Faculty Research
Chemical and Biochemical Engineering
| Gregory R. Carmichael | Atmospheric transport chemistry modeling; high speed computing and sensitivity analysis. |
| David W. Murhammer | Biochemical engineering; insect cell culture; oxidative stress in cell culture; application of sensors to bioreactor monitoring and control. |
| Tonya L. Peeples | Biochemical engineering; extremophile physiology; bioremediation. |
| David G. Rethwisch | Membrane separations; polymer science; catalysis. |
| Alec B. Scranton | Photopolymerization. |
| Charles O. Stanier | Atmospheric carbon dioxide; ultrafine atmospheric particles; atmospheric chemistry; aerosol health effects; organic aerosol chemistry. |
| Mani V. Subramanian | Biochemistry; Bioinformatics; Biotechnology; Molecular Biology. |
Civil and Environmental Engineering
| Nandita Basu | Contaminant fate and transport; watershed modeling; environmental and ecosystem hydrology; ecosystem restoration; human impacts on the environment; water resource sustainability. |
| A. Allen Bradley, Jr. | Hydrology; hydrometeorology. |
| George Constantinescu | Environmental engineering; fluid Mechanics; hydraulics; computational fluid dynamics; parallel computing. |
| William E. Eichinger | Hydrology and fluid mechanics in the environment; atmospheric pollution control and remediation; optical remote sensing; Lidar (laser radar); nuclear physics; engineering. |
| Keri Hornbuckle | Cycling of organic contaminants in aquatic and terrestrial systems. |
| Craig L. Just | Phytoremediation of
explosives; water quality and cyberinfrastructure; fate determination of
contaminants during wastewater treatment; poverty reduction and community building in poorer countries such as Guatemala, Mexico and Haiti. |
| Witold F. Krajewski | Hydrology and hydrometeorology; radar and satellite remote sensing; water resources systems. |
| Hosin "David" Lee | Transportation engineering; construction management, highway engineering; pavement materials; pavement design; infrastructure management dystem; digital image processing; non-destructive evaluation; geographic information system. |
| Timothy E. Mattes | Environmental engineering; microbiology; biochemistry; molecular biology. |
| Marian V. I. Muste | River hydraulics; cyberinfrastructure-based information systems for eco-hydrological observatories; uncertainty and risk analyses; laboratory and field instrumentation and data acquisition systems; remote experimentation and international engineering education. |
| Wilfrid A. Nixon | Water highway maintenance; ice engineering; mechanical properties of ice. |
| A. Jacob Odgaard | Environmental fluid mechanics; hydraulic engineering; hydraulic structures; hydraulic modeling; river engineering; river mechanics. |
| Thanos Papanicolaou | Transport of cohesionless and cohesive sediments; watershed sedimentation processes, environmental and fluvial hydraulics; river mechanics and morphology; turbulent flow; experimental methods. |
| Gene F. Parkin | Environmental engineering; environmental biotechnology; bioremediation. |
| Michelle M. Scherer | Fe redox cycling and biogeochemistry; nanoscience in geochemistry; environmental chemistry; ground water remediation; Mössbauer spectroscopy and electrochemistry. |
| Jerald L. Schnoor | Water quality modeling; aquatic chemistry; biogeochemistry. |
| Richard L. Valentine | Chemistry; environmental chemistry; chemical engineering. |
| Larry J. Weber | Modeling of fish passage facilities; hydraulic structures and river restoration and protection of endangered species. |
Electrical and Computer Engineering
| Er-Wei Bai | Modeling, control, signal processing and the application to energy efficiency. |
| Thomas L. Casavant | Bioinformatics, computational biology, genome sequence analysis, software tools for human disease mutation identification, computer architecture; parallel processing; distributed computing; software engineering. |
| Gary E. Christensen | Medical image processing, high performance computing, software engineering, green computing. |
| Anton Kruger | Geophysical measurements; visualizing and managing large geophysical data sets; particle image volocimetry and image processing; embedded systems. |
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
| P. Barry Butler | Thermophysics of condensed-phase energetic materials; multiphase reactive flow; shock physics; thermodynamics of reactive processes. |
| Lea-Der Chen | Combustion; thermodynamics; fluid mechanics; heat transfer; fuel cell. |
| Andrew Kusiak | Computational intelligence; data mining; operations research; engineering design; manufacturing. Predictive Engineering in Wind Energy, May 23, 2008, presentation at WINDPOWER 2008, the American Wind Energy Association Conference |
| Ching-Long Lin | Four-dimensional data assimilation; large-eddy simulation; level-set method; lattice-Boltzmann method; turbulence dynamics. |
| Albert Ratner | Combustion; laser diagnostics; reacting and unsteady flows; combustion instability; reaction layer dynamics. |
| H. S. Udaykumar | Computational fluid dynamics; Moving boundaries interacting with flows; Biofluid mechanics; Materials processing. |