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Faculty
(include .upenn.edu at the end of each email address ---
i.e. person@seas.upenn.edu) |
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Paulo E. Arratia, Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Micro- and Nanofluidics, Complex Fluids such as polymeric & biological materials, Transport Phenomena with emphasis on fluid & nonlinear dynamics, Rheology, and Soft-Condensed Matter including granular media.
Email: parratia@seas (.upenn.edu)
Phone: 215-746-2174
Office: 275 Towne
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Portonovo
S. Ayyaswamy, Asa Whitney Professor of Dynamical
Engineering
Research Interests: Phase change heat and mass transfer
processes, bioheat/mass transfer, arc-plasma heat transfer,
thermal aspects in MEMS.
Email: ayya@seas (.upenn.edu)
Phone: 215-898-8362
Office: 229B Towne Building
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John
L. Bassani, Chair and Richard H. and S. L. Gabel Professor in Mechanical
Engineering
Research Interests: Plastic deformation
of crystals, atomic/continuum property relationships, interface
mechanics, fracture mechanics, material stability at large
strains, mechanics of living cells.
Email: bassani@seas (.upenn.edu)
Phone: 215-898-5632
Office: 231 Towne Building
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| Haim
H. Bau, Professor
Research Interests: Bifurcation and instability phenomena
in and feedback control of flows; transport phenomena in micron
and submicron size structures, meso- and microelectromechanical
systems.
Email: bau@seas (.upenn.edu)
Phone: 215-898-8363
Office: 237 Towne Building
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| George
Biros, Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Computational science and engineering,
optimization algorithms, inverse problems, computational
fluid mechanics, integral equations, fast multipole methods,
parallel and scientific computing
Email: biros.at.seas.dot.upenn.dot.edu
Phone: 215-898-3108
Office: 220 Towne Building
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Robert Carpick, Associate Professor
Research Interests: Experimental nanomechanics and nanotribology (friction, adhesion, lubrication, wear). Development, characterization, and applications of nanostructured materials. Application and development of advanced scanning force microscopy tools.
Email: carpick@seas (.upenn.edu)
Phone: 215-898-4608
Office: 271 Towne Building
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| Howard
H. Hu, Associate Professor
Research Interests: Modeling of complex flows with
multiphase or polymeric fluids, computational fluid dynamics,
hydrodynamic stability.
Email: hhu@seas (.upenn.edu)
Phone: 215-898-8504
Office: 241 Towne Building
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Katherine J. Kuchenbecker, Skirkanich Assistant Professor of Innovation in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics
Research Interests:
Haptic (touch-based) interaction; design and control of haptic interfaces for virtual environments and teleoperation; identification of dynamic systems; understanding human upper-limb movement; developing medical devices and medical robotic systems.
Email: kuchenbe@seas (.upenn.edu)
Phone: 215-573-2786
Office: 224 Towne
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Vijay
Kumar, Associate Dean; UPS Foundation Professor
Research Interests: Robotics, dynamics of systems
with frictional contacts, actively coordinated mobility
systems, mechanism design and control.
Email: kumar@cis (.upenn.edu)
Phone: 215-898-3630
Office: 470 Levine Building
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| Noam
Lior, Professor
Research Interests: Heat transfer and fluid mechanics,
thermodynamics and Second-Law analysis, energy conversion,
solar energy, combustion, flash evaporation and water desalination,
destruction of hazardous wastes by photocatalysis and supercritical
oxidation, heat treatment.
Email: lior@seas (.upenn.edu)
Phone: 215-898-4803
Office: 212 Towne Building
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Jennifer
R. Lukes, Associate Professor
Research Interests: Molecular dynamics simulation,
molecular mechanical engineering, micro/nanoscale heat transfer.
Email: jrlukes@seas (.upenn.edu)
Phone: 215-898-3254
Office: 222 Towne Building
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Pedro
Ponte Castañeda, Professor and Graduate Group Chair
Research Interests: Nonlinear composite and polycrystalline
materials, fracture mechanics, microstructure evolution
and localization in manufacturing processes, nonlinear variational
principles in mechanics
Email: ponte@lrsm (.upenn.edu)
Phone: 215-898-5046
Office: 235 Towne Building
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Prashant Purohit, Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Rod theories for DNA
and biopolymers, mechanics of sub-cellular organelles, mechanics
at the bio-nano interface, martensitic phase transitions
in solids.
Email: purohit@seas (.upenn.edu)
Phone: 215-898-3870
Office: 210 Towne Building
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Mark
Yim, Associate Professor and Undergraduate Curriculum Chair
Research Interests: Modular reconfigurable robots
and locomotion, PolyBot; MEMS and batch fabrication techniques;
brute force digital time optimal control.
Email: yim@grasp (.upenn.edu)
Phone: 215-898-5269
Office: 229A Towne Building
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Affiliated
Faculty and Graduate Group
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| Michael
Carchidi, Senior Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering and Applied
Mechanics
Research Interests: Engineering mathematics and
systems modeling.
Email: carchidi@seas (.upenn.edu)
Phone: 215-898-8342
Office: 208 Towne Building
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| Thomas
A.V. Cassel, Professor of Practice, Mechanical Engineering
and Applied Mechanics
Research Interests: Engineering Entrepreneurship.
Email: tcassel@seas (.upenn.edu)
Phone: 215-898-9016
Office: 310 Towne Building
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| Stuart
Churchill, Carl V. S. Patterson Professor Emeritus of
Chemical Engineering
Research Interests: Combustion, incineration, crystal
growth, rate processes and correlation, computerized analysis.
