Directory - UW-Engineering Directory | College of Engineering @ The University of Wisconsin-Madison

Department Chair

Darryl Thelen

John Bollinger Chair of Mechanical Engineering
& Bernard A. and Frances M. Weideman Professor

Contact: dgthelen@wisc.edu, (608) 262-1902

Also: College of Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering

Research interests: Dynamics and control of human movement, Wearable sensors in biomechanics, Neuromuscular adaptation with age, injury and disease, Imaging of soft tissue mechanics, Application of biomechanics in orthopedics, reh...

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Other affiliations: Orthopedics and Rehabilitation

Faculty

Peter Adamczyk

Charles Ringrose Associate Professor

Contact: peter.adamczyk@wisc.edu, (608) 263-3231

Also: Biomedical Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research interests: Dr. Adamczyk directs the UW Biomechatronics, Assistive Devices, Gait Engineering and Rehabilitation Laboratory (UW BADGER Lab). Research interests...

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Mark Anderson

Associate Professor

Contact: manderson@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 263-2802

Also: Mechanical Engineering, Engineering Physics

Research interests: My research covers a wide breadth of fundamental physics and applications all relating to advanced energy utilization, energy extraction and energy production with the main focus on experimental thermal h...

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Other affiliations: Wisconsin Energy Institute

Joseph Andrews

Assistant Professor

Contact: joseph.andrews@wisc.edu, (608) 262-5343

Also: Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research interests: Printed and flexible electronics, Electronically transduced biosensors, Print process control systems, Electronics from nanomaterials, Sensor design and validation, Distributed sensing arrays

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Lianyi Chen

Charles Ringrose Associate Professor

Contact: lianyi.chen@wisc.edu, (608) 890-0664

Also: Materials Science and Engineering

Research interests: Additive manufacturing, metals design based on nanoelements, in-situ characterization, smart manufacturing

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Melih Eriten

Associate Professor

Contact: eriten@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 890-4899

Also: Materials Science and Engineering

Research interests: Multiscale materials modeling (friction, energy dissipation, and failure in multiscale structures and systems; continuum and atomistic modeling of interfaces; dislocations; plasticity; delamination), Multiscale...

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Christian Franck

Grainger Institute for Engineering Professor

Contact: cfranck@wisc.edu, (608) 265-8481

Also: Biomedical Engineering, Engineering Physics

Research interests: Experimental mechanics including digital image and volume correlation methods and 3D microscopy techniques. Soft matter and cell mechanics including cellular traumatic brain injury.

Kate Fu

Jay and Cynthia Ihlenfeld Associate Professor

Contact: kate.fu@wisc.edu, (608) 890-2779

Research interests: CAE & Design, Innovation, Creativity, Design Theory and Methodology, Computational Design Tools, Design Science, Design Co...

Jaal B. Ghandhi

Grainger Professor of Sustainable Energy

Contact: jaal.ghandhi@wisc.edu, (608) 263-1684

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Other affiliations: Engine Research Center

Corinne Henak

Assistant Professor

Contact: chenak@wisc.edu, (608) 263-1619

Also: Biomedical Engineering

Research interests: Mechanical and biological responses of cartilage to injury, Orthopedic soft tissue materials characterization, Finite element modeling

Other affiliations: Orthopedics and Rehabilitation

Eric Kazyak

Assistant Professor

Contact: kazyak@wisc.edu

Research interests: Energy and Sustainability, Batteries/energy storage, Electrochemistry, Operando and In situ characterization, Interfacial engineering, Atomic layer deposition, Earth-abundant materials,...

