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Chelidze, David

Title: Associate Professor
Department: Mechanical, Industrial & Systems
Office: 128C Kirk Building
Phone: (401)874-2356
Email: chelidze@egr.uri.edu
  • Nonlinear Dynamics
  • Damage Evolution Tracking and Failure Prediction

Datseris, Philip

Title: Professor
Department: Mechanical, Industrial & Systems
Office: 128E Kirk Building
Phone: (401)874-2514
Email: datseris@egr.uri.edu
  • Mechanical Design and Optimization
  • Robotics and Automation
  • Artificial Intelligence Applied in Eng. Design

Dewhurst, Peter

Title: Professor
Department: Mechanical, Industrial & Systems
Office: 103C Gilbreth Hall
Phone: (401)874-5194
Email: dewhurst@egr.uri.edu
  • Theory of Metal Deformation
  • Design for Efficient Manufacture
  • Design and Manufacture of Minimum-Weight Structure

Faghri, Mohammad

Title: Professor
Department: Mechanical, Industrial & Systems
Office: 131D Kirk Building
Phone: (401)874-5180
Email: faghri@egr.uri.edu
  • Electronic Cooling
  • Filtration
  • Numerical Modeling in Heat Transfer & Fluid Mechan

Ghonem, Hamouda

Title: Professor
Department: Mechanical, Industrial & Systems
Office: 101 Wales Hall
Phone: (401)874-2909
Email: ghonem@egr.uri.edu
  • Fatigue, Fracture Mechanics
  • Damage, Micromechanics, Creep, Plasticity
  • Metal and Composite Materials

Jouaneh, Musa

Title: Professor
Department: Mechanical, Industrial & Systems
Office: 128D Kirk Building
Phone: (401)874-2349
Email: jouaneh@egr.uri.edu
  • Control Systems
  • Robotics
  • Precision Systems
  • Piezoelectric Positioning

Kim, Thomas

Title: Professor
Department: Mechanical, Industrial & Systems
Office: 104 Wales Hall
Phone: (401)874-5991
Email: tomkim3@egr.uri.edu
  • Erosion Mechanics
  • Abrasive Waterjet Machining
  • Elastohydrodynamics
  • Mechanical Seals

Maier-Speredelozzi, Valerie

Title: Assistant Professor
Department: Mechanical, Industrial & Systems
Office: 103G Gilbreth Hall
Phone: (401)874-5187
Email: vms@egr.uri.edu
  • Design of Manufacturing Systems
  • Performance Metrics for Manufacturing Systems
  • Material Handling and Plant Operations

Meyer, Donna

Title: Associate Professor
Department: Mechanical, Industrial & Systems
Office: 131B Kirk Building
Phone: (401)874-9292
Email: dmmeyer@egr.uri.edu
  • Tribology (Lubrication, Friction and Wear)
  • Fluid Mechanics
  • Microfluidic Technology

Nassersharif, Bahram

Title: Professor
Department: Mechanical, Industrial & Systems
Office: 214 Wales Hall
Phone: (401)874-9335
Email: bn@egr.uri.edu
  • Engineering Design
  • Nuclear Systems
  • Safety Engineering
  • Simulation and Modeling

Palm, William

Title: Professor
Department: Mechanical, Industrial & Systems
Office: 210 Wales Hall
Phone: (401)874-2531
Email: palm@egr.uri.edu
  • Control Systems
  • Robotics
  • Dynamic Systems

Park, Keunhan

Title: Assistant Professor
Department: Mechanical, Industrial & Systems
Office: 131C Kirk Building
Phone: (401)874-5184
Email: kpark@egr.uri.edu
  • Nanoscale Metrologies using Atomic Force Microscop
  • Nanoscale IR Spectroscopy
  • Localized Thermal Analysis
  • Micro/ Nanoscale Heat and Mass Transfer

Rousseau, Carl-Ernst

Title: Assistant Professor
Department: Mechanical, Industrial & Systems
Office: 222B Wales Hall
Phone: (401)874-2542
Email: rousseau@egr.uri.edu
  • Solid Mechanics
  • Experimental Mechanics

Sadd, Martin

Title: Professor
Department: Mechanical, Industrial & Systems
Office: 208 Wales Hall
Phone: (401)874-5548
Email: sadd@egr.uri.edu
  • Mathematical Modeling
  • Continuum Mechanics
  • Wave Propagation
  • Computational Methods
  • Mecromechanics

Shukla, Arun

Title: Professor
Department: Mechanical, Industrial & Systems
Office: 204 Wales Hall
Phone: (401)874-2283
Email: shukla@egr.uri.edu
  • Smart Materials
  • Composite Materials
  • Fracture Mechanics
  • Impact Mechanics
  • Wave Propagation

Sodhi, Manbir

Title: Professor
Department: Mechanical, Industrial & Systems
Office: 103A Gilbreth Hall
Phone: (401)874-5189
Email: sodhi@egr.uri.edu
  • De-Manufacturing and Bulk Recycling Modeling
  • Lights-Out Manufacturing
  • Computer Vision Applications for Manufacturing

Taggart, David

Title: Chair & Professor
Department: Mechanical, Industrial & Systems
Office: 212 Wales Hall
Phone: (401)874-5934
Email: taggart@egr.uri.edu
  • Mechanics of Composite Materials
  • Abrasive Waterjet Machining
  • Design of Minimum Weight Structures

Wang, Jyh-Hone (Jay)

Title: Professor
Department: Mechanical, Industrial & Systems
Office: 103E Gilbreth Hall
Phone: (401)874-5195
Email: jhwang@egr.uri.edu
  • Design for Quality
  • Quality Assurance
  • Design of Experiements
  • Human Factors

Zhang, Zongqin

Title: Professor
Department: Mechanical, Industrial & Systems
Office: 133E Kirk Building
Phone: (401)874-2517
Email: zhang@egr.uri.edu
  • Aerosol Transport in Respiratory Flows
  • Heat and Mass Transfer
  • Melting and Solidification
  • Optimum Desing of HVAC Systems