Faculty Research
Current Faculty
Cahit A. Evrensel, Associate Professor, Ph.D. Leigh University. Experimental and computational Fluid mechanics, biofluid/solid mechanics.Faramarz Gordaninejad, Professor, Ph.D. University of Oklahoma, ASME Fellow, UNR Foundation Professor. Mechanics of composite-material structures with application to thermally-conductive composites, composite bridges and connections; and smart materials with emphasize on SMA actuators, and controllable ER and MR fluids shock absorbers.
Miles Greiner, Professor, Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Experimental investigations and numerical simulations of enhanced forced convection heat transfer, large-scale fire heat transfer, gas turbine engine film cooling with large-scale unsteadiness, and nuclear waste transportation safety analysis.
Yanyao Jiang, Associate Professor, Ph.D. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, NSF CAREER grantee. Fatigue and fracture of materials and structures, inelastic constitutive relations, multi-axial deformation and fatigue, thermo-mechanical behaviors.
Kwang Kim, Associate Professor, Ph.D. Arizona State University, Active Materials and Energy Systems.
Shen-Yi Luo, Associate Professor, Ph.D., University of Delaware. Mechanics of composite and bio-materials, nonlinear multi-axial stress analysis, computational structural analysis.
Bradford Snyder, Associate Professor, Ph.D., University of Michigan and Ph.D., Northwestern University. Experimental and computational fluid mechanics.
Jonghwan Suhr, Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,Troy, NY. Synthesis and structural applications of nanostructured materials, fundamental nanomechanics and also renewable energy systems
Eric L. Wang, Associate Professor, Ph.D., University of California at Davis. Biomechanics, computer aided design, composite materials, ground vehicle dynamics and design of sports equipment.
Richard A. Wirtz, Professor, Ph.D., Rutgers University, ASME Fellow, UNR Foundation Professor. Convective heat transfer, with application to thermal control in electronics, heat transfer augmentation and thermal processing of materials.
Retired Faculty
Allen B. Gates, Department Interim Chair. System engineering, system analysis, manufacturing system design and simulation, lean manufacturing, engineering and technology management, innovation management,control engineering and renewable energy.Robert Turner, Professor Emeritus, P.E., Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles. Applied thermal sciences, system design and optimization, solar energy, industrial energy audits, geothermal energy.
