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Jake Abbott
Professor
- Phone: (801) 585-6672
- Email: jake.abbott@utah.edu
- Office: 2676 MEK
- Lab: 2156 MEK
- Website: Magnetic & Medical Robotics Laboratory
Research Interests:
Magnetic Manipulation
Medical Robotics
Haptics and Teleoperation
Google Scholar Citations
Amirhossein Arzani
Associate Professor
- Email: amir.arzani@sci.utah.edu
- Office: 3616 WEB
- Website: Computational Biomechanics Group
Research Interests:
Scientific machine learning
Computational fluid dynamics (CFD)
Biofluid mechanics and transport
Dynamical systems
Cardiovascular biomechanics
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Vahid Azadeh Ranjbar
Assistant Professor (Research)
- Email: vahid.azadeh@utah.edu
- Office: 2467 MEK
Research Interests:
Large Language Models
Computer Vision
Microfluidic Devices
Design Automation
Stereo Digital Image Correlation
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A.K. Balaji
Associate Professor
- Phone: (801)587-7772
- Email: balaji@mech.utah.edu
- Office: 2155 MEK
- Lab: 0121 MEK
Research Interests:
Sustainable manufacturing
Interfaces between materials, mechanics, & manufacturing
Science of machining processes and modeling of machining performance
Design of advanced cutting tools
Agastya Balantrapu
Assistant Professor
- Phone: 801-581-3932
- Email: agastya.balantrapu@utah.edu
- Office: 1341 MEK
- Lab: Building 60; 1285 MEK
- Website: TRACE Lab
Research Interests:
Experimental fluid dynamics,
High Reynolds number turbulence,
Quantitative flow visualization techniques,
Aero/Hydro acoustics,
Insect navigation algorithms in natural flows,
Passive scalar dispersion in atmospheric flows.
Edoardo Battaglia
Assistant Professor
- Email: edoardo.battaglia@utah.edu
- Office: 1350 MEK
- Lab: 1333 MEK
- Website: https://hcharlab.mech.utah.edu/
Research interests:
Haptics
Grasping and Manipulation
Wearable sensing
User studies
Human-centered robot design
Human-robot interaction
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Marc Calaf
Associate Professor, Associate Chair
- Phone: (801) 587-3253
- Email: marc.calaf@utah.edu
- Office: 2547 MEK
- Lab: Bldg. 60
- Website: Wind Energy & Turbulence
Atmospheric Sciences and Turbulence
Hydrology
Fluid Mechanics
Wind Farms Physics
Google Scholar Citations
Jiyoung Chang
Associate Professor
- Phone: (801) 581-7400
- Email: jy.chang@utah.edu
- Office: 2557 MEK
- Lab: 1351 MEB
- Website: Wearable NEMS
Research Interests:
Wearable electronics
2-D materials
Multi-functional Near-field electrospinning
NEMS/MEMS
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Cristian Clavijo
Associate Professor (Lecturer)
- Email: c.clavijo@utah.edu
- Office: MEK 2550
Professor Clavijo teaches courses in engineering management and leadership along with classical mechanical engineering topics involving thermal fluids (heat transfer, fluid mechanics, thermodynamics). Professor Clavijo has about 10 years of industry experience working for Fortune 100/500 companies in the areas of medical devices and life sciences. He is a graduate of Becton Dickinson’s Technology Leadership Development Program and was a Staff Program Manager at Thermo Fisher Scientific. His research expertise is on droplet impingement dynamics on heated superhydrophobic surfaces.
