ME.UTEXAS.EDU - Key Persons
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- Member of Committee
- Senior Manager, Computational Science and Analysis
Ann Majewicz Fey completed B.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Electrical Engineering at the University of St. Thomas, the M.S.E. degree in Mechanical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University, and the Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University. Dr. Majewicz Fey joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering as an Associate Professor in August 2020, where she directs the Human-Enabled Robotic Technology Laboratory. She holds at courtesy appointment in the Department of Surgery and Perioperative Care at Dell Medical School and the Department of Surgery at UT Southwestern Medical Center. She is also a Core Faculty member with Texas Robotics. Previously, she was an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Texas at Dallas. She is an associate editor for the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters and has also been an associate editor for the IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems. She is a recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER award (2019) and the CRII award (2014). Her research interests focus on the interface between humans and robotic systems, with an emphasis on improving the delivery of surgical and interventional care, both for the patient and the provider. In addition to research, she is passionate about project-based learning at both undergraduate and graduate levels, centered on mechatronic system design.
Ashish D. Deshpande joined the Walker Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Texas in 2011 as an assistant professor and he was promoted to associate professor in 207. Dr. Deshpande received his Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 2007. He then completed a post-doctoral fellowship in the Neurobotics Laboratory at the University of Washington in Seattle. Dr. Deshpande is a recipient of the NSF-CAREER award.
At The University of Texas at Austin, Dr. Deshpande directs the Rehabilitation and Neuromuscular (ReNeu) Robotics Lab. The Lab focuses on the development of robotic devices, based on biomechanical analyses, to assist in rehabilitation, to improve prostheses design, and to provide fitness opportunities for the severely disabled. The study of underlying mechanisms of human movement control through human subject experiments and mathematical modeling is another major research area in the ReNeu Robotic Lab.
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- Administrative Program Coordinator
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- Administrative Associate for Ofodike Ezekoye
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- LM Fellow
- Member of Committee
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- Member of Committee
- Senior Technical Advisor
R. Fleury, D.L. Sounas, C.F. Sieck, M.R. Haberman, A. Alù, "Sound isolation and giant nonreciprocity in a compact acoustic circulator," Science, 343, pp.516-519, (2014). doi: 10.1126/science.1246957
M.D. Guild, A. Alù, M.R. Haberman, "Cloaking an acoustics sensor using scattering cancellation," Applied Physics Letters, 105(2), 023510, (2014). doi. 10.1063/1.4890614.
D.M. Correa, C.C. Seepersad, M.R. Haberman, "Mechanical design of negative stiffness honeycomb materials," Integrating Materials and Manufacturing Innovation, 4:10, 10 pgs,
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- Fellow in Mechanical Engineering at UT Austin
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- Events Program Coordinator
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- David Allen Cockrell Chair in Engineering, Cockrell Family Regents Chair in Engineering 7, Joe C. Walter, Jr. Chair in Engineering
- Professor
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- Chief Technology Officer - Global / EOS, GmbH
- Director of the Center for Additive Manufacturing and Design Innovation
- Member of Committee
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- Member of Committee
- Senior Manager, Space and Missile Systems / the Boeing Company
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- Human Resources Coordinator
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- Facility Director, Battery Fabrication and Testing Facility
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- Associate Professor
- Nuclear Engineering
Dr. Haas's research interests focus on radiation detection for nuclear arms control, non-proliferation, and advanced reactor design and licensing. This includes the fundamental physics of radioactive decay processes, fission yields, environmental transport of radionuclides, and detection techniques. Dr. Haas's research is primarily experimental and uses the 1.1 MW TRIGA Mark II reactor at The University of Texas at Austin. He is one of five surrogate inspectors from the United States for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty and is a technical advisor for U.S. nuclear arms control and non-proliferation policy development. He has also contributed to the analysis of the Fukushima nuclear reactor accident and nuclear tests in the Democratic Peoples' Republic of Korea.
Dr. Haas joined the faculty of The University of Texas after eight years at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory where he worked as a Senior Research Engineer in the National Security Directorate. He earned his bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees from UT Austin.
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- Associate Department Chair
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- Human Resources Coordinator
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- Department Chair
- Department Chair and Professor / Temple Foundation
A former professor at the University of Michigan and an internationally recognized computational materials scientist, Donald Siegel assumed the role of chair of the Walker Department of Mechanical Engineering in September 2021.
Dr. Dongmei "Maggie" Chen joined The University of Texas at Austin in January 2009. Previously, she was a Senior Control Algorithms Engineer at General Motors Fuel Cell Activities Center. Dr. Chen received her Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from The University of Michigan in 2006. Her B.S. was in precision instruments and mechanology from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. Dr. Chen's teaching and research interests are in the area of automatic control and dynamic systems. Her current research is focused on theories of optimal control, switching control, non-minimum phase systems and control, and reduced order modeling, with applications in automatic ground vehicles as well as energy systems, including integrated wind turbines, fuel cells, rechargeable batteries, energy storage flywheels, smart microgrids, and automatic drilling systems. Dr. Chen is a recipient of a 2011 National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award. She received a Best Paper in Session award at the 2012 ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference. She also received IEEE PES Prize Paper Awards in 2016. While in industry, Dr. Chen received a Powertrain Achievement Award in the Quest for Technical Excellence from General Motors and a company-wide nomination for Customer Driven Quality Award from The Ford Motor Company.Selected Publications
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- Professor
- Reese Endowed Professor in Engineering
- Reese Endowed Professor in Engineering / Department Research
Dr. Dale E. Klein rejoined The University of Texas at Austin in September of 2022, after serving eight and a half years as Presidential Appointee. Dr. Klein also served as the Associate Vice Chancellor for research at The University of Texas System from January 2011 through August 2022. Dr. Klein was sworn into the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission in 2006, and was appointed Chairman by President George W. Bush, serving in that role from July 2006 to May 2009. As Chairman, Dr. Klein was the principal executive officer and official spokesman for the NRC, responsible for conducting the administrative, organizational, long-range planning, budgetary, and certain personnel functions of the agency. Additionally, he had the ultimate authority for all NRC functions pertaining to an emergency involving an NRC licensee. The remainder of this term was as Commissioner of the NRC from May 2009 to March 2010.