Email: churchil@seas (.upenn.edu)
Phone: 215-898-5579
Office: 380 Towne Building
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page
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| Dennis
E. Discher, Professor of Chemical and
Biomolecular Engineering and of Mechanical Engineering and
Applied Mechanics
Research Interests: Mechanics and structural assemblies
of biomolecules, mechanochemistry of cells, mechanics and
statistical mechanics of networks and complex fluids
Email: discher@seas (.upenn.edu)
Phone: 215-898-8342
Office: 129 Towne Building
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| David
M. Eckmann, Horatio C. Wood Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care; Professor of Bioengineering
Research Interests: Experimental and computational
biofluid dynamics, interfacial fluid mechanics, molecular
mechanics of cellular activation and biological adhesion
to vascular tissue and biomimetic materials.
Email: deckmann@mail.med (.upenn.edu)
Phone: 215-349-5348
Office: 779 Dulles Building
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page
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Dawn
M. Elliott, Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery
and Bioengineering
Research Interests: Orthopaedic biomechanics of
the intervertebral disc; anisotropic, nonlinear, and viscoelastic
biomechanics; models of disc degeneration; structure-function
of the disc.
Email: delliott@mail.med (.upenn.edu)
Phone: 215-898-5583
Office: 424 Stemmler
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page
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Robert
L. Jeffcoat, Adjunct Professor
Email: rlj@seas (.upenn.edu)
Phone: 215-898-5791
Office: 318 Towne Building
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Daniel
Koditschek, Alfred Fitler Moore
Professor and Department Chair of ESE
Research Interests:
Application of dynamical systems theory to intelligent mechanisms
issues, sensor driven dynamically dexterous robot manipulation,
learning piecewise linear functional approximants, computational
neuromechanics.
Email: kod@seas
(.upenn.edu)
Phone: 215-898-9241
Office: 203
Moore
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| Charles
J. McMahon, Jr., Professor Emeritus of Material Science
and Engineering
Research Interests: Mechanisms of intergranular
embrittlement and fracture in high-strength structural materials,
especially as related to environmental effects. Current
interests are dynamic embrittlement in nickel and copper-based
alloys and in steels.
Phone: 215-898-7979
Office: 400 LRSM
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page
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| George
Pappas, Associate Professor and Graduate
Group Chair, Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering;
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Applied
Mechanics; Director, GRASP Laboratory
Research Interests: Hybrid systems, hierarchical
control systems, embedded real-time systems, nonlinear systems,
geometric control theory, robotics, unmanned aerial vehicles,
formation control systems, distributed control of multi-agent
systems.
Email: pappasg@ee (.upenn.edu)
Phone: 215-898-9780
Office: 354 Moore
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Gianluca Piazza, Assistant Professor, Electrical and Systems Engineering
Research Interests: Micro/NanoElectroMechanical
Systems (MEMS/NEMS), Piezoelectric Materials, Wireless Transducers,
Sensors and Actuators, Biochemical Detectors, Micro/Nanofabrication
Techniques.
Email: piazza@seas (.upenn.edu)
Phone: 215-573-2812
Office: 360 GRW Moore Bldg
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page
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Talid R. Sinno, Associate Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics
Research Interests: Transport and reaction in electronic materials processing, computational and statistical mechanical modeling
Email: talid@seas(.upenn.edu)
Phone: 215-898-2511
Office: 354 Towne Bldg.
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| Louis
J. Soslowsky, Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and of
Bioengineering, Director of Orthopaedic Research
Research Interests: Orthopedic biomechanics; structure-function
studies of tendons and ligaments; models of tendon injury,
repair, and healing; shoulder joint mechanics.
Email: soslowsk@mail.med (.upenn.edu)
Phone: 215-898-8653
Office: 424 Stemmler
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page
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| Camillo
J. Taylor, Assistant Professor of Computer and Information
Science
Research Interests: Reconstructing and rerendering
3D scenes from 2D images and vision guided robotic systems.
Email: cjtaylor@cis (.upenn.edu)
Phone: 215-898-0376
Office: 260 Moore
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page
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| Karl
T. Ulrich, CIBC Professor of Operations and
Information Management (Wharton School) and Chairperson
Research Interests: Product design, product development,
technology development, personal transportation, environmental
issues
Email: ulrich@opim.wharton (.upenn.edu)
Phone: 215-898-6727
Office: 547 Jon M. Huntsman Hall
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page
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| Vaclav
Vitek, Professor of Materials Science and
Engineering, and of Mechanical Engineering and Applied
Mechanics
Research Interests: Computer modeling of the structure
and properties of grain boundaries, metal-metal and metal-ceramic
interfaces, dislocations and other lattice defects.
Email: vitek@lrsm (.upenn.edu)
Phone: 215-898-7883
Office: 218 LRSM
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page
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Beth A. Winkelstein,
Associate Professor of Bioengineering and Assistant
Professor of Neurosurgery
Research Interests: Biomechanics of painful neck injuries; mechanical and cellular mechanisms of pain onset and persistence; CNS neuroimmune responses of pain; cervical spine biomechanics; understanding the role of injury mechanics in the physiology of pain.
Email: winkelst@seas (.upenn.edu)
Phone: 215-573-4589
Office: 117 Hayden Hall
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Lecturers |
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Jonathan P. Fiene, Lecturer
Email:
jfiene@seas (.upenn.edu)
Phone: 215-573-6581
Office: 346 Towne
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Bruce Kothmann, Lecturer
Email: kothmann@seas (.upenn.edu)
Phone: 215-898-4817
Office: 320 Towne
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