Brittany Coats
Professor
- Pronouns: she/her/hers
- Phone: (801) 585-0586
- Email: brittany.coats@utah.edu
- Office: 2352 MEK
- Lab: 1430 MEB
- Website: Utah Head Trauma Lab
Research Interests:
Traumatic brain injury
Ocular mechanics
Soft tissue deformation
Computational models of injury
Blast trauma
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Michael Czabaj
Associate Professor
- Phone: (801) 585-6226
- Email: m.czabaj@utah.edu
- Office: 2571 MEK
- Lab: 2407 MEB
- Website: Utah Composites
Research Interests:
Fracture and fatigue of composite materials
Durability and damage tolerance of composite structures
Micromechanics of composite materials
3D imaging using X-ray computed tomography
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Ken d’Entremont
Professor (Lecturer)
- Phone: (801) 581-6766
- Email: k.dentremont@utah.edu
- Office: 1344 MEK
- Lab: 2215 MEB
Research Interests:
Product Safety—Consumer Products, Recreational Products, and Innovative Products
Vehicle Dynamics, Safety & Testing
Elham (Emma) Davoodi
Assistant Professor
- Email: e.davoodi@utah.edu
- Website: https://davoodilab.mech.utah.edu/
Research Interests:
3D Bioprinting,
Metal Additive Manufacturing,
Biofabrication,
Regenerative Medicine,
3D Printed Electronics
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M Dillon
Professor (Lecturer)
- Pronouns: they/them
- Phone: (801) 581-5032
- Email: m.dillon@utah.edu
- Office: 2543 MEK
- Lab: Bldg. 60
Research Interests:
Experimental fluid dynamics with an emphasis on pollutant dispersion, turbulent mixing, and high Reynolds number turbulent boundary layer physics.
Development of experimental techniques and sensors for fundamental fluid dynamic and atmospheric measurements.
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Todd Easton
Professor (Lecturer)
- Pronouns: he/him/his
- Email: todd.easton@utah.edu
- Office: 2340 MEK
Research Interests:
Mathematical optimization
Mathematical decision making
Analytics
Systems engineering
Engineering education
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Mark Fehlberg
Director of Graduate Studies, Associate Professor (Lecturer)
- Phone: (801) 585-9293
- Email: m.fehlberg@utah.edu
- Office: 1340 MEK
Manages the department admissions process, assists students with tuition benefit enrollment and course registration, provides student academic advising; and maintains student records. Coordinates administrative processes related to graduate student progress towards graduation.
Tianli Feng
Assistant Professor
- Email: tianli.feng@utah.edu
- Office: 3352 MEK
- Website: https://feng.mech.utah.edu/
Research Interests:
Heat Transfer
Energy
Atomistic Simulations
Machine Learning
Homepage
Google Scholar Citations
Mathieu Francoeur
Professor
- Phone: 801-585-5631
- Email: mfrancoeur@mech.utah.edu
- Office: 1543 MEK
- Website: Radiative Energy Transfer
Research Interests:
Radiation heat transfer
Nanoscale heat transport,
Photovoltaic and thermophotovoltaic energy conversion
Surface polariton coupling in nanostructures
Optical characterization
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Henry Fu
Professor
- Phone: (801) 581-4119
- Email: henry.fu@utah.edu
- Office: 2563 MEK
- Lab: 2532 MEB
- Website: Fluids and Biomechanics
Research Interests:
Low-Reynolds number hydrodynamics
Biomechanics and biophysics
Complex biomaterials
Microrobotics
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Bruce Gale
Dept. Chair, Merit Medical Systems Inc. Endowed Professor
- Phone: (801) 585-5944
- Email: bruce.gale@utah.edu
- Office: 1580 MEK
- Lab: 3800 SMBB
- Website: Utah Center of Excellence for Biomedical Microfluidics
Research Interests:
Microfluidics, MEMS, and nanotechnology applications in medicine and biology
Integrated microsystems for biomedical separations, sensing, and actuation
Micropumps, microvalves, and microsensors
Microscale DNA analysis systems
Google Scholar Citations
Sidney Green
Research Professor
- Phone: 801-556-8753
- Email: sgreen@xmission.com
- Website: sgreen@xmission.com
Member NAE
Research Interests:
rock mechanics-geomechanics subsurface applications, particularly for energy recovery, storage, and utilization