Before joining the NRC, Dr. Klein served as the Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Nuclear, Chemical and Biological Defense Programs. He was appointed to this position by President George W. Bush and confirmed by the Senate in 2001. In this position, he served as the principal staff assistant and advisor to the Secretary of Defense, Deputy Secretary of Defense, and the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Technology for all policy and planning matters related to nuclear weapons and nuclear, chemical, and biological defense.
Previously, Dr. Klein served as the Vice-Chancellor for Special Engineering Programs at The University of Texas System and as a Professor in the Walker Department of Mechanical Engineering (Nuclear Program) at The University of Texas at Austin. During his tenure at the university, Dr. Klein was Director of the Nuclear Engineering Teaching Laboratory, Deputy Director of the Center for Energy Studies, and Associate Dean for Research and Administration in the College of Engineering.
Honors and awards Dr. Klein has received include Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the American Nuclear Society, Engineer of the Year for the State of Texas, the University of Missouri Faculty-Alumni Award, and the University of Missouri Honor Award for Distinguished Service in Engineering.
A native of Missouri, Dr. Klein holds a doctorate in nuclear engineering from the University of Missouri-Columbia. He has published more than 100 technical papers and reports, and co-edited one book. He has made more than 400 presentations on energy and has written numerous technical editorials on energy issues that have been published in major newspapers throughout the United States.
In addition to his academic assignments, Dr. Klein serves on the Board of two publicly traded companies: the Southern Company and the Board of Pinnacle West/Arizona Public Service Company. He also serves on the Committee for Nuclear Power in the United Arab Emirates and chairs the Nuclear Reform Monitoring Committee for the Tokyo Electric Power Company following the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident. Dr. Klein also serves on the Boards of two private companies: AVANTech and LATA (Los Alamos Technical Associates).
Dr. David G. Bogard earned his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Purdue University in 1982 and joined the faculty of The University of Texas at Austin that same year. He is affiliated with the Thermal/Fluid Systems research program. Dr. Bogard currently directs research programs in turbine blade cooling and advanced drag reduction techniques for turbulent wall flows. In April, 2002, Dr. Bogard was named the Outstanding Graduate Advisor at the University of Texas at Austin. He has published more than 130 technical articles and reports.
Dr. Donglei "Emma" Fan is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and a faculty member of the Materials Science and Engineering Program and the Texas Materials Institute at The University of Texas at Austin.
Dr. Fan received two prestigious awards from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the NSF Mid-Career Advancement Award (2022) and the NSF CAREER Award (2012). Dr. Fan is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (2021) and an invited Official Nominator of the Japan Prize (2017). She also is the 2022 Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering Ilene Busch-Vishniac Lecturer; the lectureship "features outstanding women in engineering and highlights the intellectual contributions of the lecturers while serving to inspire young women to pursue degrees and careers in engineering". Recently, Dr. Fan has been elected as a Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) to be officially inducted in March 2024.
Prof. Fan's research program focuses on the fabrication, manipulation, and assembly of intelligent, active micro/nanoscale structures, 3D hierarchical porous materials, and stimulus-responsive materials via understanding and exploiting fundamental materials science, physics, and chemistry. The efforts aim at addressing critical problems in robotics, sensing, biomedicine, and water treatment. She also develops precision tools used in biomedical research. She is an inventor of the patent awarded "Electric Tweezers" technique that can precisely manipulate longitudinal nanoscale materials in aqueous suspension by combined AC and DC electric fields with a precision of 20 nm in positioning and 0.5 degrees in angle under a standard microscope. Her team also discovered the effect of light-semiconductor-electric-field interaction that can be applied to realize multimodal reconfigurable nanodevices.
Prof. Fan's research has spurred a series of publications in leading journals, including Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Communications, Science Advances, the Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences, Physical Review Letters, and Advanced Materials. Dr. Fan is particularly interested in technology transfer and entrepreneurship. She is an inventor of eight granted patents and a few pending patents. One patent has been licensed to a startup company.
Prof. Fan received her Ph.D. degree in Materials Science and Engineering and two MS degrees, one in Materials Science and another in Electric Engineering, all from The Johns Hopkins University. She received an interdisciplinary education in both chemistry and physics from the Department of Intensive Instruction at Nanjing University, China, an honor program designed for talented undergraduates. She received early admission to the honor program, exempted from the National College Entrance Examination and awarded with a Freshman Merit Scholarship.
Besides science and technology, Dr. Fan enjoys reading, music, art, nature, and animals.
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- Assistant Professor
- Assistant Professor / Department Research
Dr. Farshid Alambeigi joined the Walker Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin in August 2019. He is also one of the core faculties of the Texas Robotics. Dr. Alambeigi received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the Johns Hopkins University, in 2019. He also holds an M.Sc. degree (2017) in Robotics from the Johns Hopkins University. In summer of 2018, Dr. Alambeigi received the 2019 SIEBEL Scholarship because of the academic excellence and demonstrated leadership. In 2020, Dr. Alambeigi received the NIH NIBIB Trailblazer Career Award to develop novel flexible implants and robots for minimally invasive spinal fixation surgery. In 2022, he also received the prestigious NIH Director's New Innovator Award to develop an in vivo bioprinting surgical robotic system for treatment of volumetric muscle loss.
At The University of Texas at Austin, Dr. Alambeigi directs the Advanced Robotic Technologies for Surgery (ARTS) Lab. Dr. Alambeigi's research focuses on developing high dexterity and situationally aware continuum manipulators, soft robots, and appropriate instruments especially designed for less/minimally invasive treatment of various medical applications. Utilizing these novel surgical instruments together with intelligent control algorithms, the ARTS Lab in collaboration with the UT Dell Medical School will work toward digital surgery and partnering dexterous intelligent robots with surgeons. Ultimately, our goal is to augment the clinicians' skills and quality of the surgery to further improve patient's safety.
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- Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Dr. Janet Ellzey is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering and holds the Engineering Foundation Centennial Teaching Fellowship at The University of Texas at Austin. From 2009 to 2017, she was Vice Provost of International Programs. In this position, she managed a staff of more than 150 and a budget of $25M. Prior to joining the Provost's office in 2009, she developed international programs for the Cockrell School of Engineering as assistant dean for international engineering education. She has conducted research in the field of combustion for more than 30 years.
