Faculty Research Interests
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- Compliant Mechanisms, Wearables and exoskeletons, Human-centered product design
- Scientific Visualization
- Immersive environments
- STEM Education
- Fluid Power
- Machine Systems
- Mechanical Design
- Thin film sensors
- Conceptual Understanding, Mental Models
- Vibration/Acoustic Modeling and Control
- Adaptive Control
- Engineering Technology Education
- CTE
- K-12 Pathways System Development
- Industry Education
- Robotics and automation
- Human-robot interaction
- Renewable energy systems
- Electric vehicles charging systems
- Smart nano & micro-grids
- Digital/biomedical embedded hardware/software co-designs
- Healthcare technology with embedded intelligence
- AI-based bio-data augmentation
- Programming and implementation of embedded systems in real time applications. Wireless communication and mobile app cross platform development.
- Student mentoring; helping students transition from the classroom to the workforce. New technologies related to embedded systems, robotics and mobile application cross-platform programming and integration.
- Experimental Mechanics
- Noise and Vibration
- Stringed Instrument Design
- Compliant robotics manipulation
- Robotics design
- Human robot interaction
- Industrial automation
- Fluid Power & Motion Control
- Reverse Osmosis Systems
- Digital Twin
- Computer-Aided Design (CAD), Rapid Prototyping, Generative Design
- Student Internship Opportunities, Authoring for Certification Exams, Metrology, 3D Scanning Technologies
- Electronic warfare
- Automotive electronics
- STEM Education
- Children Career Perceptions in Industry
- Manufacturing Pathways
- Career and Technical Education (CTE)
- Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)
- Digital Enterprise
- CAD data exchange and interoperability
- Industry 4.0
- Model-based definition
- Long-term archival (LOTAR) for CAD data
- The Science and Practice of Complex Collaboration
- Agile Approaches to Strategy
- Organization and Ecosystem Design and Transformation
- Executive Presence
- High-Performing Teams
- HVAC Systems
- Building Automation
- Renewable Energy Systems
- 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
- Audio electronics
- Analog electronic circuit design
- The art and technology of teaching
- High Resolution Compositional Analysis
- Middle Distillate Transportation Fuels
- Trustworthy Electronics
- Hearing transducers
- Sensors
- Monitoring systems
- Electroacoustics
- Operations Excellence
- Lean Sustainability
- Six Sigma
- Industry 4.0
- Quality 5.0
- Operations Research and Applied ML/AI
- Transportation/Logistics/Supply Chain
- Data-driven Transportation Services (digital twins, delivery robots, drones, connected and automated vehicles, etc.)
- Human-Centric Manufacturing
- Smart Manufacturing
- Reconfigurable Manufacturing
- Machine/Deep Learning
- Sustainable Manufacturing
- Power Electronics
- Power Systems
- Applied Control
- Energy - Production, Renewable
- Materials - All Aspects
- Engineering Techology Education
- Additive Manufacturing
- Smart Manufacturing
- Education about Technical Standards
- Quality Control for Manufacturing
- CAD use in Industry
- Thermal-fluid systems, electrochemical engineering
- Machine Learning
- Text Mining
- Decision Support Systems
- Human Factors
- Safety
- Healthcare
- Natural Language Processing
- Neuromorphic and memristive systems
- Bioelectronics, organic and physically flexible electronics
- Organic chemical sensors
- Functional Materials
- Supply Chain Management Operations
- Graduate Education
- Human Resource Development
- Industrial Training
- Quality Management
- heat transfer
- fluid mechanics
- thermodynamics
- energy storage
- internal combustion engines
- turbulence
- 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
- Simulation and troubleshooting of manufacturing processes
- Solidification processing (welding, casting, additive)
- Machining
- Metal forming
- Assistive Robotics
- Controls
- Energy management, Renewable energy control, Hybrid electric vehicle, Robotics and automation
- Design and application of embedded Microcontroller Systems
- Student Motivation, and Learning in Context
- Hydrogen Energy Technologies
- Sustainablity and Green Buildings
- Engineering Education
- Energy Education and Energy Conservation
- Energy Systems
- Robotics
- Controls
- Statistical quality control
- Design of experiments
- Total productive maintenance
- Production facilities planning
- Productivity management
- 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
- Engineering economic analysis
- Statistical methods in technology
- Adult education and distance learning strategies
- Electrical Power Systems
- Smart Energy
- Smart Grid
- Distributed Sensing
- Robotics
- Embedded Systems
- Human/Robot Interaction
- Materials Processing
- Materials Characterization
- Materials chemistry
- Lightweight metals
- Liquid metals
- Educational Research, Engineering Design, Project-Based Learning, Computer-Aided Design, Engineering Product Definition
- Undergraduate Technical Writing with Peer Tutors, Estimating Energy Storage Needs
- Renewable Energy, Energy Storage, Power Electronics, Engineering Education
- Advanced Manufacturing Control
- Vehicle Powertrain/Automatic Transmission Design
- Mechatronics and Robotics
