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Dr. Dave Anand

Dr. Davinder K. Anand, CECD Director
Professor Emeritus of Mechanical Engineering
University of Maryland, College Park
Tel:  301.405.5294

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Research Interests:  Control systems; automation; manufacturing and energy.

Dr. W. Fourney

Dr. William Fourney

Professor, Aerospace Engineering

University of Maryland, College Park

tel: 301.405.1129

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Research Interests: Experimental mechanics, dynamic fracture.

Dr. T. Antonsen

Dr. Thomas Antonsen
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Physics
University of Maryland, College Park
Tel: 301.405.1635
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Website: http://www.enee.umd.edu/%7Eantonsen/

Research Interests:  Theory of magnetically confined plasmas, theory and design of high power sources of coherent radiation, nonlinear dynamics in fluids, and the theory of the interaction of intense laser pulses and plasmas.

 

Dr. SK Gupta

Dr. Satyandra K. Gupta
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
University of Maryland, College Park
Tel: 301.405.5306

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Website: www.glue.umd.edu/~skgupta/

Research Interests:  Integration of product design and manufacturing, geometric reasoning algorithms for computer aided design and manufacturing, manufacturing process simulation, and manufacturing automation.

Dr. Michael Azarian

Dr. Michael Azarian
Assistant Research Scientist

CALCE Electronic Products & Systems Center
University of Maryland, College Park
Tel: 301.405.7555
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Research Interests:  Reliability of photonic and high speed electronic devices, failure mechanisms in electronic components, tribology of the magnetic head-disk interface, and sensor technology.

 

Dr. Jeffrey Herrmann

 

Dr. Jeffrey Herrmann
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
University of Maryland, College Park
Tel: 301.405.5433
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Website:  www.isr.umd.edu/~jwh2/jwh2.html

Research Interests:  Design, decision-making, and control systems in product development organizations and manufacturing systems.

 

Dr. S. Azarm

 

Dr. Shapour Azarm
Professor of Mechanical Engineering
University of Maryland, College Park
Tel: 301.405.5250
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Website: www.glue.umd.edu/~azarm/

Research Interests:  Design optimization, multi-attribute design decision making.

 

Dr. Greg Jackson

Dr. Gregory Jackson
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
University of Maryland, College Park
Tel: 301.405.2368
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Website: www.glue.umd.edu/~gsjackso/Welcome.html

Research Interests:  Combustion and flame stability, liquid-fed combustion, catalytic combustion, fuel cells for automotive applications, fuel reforming.

 

Dr. Bruce Berger

Dr. Bruce Berger
Professor Emeritus of Mechanical Engineering
University of Maryland, College Park
Tel: 301.405.5262
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Research Interests:  Dynamic systems, machine tool vibrations, numerical methods.

 

 

Dr. Kenneth Kiger

Dr. Kenneth Kiger
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
University of Maryland, College Park
Tel: 301.405.5245
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Website: www.glue.umd.edu/~kkiger

Research Interests:  Fluid mechanics and experimental techniques, specifically in the topics of multi-phase flows, particle/turbulence interaction, and turbulent mixing in complex geometries.

 

Dr. Hugh Bruck

Dr. Hugh Bruck
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
University of Maryland, College Park
Tel: 301.405.8711
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Website: www.wam.umd.edu/~bruck/

Research Interests:  Fabrication, characterization, and modeling for the design of functionally graded and multifunctional materials; experimental methods for microscale and nanoscale materials characterization.

 

Dr. Ed Magrab

Dr. Edward Magrab
Professor of Mechanical Engineering
University of Maryland, College Park
Tel: 301.405.5287
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Research Interests:  Integration of design and manufacturing, capture and retrieval of design intent, vibrations, acoustics.

 

Dr. Don DeVoe

Dr. Don DeVoe
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
University of Maryland, College Park
Tel: 301.405.8125
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Website:  www.glue.umd.edu/~ddev/

Research Interests:  Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), inertial instrumentation, microsensing and microactivation.

Dr. Gregory Nusinovich

 

Dr. Gregory Nusinovich

Senior Research Scientist

Institute for Research in Electronics and Applied Physics

University of Maryland, College Park

Tel: 301.405.4917

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Research Interests: High power electromagnetic radiation from various types of microwave sources.

Dr. George Dieter

Dr. George Dieter
Professor Emeritus of Mechanical Engineering
University of Maryland, College Park
Tel: 301.405.5248

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Research Interests: 
Materials processing, engineering design, quality engineering.

Dr. Arnaud Trouve

Dr. Arnaud Trouve

Associate Professor of Fire Protection Engineering

Affiliate Associate Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department

Tel:  301.405.8209

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Research Interests: Fire modeling, direct numerical simulation and large eddy simulation of turbulent reacting flows, high-performance (parallel) scientific computing, physical modeling of fire-related phenomena.

 

Dr. Jerry Forbes

Dr. Jerry Forbes

Visiting Professor for CECD

University of Maryland, College Park

Tel:  301.392.9362

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Research Interests:  Material response to rapid energy disposition. In particular, shock wave loading of inert and energetic materials.

 

Dr. Michael Zachariah

Dr. Michael Zachariah
Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Chemistry
University of Maryland, College Park
Tel: 301.405.4311

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Website:  www.enme.umd.edu/~mrz

Research Interests:  Nanoparticle science, manufacturing and measurements.

 

Dr. James Short

Dr. James Short

Visiting Professor for CECD

University of Maryland, College Park

Tel:  301.405.5264

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Dr. Millard Firebaugh

Dr. Millard Firebaugh
Professor of Practice
University of Maryland, College Park
Tel: 301.405.5264

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