As the first Director of Humanitarian Engineering, she is building and leading an academic program focused on engineering solutions for low-income or marginalized communities. She oversees the Certificate in Humanitarian Engineering which she launched in 2017. She developed and leads Projects with Underserved Communities, a three-course sequence in which student teams partner with rural communities around the world to build small infrastructure projects such as latrines, community kitchens, and health centers. PUC has completed more than 40 projects in 8 countries. She developed Humanitarian Product Development, a formal collaboration with the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies in which student teams enroll in a two-course sequence and design products for use in humanitarian response. She is currently developing a partnership with the Uganda Red Cross Society and Makerere University in Kampala Uganda to establish an Innovation Lab where undergraduate students will develop technologies appropriate for refugee camps in that country. In 2022-23 with Dr. Julie Zuniga from the School of Nursing, Dr. Ellzey won her second President's Award for Global Learning, a university-wide program to address global challenges. Along with Dr. Zuniga, she taught a course to 14 students selected competitively for the program, oversaw the development of their innovations, and accompanied them to Kenya to demonstrate their projects.
Dr. Ellzey earned her bachelor's and master's degrees in mechanical engineering from The University of Texas at Austin and her doctoral degree in mechanical engineering from the University of California at Berkeley. She joined the faculty of The University of Texas at Austin in 1990.
Dr. Ellzey earned the Women in Engineering Student Advocate Award in 2005 and in 2011 she was elected to the Academy of Distinguished Alumni in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. She has held research fellowships in both France and the United Kingdom. In 2018, she was elected as an Inaugural Fellow of the Combustion Institute. She was the Russell Springer Severence Professor at University of California at Berkeley in 2019. During 2020-21 she was a Jefferson Science Fellow at the United States Agency for International Development.
Dr. Joseph J. Beaman joined The University of Texas at Austin faculty in 1979 after receiving his Sc.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in the area of nonlinear control in the Walker Department of Mechanical Engineering. He holds the Earnest F. Gloyna Regents Chair in Engineering, and served as Department Chair for Mechanical Engineering between the years of 2000 and 2011. His career work has been in both manufacturing and control, and he is licensed as a Professional Engineer in the State of Texas. His specific manufacturing research interest is in Solid Freeform Fabrication, a manufacturing technology that produces freeform solid objects directly from a computer model of the object without part-specific tooling or knowledge. Professor Beaman coined this term in 1987. Professor Beaman initiated research in the area in 1985 and was the first academic researcher in the field. One of the most successful Solid Freeform Fabrication approaches, Selective Laser Sintering, was a process that was developed in his laboratory.
Professor Beaman has been both an inventor and a mentor to inventors during the development of this technology. In particular, he has worked with graduate students, faculty, and industrial concerns on the fundamental technology that span materials, laser scanning techniques, thermal control, mold making techniques, direct metal fabrication, and biomedical applications. He was one of the founders of DTM Corporation (now merged with 3D Systems), which markets Selective Laser Sintering. During the period 1990-1992, Professor Beaman was in charge of Advanced Development for DTM. During his tenure at DTM, the company developed and marketed its first commercial systems.
Professor Beaman is an academic whose technical work has had a significant and growing impact on society. His work has played an important role in engendering a whole new industry in the US and abroad. Solid Freeform Fabrication and Selective Laser Sintering equipment is now widespread. Rapid prototyping with this equipment is commonplace, and represents a significant shortening of the design cycle. Rapid manufacturing is now emerging and offers the potential to radically compress the manufacturing cycle for complex parts. Benefits are greatly reduced cost, time, and the capability to achieve, in one operation, shapes that would otherwise require multiple operations or shapes impossible to manufacture with standard techniques. Applications cross a broad spectrum from medical to automotive. He participated on the Japanese Technology Evaluation Center Panel study on Rapid Prototyping in Japan and Europe, a Workshop on Rapid Prototyping in Japan and Europe in March 1996, which was a worldwide assessment of the research area. He also was chair of the World Technology Evaluation Center panel in 2003 on Additive/Subtractive Manufacturing.
Professor Beaman received the National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award in 1984, the inaugural year. In 2011, he was named Distinguished Mechanical Engineer by the Mechanical Engineering Distinguished Alumni organization at The University of Texas at Austin. Other awards include the Faculty Excellence Award at the University; the DuPont Young Faculty Award; two Engineering Foundation Awards (1984, 1988); the Best Paper Award from the Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement and Control; Best Paper Award for the Journal of Rapid Prototyping (1996); and Best Paper Award for the 2001 Vacuum Metallurgy Conference. Dr. Beaman is a member of Tau Beta Pi, Phi Kappa Phi, Sigma Xi, Pi Tau Sigma, and the Texas Society of Professional Engineers. He graduated with a B.S.M.E. with high honors from The University of Texas in 1972, and received a fellowship while attending MIT. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and a member of the Dynamic Systems and Control Division. He was Technical Group Leader of the Systems and Design Technical Group 2008-2011, as well as currently Chair of the TCOB Committee on Technology Policy.
Dr. Junmin Wang is a professor in the Walker Department of Mechanical Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin and holds the Lee Norris & Linda Steen Norris Endowed Professorship. He received the B.E. degree (with honors) in Automotive Engineering and his first M.S. degree in Power Machinery and Engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing China in 1997 and 2000, respectively; his second and third M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering from University of Minnesota, Twin Cities in 2003, and the Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from University of Texas at Austin in 2007. Prof. Wang started his academic career at Ohio State University as assistant professor in 2008 and was early promoted to associate professor in September 2013 and then very early promoted to full professor in June 2016. In 2018, he left Ohio State University and joined University of Texas at Austin as Accenture Endowed Professor in Mechanical Engineering. Dr. Wang has a wide range of research interests covering control, modeling, estimation, optimization, and diagnosis of dynamical systems, especially for automotive, vehicle, transportation, sustainable mobility, and human-automation applications. He has five years of full-time industrial research experience (2003-2008) at Southwest Research Institute (San Antonio, Texas) where he was a Senior Research Engineer and led research projects sponsored by more than 50 industrial companies and governmental agencies worldwide. Prof. Wang's research program has been funded by federal agencies and industrial companies such as National Science Foundation (NSF), Office of Naval Research (ONR), Department of Energy (DOE), National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), Texas Department of Transportation, GM, Ford, Honda, Tenneco, Eaton, Denso, Ftech, and others.
