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MAE Faculty & Staff
MAE Faculty
James E. Bryan, Assistant Professor, Ph.D. (Texas A&M University), E2404C Lafferre Hall, 882-7384.
Areas of interest:
Two-phase heat transfer; microscale, MEMS, and macroscale applications with emphasis on electrohydrodynamic/electrostatic force enhancement/control and novel enhanced surface development. Microscale transport; fluid pumping, flow
control, and convection enhancement applications with emphasis on electrohydrodynamic/electrostatic force enhancement/control. Thermal systems; design, enhancement, and control (performance and manufacturing process). Email
address: BryanJe@missouri.eduJK Chen
, William and Nancy Thompson Professor, Ph.D. (Purdue University), E2410 Lafferre Hall, 882-8159. Areas of interest: Ultrashort laser-material interaction, Nano- to
micro-scale to continuum modeling, Thermomechanical damage, Computational mechanics, Composite materials and structures, Impact and penetration mechanics, Fracture mechanics. Email address: ChenJnK@missouri.edu
Uee Wan Cho, Associate Professor, Ph.D. (Brown University), E2404A Lafferre Hall
, 882-3778.
Areas of interest: Solid and applied mechanics, materials science, structural and stress analysis, creep, plasticity, and continuum damage mechanics. Email address: ChoU@missouri.edu
A. Sherif El-Gizawy, Professor, Ph.D. (University of Waterloo, Canada), E3408 Lafferre Hall, 882-6641.
Areas of interest:
Manufacturing design, process modeling, integrated computer aided manufacturing, and expert systems applications in manufacturing. Email address: ElgizawyA@missouri.edu
Roger Fales, Assistant Professor, PhD (Iowa State University). E3415 Lafferre Hall, 884-1564.
Areas of interest:
Controls, dynamics, off-highway machinery, and fluid power.
Email address: FalesR@missouri.edu
Frank Z. Feng, Professor, Director of Graduate Studies, Ph.D. (University of Minnesota), E2413A Lafferre Hall, 884-4624. Areas of interest: Dynamics and Control. Nonlinear dynamics in energy transfer and instabilities, vibration control and acoustics for noise suppression, damping characteristics of shape memory alloys, acoustic levitation of bubbles and drops, geometric methods and chaos in dynamical systems, microelectrical/mechanical systems (MEMS). Email address: FengF@missouri.edu
Sanjeev K. Khanna , Associate Professor, Ph.D. (University of Rhode Island), E3412 Lafferre Hall, 884-9109. Areas of interest: Design of welded structures and welding engineering; experimental stress analysis; optical mechanics; residual stress measurement; dynamic and quasi-static fracture of monolithic and composite materials; materials characterization; integration of mechanics, design, and manufacturing into the undergraduate curriculum. Email address: KhannaS@missouri.edu
Craig A. Kluever, Professor, Ph.D. (Iowa State University), E3414
Lafferre Hall, 882-6764.
Areas of interest: Guidance and control of aerospace vehicles, orbital mechanics, spacecraft and mission design, and trajectory optimization. Email address: KlueverC@missouri.edu
Hao Li, Assistant Professor, Ph.D. (
Stevens Institute of Technology), E2404B Lafferre Hall, 884-5510.
Areas of interest: Mechanical, electrical, and biomedical
properties of nanostructured materials, i.e. cabon nanotubes, SiC nanowires, and hydroxyapatite nanofibers; template based nanofabrication; thin films and coatings; surface engineering; chemical vapor deposition; self assembly;
ceramic micro/nano composites; bone cements, biomimetic nanocomposites, and scaffolds for tissue engineering. Email address: LiHa@missouri.edu
Yuyi Lin, Associate Professor, Ph.D. (University of California-Berkeley), PE, E3409 Lafferre Hall, 882-7505. Areas of interest: Dynamics and control
of mechanisms, flexible structures and robots, CAD/CAM.
Email address: LinY@missouri.edu
Stephen J. Lombardo, Associate Professor, Ph.D. (University of California-Berkeley), W2025 Lafferre Hall, 884-1644. Areas of interest: Binder removal by thermal methods, supercritical extraction of binder, synthesis and processing of ceramics for capacitor applications, high voltage capacitors, sintering of ceramics and high temperature reactions, strain mismatch in ceramic processing, particle dynamics in ceramic forming operations, and ceramic membranes. Email address: LombardoS@missouri.edu
Hongbin Ma
, Associate Professor, Ph.D. (Texas A&M University), E3407 Lafferre Hall, 884-5944.
Areas of interest: Microscale heat transfer and flow process, micro heat pipes, semiconductor refrigeration,
high heat flux cooling, thin film deposition, rapid cooling for high-power microelectronic devices, experimental heat transfer. Email address: MaH@missouri.edu
Noah Manring, Glen A. Barton Professor of Fluid Power, Electrical & Computer Engineering Dept. Chair, Ph.D. (Iowa State University), 349 Engineering Building West, 882-6387. Areas of interest: Mechanics, dynamics, controls, design and fluid power. Email address: ManringN@missouri.edu
Steven P. Neal, Associate Professor, Ph.D. (Iowa State University), E3401 Lafferre Hall, 882-3026.
