Our faculty work in thermal and fluid sciences, micro/nano mechanics, photonics, tribology, and energy-water nexus.
Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Research Interests: Fatigue and Fracture, electrochemistry and corrosion, computational materials, reliability, thermodynamics and heat transfer, failure mechanics
Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Research Interests: Additive Manufacturing, advanced materials, failure mechanics
Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Research Interests: Additive Manufacturing, Tribology, Multiscale Contact and Interface Mechanics, High Temperature Materials, Thin Films/Coatings, Surface Engineering, Failure Mechanics
Instructor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Colleen Berg has been an instructor in Mechanical Engineering since 2006.
Professor, Bioengineering and Mechanical Engineering
Research Interests: Stroke, cerebral aneurysms, blood flow, image-based modeling, patient-specific modeling, computational fluid dynamics, hemodynamics, modeling medical devices
Professor and Director of Mason Autonomy and Robotics Center (MARC); First American Bank Chair
Research Interests: Human-unmanned vehicle interaction, human-autonomous system collaboration, human-systems engineering, public policy implications of unmanned vehicles, ethical and social impact of technology
Professor of Practice, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Research Interests: Space situational awareness
Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Research Interests: Materials Science, Carbon Nanomaterials, Energy, Water, Biomedical
Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Zelalem Eshete is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering.
Adjunct Professor and Affiliate Faculty, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Research Interests: Systems Engineering Theory, Engineering Design, Design Optimization, Space Exploration and Trajectory Optimization, Aviation and Collision Risk