Dr. Sayantan Bhattacharya, Assistant Professor Phone: 240-665-6481
Office: USG, IV-3103; ENG 213
Email: sbhattac@umbc.edu
Research interests: Experimental fluid mechanics, volumetric measurement of complex flows, non-invasive velocimetry (PIV, PTV), uncertainty quantification in physical quantities (pressure, density, diffusion, echo-velocimetry), image analysis and segmentation, feature-based classification.
Dr. Keith Bowman, Constellation Professor of Information Technology and EngineeringPhone: (410) 455-3339
Office: ENGR 211
Email: kjb@umbc.edu
Team Ceramics Lab
Research interests: Materials science, advanced manufacturing, X-ray diffraction, mechanical and electromechanical properties, and fracture mechanics, sustainable production of materials, materials for energy applications, STEM education, STEM equity.
Mr. Adam Bridendolph, Assistant Teaching Professor and Undergraduate Program Director for Mechanical Engineering at the Universities at Shady GrovePhone: (410) 455-3300
Office: ENGR 225I
Email: abriden1@umbc.edu
Research interests: Automation, Mechatronic System Design, Robotics, Design for Manufacturing, Manufacturing for the future, Engineering Education, Instrumentation and Process Control, Control Systems.
Dr. Ruey-Hung Chen, Professor and ChairPhone: (410) 455-3313
Office: ENGR 210B
Email: chenrh@umbc.edu
Research interests: combustion, propulsion, pollutant emissions of combustion systems, heat and mass transfer, and fire retardation for composite materials.
Dr. Janelle P. Clark, Assistant ProfessorPhone: 410-455-6550
Office: ENGR 225C
Email: janelle.clark@umbc.edu
Research interests: human-robot interaction, rehabilitative and assistive robotics, haptic feedback, human haptic perception, wearable robotics, immersive environments.
Dr. Charles Eggleton, ProfessorPhone: (410) 455-3334
Office: ENGR 222
Email: eggleton@umbc.edu
Research interests: mechanical behavior of deformable particles including biological cells, the influence of hydrodynamic forces and applied external forces on cell behavior, effect of cell compliance on adhesion –detachment to substrates and other cells, kinetic properties of single intermolecular bonds at the nanoscale, and high throughput measurements of cell mechanical properties.
Dr. Alok Ghanekar, Assistant ProfessorPhone: 410-455-3304
Office: ENGR 225-E
Email: alokghanekar@umbc.edu
Research interests: Thermal radiative heat transfer, active metasurfaces and metamaterials, nanophotonics, radiative cooling, thermophotovoltaics and waste-heat recovery, phase-change materials, infrared signature management, HVAC and building energy systems.
Dr. Ankit Goel, Assistant ProfessorPhone: (410) 455-1176
Office: ENGR 216
Email: ankgoel@umbc.edu
Research interests: developing learning- and model-based techniques for control and estimation problems in cyber-physical systems using theoretical- and numerical simulation- based methods. Applications include inertial navigation, flight control of quadcopter and aircrafts, combustion control in hypersonic vehicles, control of unsteady flow, parameter estimation in dynamical systems, image reconstruction etc.
Dr. Soobum Lee, ProfessorPhone: (410) 455-3314
Office: ENGR 214
Email: sblee@umbc.edu
Research interests: energy harvesting (EH) device design, topology optimization, robust design, and reliability based design optimization.
Dr. Ye Lu, Assistant ProfessorOffice: ENGR 217
Email: yelu@umbc.edu
Research interests: Development of advanced numerical methods for predictive and fast modeling of multi-physics and multi-scale systems, development of novel reduced order modeling and scientific data-driven modeling techniques with application to multi-physics and multi-scale coupled manufacturing processes, such as welding and additive manufacturing (AM), detailed microstructural modeling of materials and AM-oriented topology optimization.
