries, membrane technology (wastewater treatment, desalination, drinking water purification), and aerosol engineering. For example, we have designed multifunctional nanomaterials to catalytically convert CO2 and water to syngas under solar irradiation, which can be further processed to produce liquid fuels. We also perform advanced microscopic and spectroscopic studies to understand materials properties, interfaces and surface chemistry.",Faculty Affiliate||Professor,Mechanical Engineering||Energy Institute,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n2b854905
Sivakumar,Rathinam,Professor,"My research focuses on motion planning and control of autonomous vehicles, collaborative decision making, combinatorial optimization, vision based control and air traffic control.",Professor,Mechanical Engineering,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n2ea41614
Julie,Schoenung,Professor,,Professor||Professor,Mechanical Engineering||Materials Science and Engineering,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n36199010
Arun,Srinivasa,Professor,"My research focuses on plasticity of metals and polymers; thermomechanics of dissipative processes, dislocation dynamics, Cosserat continua, design and dynamics of compliant mechanisms.",Professor||Faculty Affiliate,Mechanical Engineering||Institute for Engineering Education and Innovation,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n3b0f1d01
Thomas,Lacy,Professor,"Dr. Lacy is interested in multifunctional composite materials for extreme environments, multiscale modeling, hypervelocity impacts, durability and damage tolerance.",Professor,Mechanical Engineering,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n3dd53311
Ali,Erdemir,Professor,"Dr. Erdemir's research group focuses on bridging scientific principles with engineering innovations towards the development of new materials, coatings, and lubricants for a broad range of cross-cutting applications in manufacturing, transportation and other energy conversion and utilization systems where further increases in efficiency, reliability, and environmental sustainability are of primary objectives. His group specifically strives to unravel key/underlying mechanisms that control friction and wear at the most fundamental levels and develop more advanced surface layers and interface chemistries providing superlubricity and/or super high-hardness as well as extreme resistance to wear, corrosion, fatigue and other types of degradations under harsh operational and environmental conditions.",Professor,Mechanical Engineering,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n41eadb10
Hong,Liang,Professor,,Faculty Affiliate||Professor||Affiliated faculty,Mechanical Engineering||Energy Institute||Materials Science and Engineering,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n4923e41d
Luis,San Andres,Mast-Childs Chair Professor,"Our research focuses on experimentally verified computational film flow models for the prediction of the static and dynamic force response of fluid film bearings; in particular hydrostatic bearings, tilting pad bearings, annular pressure seals, squeeze film dampers, floating ring bearings, gas damper bearings and seals, foil gas bearings and porous-carbon bearings.",Professor,Mechanical Engineering,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n700381b6
Srikanth,Saripalli,Professor,"Our research focuses on Simulation, Localization, Guidance, Navigation and Control for Unmanned Vehicles. Our projects span from algorithmic design and implementation to field experimentation of aerial and ground robots.",Professor,Mechanical Engineering,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n75f9fb6a
Raymundo,Arroyave,Professor,"Dr. Arroyave obtained his BS degrees in Mechanical and Electrical Engineering from the Instituto Tecnol?gico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (M?xico) in 1996. He got his MS in Materials Science and Engineering in 2000 and his PhD in Materials Science in 2004 from MIT. After a postdoc at Penn State, he joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University in 2006. He is currently a Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and holds courtesy appointments in the Departments of Mechanical Engineering and Industrial and Systems Engineering
Dr. Arroyave's area of expertise is in the field of computational materials science, with emphasis in computational thermodynamics and kinetics of materials. He and his group use different techniques across multiple scales to predict and understand the behavior of inorganic materials (metallic alloys and ceramics). The techniques range from ab initio methods, classical molecular dynamics, computational thermodynamics as well as phase-field simulations. Dr. Arroyave's group recent focus has been on simulation and data-enabled materials discovery and design in a wide range of contexts, including Additive Manufacturing.
Dr. Arroyave has been co-author of more than 250 publications in peer-reviewed journals, 20 conference proceedings as well as close to 120 conference papers and >130 invited talks in the US and abroad. He is the recipient of several awards, including NSF CAREER Award (2010), TMS Early Career Faculty Fellow (2012, Honorable Mention), TMS Brimacombe Medal (2019), ASM Fellow (2020), Acta Materialia Silver Medal (2023). He has been named Texas A&M Presidential Impact Fellow (2017) and Texas A&M University System Chancellor EDGES Fellow (2019). He currently holds the Segers Family Dean's Excellence Professorship.
