Curators' Distinguished Professor
271 Toomey Hall
Guidance, stability, control and estimation, pattern recognition, stochastic processes, optimization, neural network applications to control, numerical methods and design.
Department Chair of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
194I Toomey Hall
Air Pollution Control, Algae, Algal Bio-fuels, Alternative Fuel, Bio-reactor, Biodiesel, Blue-Green Algae, Coal, Energy, Gassification of Coal and Biomass, Leadership Development, Mechanical Engineering, Power Generation, Shale and Shale Energy
Professor/Director of Center for Aerospace Manufacturing Technologies
573-341-6559 | dbristow@mst.edu |
292C Toomey Hall
Dynamic modeling and control of micro- and nano-positioning systems, atomic force microscopes and additive manufacturing systems; volumetric error compensation; iterative learning control, multi-dimensional control, and signal processing.
Curators' Distinguished Professor
573-341-4587 | chandra@mst.edu |
188 Toomey Hall
Composite materials, smart structures, nanocomposites, biocomposites, structural dynamics, finite element analysis, damage monitoring, composite manufacturing and experimental characterization.
Curators' Distinguished Professor
573-341-6504 | dharani@mst.edu |
333 Toomey Hall
Aircraft structures, fracture mechanics, fatigue and failure analysis; micromechanics; composite materials and structures; process modeling of ceramic matrix composites; friction and wear of composites; and fracture of laminated glazing.
Assistant Professor
573-341-4373 | dongxi@mst.edu |
290D Toomey Hall
Mechanics and microstructural evolution of advanced manufacturing and materials processing, multiscale modeling of materials by bridging first-principles calculations, molecular dynamics simulations, and finite element methods, materials design and manufacturing processes of composites and ceramics, relationships between the microstructure, properties, and processing of materials.
Curators' Distinguished Teaching Professor
573-341-4710 | drallmei@mst.edu |
194I Toomey Hall
Combustion, laser based diagnostics for sprays and combustion, optical
measurement systems, fuel injection, and internal combustion engines.
Associate Professor
573-341-6516 | gaojie@mst.edu |
229 Toomey Hall
Nanophotonics devices based on silicon photonics, plasmonics and metamaterials; Light-matter interactions in photonic nanostructures; Optical sensing; Quantum dots; Quantum optics and quantum information processing; solar energy harvesting; light emitting devices
Assistant Professor
573-341-4337 | handao@mst.edu |
131 Toomey Hall
Plasma aerospace applications; Space propulsion; Plasma-material interactions; Plasma physics and rarefied gas dynamics; High-performance computing
Associate Professor
573-341-6622 | khoman@mst.edu |
329 Toomey Hall
Fluid dynamics, heat transfer, and thermodynamics of energy systems. Heat and mass transfer in buoyant flows, second-law and exergy analysis, numerical simulation of transport phenomena and experimental methods.
Professor
573-341-7239 | hosders@mst.edu |
290B Toomey Hall
Computational aerodynamics/aerothermodynamics, hypersonic flows and technologies, uncertainty quantification, planetary entry/descent/landing of spacecraft, computational fluid dynamics, aerodynamic shape optimization, robust design, numerical methods.
Associate Teaching Professor
573-341-4086 | rhutch@mst.edu |
209 Interdisciplinary Engineering Building
Design theory and methodology, complex systems design and vehicle dynamics.
Professor
573-341-4604 | isaac@mst.edu |
233B Toomey Hall
Fluid dynamics, aero-structure interaction and control, active flow control, unmanned air vehicles (UAV), electrochemical magnetohydrodynamics-based microfluidics, CFD simulation of transport phenomena.
Professor
573-341-6601 | koyluu@mst.edu |
290A Toomey Hall
Conventional Energy (combustion, IC engines, coal power plants, fluid and heat transport), Alternative Energy (characterization of solid oxide fuel cells, modeling of fuel cells, hydrogen technologies, alternative fuels, clean coal technologies), Environmental Science & Technology (air pollutants, particulates, measurement techniques), Various Fields (synthesis of nanoparticles, laser diagnostics, fire safety, thermal engineering)
Professor
573-341-4495 | kkrishna@mst.edu |
280 Toomey Hall
System dynamics, control, robotics, and neurotechnologies.
Associate Teaching Professor
573-341-7215 | nkwtb@mst.edu |
129 Toomey Hall
Nonlinear Dynamics and Vibrations, study of deterministic and random dynamical systems, model order reduction, theoretical modeling and numerical computation and structural dynamics.