Dr. Ronghui Ma, ProfessorPhone: (410) 455-1965
Office: ENGR 215
Email: roma@umbc.edu
Research interests: heat, mass, and momentum transport in a wide range of applications including film growth for energy-efficient electronic devices, novel material processing for photovoltaic applications, and nanomaterials for treatment of cancer; material processing for energy-efficient electronic devices and low-cost photovoltaic facilities.
Dr. Deepa Madan, Associate ProfessorPhone: (410) 455-3307
Office: ENGR 221
Email: deemadan@umbc.edu
Research interests: composite and polymer thermoelectric materials and devices, rechargeable batteries, and additive manufacturing techniques.
Dr. Molly Mollica, Assistant ProfessorPhone: 410-455-1942
Office: ENGR 225L
Email: mollica@umbc.edu
Research interests: Biomechanics and mechanobiology, traction force microscopy, hemostasis and thrombosis, DNA nanotechnology, and engineering education.
Dr. Carlos Romero-Talamas, Associate ProfessorPhone: (410) 455-8049
Office: ENGR 212
Email: romero@umbc.edu
Research interests: interactions between materials, charged particles, and electromagnetic radiation; dusty plasmas and their applications in astrophysics to materials processing.
Dr. Karl V Steiner, Professor and Vice President for ResearchPhone: (410) 455-5636
Office: ITE 222
Email: steinerk@umbc.edu
Research interests: Computer Visualization, Image Analysis Methodologies, Robotic Haptic Simulations, Nondestructive Evaluation and Manufacturing Science; Composite Materials, Robotic Fiber Placement, Filament Winding, Resin Transfer Molding, Vacuum Assisted RTM; Ultrasonic NDE, Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Computer-Aided Tomography. Recent research interests are focused on Interactive Immersive Visualization Methodologies for the life sciences, primarily on Immersive Complex Multi-variant Data Analysis and on Biomedical Imaging with a focus on Virtual Surgery Simulations.
Dr. L. D. Timmie Topoleski, ProfessorPhone: (410) 455-3302
Office: ENGR 225K
Email: topoleski@umbc.edu
Research interests: Fundamental mechanisms of material behavior, creation and manufacture of new biomaterials, material surface modifications to prevent wear and corrosion, micro- and nano-structural modifications to increase fatigue and fracture resistance, structural and functional changes in human arteries resulting from aging.
Dr. Paris Von Lockette, ProfessorPhone: 410-455-3553
Office: ENGR 225H
Email: pvonlock@umbc.edu
Research interests: Soft robotics for biomedical, sensing/actuation, cilia locomotion, building environmental control, and other applications; nonlinear material/device design, modeling and optimization; design and applications of smart material technologies, especially electromagnetically-active composites and structures; rubbery materials; applied nonlinear mechanics and multiphysics modeling.
Dr. Joseph Washington, Assistant Teaching Professor, UMBC at the Universities at Shady GrovePhone: (410) 455-3300
Office: ENGR 225D
Email: jwashi2@umbc.edu
Research interests: Fundamental mechanisms of material behavior of biomaterials, structural and functional changes in human arteries due to aging or disease, fatigue modelling of elastin; injury consistency biomechanics and vehicle accident reconstruction.
Dr. TseHuai Wu, Professor of the PracticePhone: (410) 455-3309
Office: ENGR 218
Email: tsewu@umbc.edu
Research interests: Robotics, embedded systems, control system design, application of nonlinear control theory including guidance, navigation and estimation.
Dr. Meilin Yu, Associate ProfessorPhone: (410) 455-3398
Office: ENGR 219
Email: mlyu@umbc.edu
Research interests: Computational fluid dynamics, renewable energy harvesting, flapping wing aerodynamics, fluid-structure interaction, turbulent flow simulation, numerical optimization, transonic/supersonic flow, shock/flow discontinuity capturing techniques, non-hydrostatic atmospheric flow, biological flow, high-order methods, high performance computing, particle image velocimetry (PIV).
