Research
The departmental laboratories contain diverse modern equipment and instruments, permitting a varied experimental program. These include laboratories for automatic controls and systems engineering, fluid power and fluids, automotive engineering, computer-aided design and manufacturing, dynamics and vibration, materials science, composite materials, smart structures, robotics, thermal sciences, computational and experimental fluid dynamics, turbulence, aerodynamics, aerothermodynamics, propulsion, flight dynamics, guidance, navigation, and control.
The faculty are engaged in the following disciplinary reserach areas:- DESIGN, MANUFACTURING & MULTIDISCPLINARY OPTIMIZATION
- P. Aswath Synthesis, processing and characterization of ceramic
- B. Chudoba Aircraft design synthesis
- C. Harris
- N. Michael Electronic materials, integrated circuit interconnect technolog
- R. Kumar Computational fluid dynamics and heat transfer
- C. Luo Design, modeling and fabrication of nanosystems and biomicrosystems
- R. Woods Dynamic systems, modeling and simulation, control system, automotive engineering
- DYNAMIC SYSTEMS & CONTROL
- A. Bowling Multibody dynamics, control, robotics and biomechanics
- A. Dogan Nonlinear control, stochastic control, Monte Carlo simulation
- B. Harris Global Positioning System (GPS) and GPS receiver performance, spacecraft systems engineering
- D. Hullender Machine vibration and stress analysis, hydraulic pneumatic and mechanical systems design and analysis,
- P. Shiakolas Robotics automation, application of robotics for industrial processes
- K. SubbaraoNonlinear and robust adaptive control, dynamical systems theory
- B. Dennis Computation fluid dynamics; multidisciplinary design optimization
- Z. Han Computational fluid dynamics and heat transfer;
- F. Lu Fluid dynamics, shock and viscous phenomena, aerodynamic heating, jets and sprays
- L. Maddalena Hypersonic air-breathing propulsion; Injection, mixing and combustion in high-speed flow
- L. Massa Combustion, Detonation, Propellant, Hypersonic flows, flow stability,
- D. Wilson Gas dynamics, aerospace propulsion systems, high-speed aerodynamics
- STRUCTURAL MECHANICS & OPTIMIZATION
- A. Adnan Nanoscale phenomena and multiscale analys
- E. Armanios Computational solid mechanics, analysis, testing and design of composite structures
- W. Chan Composite structure design, mechanics of composite materials
- D. S. Dancila Solid mechanics; composite and smart materials/structure
- H. Huang Optical fiber sensor, structural health monitor
- K. Lawrence Stress and vibration analysis, structural analysis, structural dynamics
- A. Makeev Composite and metallic materials, structural methods
- S. Nomura Micromechanics, composite materials, applied mathematics
- B. Wang Finite element analysis, structural optimization
- B. Yang Micro/nanomechanics of defects
- THERMAL SCIENCE & ENERGY SYSTEMS
- D. Agonafer Electronic packaging, heat transfer
- A. Haji-Sheikh Heat transfer analysis in conduction, convection, and radiation,
- A. Jain Microscale energy conversion, microscale heat transport,
- D. Kim Turbo machinery aerodynamics, Modeling and system dynamics
- H. Moon Micro/nanosciences, BioMEMS/BioNEMS
- D. Shin Nano/mirco-scale heat transfer phenomena, advanced nanomaterial
- A. Tong Spray combustion, numerical modeling of heat transfer and fluid flow
- R. Wimberly Advanced dynamics, flight cynamics, heat transfer, transpiration cooling