Curators' Distinguished Professor
573-341-4586 | landersr@mst.edu |
279A Toomey Hall
Modeling, analysis, monitoring, and control of manufacturing processes (metal cutting, wire saw machining, friction stir welding, laser metal deposition, freeze–form extrusion fabrication, glass direct energy deposition, and selective laser melting), estimation and control of electrochemical alternative energy systems (hydrogen fuel cells and advanced batteries) and electro–hydraulic systems, and digital control applications.
Bailey Professor
272 Toomey
Rapid prototyping, additive manufacturing, intelligent manufacturing, virtual reality, CAD/CAM, robotics, mechatronics and automatic control.
Bytnar Professor/Director of Manufacturing Engineering Program
292B Toomey Hall
Metal additive manufacturing process design, modeling, integration, monitoring, and control; CAD/CAM.
Assistant Teaching Professor
573-341-6027 | meeksw@mst.edu |
233A Toomey Hall
Professor/Director of Product Innovation and Creativity Center
573-341-4298 | midha@mst.edu |
186 Toomey Hall
Mechanical design, rigid-body and compliant mechanism design, high-performance machinery analysis and design, machine vibration and stability.
Assistant Professor
573-341-4543 | wmdnw@mst.edu |
337 Toomey Hall
Associate Professor & Associate Chair for Mechanical Engineering
573-341-6499 | nisbett@mst.edu |
194E Toomey Hall
Kinematics, mechanical design and synthesis of mechanisms.
Professor
573-341-4695 | okafor@mst.edu |
327 Toomey Hall
Manufacturing including machining, metalforming, machine tool dynamics, acoustic emission, sensors and signal processing, CNC, CAD/CAM, machine tool metrology, neural network and expert system applications; smart structures including intelligent health monitoring and damage assessment of composite structures; non-destructive evaluation.
Associate Professor
573-341-4699 | parkjonghy@mst.edu |
127 Toomey Hall
Advanced li-ion battery, beyond li-ion battery, energy storage system, renewable energy system, grid energy storage, nano, macro-mechanics of materials, self-assembly of nanoparticles, nanostructure, multiphysics, multiscale experiment and simulation.
Professor of Aerospace Engineering and Dean’s Educator Scholar
573-341-6749 | pernicka@mst.edu |
331 Toomey Hall
Astrodynamics, orbital mechanics, spacecraft design, spacecraft mission design, satellite attitude dynamics, nonlinear analysis, dynamics and control, optimization.
Assistant Teaching Professor
573-341-4709 | mpuopolo@mst.edu |
290C Toomey Hall
Associate Chair of Aerospace Engineering/Curators' Distinguished Teaching Professor
573-341-6684 | rigginsd@mst.edu |
184 Toomey Hall
Fluid dynamics, computational fluid dynamics, hypersonic propulsion systems, computational analysis of jet mixing, flow losses and mixing enhancement in combustors, aircraft gas turbine ramjet propulsion systems, and scramjet performance.
Assistant Teaching Professor
573-341-6026 | schmidtjb@mst.edu |
292E Toomey Hall
Design theory, materials and structures, educational research.
Assistant Professor
573-341-4371 | songyun@mst.edu |
292D Toomey Hall
Physical Human-Robot Interaction (pHRI), Physical Human-Human Interaction (pHHI), Human Movement Assistance, Rehabilitation Robotics, Wearable Devices, Energy-Harvesting from Human Movement, Design and Instrumentation of Medical Devices.
Associate Professor
573-341-4084 | stutts@mst.edu |
282 Toomey Hall
Dynamics, vibrations, modeling and development of piezoactuators and transducers-mechatronics, mechanics of bone, design of orthopedic implants, structural dynamics, optimal design and acoustics.
Assistant Professor
233C Toomey Hall
Aiming at the utilization of environment-friendly and alternative fuels in future power generation, fuel processing and emission control, Dr. Sui's main research interests are catalytic combustion, coupling of hetero-/homogeneous thermochemical processes, and the related computational methods and experimental diagnostics.
Associate Professor
573-341-4636 | wancheng@mst.edu |
133 Toomey Hall
Fluid dynamics, micro/nano-scale heat and mass transport, interfacial phenomena, micro/nanofluidics, bioMEMS, lab-on-a-chip, micro/nano-fabrication, bubble dynamics, droplet dynamics, acoustics, acoustic streaming, electrohydrodynamics, electrokinetics, and multi-phase flow.
Vice Provost and Dean
573-341-4778 | wlezien@mst.edu |
305 McNutt
Associate Professor
573-341-6273 | yangxia@mst.edu |
227 Toomey Hall
Optical materials and devices in nanophotonics and plasmonics; Physics and applications of optical metamaterials; Nanoscale optomechanics, optical nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS); Integrated optofluidic devices and optical sensors; Photon management for solar/thermal energy harvesting; Optical device micro-/nano-fabrication.
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