Sage Kokjohn

Associate Professor

Contact: kokjohn@wisc.edu, (608) 263-1610

Research interests: High efficiency energy conversion, Thermodynamics and fluid mechanics, Turbulent combustion modelling

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Other affiliations: Engine Research Center

Tom N. Krupenkin

Associate Professor

Contact: tnk@engr.wisc.edu

Research interests: Nanotechnology, Micro and nano-fluidics, Renewable energy

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Luca Mastropasqua

Assistant Professor

Contact: luca.mastropasqua@wisc.edu

Franklin Miller

Associate Professor

Contact: fkmiller@wisc.edu, (608) 263-2479

Also: Engineering Physics

Research interests: Cryogenics, Thermodynamics of Superfluid 3He-4He mixtures, Sub-Kelvin cooling for space science, Energy Systems

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Sangkee Min

Associate Professor
Grainger Institute for Engineering Faculty Scholar

Contact: sangkee.min@wisc.edu, (608) 262-1993

Research interests: New Manufacturing Paradigm: Manufacturing for Design (MFD), Ultra-precision machining technology, Manufacturing energy efficiency and strategy, Appropriate technology, Burr minimization and prevention, Digital ...

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Other affiliations: Grainger Institute for Engineering

Dan Negrut

Bernard A. and Frances M. Weideman Professor

Contact: negrut@wisc.edu, (608) 265-6124

Also: Electrical and Computer Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, Computer Sciences

Research interests:

Computational Dynamics (multi-body dynamics, fluid-solid interaction, friction & contact), high performance computing, robotics & autonomous vehicle simulation: https://sbel.wisc.edu. ...

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Gregory F. Nellis

William A. and Irene Ouweneel-Bascom Professor

Contact: gfnellis@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 265-6626

Also: Engineering Physics

Research interests: Please visit the Solar Energy Lab web page, http://sel.me.wisc.edu/, in order to learn more about the ongoing projects.

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Tim Osswald

Kuo K. and Cindy F. Wang Professor

Contact: tosswald@wisc.edu, (608) 263-9538

Also: Materials Science and Engineering

Research interests: Plastics Design, Extrusion, Injection Molding, Blow Molding, Film Blowing, Compression Molding, Composites, Modeling and Simulation in Polymer Processing and Composites, Biopolymers, Intellectual Property, Ethi...

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Other affiliations: Rheology Research Center

Wenxiao Pan

Associate Professor

Contact: wpan9@wisc.edu, (608) 263-4447

Also: College of Engineering

Research interests: Multi-scale Modeling, Machine Learning-enhanced Modeling and Simulation, Data-driven Approaches, Model Order Reduction, Soft Matter, Complex Fluids, Fluid-solid Interactions, En...

Frank Pfefferkorn

Professor
and Associate Chair for Graduate Studies

Contact: frank.pfefferkorn@wisc.edu, (608) 263-2668

Also: Materials Science and Engineering, Interdisciplinary Professional Programs, Manufacturing Systems Engineering

Research interests: Laser remelting-based polishing and structuring of metal alloys, Friction stir welding and processing, Friction surfacing / additive friction stir, Temperature measurement and control in manufacturing, Instrume...

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John Pfotenhauer

Professor

Contact: pfot@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 263-4082

Also: Engineering Physics

Research interests: Low temperature refrigeration, cryogenics, applied superconductivity

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Pavana Prabhakar

Charles G. Salmon Associate Professor

Contact: pavana.prabhakar@wisc.edu

Also: Mechanical Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Engineering Physics, Materials Science and Engineering

Research interests: Damage and failure mechanics of structural composite materials, life prediction of materials in extreme multi-physics environment; Advanced manufacturing of materials - additive manufacturing of hybrid material...

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Xiaoping Qian

Elmer R. and Janet Ambach Kaiser Professor
and Associate Chair for Research

Contact: qian@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 890-1925

Research interests:

CFD based optimization,

Design for additive manufacturing,

Topology and shape optimization of multi-physics systems,

Computer-aided geometric design,...

Douglas T. Reindl

Professor

Contact: dreindl@wisc.edu, (608) 262-6381

Also: Interdisciplinary Professional Programs

Research interests: Industrial refrigeration systems and technologies, safety and process safety management, renewable energy, advanced thermal storage technologies, thermal systems, HVAC systems

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Other affiliations: Industrial Refrigeration Consortium

Alejandro Roldán-Alzate

Associate Professor

Contact: roldan@wisc.edu, (608) 265-3696

Also: Biomedical Engineering

Research interests: Cardiovascular fluid dynamics, Medical imaging based computational fluid dynamics, Patient specific in vitro experiments, Patient specific virtual surgery, In vivo and In vitro 4D flow MRI, Particle Image Veloc...