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- Assistant Professor
- Associate Professor
- Associate Chair for Graduate Education
Dr. Michael Cullinan is an Assistant Professor in the Walker Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Cullinan's research focuses on the development of novel nanomanufacturing systems and on finding ways to exploit nanoscale physical phenomena in order to improve existing macroscale devices and to create novel micro- and nanoscale devices for energy and sensing applications. His research interests include the design and development of nanomanufacturing processes and equipment, the application of nanoscale science in engineering, the engineering of thin films, nanotubes and nanowires, the manufacturing and assembly of nanostructured materials, and the design of micro/nanoscale machine elements for mechanical sensors and energy systems.
Prior to joining the University of Texas in 2013, Dr. Cullinan was a National Research Council Postdoctoral Associate at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, Maryland. Dr. Cullinan received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2011 and also holds an M.S. (2008) in Mechanical Engineering from MIT as well as a B.S. in Engineering and a B.A. in Economics from Swarthmore College.
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- Fletcher Stuckey Pratt Chair in Engineering
- Fletcher Stuckey Pratt Chair in Engineering / Department Research
- Professor
Dr. Omar Ghattas is the John A. and Katherine G. Jackson Chair in Computational Geosciences, Professor of Geological Sciences and Mechanical Engineering, and Director of the Center for Computational Geosciences in the Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences (ICES) at The University of Texas at Austin. He is also a member of the faculty in the Computational Science, Engineering, and Mathematics (CSEM) interdisciplinary Ph.D program in ICES, serves as Director of the KAUST-UT Austin Academic Excellence Alliance, and holds courtesy appointments in Computer Science, Biomedical Engineering, the Institute for Geophysics, and the Texas Advanced Computing Center. Prior to coming to UT Austin in 2005, he was a professor at Carnegie Mellon University for 16 years. He earned BS, MS, and Ph.D degrees from Duke University in 1984, 1986, and 1988.
Ghattas has general research interests in simulation and modeling of complex geophysical, mechanical, and biological systems on supercomputers, with specific interest in inverse problems and associated uncertainty quantification for large-scale systems. His center's current research is aimed at large-scale forward and inverse modeling of whole-earth, plate-boundary-resolving mantle convection; global seismic wave propagation; dynamics of polar ice sheets and their land, atmosphere, and ocean interactions; and subsurface flows, as well as the underlying computational, mathematical, and statistical techniques for making tractable the solution and uncertainty quantification of such complex forward and inverse problems on parallel supercomputers.
Ghattas received the 1998 Allen Newell Medal for Research Excellence, the 2004/2005 CMU College of Engineering Outstanding Research Prize, the SC2002 Best Technical Paper Award, the 2003 IEEE/ACM Gordon Bell Prize for Special Accomplishment in Supercomputing, the SC2006 HPC Analytics Challenge Award, and the 2008 TeraGrid Capability Computing Challenge award, and was a finalist for the 2008, 2010, and 2012 Bell Prizes. He has served on the editorial boards or as associate editor of 13 journals, has been co-organizer of 12 conferences and workshops and served on the scientific or program committees of 43 others, has delivered invited keynote or plenary lectures at 27 international conferences, and has been a member or chair of 22 national or international professional or governmental committees. He is a SIAM Fellow.
L.F. Kallivokas, S.-W. Na, O. Ghattas, B. Jaramaz, "Assessment of a fictitious domain method for patient-specific biomechanical simulation of press-fit orthopedic implantation," Computer Methods In Biomechanics And Biomedical Engineering, (2011), pp. 1-19
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- Co - Founder of the Design Technology and Engineering for All Children
- Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Texas
Dr. Richard H. Crawford is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin and is the Earl N. & Margaret Brasfield Endowed Faculty Fellow. He is also Director of the Design Projects Program in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. He received his BSME from Louisiana State University in 1982, and his MSME in 1985 and Ph.D. in 1989, both from Purdue University. He joined the faculty of UT Austin in January 1990 and teaches mechanical engineering design and geometric modeling for design. He received the 1995 Fred Merryfield Design Award from the American Society for Engineering Education in recognition of his contributions in design education. He also received the 2010 Ralph Coates Roe Award as an exemplary Mechanical Engineering educator. He also received a University of Texas System Regents' Outstanding Teaching Award in 2011 in recognition of his contributions to engineering education.
Since joining the faculty of The University of Texas at Austin, Dr. Crawford has developed a research program to investigate a broad range of topics in computer-aided mechanical design, design theory and methodology, and education. In particular Dr. Crawford's work is focused in three areas: (1) research in computer representations to support conceptual design, design for manufacture and assembly, and design retrieval; (2) geometric modeling for engineering design, engineering analysis, and manufacturing; (3) research in additive manufacturing, include geometric processing, control, design tools, and manufacturing applications; and (4) engineering education research, particularly at the pre-college level. Dr. Crawford has shown his interest in industrial problems by working as a faculty intern for Ford Motor Company, IBM, and Sandia National Laboratory.
Dr. Crawford is a co-founder of the Design Technology and Engineering for All Children (DTEACh) program, which provides teachers with curricula and pedagogical approaches for teaching applied mathematics and science within the context of solving design problems. Begun in 1992 as an in-service teacher training program, DTEACh has helped teachers across Texas to integrate hands-on units on engineering materials, statics and structures, mechanisms, energy, and automation and control into their classrooms. Additionally, Dr. Crawford is one of three engineering faculty that have partnered with the highly acclaimed UTeach program to develop an engineering track, called UTeach Engineering, for training teachers of high school engineering courses. This program developed the Engineer Your World high school engineering curriculum, which has been adopted by over 200 school districts in the US. A dual-level option has been introduced that provides students who successfully complete the program with three hours of college credit and four participating University of Texas System institutions.
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- Assistant Professor
- Chairman of the Sensors Research Interest Group
- Department Research Areas
Dr. Tanya Hutter is an Assistant Professor in the Walker Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin and a member of the Advanced Materials Science and Engineering research area. Her research interests lie in the fields of emerging molecular sensing technologies, nanomaterials, microfabrication and nanophotonics with applications in environmental and industrial sensing, homeland security and medical diagnostics.