He is an Associate Editor of Materials Letters, Integrating Materials and Manufacturing Innovation (IMMI) and the Journal of Phase Equilibria and Diffusion. He is involved in ASM and TMS, having served as Chair of the ASM Alloy Phase Diagram Committee, Chair of the TMS Functional Materials Division as well as member of the Board of Directors of TMS. He has chaired or co-chaired more than 20 symposia and has been the lead organizer and co-organizer of several international conferences.",Faculty Affiliate||Professor||Professor||Professor||Faculty Affiliate,Mechanical Engineering||Energy Institute||Materials Science and Engineering||Industrial and Systems Engineering||Institute for Engineering Education and Innovation,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n763870af
Gholamreza,Langari,Professor and Head,"My research focuses on Computational Intelligence, Mechatronics, Dynamic Systems and Control, Robotics and Automation, Autonomous Vehicles, Fault Diagnosis and Identification (FDI), and Rehabilitation Robotics.",Professor||Faculty Affiliate||Professor and Head,Mechanical Engineering||Engineering Technology and Industrial Distribution||Energy Institute,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n7e6289f4
Prabhakar,Pagilla,Professor,"My research focuses on Modeling and control of roll-to-roll manufacturing systems, robotics/mechatronics, autonomous vehicles, and large-scale nonlinear dynamic systems.",Associate Department Head||James J. Cain Professor II||Professor,Mechanical Engineering||Mechanical Engineering||Mechanical Engineering,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n86b54519
Jerald,Caton,Professor,"My research focuses on internal combustion engines, modeling engine and combustion processes, reducing pollutant emissions, studies of nitric oxide formation and removal, selective non-catalytic (SNCR) and catalytic (SCR) nitric oxide removal technologies, cogeneration, combined cycles, gas turbine power plants, alternative fuels; thermodynamics, heat transfer, fluid mechanics and fundamental and applied combustion topics.",Professor,Mechanical Engineering,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n86b569a4
Dara,Childs,Professor,,Professor,Mechanical Engineering,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n8d4671a1
Xudong,Zhang,Professor,"My research centers on modeling, analysis, and simulation of the human musculoskeletal system and its multi-scale structures and components during functional, particularly dynamic activities. The overarching goal is to advance the musculoskeletal biomechanical science bases and applications in healthcare and human-machine systems engineering.",Professor||Professor,Mechanical Engineering||Industrial and Systems Engineering,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n93a0024f
Michael,Pate,Professor,My areas of energy expertise are broad and I am open to pursuing research in new energy areas.,Professor,Mechanical Engineering,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/na13bcb3a
Daniel,Mcadams,Professor,"I have research interests in design theory and methodology with specific focus on functional modeling; innovation in concept synthesis including computational methods; bio-inspired design methods; design for disability, and technology evolution as applied to product and system design.",Professor,Mechanical Engineering,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/na3b0e649
Anastasia,Muliana,Professor,"My research focuses on analytical, numerical, and experimental approaches in areas of structural and computational mechanics, i.e. nonlinear and time dependent constitutive material modeling, thermal stress analysis, contact and damage modeling, delamination crack growth in laminated composites, micromechanics of composite materials and structures, multi-scale material modeling, modeling nanoindentation tests, large-scale nonlinear structural analysis, numerical and finite element modeling, neural network simulations in engineering.",Professor,Mechanical Engineering,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/na7c94682
Pablo,Tarazaga,Professor,"My research focuses on the general areas of structural dynamics, vibration, testing, adaptive structures and smart materials.
Structural Dynamics
Our work focuses on several aspects of structural dynamics such as modeling, vibration suppression, vibro-acoustics, nonlinear systems, testing (environmental) and validation. Our work strongly focuses on bridging the theoretical and experimental field in order to provide well-validated and trustworthy systems. Our testing labs feature several distinct capabilities such as non-contact measurements, SIMO and MIMO capabilities, large shakers, non-contact excitation, and ground isolation platforms.
Adaptive Structures
By adaptive structures we refer to structures that have the ability to adapt, evolve or change their properties or behavior in response to the environment around them. Much of this work is accomplished with domain-coupled material such as piezoceramics and shape memory alloys and use much of the techniques we use in structural dynamics to achieve, for example, high precision control and structure integration in a native way.
