Professors

Acting Department Head Kevin Pope: Chemically reactive multiphase flows, Energy systems, energy storage, Second Law applications to thermal / fluids, Energy efficiency, process integration

Geoff Rideout: Automated model generation and simplification in robotic, land, and sea vehicles

Sima Alidokht: Materials and Surface Engineering, Coating Tribology, Welding Metallurgy and Additive Manufacturing, Multi-Scale Materials Characterization, Thermal Spray Processes

Mohammad Al Janaideh: Mechatronics, Nano-positioning, Motion control systems, Dynamic systems and control

Maha Bhouri: Heat transfer, reactive porous media, solid hydrogen storage systems, thermochemical heat storage, latent heat thermal energy storage systems, renewable and non-renewable energy storage and conversion processes

Oscar De Silva: State estimation, control systems, nonlinear dynamics, navigation systems, sensor design, localization and mapping, intelligent prosthetics

Xili Duan: Phase change heat transfer, heat transfer with nanofluids and micro/nano-engineered structures, combustion thermal design and thermal management/cooling of electronic and power systems, multiphase flow and separation and petroleum and petrochemical process machinery

Ahmed Youssri Elruby: Elastoplastic Behavior, Failure and Mechanical Characterization, Large Scale Impact Testing, Multiscale Finite Element Analysis

George Mann: Autonomous robot control and navigation, intelligent control, multi-variable control, image analysis and vision-based robotic navigation

Yuri Muzychka: Heat transfer, fluid dynamics, two-phase flow, process flow modelling, micro/mini-channel flows, thermal design and optimization of heat exchangers, electronics packaging and cooling

Sam Nakhla: CAD and FEA for modelling, simulation, analysis and design, structural health monitoring (metal corrosion and composites), modelling and simulation of medical equipment

Baafour Nyantekyi-Kwakye: Turbulent structures in separated and reattached flows, atomization in gas turbines, river ice processes, ice jam and border ice stability

Anand Sharan: Robotics, rotor dynamics and CAE

Rocky Taylor: Ice-load estimation for the design of offshore structures and the mechanics of compressive ice failure

James Yang: Nonlinear dynamics, random dynamics and applied mechanics

Ting Zou: Mechatronics, intelligent systems, mechanism design, robotics, sensor fusion, nonlinear control