Josh Roth

Assistant Professor

Contact: jdroth2@wisc.edu

Also: Biomedical Engineering

Research interests: Research in the lab utilizes a combination of experimental and computational methodologies and falls under three primary themes: 1. Transform the planning of personalized treatments for m...

Other affiliations: Orthopedics and Rehabilitation

David Rothamer

Robert Lorenz Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Contact: rothamer@wisc.edu, 608.890.2271

Also: Engineering Physics

Research interests: Laser based diagnostics, Internal combustion engines, Soot formation, Influence of fuel properties on combustion

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Other affiliations: Engine Research Center

Shiva Rudraraju

Assistant Professor
Grainger Institute for Engineering Faculty Scholar

Contact: shiva.rudraraju@wisc.edu

Research interests: Computational Mechanics, Multiphysics (Mechanics and Transport), Biophysics, Finite Element Method, IGA, High performance computing.

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Other affiliations: Grainger Institute for Engineering

Stephan Rudykh

Assistant Professor
Grainger Institute for Engineering Faculty Scholar

Contact: rudykh@wisc.edu, (608) 262-8193

Research interests: Mechanics of soft materials, elastic instabilities, micromechanics, 3D-printing of soft materials, soft biological and bio-inspired materials, acoustic/elastic metamaterials, waves in soft matter, active materi...

Scott T. Sanders

Professor

Contact: stsanders@wisc.edu, (608) 262-3540

Also: Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research interests: My group develops optical instrumentation and sensors that help solve critical problems in diverse areas including energy, manufacturing, and medicine. Ongoing projects include:High-speed laser gas thermo...

Other affiliations: Engine Research Center

Krishnan Suresh

Phil and Jean Myers Professor

Contact: ksuresh@wisc.edu, (608) 262-3594

Also: Engineering Physics

Research interests: Topology Optimization, Design for Additive Manufacturing, Computational Mechanics, High-Peformance Computing, Advanced Finite Element Analysis, Finite Element Mesh Generation

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Dakotah Thompson

Assistant Professor

Contact: drthompson@wisc.edu, (404) 944-4581

Research interests: Thermal energy transport and conversion, Calorimetry, Nanofabrication

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Mario Trujillo

Professor

Contact: mtrujillo@wisc.edu, (608) 262-0944

Also: Engineering Physics

Research interests: Modeling and Simulation of two-phase flows including:i) Liquid sprays in a crossflow (desuperheating and Urea SCR applications), ii) Liquid breakup and particle advection dynamics, iii) Multiple droplet impinge...

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Other affiliations: Engine Research Center

Lih-Sheng Turng

Consolidated Papers Foundation Professor sponsored by the Mead Witter Foundation

Contact: turng@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 262-0586

Also: Biomedical Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering

Research interests: Injection molding and innovative plastics manufacturing processes, bio-based polymers and tissue engineering scaffolds, microcellular injection molding (MuCell process), nanocomposites and electro-active polyme...

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Michael Wagner

Assistant Professor

Contact: mike.wagner@wisc.edu, +16088901910

Research interests: Renewable technology systems modeling and simulation, Energy storage dispatch optimization , High-temperature power generation technology design, Concentrating optics, Hybrid generation systems, Batte...

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Other affiliations: WEMPEC, Wisconsin Energy Institute

Michael Wehner

Assistant Professor

Contact: wehner2@wisc.edu, (608) 265-4459

Research interests: Robotics, embodied intellignece, machine interaction, soft systems, microfluidics, soft lithography, wearables, rehabilitation

Xiangru Xu

Assistant Professor

Contact: xiangru.xu@wisc.edu, (608) 262-2690

Also: Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research interests: Control theory, Control Systems, Autonomy, Cyber-physical systems, Convex optimization

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Michael R. Zinn

Associate Professor
and Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies

Contact: mzinn@wisc.edu, (608) 263-2893

Also: Biomedical Engineering

Research interests: Haptic interfaces and control, Robotic actuation technoloty and controls, Physical human-robot interaction design and control, Continuum and soft robotics, Minimally-invasive medical robotics, Manufacturing and...