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James Guilkey
Research Associate Professor
- Phone: (801) 581-8709
- Email: james.guilkey@utah.edu
- Office: MEK 2558
Research Interests:
Computational Solid Mechanics and Fluid Structure Interaction
Mechanical Response of Multi-Cellular Constructs
Multi-Scale Simulation
Laura Hallock
Assistant Professor
- Email: laura.hallock@utah.edu
- Office: 2339 MEK
- Lab: 2019 MEK
- Website: Human–Robot Empowerment Lab
Research interests:
robotic assistance and rehabilitation
neuromusculoskeletal sensing
human–robot control interfaces
machine learning and system identification
Google Scholar Citations
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Todd Harman
Research Associate Professor
- Phone: (801) 585-5145
- Email: t.harman@utah.edu
- Office: 2556 MEK
Computational Fluid Dynamics and Fluid Structure Interaction
Supersonic flows
Large scale simulations
Xiaowei He
Assistant Professor
- Email: xiaowei.he@utah.edu
- Website: Flow Physics and Control
Research Interests:
Flow Control
Unsteady Aerodynamics
Flight Control
Experimental Methods and Facilities
Jacob Hochhalter
Associate Professor
- Phone: (801) 581-7727
- Email: jacob.hochhalter@utah.edu
- Office: 1352 MEK
- Lab: 1121 MEK
- Website: Materials Prognosis from Integrated Modeling & Experiment (M')
Research Interests:
Structural Materials
Finite Element Analysis
Digital Image Correlation
Uncertainty Propagation
Fatigue & Fracture
Google Scholar Citations
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Pedro Huebner
Associate Professor (Lecturer)
- Pronouns: he/him/his
- Phone: (801) 581-3225
- Email: pedro.huebner@utah.edu
- Office: 1346 MEK
Research Interests:
Systems and Industrial Engineering program development
Additive manufacturing
Tissue engineering and regenerative medicine
Jungkyu (Jay) Kim
Associate Professor
- Phone: (801) 581-6743
- Email: jkim@mech.utah.edu
- Office: 1157 MEK
- Lab: 0282 MEK / 1335 MEK
- Website: Biomedical Micro/Nano Systems
Research Interests:
Microengineered ocular systems
Heart valve-on-a-chip for mechanobiological studies
Microfabricated space instruments for life detection
Biosensors and Bioelectronics
Dynamics and control of biomedical systems
Point-of-care diagnostics for medical diagnostics
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Owen Kingstedt
Associate Professor
- Pronouns: he/him/his
- Phone: (801) 213-6975
- Email: o.kingstedt@utah.edu
- Office: 2573 MEK
- Lab: 2415, 2360 MEB
- Website: High Strain-Rate Mechanics of Materials
Mechanics of materials for extreme environments
Mutli-length and time scale experimentation
Interfacial effects on macroscopic properties
Dynamic fracture and failure of advanced materials
Google Scholar Citations
Kam K. Leang
Professor
- Phone: (801) 581-3450
- Email: kam.k.leang@utah.edu
- Office: 1348 MEK
- Lab: 1156 MEK
- Website: Dynamic Autonomous Robotics (DARC) Lab
Research Interests:
Dynamic systems and control
Autonomous systems and robotics
Nanopositioning
Electroactive materials
Mechatronics
Google Scholar Citations
Tommaso Lenzi
Associate Professor
- Phone: (801) 581-6231
- Email: t.lenzi@utah.edu
- Office: 3340 MEK
- Lab: 3333 MEK
- Website: HGN Lab for Bionic Engineering
Acting Director, Ergonomics and Safety Program, Rocky Mountain Center for Occupational and Environmental Health
Research Interests:
Wearable robotics
Biomechatronics
Robotic limb prostheses and exoskeletons
Rehabilitation engineering
Google Scholar Citations
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Mark Maier
Professor (Lecturer)
- Phone: 801-581-4774
- Email: mark.maier@utah.edu
- Office: 2552 MEK
Teaches Systems Architecting, Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE), and other systems topics. He brings over 30 years of aerospace industry experience in systems architecting and engineering, MBSE, and satellite design. He was previously a Technical Fellow at The Aerospace Corporation and is the author of “The Art of Systems Architecting” a standard textbook in the field and publications in systems-of-systems, satellite constellation design, architecture methods, and unconventional sensors.