Dr. Hutter has a B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering (Ben-Gurion University), M.Sc. in Materials Science and Engineering (Tel-Aviv University) and Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry (University of Cambridge). Since completing her Ph.D., she worked as a Research Fellow in Physical Chemistry at the University of Cambridge and received several prestigious fellowships to develop her independent research. Dr. Hutter published 25 peer-reviewed papers and is an inventor on four patents. In 2016, she was awarded L'Oréal-UNESCO for Women in Science Fellowship UK & Ireland for her scientific achievements. Dr. Hutter also has a strong interest in technology commercialization and entrepreneurship. Alongside her academic career she co-foundered two startups in the fields of nanophotonic sensing and MedTech.
Dr. Hutter is Chair of the Sensors Research Interest Group (RIG) - it is a multidisciplinary group of researchers with interests in sensor materials, methods, devices and sensor applications for healthcare, environment, civil, petroleum, chemical industries and military applications. This group provides an opportunity to exchange ideas, present early findings, and explore collaborations and interdisciplinary funding opportunities. RIG's aims are to connect sensor technologies, middleware and applications, and to provide an interface between academic and industrial research.
Li Li, Tanya Hutter, Ullrich Steiner and Sumeet Mahajan, Single molecule SERS and detection of biomolecules with single gold nanoparticle on mirror junctions, Analyst, 138, 4574-4578, 2013 (DOI).
Dragan Djurdjanovic obtained his B.S. in Mechanical Eng. and in Applied Mathematics in 1997 from the Univ. of Nis, Serbia, his M.S. in Mechanical Eng. from the Nanyang Technological Univ., Singapore in 1999, and his M.S. in Electrical Eng. (Systems) and Ph.D. in Mechanical Eng. in 2002 from the Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His research interests include advanced quality and process control in multistage manufacturing systems, intelligent proactive maintenance techniques and applications of advanced data analytics in biomedical engineering. He was the director of the recently graduated NSF Industry-University Cooperative Research Center (I-UCRC) on Intelligent Maintenance Systems at The University of Texas at Austin and is Associate Director of the NSF Engineering Research Center on Nanomanufacturing Systems (NASCENT Center). He co-authored 69 journal publications, 9 book chapters and more than 30 refereed conference publications. He is a Fellow of the International Society for Engineering Asset Management, Associate Member of the International Academy for Production Research (CIRP) and is the recipient of several prizes and recognitions, including the 2018 August-Wilhelm Scheer Visiting Professorship from Technical University of Munich, 2006 Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award from the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) and 2005 Teaching Incentive Award from the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the University of Michigan.
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- Member of Committee
- Senior Engineering Fellow
Dr. Fahrenthold's research interests are in the areas of system dynamics, impact dynamics, and material modeling. He has developed a variety of thermodynamically consistent, energy based, multiphysics modeling methods for nonlinear materials and systems. This work has included formulations in Lagrangian, Eulerian, and Arbitrary- Lagrangian frames and has employed finite element, particle, and hybrid particle-element kinematics. His research includes parallel code development and supercomputer based simulation of model validation experiments.
Chin, Khai Yi, and Eric P. Fahrenthold. "Mass specific performance of potassium tetrabromoaurate as a carbon nanotube dopant." Computational Materials Science 197 (2021): 110573.
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- Chairman in Engineering 2
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- Fletcher Stuckey Pratt Chair in Engineering
- Fletcher Stuckey Pratt Chair in Engineering / Department Research
- Professor
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- Professor of Mechanical Engineering
George Biros is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering and holder of the W. A. "Tex" Moncrief, Jr. Simulation-Based Engineering Science Chair #2 and he leads the Parallel Algorithms for Data Analysis and Simulation Group in the Institute of Computational Engineering and Sciences.
George earned his Ph.D. in Computational Science and Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. He held a post-doctoral appointment at NYU's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. He has held faculty positions at the University of Pennsylvania and Georgia Institute of Technology.
George's research group focuses on computational mathematics and the invention of new parallel algorithms for physics-based simulations and large scale data analysis. The group is developing technologies for discovery and innovation that will harness the upcoming breakthroughs in high performance computing, including exascale platforms.
Biros is a two-time winner of the Association for Computing Machinery's Gordon Bell Prize. In addition, he received an Early Career Young Investigator Award from the U.S. Department of Energy, and has authored numerous scientific publications. He is currently associate editor of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Journal on Scientific Computing.
S. Chaillat and G. Biros, "FaIMS: A fast algorithm for the inverse medium problem with multiple frequencies and multiple sources for the scalar Helmholtz equation," Journal On Computational Physics, Vol. 231, (2012), 20, pp. 4403-4421
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- Director of Engineering
- Member of Committee
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- Research Assistant Professor
- Research Assistant Professor / Department Research
Dr. Khani is a Research Assistant Professor in the Walker Department of Mechanical Engineering and a core faculty member of the Materials Science and Engineering Program (MS&E) at The University of Texas at Austin since spring 2021. Before joining UT Austin as a faculty member, he had been a Research Associate at UT Austin (2018-2020) and a Postdoctoral Fellow at Notre Dame University (2017). Dr. Khani received his Ph.D. in Chemistry with a minor degree in Statistics at Mississippi State University in 2017, a master's degree in Analytical Chemistry from Kharazmi University in 2009, and a bachelor's degree in Chemistry from Arak University in 2007. Prior to his Ph.D., Dr. Khani had 2 years of industrial experience in the Research & Development Center for Chemical Industries, ACECR (2009-2011).
Dr. Khani has conducted research on broadly interdisciplinary projects across an extensive breadth of materials science and engineering including electrochemical energy storage, electrochemical sensors, electrocatalysis, electroplating, scanning electrochemical microscopy, material/polymer science, chemical extraction/separation, and chemometrics. The current research focus of Dr. Khani's group lies in the design and synthesis of polymer and inorganic materials for use in rechargeable batteries, fast ion-conducting solid-state/gel electrolytes, electrocatalysts, and supercapacitors.
