College Mourns Loss of Associate Professor Desheng "Dennis" Meng
College Mourns Loss of Associate Professor Desheng "Dennis" Meng
Friday, January 8, 2016
Funeral services will be held on Saturday, January 16, from 10:30 a.m.-Noon at
New Life Gospel Church
2488 Meadowglen Dr.
Lewisville, TX 75067
"On behalf of The University of Texas at Arlington and the College of Engineering, we extend our deepest condolences to Dr. Meng's family, friends and students. He had already made his mark within the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department, and his contributions to the department and to the College will be missed," said Khosrow Behbehani, dean of the College of Engineering.
Meng joined UTA's College of Engineering in January 2014. He specialized in scalable micro and nano manufacturing for energy, sustainability and biomedical applications, microbial electrolysis cells (MECs), microfluidic encapsulation for self-healing materials, drug delivery and 3D-printable tissue engineering.
He led the Multi-Scale Energy Systems Laboratory, working on various research projects related to scalable micro- and nanotechnology for energy, sustainability and biomedical applications. His research was funded by NSF, ACS, US DoE, among others, and resulted in papers published in ACS Nano, Soft Matter, JMM, Langmuir and Microfluidics and Nanofluidics. His papers earned honors such as "IOP select", "JMM Highlight of 2011" and "Top Ten most-read Soft Matter articles", and he presented in top MEMS conferences such as IEEE-MEMS '10 and Transducers '09.
Prior to UTA, Meng worked at Michigan Technological Institute from 2007-13, achieving the rank of associate professor. He was a postdoctoral research assistant at UCLA from 2005-07.
Meng earned his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from UCLA in 2005, and won the Outstanding Ph.D. Award. He earned his master of science degree in precision instruments from Tsinghua University in 2001.
He is survived by his wife and two daughters.