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Office: 272 Ross Hall
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Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology 1966, Thermal and Mechanical Design; Energy Utilization/Optimization; Boiler/Steam System Design and Optimization; HVAC Design/Optimization; Safety. |
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Office: 354 Ross Hall
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Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, 1988, Virtual and physical machine prototyping; Design, simulation and construction of automatic machinery and mechanisms; Application to manufacturing equipment for composites and braiding machinery. |
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Office: 264 Ross Hall
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Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, 2001, Vehicle Dynamics, Navigation, and Control; Sensor fusion for navgiation and control (including GPS/INS); On-line state and parameter estimation (primarily for vehicle control). |
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Office: 268 Ross Hall
Class Pages: MECH-6210 |
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Ph.D, Mechanical Engineering, Iowa State University, 1987, Thermal management of electronics, phase-change heat transfer in microchannels, pool boiling, heat transfer enhancement, lost foam casting, gas turbines, solar energy, refrigeration, non-newtonian fluid mechanics, bio-energy, hybrid vehicles. |
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Office: 257 Ross Hall
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Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Louisiana State University, 1990, Energy utilization, boiler safety, novel applications of materials and processes. |
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Office: 348 Ross Hall
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Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, Technical University of Berlin, Germany, 1991, Architecture, design, analyses and controls of mechatronic, power source, power conversion system. (Hybrid system, Fuel cell system and Micro power device using new PZT materials, Ultra-high accurate position and speed controls of actuators). |
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Office: 360A Ross Hall
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Ph.D., Engineering Science/Acoustics, Liverpool University, 1969, Dynamical Properties of Composite Materials; Prediction of Noise and Vibration of Spacecraft at Launch; Acoustical Properties of Road Pavement Surfaces. |
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Office: 105 Ross Hall
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Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1988, Dynamics, vibration, and control of rotating machinery (including magnetic bearing controller development, simulation modeling, and experimental testing). Vibration analysis and testing of electronic systems (including electrical connectors, automotive electronic systems and components, and MEMS devices). |
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Office: 250 Ross Hall
Research: Auburn TherMal Management Laboratory (AuTherMML) |
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Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University, 1997, Thermal Management of ground based radars, space-based assets, and advanced propulsion systems; Waste Heat Recovery And Use Strategies; Heat pipe technology; Metal felt porous media as conformal wick structures for heat pipes; MEMS cooling technologies and micro-channel heat pipes. |
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Office: 254 Ross Hall
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Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, University of Illinois at U-C, 1986, Fluid Mechanics, Heat Transfer, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Materials Processing, Microfluidics, Experimental Fluid Mechanics. |
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Office: 103 Ross Hall
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Ph. D., Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2004, Multiscale (Macro, Micro and Nano) Tribology, Bearing Testing and Modeling, MEMS, Friction and Wear Fundamentals, Contact Mechanics, Hydrodynamic Lubrication, Bearing Dynamics, Electrical and Therma Contact Resistance. |
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Office: 346 Ross Hall
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Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Rice University, 1990; Oc.E. Ocean Engineering, MIT, 1981, Design methodology, propulsion system design, off-road vehicle dynamics, radiation and combined mode heat transfer, radiative materials properties. |
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Office: 266 Ross Hall
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Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas, 1986, Thermal Sciences, Thermal Issues in Electronics Packaging and Manufacture. |
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Office: 350 Ross Hall
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Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, 1993, Finite Element for Continua and Structures; Thermo-mechanics, Reliability and Life-Prediction of Electronics Failure-Mechanisms (including solder joints); Prognostics and Structural Health Monitoring of Electronic Structures; Transient Dynamics of Microcircuits and MEMS in Shock and Vibration; Multi-scale Modeling of NANO-Structures; High Strain-rate Constitutive Behavior of Electronic Materials; Models for Human Body Trauma and Injury. |
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Office: 344 Ross Hall
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Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, University of Kentucky, 1987, Development of mathematical/numerical models for the prediction of radiation scattering and absorption properties of small particles. Applications to radiation transfer in combustion environments and atmospheric radiative transfer, Investigations of particle formation in flames: predictions and measurement of the mechanisms which govern the growth of soot particles that are formed during hydrocarbon oxidation, Investigations of heat and mass transfer in rarefied/highly nonequilibrium conditions, using both continuum--based formulations and direct simulation molecular dynamics methods. |
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Office: 213C Ramsay Hall
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Ph.D., Mechanics & Hydraulics, University of Iowa, 1978, Engineering education, Motion capture. |
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Office: 109 Ross Hall
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Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, 1994, Mechanical Impact, Mechanisms and Robots, Nonlinear Dynamics. |
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Office: 301-D Dunstan Hall
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Office: 356 Ross Hall
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Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, India, 1977, Acoustics, Noise Control, Vibration, Non Destructive Evaluation, Engineering Education and Outreach, Technology transfer. |
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Office: 338 Ross Hall
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Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering (Wayne State University), 1977, Dynamics, Vibration and Control of Systems and Structures. Stability and bifurcation of Systems with Periodic Coefficients. Structural Stability under In-Plane Dynamic Loading, Symbolic and Computational Dynamics, Linear and Nonlinear Control of Parametrically Excited Systems, Applications to Vehicle dynamics, Rotor-Bearing Systems, Helicopter Blades, etc. |
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Office: 244 Ross Hall
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PhD, Engineering Mechanics, University of Wisconsin, 1985, Experimental Mechanics, Solid Mechanics, Advanced and Composite Materials, Finite Element Analysis and Computational Mechanics, Continuum Modeling, Electronic Packaging, Silicon Sensors, Solder Joint Reliability, Mechanics of Paper and Other Wood-Based Materials. |
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Office: 352 Ross Hall
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Ph.D., Physics, Case Western Reserve University, 1983, Electronic and nonlinear optical properties of novel organic conduction materials and molecular crystals. Photonic devices utilizing organic materials and microstructures. Organic single-crystal films, picosecond time-resolved measurements, nonconjugated conductive polymers, electro-optics, nano-optics and sensors. |
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Office: 262 Ross Hall
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Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, State University of New York (Stony Brook), 1988, Fracture and Failure Mechanics, Experimental Mechanics, Optical Metrology, Experimental and Numerical Modeling of Failure, High-Strain Rate and Impact Failure of Multiphase Materials (FRP and polymer blends, particulate composites, functionally graded materials, syntactic foams, nanocomposites, biocements). |
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Office: 201 Ross Hall
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Office: 1301 Shelby Center
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Ph.D., Materials Science, University of Wisconsin, 1981, Engineering education research & scholarship, high temperature materials for power conversion, sensing concepts, manufacturing processes. |
