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Dr. Davinder K. Anand Professor and CECD Director Center for Energetic Concepts Development 3120 Glenn L. Martin Hall Phone: 301.405.5294 | Fax: 301.314.9477 E-mail: dkanand@umd.edu |
Research interests: control systems; automation; manufacturing and energy. |
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Dr. Ronald W. Armstrong |
Strength and structure of materials, dislocation modeling, crystallography, X‑ray diffraction topography, single crystal/polycrystal deformation/fracturing, explosive crystals, dynamic plasticity, fracture toughness, hardness testing, prosthetic devices, electronic materials. More>> |
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Dr. Shapour Azarm, Professor Department of Mechanical Engineering 2155 Glenn L. Martin Hall Phone: 301.405.5250 | Fax: 301.314.9477 E-mail: azarm@umd.edu |
Deterministic and stochastic (robust) design optimization; multi-attribute design decision making under uncertainty; multi-disciplinary multi-objective sensitivity analysis; reduced-order modeling (approximation): design of experiments and metamodeling; integration of engineering design and marketing in retail dominated markets for single product, product line and product bundling design. More>> |
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Dr. Balakumar Balachandran, Professor, |
Research interests: nonlinear phenomena, dynamics and vibrations, and control |
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Dr. Hugh Bruck, Associate Professor Department of Mechanical Engineering 2153 Glenn L. Martin Hall Phone: 301.405.8711 | Fax: 301.314.9477 E-mail: bruck@umd.edu |
Research interests: fabrication, characterization, and modeling for the design of functionally graded and multifunctional materials; experimental methods for microscale and nanoscale materials characterization. More>> |
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Dr. Nikhil Chopra, Assistant Professor |
Research interests: control theory, robotics, bilateral teleoperation and synchronization theory. More>> |
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Dr. Don DeVoe, Professor Department of Mechanical Engineering 3125 Glenn L. Martin Hall Phone: 301.405.8125 | Fax: 301.314.9477 E-mail: ddev@umd.edu |
Research interests: microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), inertial instrumentation, microsensing and microactivation. More>> |
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Dr. Millard Firebaugh, Minta Martin Professor of Practice Center for Energertic Concepts Development 2140 Glenn L. Martin Hall Phone: 301.405.5246 | Fax: 301.314.9477 E-mail: firebaugh@cecd.umd.edu |
Research interests: innovation and engineering complex systems. More>> |
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Dr. Jerry Forbes, Visiting Professor Center for Energetic Concepts Development 2140 Glenn L. Martin Hall Phone: 301.392.9362 | Fax: 301.314.9477 E-mail: jforcecd@comcast.net |
Research interests: material response to rapid energy disposition. In particular, shock wave loading of inert and energetic materials. |
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Dr. William Fourney, Professor Department of Aerospace Engineering 3179F Glenn L. Martin Hall Phone: 301.405.1129 | Fax: 301.314.9477 E-mail: four@umd.edu |
Research interests: experimental mechanics, dynamic fracture. More>> |
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Dr. Satyandra K. Gupta, Professor Department of Mechanical Engineering 2135 Glenn L. Martin Hall Phone: 301.405.5306 | Fax: 301.314.9477 E-mail: skgupta@umd.edu |
Research interests: computer-aided design, manufacturing automation, and robotics. More>> |
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Dr. Gregory Jackson, Associate Professor Department of Mechanical Engineering 4164E Glenn L. Martin Hall Phone: 301.405.2368 | Fax: 301.314.9477 E-mail: gsjackso@umd.edu |
Research interests: combustion and flame stability, liquid-fed combustion, catalytic combustion, fuel cells for automotive applications, fuel reforming. More>> |
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Dr. Jungho Kim, Professor Department of Mechanical Engineering 3149 Glenn L. Martin Hall Phone: 301.405.5437 | Fax: 301.314.9477 E-mail: kimjh@umd.edu |
Research interests: phase change heat transfer process as applied to electronic cooling; investigation of fundamental heat transfer mechanisms in boiling and spray cooling in Earth and microgravity environments; high temperature radiation absorbance measurements. More>> |
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Dr. Thomas M. Klapötke, Visiting Professor |
Research interests: advanced materials, explosives, high-energy-density materials (HEDM), computational chemistry (semiempirical, ab initio, DFT), structural characterization (ED and X-ray), chalcogen-nitrogen chemistry, azide chemistry, fluorine chemistry, strong oxidizers, nitrogen-halogen chemistry, nitro chemistry, halogen chemistry. More>> |
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Dr. Mark J. Lewis |
Research interests: hypersonic erodynamics, advanced propulsion, and engine-airframe interaction. More>> |
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Dr. Michael Pecht, Professor and CALCE Director Center for Advanced Life Cycle Engineering (CALCE) 1103 Engineering Lab Building Phone: 301.405.5323 | Fax: 301.314.9477 E-mail: pecht@calce.umd.edu |
Research interests: competitive product development; product characterization and qualification; supply chain creation and management; prognostics and health management; product reliability, risk assessment and mitigation. More>> |
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Dr. James Short, CECD Executive Director and Visiting Professor Center for Energetic Concepts Development 2140 Glenn L. Martin Hall Phone: 301.405.5246 | Fax: 301.314.9477 E-mail: james.short@cecd.umd.edu |
Research interests:combustion and detonation. More>> |
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Dr. Arnaud Trouve, |
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. More>>
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Dr. Michael Zachariah, Professor Department of Mechanical Engineering 2125 Glenn L. Martin Hall Phone: 301.405.4311 | Fax: 301.314.9477 E-mail: mrz@umd.edu |
Research interests: nanoparticle science, manufacturing and measurements.
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