UD Graduate Catalog 1997-1998
  College of Engineering
  Mechanical Engineering
Faculty in the Graduate Program
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Suresh G. Advani, Ph.D. (Illinois), Professor: Computational fluid mechanics and heat transfer, polymer and composites processing, transport phenomena in manufacturing processes, non-Newtonian fluid mechanics and rheology.
 
Tsu Wei Chou, Ph.D. (Stanford), Jerzy L. Nowinski Professor of Mechanical Engineering: Composite materials, crystal defect theory, micro-biomechanics, fracture of solids and applied mechanics.
 
Michael D. Greenberg, Ph.D. (Cornell), Professor: Applied mathematics, fluid mechanics.
 
Leonard W. Schwartz, Ph.D. (Stanford), Professor, also Professor of Mathematical Sciences: Fluid mechanics, multiphase flow, applied mathematics.
 
Andras Z. Szeri, Ph.D. (Leeds), Robert L. Spencer Professor and Interim Dean, College of Engineering: Applied mechanics, fluid mechanics, tribology.
 
Jack R. Vinson, Ph.D. (Pennsylvania), H. Fletcher Brown Professor of Mechanical Engineering, also H. Fletcher Brown Professor of Marine Studies: Structural mechanics, structures of anisotropic composite materials, plate and shell theory, structural optimization, aerospace structures.
 
Dick J. Wilkins, Ph.D. (Oklahoma), Professor: Composite structures, CAD/CAM, durability and damage tolerance, structural mechanics, expert systems, educational productivity, methods for design, analysis, and testing.
 
Sunil K. Agrawal, Ph.D. (Stanford), Associate Professor: Control of mechanical systems, robotics, optimization.
 
Thomas S. Buchanan, Ph.D. (Northwestern), Associate Professor: Musculoskeletal biomechanics, neural control of movement, medical imaging.
 
Ian W. Hall, Ph.D. (Leeds), Associate Professor: Metal matrix composites, microscopy, materials science.
 
Michael Keefe, Ph.D. (Minnesota), Associate Professor: Computer-aided design, mechanical design, system modeling and synthesis in design.
 
Azar Parvizi-Majidi, Ph.D. (Surrey), Associate Professor: Fracture and failure of composites, ceramic matrix composites, experimental methods, corrosion.
 
Ajay K. Prasad, Ph.D. (Stanford), Associate Professor: Particle imaging techniques for fluid mechanics and heat transfer, centrifugal instabilities, thermal, convection, viscous flow.
 
R. Valery Roy, Ph.D. (Rice), Associate Professor: Nonlinear stochastic and deterministic dynamics, chaotic dynamics, vibrations, numerical analysis, applied mathematics.
 
Michael H. Santare, Ph.D. (Northwestern), Associate Professor: Fracture mechanics, continuum mechanics, composite structures, orthopedic biomechanics.
 
Jian-Qiao Sun, Ph.D. (California, Berkeley), Associate Professor: Random vibrations, conrols, actuator and sensor design.
 
Anthony S. Wexler, Ph.D. (California Institute of Technology), Associate Professor: Atmospheric aerosols, air pollution modeling, biomedical engineering.
 
John M. Lambros, Ph.D. (California Institute of Technology), Assistant Professor: Dynamic and quasi-static fracture, failure mechanics of composites, constitutive modeling of advanced materials.
 
Hai Wang, Ph.D. (Pennsylvania State), Assistant Professor: Combustion-generated pollutants, halogenated hydrocarbon combustion.
 
Lian-Ping Wang, Ph.D. (Washington State), Assistant Professor: Computational fluid dynamics, turbulence, multiphase flows, chaotic dynamics in fluids.
 

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