Graduate Faculty

Graduate Faculty
Name	Title	Contact Info	Research Interests
Aguirre, Milton	Assistant Professor	Grad ID #: C1208 765-496-0782 meaguirr@purdue.edu	Milton is accepting M.S. and Ph.D. candidates!, Compliant Mechanisms, Wearables and exoskeletons, Human-centered product design
Athinarayanan, Ragu	Professor	Grad ID #: C8248 765-494-0448 rathinar@purdue.edu
Berry, Frederick Clayton	Professor	Grad ID #: C10326 765-494-8294 berryf@purdue.edu
Breidi, Farid	Assistant Professor	Grad ID #: C11366 (765) 496-5140 breidi@purdue.edu	Fluid Power, Machine Systems, Mechanical Design
Burbank, Ken	Professor and Head, School of Engineering Technology	Grad ID #: C8318 765-494-7514 kburbank@purdue.edu	Thin film sensors
Camba, Jorge Dorribo	Associate Professor	Grad ID #: C10582 765-496-0629 jdorribo@purdue.edu
Condron, James	Assistant Professor of Practice	Grad ID #: C9243 765-496-6249 jcondron@purdue.edu
Creasy, M. Austin	Associate Professor	Grad ID #: C9955 765-494-6081 mcreasy@purdue.edu	Vibration/Acoustic Modeling and Control, Adaptive Control, Engineering Technology Education
Diao, Xiumin	Associate Professor	Grad ID #: C9287 765-494-2212 diaox@purdue.edu	Robotics and automation, Human-robot interaction
Dickey, John	Limited Term Lecturer	dickey7@purdue.edu
Dunlap, Duane D	Professor and Chair	Grad ID #: C3553 765-494-1098 ddunlap@purdue.edu
El-Shahat, Adel	Assistant Professor - Energy Technology	Grad ID #: C11753 765-496-0781 asayedah@purdue.edu	Renewable energy systems, Electric vehicles charging systems, Smart nano & micro-grids
Faezipour, Miad	Associate Professor	Grad ID #: C11673 765-494-7079 mfaezipo@purdue.edu	Digital/biomedical embedded hardware/software co-designs, Healthcare technology with embedded intelligence, AI-based bio-data augmentation
French, Richard Mark	Professor	Grad ID #: C6321 765-494-7521 rmfrench@purdue.edu	Experimental Mechanics, Noise and Vibration, Stringed Instrument Design
Fuehne, Joseph P.	Professor Emeritus	Grad ID #: C6181 812-348-2040 jfuehne@purdue.edu
Fuerst, Travis	Assistant Professor of Practice	Grad ID #: 765-496-1831 fuerstt@purdue.edu
Gan, Dongming	Associate Professor	Grad ID #: C11103 765-496-0517 dgan@purdue.edu	Compliant robotics manipulation, Robotics design, Human robot interaction, Industrial automation
Garcia-Bravo, José M.	Associate Head for Faculty Affairs and Associate Professor	Grad ID #: C8765 765-494-7312 jmgarcia@purdue.edu	Fluid Power & Motion Control, Reverse Osmosis Systems, Digital Twin
Hartman, Nathan W	Associate Head for Manufacturing and Dauch Family Professor of Advanced Manufacturing	Grad ID #: C6030 765-496-4223 nhartman@purdue.edu	Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Digital Enterprise, CAD data exchange and interoperability, Industry 4.0, Model-based definition, Long-term archival (LOTAR) for CAD data
Hedrick, Gregory	Chief Information Security Officer	hedrick@purdue.edu
Hutcheson, Scott	Senior Lecturer, Engineering & Technology Leadership	Grad ID #: C10047 765-479-7704 hutcheson@purdue.edu	The Science and Practice of Complex Collaboration, Agile Approaches to Strategy, Organization and Ecosystem Design and Transformation, Executive Presence, High-Performing Teams
Hutzel, William J.	Professor	Grad ID #: C4524 765-494-7528 hutzelw@purdue.edu	HVAC Systems, Building Automation, Renewable Energy Systems
Izadian, Afshin	Associate Professor	Grad ID #: 317-274-7881 aizadian@purdue.edu	Nonlinear and Adaptive Control Systems, Electric Machines, Fault Diagnosis, Energy Harvesting, Hybrid Electric Vehicles, Renewable Energy, Energy Systems, Microgrids, Electric Power Systems, Electrical Energy Conversion, Battery Modeling and Control, Nonlinear Control Systems, Adaptive Controls, Optical Energy Conversion, Micro Fabrication, Digital Microfluidics
Kilaz, Gozdem	Associate Professor (with courtesy appt. in SATT)	Grad ID #: C9026 765-494-7486 gkilaz@purdue.edu	High Resolution Compositional Analysis, Middle Distillate Transportation Fuels, Trustworthy Electronics
Kim, Noori	Assistant Professor	Grad ID #: C12290 765-496-2676 kim4147@purdue.edu	Hearing transducers, Sensors, Monitoring systems, Electroacoustics
Le, Tho	Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering Technology	Grad ID #: C12108 765-496-2675 thovle@purdue.edu	Operations Research and Applied ML/AI, Transportation/Logistics/Supply Chain, Data-driven Transportation Services (digital twins, delivery robots, drones, connected and automated vehicles, etc.)
