Dr. Ronghui Ma, Associate Professor
Phone: (410) 455-1965
Office: ENGR215
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, Assistant Professor
Phone: (410) 455-3307
Office: ENG 221
Email: deemadan@umbc.edu
Research interests: composite and polymer thermoelectric materials and devices, rechargeable batteries, and additive manufacturing techniques.
Dr. Carlos Romero-Talamas, Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director
Phone: (410) 455-8049
Office: ENGR212
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 Research
Phone: (410) 455-5636
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, Professor
Phone: (410) 455-3302
Office: ENGR225K
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. Joseph Washington, Lecturer, UMBC at the Universities at Shady Grove
Phone: (410) 455-3300
Office: ENG 225
Email: jwashi2@umbc.edu
Dr. TseHuai Wu, Professor of the Practice
Phone: (410) 455-3309
Office: ENGR218
Email: tsewu@umbc.edu
Research interests: control system design for autonomous vehicles; application of nonlinear control theory including guidance, navigation and estimation.
Dr. Meilin Yu, Associate Professor
Phone: (410) 455-3398
Office: ENGR219
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
Phone: (410) 455-3332
Office: ENGR220
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,Professor
Phone: (410) 455-3394
Office: ENGR225H
Email: wzhu@umbc.edu
Research interests: dynamics, vibration, control, applied mechanics, structural health monitoring, and wind energy
Dr. Marc Zupan, Associate Professor
Phone: (410) 455-6822
Office: ENGR225L
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.
Adjunct Faculty
Dr. Rohan Banton
Phone: (410) 455-3300
Office: ENG 210
Dr. Soonwook Kwon
Phone: (410) 455-3300
Office: ENG 210
Email: skwon@umbc.edu
Research interests: Solid Mechanics, Composite Material, Fracture Mechanics, Finite Element Method, Fatigue and Failure, Random Vibration, Additive Manufacturing, and Green Composites.
Dr. George Piper
Phone: (410) 455-3300
Office: ENG 210
Email: piper@umbc.edu
Dr. Joshua Radice
Phone: (410) 455-3300
Office: ENG 210
Email: radice@umbc.edu
Dr. Maria Sanchez
Professor of the Practice
Phone: (410) 455-6324
Office: ITE 217H
Email: msanchez@umbc.edu
Research interests: Engineering Education, Optimal Teaching Methodologies for Engineering Education, Enhanced Use of Technology in Engineering Education, Accessibility of Engineering Education to Under-Represented Groups, Thermal-Fluids System Applications
Dr. Jin-Hyeong Yoo
Phone: (410) 455-3300
Office: ENG 210
Email: jinhyeon@umbc.edu
Emeritus Faculty
Dr. Shlomo Carmi, Professor Emeritus and Dean Emeritus
Phone: (410) 455-3313
Office: ENGR209
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. Warren R. DeVries, Professor Emeritus and Dean Emeritus
Phone: (410) 455-6767
Office: ENGR209
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. Uri Tasch, Professor Emeritus
Phone: (410) 455-3305
Office: ENGR209
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 Emeritus
Phone: (410) 266-5421
Office: ENGR209
Email: kerczek@umbc.edu