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- Administrative Manager, NETL
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- Senior Administrative Associate for Kevin Clarno
F. Alambeigi, M. Bakhtiarinejad, S. Sefaty, R. Hegeman, I. Iordachita, H. Khanuja, and M. Armand, "On the Use of a Continuum Manipulator and a Bendable Medical Screw for Minimally-Invasive Interventions in Orthopedic Surgery", IEEE Transaction on Medical Robotics and Bionics (TMRB), January 2019.
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- Technical Staff Assistant / Teaching Lab Coordinator
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- Operations Research and Industrial Engineering
- Professor
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- Hayden Head Centennial Professorship
- Professor
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- Operations Manager, Center for Additive Manufacturing and Design Innovation ( CAMDI )
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- GE Global Research
- Member of Committee
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- Senior Design Projects Program Admin. Assistant
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- Senior Graphic Designer for Webber Energy Group
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- Travel & Entertainment Payment Associate
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- Professor
- Professor of Operations Research & Industrial Engineering
Jonathan Bard is a professor of Operations Research & Industrial Engineering in the Walker Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Texas. He holds the Industrial Properties Corporation Endowed Faculty Fellowship, serves as the Associate Director for the Center for the Management of Operations Logistics, and as the Assistant Graduate Advisor for the Manufacturing Systems Engineering Program. He received a D.Sc. in Operations Research from the George Washington University, an M.S. in Aeronautics and Astronautics from Stanford University, and a B.S. in Aeronautical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. At The University of Texas, Dr. Bard teaches courses in mathematical modeling, production planning and control, optimization theory, and project management. His research centers on (1) the development of efficient algorithms for problems related to airline operations, vehicle routing, and machine scheduling; (2) the design and analysis of manufacturing systems; (3) the use of decomposition techniques to solve large-scale hierarchical planning problems; and (4) multicriteria decision making applied to socio-economic systems. Prior to beginning his academic career, he worked as a program manager for the Aerospace Corporation and as a systems engineer for Booz, Allen & Hamilton. He is an internationally recognized expert on bilevel programming and postal operations, and is an active consultant for a number of government agencies and U.S. corporations. Dr. Bard is the founding editor of IIE Transactions on Operations Engineering and currently serves on the editorial board of the International Journal of Production Research, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Computers & Industrial Engineering, Journal of the Operational Research Society and Computers & Operations Research. He is a fellow of INFORMS and IIE, and a senior member of IEEE, and has held several offices in each of these organizations. Dr. Bard's research has been published in the leading technical journals and has won numerous honors and awards. He is a registered Professional Engineer in the State of Texas.
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- Senior Administrative Associate to Dr. Arumugam Manthiram
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- Information Technology Manager
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- Senior Communications Coordinator
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- Graduate Program Administrator
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- Building Operations Administrative Coordinator
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- Associate Professor
- Associate Professor in the Nuclear and Radiation Engineering Program at the University of Texas
Dr. Clarno is a tenured Associate Professor in the Nuclear and Radiation Engineering program at the University of Texas at Austin with a research focus on computational nuclear energy, including algorithm development for radiation transport and reactor multiphysics. Dr. Clarno worked 15 years at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), and was also assistant professor at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville as joint faculty member in nuclear engineering. He has led national, multi-institutional high-performance computing (HPC) research programs, including the Consortium for Advanced Simulation of Light Water Reactors (CASL) as Interim Director; the CASL Physics Integration (PHI) Focus Area; modernization of the SCALE nuclear analysis software; development of the Advanced Multi-Physics (AMP) fuel performance code; and a portfolio of ORNL laboratory-directed strategic research projects. As a technical contributor at ORNL, Dr. Clarno has developed high-performance computing software, researched new algorithms for SCALE, and performed analyses of nuclear reactors for a diverse set of US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and DOE projects.
Dr. Clarno's primary research areas include:
Multiphysics coupling methods for advanced simulation of nuclear reactors to integrate analyses and improve accuracy;
Multiscale neutronics, fuel performance, and thermal-hydraulics to enable high resolution analyses in coupled physics applications;
Design, optimization, and analysis of advanced commercial and test reactor concepts;
Integration of software to optimize advanced manufacturing of nuclear technologies; and
Propagation of uncertainties through multiphysics applications to optimize experiments.
Toptan, R. Salko, M. Avramova, K. Clarno, D. Kropaczek, "A new fuel performance modeling framework, CTFFuel, with a case study on the fuel thermal conductivity degradation," Nuclear Engineering and Design, 341, 248-258, DOI: 10.1016/j.nucengdes.2018.11.010, )2019).
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- Senior Desktop Support Specialist
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- Research Coordinator for Mitch Pryor
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- Senior Administrative Associate, NETL
B. E. Simon, J. M. Cormack, and M. F. Hamilton, "Evolution equation for nonlinear Lucassen waves, with application to a threshold phenomenon," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 150, 3648-3663 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0006970
S.P. Wallen and M.R. Haberman, "Non-reciprocal wave phenomena in spring-mass chains with effective stiffness modulation induced by geometric nonlinearity," Physical Review E, 99, 013001,
B.M. Goldsberry and M.R. Haberman, "Negative stiffness honeycombs as tunable elastic metamaterials," Journal of Applied Physics, 123, 091711 (2018). doi.org/10.1063/1.5011400.
X. Su, A.N. Norris, C.W. Cushing, M.R. Haberman, P.S. Wilson, "Broadband focusing of underwater sound using a transparent pentamode lens," The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 141(6), pp. 4408-4417, (2017). doi: 10.1121/1.4985195
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- Associate Director for Development
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- Dynamic Systems and Controls
- Professor
Dr. Hamilton received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University, his M.S. and Ph.D. in Acoustics from Penn State, followed by a postdoctoral year in the Department of Mathematics at University of Bergen in Norway. He became a faculty member in the Walker Department of Mechanical Engineering in 1985. He is also Research Professor at Applied Research Laboratories, which is the largest organized research unit at UT, and its core technical area is acoustics.
Dr. Hamilton conducts research in physical acoustics, particularly nonlinear acoustics, often with biomedical applications. His current areas of research include focused shear wave beams in tissue, acoustic vortex beams, Mach waves near supersonic jets, acoustic radiation force on objects near interfaces, and focused surface acoustic shock waves in anisotropic solids.