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Debra Mascaro
Dir. of Undergrad Studies, Assoc. Prof. (Lecturer)
- Phone: (801) 581-7687
- Email: dmascaro@mech.utah.edu
- Office: 1560B MEK
Academic Advising
Lecturer
Stephen Mascaro
Associate Professor (Lecturer)
- Phone: (801) 581-7228
- Email: smascaro@eng.utah.edu
- Office: 1151 MEK
- Lab: 2028 MEK
- Website: Details
Research/Teaching Interests:
Robotics and mechatronics
System dynamics and control
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Mark A. Minor
Associate Professor
- Pronouns: he/him/his
- Phone: (801) 587-7771
- Email: mark.minor@utah.edu
- Office: 2153 MEK
- Lab: 2030 MEK
- Website: Robotic Systems
Research Interests:
Design, modeling, and control of mobile robots systems including ground based modular systems and under-actuated climbing robots. Key research topics include design optimization, motion planning, trajectory tracking.
Google Scholar Citations
Ken Monson
Associate Professor
- Phone: (801) 585-5191
- Email: ken.monson@utah.edu
- Office: 1155 MEK
- Lab: 4015 SMBB
- Website: Head Injury & Vessel Biomechanics
Research Interests:
Traumatic brain injury
Blast injury
Cerebral vessel mechanics and mechanotransduction
Solid mechanics
Dynamics
Google Scholar Citations
Hossein Montazerian
Assistant Professor
- Email: h.montazerian@utah.edu
- Website: biomintech.mech.utah.edu
Research Interests:
Biomaterials
Medical devices
Minimally Invasive Therapies
Micro and Nanotechnology
Bioelectronic Systems
Google Scholar Citations
Steven Naleway
Associate Professor
- Phone: (801) 581-6881
- Email: steven.naleway@mech.utah.edu
- Office: 2157 MEK
- Lab: 2415, 2360 MEB
- Website: Bioinspired Science and Engineering
Research Interests:
Bioinspired design
Biological material science
Biomedical Materials
Structural mechanics and materials
Google Scholar Citations
Pania Newell
Associate Professor
- Phone: (801) 213-3635
- Email: pania.newell@utah.edu
- Office: 1672 MEK
- Lab: 3656 MEK
- Website: Integrated Multi-Physics Laboratory
Research Interests:
Computational multiphysics analysis of coupled phenomena
Fracture analysis in multiphysics systems
Computational homogenization of heterogeneous materials
Constitutive modeling.
Google Scholar Citations
Alex Novoselov
Assistant Professor
- Phone: (801) 581-3810
- Email: alex.novoselov@utah.edu
- Office: 1342 MEK
- Lab: 1018 MEK
- Website: Numerical Turbulence, Energy, and Reactions Group
Research Interests:
Energy
Computational Fluid Dynamics
Reacting Flows
Turbulence
Shuaihang Pan
Assistant Professor
- Email: shuaihang.pan@utah.edu
- Office: 2339 MEK
- Website: Lab of Advanced Manufacturing
Research interests:
Advanced manufacturing
Additive manufacturing
Metal and alloy design
Materials' degradation protection
Google Scholar Citations
Eric Pardyjak
Professor
- Phone: (801) 585-6414
- Email: pardyjak@mech.utah.edu
- Office: 2580 MEK
- Lab: 1285 MEK, Bldg. 60
- Website: Environmental Fluid Dynamics
Research Interests:
Fluid mechanics
Atmospheric turbulence
Urban fluid mechanics
Stratified turbulence
Google Scholar Citations
Keunhan (Kay) Park
Associate Professor
- Phone: (801) 581-4260
- Email: kpark@mech.utah.edu
- Office: 2672 MEK
- Lab: 1361 MEB
- Website: Utah Nanoscale Thermal Transport (NT2) Lab
Research Interests:
Nanoscale energy transport and conversion processes
Nanostructure-based energy applications
Nanoscale thermophysical instrumentations
Tip-based nano-imaging and spectroscopy
Google Scholar Citations
Robert G. Parker
Professor
- Phone: (801) 581-6485
- Email: rob.parker@utah.edu
- Office: 2348 MEK
- Lab: MEK 2110
- Website: Dynamics & Vibrations
Research Interests:
Vibration, Dynamics, and Stability of High-speed, Gyroscopic Systems
Nonlinear Vibrations
Vibration of Cyclically Symmetric Systems
Ocean Wave Energy Harvesting
Google Scholar Citations
Erika Pliner
Assistant Professor
- Phone: 801-581-3685
- Email: erika.pliner@utah.edu
- Office: 2341 MEK
- Website: https://nobl.mech.utah.edu/
Research Interests:
Biomechanics
Neuromechanics
Fall Prevention
Occupational Safety
Balance Control
Ergonomics
Yongzhi Qu
Assistant Professor
- Phone: 801-581-3517
- Email: yongzhi.qu@utah.edu
- Office: 1343 MEK
- Lab: 1656 MEK
- Website: Utah Lab of Artificial Intelligence Powered Systems
Research Interests:
Artificial intelligence and dynamic systems,
AI – driven metrology,
Next-generation Digital Twins,
In-situ monitoring,
diagnostics and prognostics,
Autonomous manufacturing.