Dr. Liang Zhu, Professor and Graduate Program DirectorPhone: (410) 455-3332
Office: ENGR 220
Email: zliang@umbc.edu
Research interests: Magnetic nanoparticle hyperthermia, photothermal therapy using gold nanoshells/nanorods in cancer therapy, targeted brain cooling using an interstitial cooling device, using laser or heating catheters in bacterial disinfection in endodontics.
Dr. Weidong Zhu, ProfessorPhone: (410) 455-3394
Office: ENGR 225B
Email: wzhu@umbc.edu
Research interests: Dynamics, vibration, control, applied mechanics, structural health monitoring, and wind energy.
Support Staff
Connie Bailey, Academic Program Management SpecialistPhone: 410-455-3357
Office: ENGR 210D
E-mail: conniebailey@umbc.edu Howard Bihy, IT Support Specialist
Phone: 410-455-6350
Office: ENGR 229A
E-mail: hbihy@umbc.edu Hank Mink, Engineer Technician
Phone: 410-455-3625
Office: ENGR 110
E-mail: hmink@umbc.edu Christine Ricci, Administrative Assistant II, Operations
Phone: 410-455-2652
Office: ENGR 210C
E-mail: cricci1@umbc.edu Karen Roulette, General Assistant
Phone: 410-455-1409
Office: ENGR 210E
E-mail: roulette@umbc.edu
Emeritus Faculty
Dr. Shlomo Carmi, Professor Emeritus and Dean EmeritusPhone: (410) 455-3313
Office: ENGR 209
Email: carmi@umbc.edu
Research interests: Hydrodynamic stability and transition to turbulence, non-Newtonian fluid flow, heat and mass transfer, numerical methods and computer simulations, engineering education.
Dr. Panos Charalambides, Professor EmeritusPhone: (410) 455-3346
Office: ENGR 209
Email: panos@umbc.edu
Research interests: Mechanics of materials and micromechanics modeling, nonlinear material behavior, finite elements and computational mechanics in material research, theoretical and numerical considerations of the failure process in brittle and ductile materials, and fracture mechanics. Fiber composites, thin film decohesion and mechanics of interfaces. Laminated composites and delamination cracking. Biomechanics, Manufacturing processes and Fixturing.
Dr. Warren R. DeVries, Professor Emeritus and Dean EmeritusPhone: (410) 455-6767
Office: ENGR 209
Email: warrendv@umbc.edu
Research interests: Time series and system identification in manufacturing, modeling of material removal processes, design and analysis tools for flexible manufacturing.
Dr. Akhtar S. Khan, Professor EmeritusPhone: (410) 455-3301
Office: ENGR 209
Email: khan@umbc.edu
Research interests: Emerging materials (nanocrystalline metals and polymers), new metal alloys, constitutive modeling of finite plastic behavior at high strain rates and quasi‑static loading, and damage and failure modeling of composite materials and ceramics.
Dr. Uri Tasch, Professor EmeritusPhone: (410) 455-3305
Office: ENGR 209
Email: tasch@umbc.edu
Research interests: Relationships between locomotion abnormalities and neurological diseases and injuries; diagnostic technology to detect the presence and assesses the severity of (a)lameness in dairy cows, (b) muscular injury in animals and humans, and (c) neurological diseases [e.g. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS or Lou Gehrig’s disease), environmental (Parkinson’s) disease].
Dr. Christian VonKerczek, Associate Professor EmeritusPhone: (410) 266-5421
Office: ENGR 209
Email: kerczek@umbc.edu
Dr. Marc Zupan, Associate Professor EmeritusPhone: (410) 455-6822
Office: ENGR 209
Email: mzupan@umbc.edu
Research interests: Microscale specimen testing, engineered micro-architecture multifunctional material topologies, disparate phase materials, cellular solids, cork cellular solids, friction stir welding, carbon nanotube infused multi-length scale composites, ductile fracture and stress triaxiality effects on response.