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Lecturers and Faculty Associates

Arganthael Berson

Faculty Associate

Contact: berson2@wisc.edu, (608) 890-4646

Research interests: Multiphase flow and flow at interfaces; Evaporation driven self-assembly; Advanced flow diagnostic techniques (PIV, hot-wire anemometry, high-speed microscopy ...); Energy systems (fuel cells, thermoacoustics, ...

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Glenn Bower

Faculty Associate

Contact: grbower@facstaff.wisc.edu, (608) 576-3979

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Other affiliations: Engine Research Center

Michael Cheadle

Assistant Teaching Professor and Senior Design Program Coordinator

Contact: mcheadle@wisc.edu, (608) 890-3951

Research interests: Cryogenics, Superconducting Power Transmission, Energy Systems, Hybrid Solar Lighting

Michael De Cicco

Associate Lecturer

Contact: mdecicco@wisc.edu, (608) 890-1975

Kristofer Dressler

Assistant Teaching Professor

Contact: dressler@wisc.edu, (608) 265-2579

Research interests: Fluid Mechanics, Convective heat transfer, Drag Reduction, Wall shear measurents, Two-phase and annular flow, Waves and wave mechanics, Geophysical fluid mechanics

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Randy Jackson

Lecturer

Contact: rsjackson3@wisc.edu, (608) 263-2110

Research interests:

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Andrew Mikkelson

Associate Faculty Associate

Contact: mikkelso@cae.wisc.edu, (608) 890-4897

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Jason Oakley

Assistant Scientist, Lecturer

Contact: oakley@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 262-8832

Also: Engineering Physics

Erick L. Oberstar

PhD., P.E., Associate Faculty Associate, Mechatronics Lab Manager/Engineer

Contact: oberstar@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 262-6446

Research interests: Quantitative Angiography, Digital Subtraction Angiography, Fluoroscopy, X-ray - Metrology, Computed Tomography, medical devicesReal-Time Controls, Signal Processing, Image Processing, Embedded Systems, Instrume...

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Jeffrey Roessler

Lecturer

Contact: roessler@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 262-4815

Research interests: Distance Education, Computer-Aided-Design, Engineering Graphics

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Faculty Affiliates

Riccardo Bonazza

Associate Chair for Talent Development, Professor

Contact: riccardo.bonazza@wisc.edu, (608) 265-2337

Also: Mechanical Engineering

Research interests: Experimental fluid mechanics , impulsive, unsteady phenomena, shock tube applications, laser and X-ray imaging & measuring techniques

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Other affiliations: Nuclear Engineering

Curt Bronkhorst

Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies, Professor

Contact: cbronkhorst@wisc.edu, (608) 890-2586

Also: Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering

Research interests: Theoretical/computational mechanics of materials, computational plasticity, multi-scale material modeling, damage mechanics, single crystal plasticity, dynamic material behavior, structural phase transformation...

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Jennifer Franck

Assistant Professor

Contact: jafranck@wisc.edu, (608) 263-2562

Also: Mechanical Engineering

Research interests: Computational fluid dynamics, unsteady fluid mechanics, turbulent flows, wind and tidal energy, aerodynamics, flow control, propulsion, fluid-structure interaction

Michael Gleicher

Professor

Contact: gleicher@cs.wisc.edu, (608) 263-2874

Also: Computer Sciences

Research interests: My research these days is mainly about robotics and data science. With both, I am interested in how we can make them useful for people.

Kreg Gruben

Professor

Contact: gruben@education.wisc.edu, (608) 262-2711

Also: Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering

Research interests: Biomechanics, motor control, human locomotion

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Other affiliations: Kinesiology

Tracey Holloway

Professor

Contact: taholloway@wisc.edu

Also: Mechanical Engineering

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Other affiliations: Gaylord Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies

Thomas Jahns

Grainger Emeritus Professor of Power Electronics and Electric Machines

Contact: jahns@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 262-5702

Also: Mechanical Engineering

Research interests: Power electronics, electric machines and actuators, adjustable-speed drives, brushless motor drives and generators, automotive and aerospace electric systems