Google Scholar Citations
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Sameer Rao
Assistant Professor
- Phone: (801) 581-4163
- Email: s.rao@utah.edu
- Office: 2344 MEK
- Lab: 0121 MEK
Research Interests:
Multiscale heat & mass transfer
Energy conversion & storage
Water harvesting & purification
Thermal management
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Shad Roundy
Associate Professor, Associate Chair
- Phone: (801) 581-4304
- Email: shad.roundy@utah.edu
- Office: 1153 MEK
- Lab: 2240 MEB
- Website: Integrated Self-Powered Sensing
Research Interests:
Energy harvesting
Inertial sensing
Self powered wireless sensors
MEMS
Google Scholar Citations
Samira Shiri
Assistant Professor
- Email: samira.shiri@utah.edu
- Office: 1674 MEK
- Lab: 2337 MEK
- Website: Shiri Lab: Interfacial & Transport Physics
Research Interests:
High throughput experiments and data analysis
Underlying physics of active matter
Bioinspired materials and mechanism
Biophysics: forensic science
Ashley Spear
Associate Professor
- Phone: (801) 581-4753
- Email: ashley.spear@utah.edu
- Office: 2151 MEK
- Lab: 2121 MEK
- Website: Multiscale Mechanics & Materials
Research Interests:
Characterizing and simulating three-dimensional cracking in metallic structures
3-D finite element analysis
Concurrent multiscale modeling
Microscale characterization of metallic materials
High-energy X-ray diffraction microscopy (HEDM)
Google Scholar Citations
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Rob Stoll
Professor
- Phone: (801) 581-3405
- Email: rstoll@eng.utah.edu
- Office: 2346 MEK
- Lab: Bldg 60; 1285 MEK
Research Interests:
Fluid mechanics in the environment
Computational fluid dynamics
Large-eddy simulation
Atmospheric boundary layer
Land-atmosphere interactions
Google Scholar Citations
Scott Uhlrich
Assistant Professor
- Email: scott.uhlrich@utah.edu
- Website: Movement Bioengineering Lab (MoBL)
Research Interests:
Movement biomechanics
Neuro-musculoskeletal simulation
Mobile sensing (computer vision, wearables)
Machine learning
Rehabilitation engineering
Google Scholar Citations
Pai Wang
Assistant Professor
- Phone: (801) 581-4150
- Email: pai.wang@utah.edu
- Office: 2342 MEK
- Lab: 2335 MEK
- Website: Utah Waves & Architected Materials
Research Interests:
Wave mechanics
Architected materials
Phononic crystals
Acoustic metamaterials
Topological mechanics
Noise control and Vibration reduction
Acoustic Diagnostics and Therapeutics
Google Scholar Citations
Roseanne Warren
Associate Professor
- Phone: (801) 585-1758
- Email: roseanne.warren@utah.edu
- Office: 2553 MEK
- Lab: 1371 MEB
- Website: Advanced Energy Innovations
Research Interests:
Electrochemical energy storage
Photoelectrochemical water splitting
Atomic layer deposition
Carbon nanotubes
Transition metal oxides
Google Scholar Citations
Haohan Zhang
Assistant Professor
- Email: haohan.zhang@utah.edu
- Office: 2561 MEK
- Website: https://uwrl.mech.utah.edu/
Research Interests:
Design and Control of Wearable Robots
Assistive Technology and Rehabilitation
Physical Human-Robot Interaction
Sensorimotor and Biomechanics
Parallel Mechanisms