Smart Infrastructure
As founder and co-Director of the Virginia Tech Smart Infrastructure Laboratory, I have led a team focused on research in topics that utilize sensor information to improve the design, monitoring and daily operation of civil and mechanical infrastructure as well as to investigate how humans interact with the built environment. This work features the fully instrumented Goodwin Hall with over 240 accelerometers through the building.",Professor||Associate Department Head of Research and Strategic Initiatives||James J Cain ‘51 Faculty Fellow,Mechanical Engineering||Mechanical Engineering||Mechanical Engineering,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/naa07d17f
James,Hubbard Jr,"Oscar S. Wyatt, Jr. '45 Chair I Professor","Professor Hubbard's research interest include smart or adaptive structures, real-time shape control of both structures and optical systems, space/time filter design for control of distributed parameter systems, morphing aircraft, multi-rotor drone aircraft control, autonomous vehicles and associated systems. More recently he is pursuing quantum decision making and cognition for human-robot teaming, BCI and HMI.",Professor,Mechanical Engineering,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nb5d77a83
Debjyoti,Banerjee,Professor,"My research focuses on thermo-fluidics fundamentals (multi-phase flows, boiling-condensation, phase change materials; thermal management); micro/ nanotechnology (scanning probe lithography, nanosynthesis), nanofluids, MEMS (micro-electro-mechanical-systems), microfluidics, nanofluidics, confined fluids (shale-oil/ non-conventional reservoirs, hydraulic fracturing); energy-water nexus, thermal energy storage/ concentrated solar power, molten salt nanofluids; numerical simulations: network models/ lumped systems models, Finite Elements Analyses (FEA), Computational Fluids/ Heat Transfer (CFD/CHT), Molecular Dynamics (MD).",Member||Faculty Affiliate||Professor||Faculty Affiliate,Engineering Education Research Taskforce||Mechanical Engineering||Energy Institute||Institute for Engineering Education and Innovation,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nbc853099
Mark,Balas,Professor,,Professor,Mechanical Engineering,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nc0a24d92
M Cynthia,Hipwell,Professor,"ensors, actuators, materials and metrology based upon nanoscale and surface phenomena. Nanoscale energy transport and tribology of devices. Advanced additive manufacturing: two component mixture printing, voxel level material property control, mechanical bioprinting enablers. Innovation business processes, technology and technology platforms to speed the innovation process.",Faculty Affiliate||Professor,Mechanical Engineering||Institute for Engineering Education and Innovation,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nc253a16d
Timothy,Jacobs,Professor,"My research focuses on internal combustion engines, in-cylinder combustion and emission formation processes, fundamental experimental diagnostics and investigations, advanced and novel combustion processes (low temperature combustion, homogenous charge compression ignition, premixed compression ignition), alternative fuels (natural gas, bio-based fuels, hydrogen), aftertreatment systems and their coupling to IC engines (LNT, SCR, DOC, DPF).",Co-Director||Professor||Faculty Affiliate,Mechanical Engineering||Energy Institute||Institute for Engineering Education and Innovation,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nca61ede1
Sharath,Girimaji,"Professor and Head, Holder of Wofford Cain Chair II",,Professor and Head||Professor||General Dynamics Professor,Mechanical Engineering||Aerospace Engineering||Ocean Engineering,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nd4bcc96b
Swaroop,Darbha,Gulf Oil / Thomas A Dietz Professor,"My research focuses on Advanced Vehicular Control and Diagnostic Systems, Motion planning and control of Unmanned Vehicles, Decision making under uncertainty, Control System Design",Professor||Professor (Courtesy)||Professor (Courtesy),Mechanical Engineering||Ocean Engineering||Industrial and Systems Engineering,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/ned1cd589
Jaime,Grunlan,Professor,"Broadly speaking, our research is focused on polymers and nanocomposites with protective properties that rival metals and ceramics, while maintaining beneficial polymer mechanical behavior. We are particularly interested in the development of multifunctional surfaces prepared using the layer-by-layer assembly and polyelectrolyte complexation. Nearly everything we produce is water-based and sustainable polymers and nanoparticles are also important. We are very active in gas/moisture barrier for food packaging and environmentally benign flame retardant treatments for foam, fabric, wood, etc. Heat shielding for hypersonics, antimicrobial, and anti-corrosion coatings are also of interest.",Faculty Affiliate||Professor||Professor||Professor,Mechanical Engineering||Energy Institute||Materials Science and Engineering||Chemistry,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nf6b135dd
Alan,Needleman,Professor,,Professor||Professor,Mechanical Engineering||Materials Science and Engineering,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nf96717b5
Enrique,Lavernia Borrego,Professor,Synthesis and behavior of nanostructured and multi-scale materials with particular emphasis on processing fundamentals and physical behavior.,Professor||Professor,Mechanical Engineering||Materials Science and Engineering,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nfd1d10da