Faculty

Meng Wang

Professor, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering

Areas of Interest

Aeroacoustics/hydroacoustics; aero-optics; flow control; turbulence; computational fluid dynamics

Jing Wang

Associate Teaching Professor, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering

Assistant Director of Undergraduate Studies

Areas of Interest

CAD/CAM, solid mechanics, statics, dynamics, mechanics of materials

Maria Warren

Assistant Teaching Professor, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering

Areas of Interest

CAD/CAM, experiential learning, experimental mechanics, solid mechanics

Patrick Wensing

Associate Professor, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering

Areas of Interest

Dynamic systems and control with focus on applications in robotics

Nicholas Zabaras

Viola D. Hank Professor of Computational Science and Engineering, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering

Areas of Interest

Uncertainty quantification and predictive modeling; bayesian statistics; scientific computing; multiscale modeling; inverse problems; computational materials science; materials genome; computational mathematics, computational physics

Matthew Zahr

Assistant Professor, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering

Areas of Interest

Model reduction; finite element and discontinuous galerkin methods, high-order discretizations, numerical methods for handling shocks and other discontinuities, topology optimization, PDE-constrained optimization, multiphysics and multiscale problems, and uncertainty quantification

Yanliang Zhang

Associate Professor, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering

Areas of Interest

Additive manufacturing and scalable nanomanufacturing, thermal and thermoelectric energy conversion, harvesting and storage, advanced sensors, and autonomous materials discovery

Pinar Zorlutuna

Sheehan Family Collegiate Professor of Engineering

Acting Associate Dean for Diversity and Faculty Development

Areas of Interest

Soft tissue mechanics, bioengineering, tissue engineering, mechanobiology