His home professional society is the Acoustical Society of America, for which he served as Vice President and President, and he continues to serve as Associate Editor in the areas of physical and nonlinear acoustics. He served on the Governing Board of the American Institute of Physics for six years, he has served as Secretary General for the International Symposia on Nonlinear Acoustics since 2005, and he recently completed a three-year term as President of the International Commission for Acoustics, which functions as a United Nations for more than 50 acoustical societies around the world.
Dr. Hamilton was a recipient of the David and Lucile Packard Foundation Fellowship for Science and Engineering, the NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award, the ASME Pi Tau Sigma Gold Medal, and the ASEE Curtis W. McGraw Research Award. The ASA presented him with its R. Bruce Lindsay Award, the Helmholtz-Rayleigh Interdisciplinary Silver Medal in Physical Acoustics, Biomedical Acoustics and Engineering Acoustics, and its Gold Medal. He also received the David T. Blackstock Mentorship Award from the ASA Student Council.
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- Student Program Coordinator
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- Member of Committee
- Nuclear Engineering and Nonproliferation / Manager
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- Member of the Graduate Studies Committee for STEM Education
- Professor
Dr. Borrego specializes in engineering education research. She has been awarded National Science Foundation grants to study factors that support successful transfer of Hispanic engineering students from two-year to four-year institutions, engineering undergraduate student resistance to active learning, how engineering instructors make decisions about their teaching, learning in graduate engineering research groups, interdisciplinary education and teamwork.
Dr. Borrego is a member of the Graduate Studies Committee for STEM Education and holds an appointment in Curriculum & Instruction. She previously served as a Program Director at the National Science Foundation and an associate dean and director of interdisciplinary graduate programs. Her research awards include U.S. Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), a National Science Foundation CAREER award, and two outstanding publication awards from the American Educational Research Association for her journal articles. Dr. Borrego is an Associate Editor for Journal of Engineering Education and serves on the board of the American Society for Engineering Education as Vice President for Professional Interest Councils and Chair of Professional Interest Council IV. All of Dr. Borrego's degrees are in Materials Science and Engineering. Her M.S. and Ph.D. are from Stanford University, and her B.S. is from University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Dr. Haberman is an Associate Professor in the Walker Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Texas (UT) at Austin with a joint appointment at the Applied Research Laboratories UT Austin. He received his Ph.D. and Master of Science degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2007 and 2001, respectively, and received a Diplôme de Doctorat in Engineering Mechanics from the Université de Lorraine in Metz, France in 2006. His undergraduate work in Mechanical Engineering was done at the University of Idaho, where he received a B.S. in 2000. Dr. Haberman's research interests are centered on elastic and acoustic wave propagation in complex media, acoustic metamaterials, new acoustic transduction materials, ultrasonic nondestructive testing, and vibro-acoustic transducers. His current research focuses on modeling, design, and testing of composite materials, metamaterials, and architected media. His research finds application in technical areas that include the absorption and isolation of acoustical, vibrational, and impulsive energy using negative stiffness and Willis coupling, devices that make use of non-reciprocal acoustic and elastic wave phenomena, and condition monitoring of lithium-ion batteries using ultrasonic methods. He is a Fellow of The Acoustical Society of America and served two terms as the chair of the Technical Committee on Engineering Acoustics from 2018-2024.
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- Cockrell Family Regents Chair in Engineering 9
- Professor
Dr. Fey is appointed within the Walker Department of Mechanical Engineering, and a Core Faculty of Texas Robotics. He graduated from the The University of Texas at Austin with bachelor's, master's and doctorate degrees in Mechanical Engineering. He pursued postdoctoral research in the Center for Bionic Medicine at the Shirley Ryan AbilityLab (formerly the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago) and Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine. As the Director of the Systems for Augmenting Human Mechanics Laboratory, his research focuses on the intersection between rehabilitation robotics and neuromuscular biomechanical engineering, and applies these technical domains to inform the design, control and assessment of prosthetic and orthotic technologies. Typically, this research focuses on diverse and transient forms of human ambulation, and the extent to which next-generation lower-limb assistive technologies and medical interventions enhance human ability. Support for his lab's research has been provided by the U.S. Department of Defense, the NIH, and the NSF's National Robotics Initiative.
Dr. Fey and students he advises have received prestigious awards by the American Society of Biomechanics, the International Consortium for Rehabilitation Robotics and the International Symposium on Medical Robotics, among others. As he transitioned to his in-rank position, he was a finalist for the Burroughs Wellcome Fund's Career Award at the Scientific Interface (CASI) and received the Mary E. Switzer Research Fellowship from the U.S. Dept. of Education, National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR). He is affiliated with the UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dell Medical School, Center for Additive Manufacturing and Design Innovation and Cellular to Clinically-Applied Rehabilitation Research and Engineering (CARE) Initiative.
Dr. Fey teaches courses in the Dynamic Systems and Control instructional area of the Walker Department. He also serves as the Graduate Student Recruiting Coordinator for the Biomechanical Engineering instructional area, the Co-Faculty Mentor for the Biomedical and Biomedicine Career Gateway Elective (CGE) track, and the Co-Faculty Advisor for the Texas Robotics Graduate Students (TRGS) group. Within his research community, he is an Associate Editor for the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), the IEEE RAS/EMBS International Conference for Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (BioRob), the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), and the IEEE RAS/EMBS International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics (ICORR). He helped found the UT Southwestern Adaptive Sports Coalition, to improve the access, awareness and performance of individuals with physical disabilities during sports, and regularly participates in outreach at student group, high school and other community events.
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- Member of Committee
- Worldwide Facilities
Prof. Matthew J. Hall is a faculty member in the Thermal Fluids Systems area in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. He holds the Louis T. Yule Fellowship in Engineering. His research focus is engine combustion processes with an emphasis on engine controls, optical measurement techniques, engine sensor development, gasoline engine cold-start emissions, spark ignition characterization, engine friction, waste heat recovery, and alternative fuels. He is also involved in studies of lithium ion battery fires and battery safety. Further, he is engaged in projects to extend the flight range of drones through the use of combustion energized thermoelectric power generators. He has served on the College of Engineering faculty since 1991 and has published more than 150 technical articles. He is a Fellow of the Society of Automotive Engineers, and is an Associate Editor for the Society of Automotive Engineers' International Journal of Engines. He teaches courses in Thermodynamics that include modeling and/or analyses of power cycles and HVAC systems, including refrigeration and heat pumps.