Areas of interest: Ultrasonic characterization of engineering and biomaterals, and solid mechanics.
Email address: NealS@missouri.edu
P. Frank Pai, C. W. LaPierre Professor, Ph.D. (Virginia Tech), PE, E2403C Lafferre Hall, 884-1474.
Areas of interest: Computational structural mechanics, composite and smart
structures, structural health monitoring, nonlinear finite elements, deployable structures, modern nonlinear dynamics, and large deformation processing. Email address: PaiP@missouri.edu
Douglas E. Smith, Associate Professor, Ph.D. (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), E2402 Lafferre Hall, 884-6552. Areas of interest: Development of finite element methods for simulation-based design, inverse analyses and computational biomechanics with a focus on design sensitivity analysis, multidisciplinary analysis and optimization, and reliability-based design. Applications include polymer and composites processing, heat treatment, structural optimization, bone remodeling and muscle simulation; and include theoretical development, computer implementation and industrial application. Email address: SmithDoug@missouri.edu
Gary L. Solbrekken, Assistant Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies, Ph.D. (University of Minnesota), E2411A Lafferre Hall, 882-5577. Areas of interest: Thermal design at all scales, development of thermal/fluid measurement systems, thermal management of electronic equipment, solid state energy conversion, and alternate energy generation strategies. Email address: SolbrekkenG@missouri.edu
Robert Tzou , J. C. Dowell Professor, Chairman, Ph.D. (Lehigh University), E2412A Lafferre Hall, 882-4060. Areas of interest: Microscale heat transfer, thermal lagging in ultrafast mircoelectronic/photonic devices, rapid thermal processing and modeling, anomalous diffusion in amorphous media, thermal control in rapid material processing, effective thermomechanical properties in composites, thermal and strain localization in high-speed penetration, thermomechanical interaction in fracture. Email address: TzouR@missouri.edu
Richard T. Whelove, Resident Instructor, M.Ed. (University of Missouri-Columbia), E3402 Lafferre Hall, 882-2092. Areas of interest: Engineering graphics. Email address: WheloveR@missouri.edu
Robert A. Winholtz , Associate Professor, Ph.D. (Northwestern University), E3410 Lafferre Hall, 882-6322. Areas of interest: Residual stresses, neutron and x-ray measurement of residual and applied stresses, composite and two phase materials. Email address: Winholtz@missouri.edu
Qingsong Yu, Assistant Professor, Ph.D. (University of Missouri-Columbia), W2010 Lafferre Hall, 882-8076. Areas of interest: Low-temperature plasma processing, plasma diagnosis, thin-film deposition, material surface modification and interface engineering, corrosion protection, polymer nanocomposites, plasma sterilization, bio- and biomedical materials, tissue engineering, electrochemical biosensors, and heat transfer nanofluids. Email address: YuQ@missouri.edu
Yuwen Zhang
, Associate Professor, Ph.D. (University of Connecticut), E3411 Lafferre Hall, 884-6936.
Areas of interest: Phase change heat transfer, transport phenomena in powder and/or gas based Solid Freeform Fabrication (SFF), heat
and mass transfer analysis associated with heat pipe science and technology, microscale heat transfer. Email address: ZhangYu@missouri.edu
Research
Vitaly E. Gruzdev, Research Assistant Professor, Ph.D. (S.I.Vavilov State Optical Institute, Russia), E2403B Lafferre Hall, 882-7292. Areas of interest: Physics of condensed matter, physics of solids, laser interactions with solids, laser engineering and optics, laser methods of material processing, laser methods of remote measurements and control. Email address: GruzdevV@missouri.edu
Nam-Jung Kim, Research Assistant
Professor, Ph.D. (University of North Carolina), E2403B Lafferre Hall, 882-7292. Areas of interest: Synthesis of nanoporous films with lattice ordering through self-assembly,
characterization of degraded lattice structures due to various thermal heating, silicon matrix-embedded nano clusters and quantum dots with high densities, diffusion measurement on multi-connected nano-pore channels, design and
development of patterned nanosized reactors with different scales.
Email address: KimNa@missouri.edu
MAE Staff
Department Office
Pat Frees, Administrative Associate I, E2412 Lafferre Hall, 882-9569
Email address: FreesP@missouri.edu
Graduate Office
Melanie Gerlach, Administrative Assistant, E2413 Lafferre Hall, 882-2085
Email address: GerlachM@missouri.edu
Undergraduate Office
Cynthia Irsik
, Sr. Secretary - Undergraduate Program, E2411 Lafferre Hall, 882-2684
Email address: IrsikC@missouri.edu
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