Leach, Sarah E.	Professor Emeritus	Grad ID #: C9744 765-494-7872 leachs@purdue.edu
Lee, Sunghwan	Associate Professor	Grad ID #: C10764 765-496-2119 sunghlee@purdue.edu
Leon-Salas, Walter Daniel	Associate Professor	Grad ID #: C8812 765-494-7493 wleonsal@purdue.edu
Li, Xingyu	Assistant Professor	Grad ID #: 765-496-2678 li4558@purdue.edu	Human-Centric Manufacturing, Smart Manufacturing, Reconfigurable Manufacturing, Machine/Deep Learning, Sustainable Manufacturing
Lu, Xiaonan	Associate Professor	Grad ID #: C12090 765-494-0303 xiaonanlu@purdue.edu	Power Electronics, Power Systems, Applied Control
Lucietto, Anne M	Associate Professor	Grad ID #: C9542 765-496-0170 lucietto@purdue.edu	Energy - Production, Renewable, Materials - All Aspects, Engineering Techology Education
Mao, Huachao	Assistant Professor	Grad ID #: C11142 765-496-3965 mao145@purdue.edu	Additive Manufacturing, Smart Manufacturing
McPherson, Paul	Associate Professor of Practice	Grad ID #: C9641 7654960200 pmcphers@purdue.edu	Education about Technical Standards , Quality Control for Manufacturing, CAD use in Industry
Nawrocki, Robert A	Assistant Professor	Grad ID #: C10392 765-494-5039 rnawroc@purdue.edu	Neuromorphic and memristive systems, Bioelectronics, organic and physically flexible electronics, Organic chemical sensors, Functional Materials
Newell, Brittany	Associate Professor	Grad ID #: C9026 765-494-7724 bnewell1@purdue.edu
Newton, Kathryne A	Professor	Grad ID #: C4155 765-494-6875 kanewton@purdue.edu	Supply Chain Management Operations, Graduate Education, Human Resource Development, Industrial Training, Quality Management
Ostanek, Jason	Associate Professor	Grad ID #: C1025 765-494-9359 jostanek@purdue.edu	heat transfer, fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, energy storage, internal combustion engines, turbulence
Panigrahi, Suranjan	Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology	Grad ID #: C7825 765-494-6908 spanigr@purdue.edu	Smart sensors/sensing systems for automation, quality control, detection and diagnosis applications , Intelligent systems using artificial intelligent techniques including machine learning, Innovative products/processes for social challenges in low resource settings via interdisciplinary team approach
Rakita, Milan	Associate Professor of Practice	Grad ID #: C9288 765-496-0180 mrakita@purdue.edu	Simulation and troubleshooting of manufacturing processes, Solidification processing (welding, casting, additive), Machining, Metal forming
Rastgaar, Mo	Professor	Grad ID #: C10784 (765) 494-8634 rastgaar@purdue.edu	Assistive Robotics, Controls
Richards, Grant P	Associate Professor of Practice	Grad ID #: C8080 765-494-7496 grichard@purdue.edu
Schaffer, Andy	Professor Emeritus	aschaffe@purdue.edu
Sealy, Winston	Assistant Professor	Grad ID #: 765-496-0780 dwsealy@purdue.edu
Sheffield, John William	Professor	Grad ID #: C9421 573-201-4146 jsheffie@purdue.edu	Hydrogen Energy Technologies
Stephens, Matthew P	Professor	Grad ID #: C3929 765-494-1091 mpstephens@purdue.edu	Statistical quality control, Design of experiments, Total productive maintenance, Production facilities planning, Productivity management
Sundararajan, Raji	Professor	Grad ID #: C6884 765-494-6912 raji@purdue.edu	Electrical and laser pulse-mediated chemo drug/gene (DNA) delivery (to cancer cells, organs and humans) , Electrical and electronics applications to medicine, health care, and home health gadgets, Power and high voltage engineering, Energy technologies and applications, Modeling and simulation of biological systems
Sutton, Mathias J	Professor Emeritus	Grad ID #: C5032 765-494-1100 suttonmj@purdue.edu	Engineering economic analysis, Statistical methods in technology, Adult education and distance learning strategies
Voyles, Richard	Daniel C. Lewis Professor	Grad ID #: C9007 (765) 494-3733 rvoyles@purdue.edu	Robotics, Embedded Systems, Human/Robot Interaction
Wang, Xiaoming	Professor	Grad ID #: C8928 765-496-6092 wang1747@purdue.edu	Materials Processing , Materials Characterization, Materials chemistry , Lightweight metals, Liquid metals
Webster, Rustin Deane	Associate Professor	Grad ID #: C10366 309-253-1512 rwebste@purdue.edu	Engineering Design, Engineering Product Definition, Project-Based Learning (PBL)
Weissbach, Robert	Professor of Engineering Technology	Grad ID #: 317-274-7799 rweissba@purdue.edu	Undergraduate Technical Writing with Peer Tutors, Estimating Energy Storage Needs, Renewable Energy, Energy Storage, Power Electronics, Engineering Education
Zhang, Haiyan (Henry) H.	Professor, Director of Center for Technology Development	Grad ID #: C7209 765-494-7534 hhzhang@purdue.edu	Advanced Manufacturing Control, Vehicle Powertrain/Automatic Transmission Design, Mechatronics and Robotics

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