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- Assistant Professor
- Assistant Professor / Department Research
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- Associate Chair for Undergraduate Education
- Professor
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- Professor
- Reese Endowed Professor in Engineering
- Reese Endowed Professor in Engineering / Department Research
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- Professor
- William and Bettye Nowlin Chair in Engineering
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- Chief, Software, Robotics and Simulation Division / NASA
- Member of Committee
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- David Allen Cockrell Chair in Engineering, Cockrell Family Regents Chair in Engineering 7, Joe C. Walter, Jr. Chair in Engineering
- Professor
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- Academic Advisor
- Associate
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- Senior Admistrative Associate for Webber Energy Group
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- Academic Advising Coordinator
Tanya Hutter, Stephen R. Elliott and Sumeet Mahajan, Optical fibre tip probes for SERS: numerical study for design considerations, Optics Express, 26(12), 155539-15550, 2018 (DOI).
Tanya Hutter, Sumeet Mahajan and Stephen R. Elliott, Near-field optical enhancement by lead-sulfide quantum dots and metallic nanoparticles for SERS, Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, 44 (9) 1292-1298, 2013 (DOI).
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- Chairman / Drilling OBO Advisor
- Chairman of Committee
Vaibhav Bahadur (VB) is an Associate Professor and Carl J. Eckhardt Fellow in Mechanical Engineering at UT Austin. His research interests are in the areas of thermal-fluids sciences, materials chemistry, machine learning and micro-nanofabrication. His group conducts fundamental and applied research in these areas with applications in energy-water systems, carbon capture and sequestration, hydrogen and thermal management.
Prof. Bahadur has a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University and a Postdoc from Harvard University. Additionally, he has 4 years industry R&D experience in GE Global Research and Baker Hughes. Prof. Bahadur is the recipient of the NSF CAREER Award (2017), the SPE Petroleum Engineering Young Faculty Award (2015), the ASME ICNMM Outstanding Early Career Award (2018), the Google Faculty Research Award (2018), and the ACS Doctoral New Investigator Award (2014). He is the winner of the Society of Petroleum Engineer's R&D Competition at SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition (2014). Heat pipe technology developed in his lab was tested on the International Space Station in 2017.
Prof. Bahadur has authored 60 journal articles (h-index of 27), 35 articles in conference proceedings, 1 book chapter, and has 10 patents issued or pending. His research has been featured on the cover of ASME's Mechanical Engineering magazine, cover of journals (ACS Nano, Advanced Optical Materials) and in R&D magazine. His research has been highlighted in multiple international news media. He teaches courses in the areas of heat transfer and fluid mechanics.
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- Director, Nuclear Engineering Teaching Laboratory
- Director, Nuclear Engineering Teaching Laboratory Professor
In January 2018, Dr. William (Bill) Charlton joined the faculty at the University of Texas at Austin (UT-Austin) as the John J. McKetta Energy Professor in the Nuclear and Radiation Engineering Program within the Walker Department of Mechanical Engineering. He also serves as the Director of the Nuclear Engineering Teaching Laboratory (NETL) at UT-Austin which in addition to other research laboratories houses the newest nuclear research reactor in the U.S. He is an expert in the application of nuclear science and engineering to national security including nuclear nonproliferation, counter-proliferation, security, and deterrence. He has taught courses (specifically from a technical aspect) on nuclear nonproliferation and deterrence, nuclear security system design and analysis, nuclear forensics, and nuclear detection. Additionally, he has over 15 years of technical expertise in the design, development, testing, and evaluation of technological solutions for nuclear threats.
From 2015-2018, Dr. Charlton was the Research Director for the National Strategic Research Institute (NSRI) at the University of Nebraska. NSRI is the University Affiliated Research Center (UARC) for the U.S. Strategic Command and the U.S. Department of Defense for Combatting Weapons of Mass Destruction. Dr. Charlton had sponsor engagement, faculty interaction, and technical oversight responsibility for all NSRI research programs for combatting chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear weapons (with a total contract value in excess of $42M). He also served as the Associate Vice Chancellor for Research and a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln. As Associate Vice Chancellor for Research, he worked with the administration and faculty to develop strategic research initiatives in support of the U.S. Department of Defense and other national security agencies.
From 2003-2015, Dr. Charlton served on the faculty of the Department of Nuclear Engineering at Texas A&M University (TAMU) and was the founding Director of the Nuclear Security Science & Policy Institute (NSSPI) from 2006-2015. NSSPI is a multi-disciplinary research and education organization focused on combatting threats from the malicious uses of nuclear and radiological materials. NSSPI is primarily funded through grants and contracts from the U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and the U.S. Department of State. In addition to conducting research in the area of nuclear security and nuclear nonproliferation, he taught courses on nuclear nonproliferation, nuclear security system design, nuclear forensics, consequence management, and nuclear materials measurements. Under his supervision, the first Student Chapter of the Institute of Nuclear Materials Management was formed at TAMU in the over 50-year history of that organization.
He previously served as an Assistant Professor at UT-Austin from 2000-2003 and as a Technical Staff Member in the Nonproliferation and International Security Division at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) from 1998-2000.
Dr. Charlton led the development of technical education and research in U.S. academia in the area of nuclear nonproliferation and nuclear security and was awarded the Special Service Award from the Institute of Nuclear Materials Management in 2010 for his leadership in this area. He was also named the George Armistead Jr. '23 Faculty Fellow at TAMU in 2005, was awarded the Dwight Look College of Engineering Faculty Fellow in 2007, was recognized as the Advisor of the Year by the TAMU Division of Student Affairs in 2009, was named the Barbara and Ralph Cox '53 Faculty Fellow for the TAMU College of Engineering in 2013, and was given the Distinguished Research Award from NSRI in 2017.
Dr. Charlton earned B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Nuclear Engineering from Texas A&M University in 1995, 1997, and 1999, respectively. He has over 200 technical publications in referred journals and conference proceedings. He currently holds TOP SECRET and SCI security clearances.