Participating Faculty
(based on their expressed interest)
Name |
Area of Expertise |
Mechanical Engineering |
|
Delcie Durham |
Environmentally benign design and manufacturing from process technologies to product systems, design for sustainability and innovative product realization, total material life cycle management systems, interdisciplinary research in organizational models, leading collaborative teams |
Ashok Kumar
|
Deposition and microstructural characterization of coatings for multifunctional applications, sensor technology, microelectronics/MEMS technology, nanostructured materials, structure/property (electronic, magnetic, mechanical) relationship in thin film, analytical characterization techniques of surface and thin film |
Alex Volinsky |
Adhesion, thin films, nanoindentation |
Civil & Environmental Engineering |
|
Maya Trotz |
Sustainability, environmental biogeochemistry, community engagement |
Jeff Cunningham |
Physical-chemical processes, water supply and treatment infrastructure |
James Mihelcic |
Sustainability, issues of water scarcity and other global stressors on water & sanitation infrastructure, engineering education |
Abdul Pinjari |
Transportation planning and travel demand modeling, econometric modeling of travel behavior, integrated land-use travel demand modeling; sustainable transportation |
Amy Stuart
|
Environment and health, air quality modeling, environmental justice, sustainability |
Daniel Yeh |
Water and wastewater treatment, membrane technology, green buildings |
Sarina Ergas |
Water and wastewater treatment, biological processes, water scarcity |
Qiong Zhang |
Sustainability and green engineering, water supply and treatment, embodied energy modeling. |
Yu Zhang |
Air Transportation, transportation network, modeling and operations, transportation economics and planning, freight transportation, transportation sustainability |
Chemical Engineering |
|
Norma Alcantar |
Green materials for water and energy processes |
Yogi Goswami |
Energy conversion, renewable energy, photocatalytic air and water disinfection |
Aydin Sunol |
Supercritical fluids, green chemistry, pollution prevention |
Electrical Engineering |
|
Sylvia Thomas |
Thin films, semiconductor materials |