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Daniel Ludois

Jean van Bladel Associate Professor

Contact: ludois@wisc.edu, 262-8211

Also: Mechanical Engineering, Engineering Physics

Research interests: Power electronics, Electric machines, Non-contact power transfer, Sustainable engineering technologies and practices, See Extended Homepage

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Other affiliations: WEMPEC

Christopher Luzzio

Associate Professor

Contact: luzzio@neurology.wisc.edu, (608) 287-2093

Research interests: Mechanical Assistive DevicesHydrocephalus Shunt Valves

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Chu Ma

Assistant Professor, Grainger Institute Fellow

Contact: chu.ma@wisc.edu

Also: Mechanical Engineering

Research interests: Acoustic functional materials, Biomedical ultrasonic imaging, Non-destructive testing, Computational imaging

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Jacob Notbohm

Harvey D. Spangler Assistant Professor

Contact: jknotbohm@wisc.edu, (608) 890-0030

Also: Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering

Nimish Pujara

Assistant Professor

Contact: npujara@wisc.edu, (608) 262-8735

Also: Freshwater and Marine Sciences, Mechanical Engineering, Engineering Physics

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Bulent Sarlioglu

Jean van Bladel Associate Professor

Contact: sarlioglu@wisc.edu, (608) 262-2703

Also: College of Engineering, WEMPEC, Mechanical Engineering, Interdisciplinary Professional Programs

Research interests: Electric machines, drives, power electronics, Electric actuation systems, Automotive, aerospace, naval and renewable energy applications, Complex and interdisciplinary power system architecture

Other affiliations: WEMPEC, Wisconsin Energy Institute

James Jay Schauer

Professor

Contact: jjschauer@wisc.edu, (608) 262-4495

Also: Environmental Chemistry and Technology, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical and Biological Engineering

Research interests: I am interested in developing measurement and chemical characterization tools to quantitatively understand the origin and impacts of air pollution. These tools are desgined to address the impacts of air p...

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Other affiliations: Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene

Eric L Severson

Assistant Professor, Grainger Institute Fellow

Contact: eric.severson@wisc.edu, (608) 890-1301

Also: Mechanical Engineering

Research interests: My research resides at the intersection of electrical, mechanical, and computer engineering, and includes the following thrusts:Design and precision control of electric machines and power electronics, Magnetic ...

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Kevin J. Shinners

Professor

Contact: kjshinne@facstaff.wisc.edu, (608) 263-0756

Also: Engineering Development Office

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Ramathasan Thevamaran

Assistant Professor

Contact: thevamaran@wisc.edu, (608) 262-5724

Also: Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering

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Dan J Thoma

Professor and Director of the Grainger Institute for Engineering

Contact: dthoma@wisc.edu, (608) 262-3751

Also: Mechanical Engineering, Engineering Physics

Research interests: Metal additive manufacturing, Alloy design, Advanced materials for energy applications, Phase transformations for functional materials, High throughput experiments, Thermal analysis and dilatometry

Other affiliations: Grainger Institute for Engineering

Giri Venkataramanan

Professor

Contact: giri@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 262-4479

Also: WEMPEC, Mechanical Engineering

Research interests: A selected list of recent research projects directed by Dr. Venkataramanan is shown below:1. Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium - I direct gene...

Colleen Witzenburg

Assistant Professor

Contact: witzenburg@wisc.edu, (608) 890-3332

Also: Mechanical Engineering

Research interests:

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Emeritus Faculty

William A. Beckman

Ouweneel-Bascom Professor Emeritus

Contact: wbeckman@wisc.edu, (608) 335-4401

Research interests: Solar energy applications, radiation heat transfer, systems analysis, computer simulation-solar processes, energy load calculation

Other affiliations: Solar Energy Laboratory

John G. Bollinger

John Bascom Professor Emeritus

Contact: jgbollinger@sbcglobal.net, (608) 233-5404

Also: Mechanical Engineering

Research interests: Dynamic behavior of machine tool drive systems
Position control for automatic welding
Noise generation/noise control in product design
Machine tool structure control dynamics
Dynamic loads i...

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Michael L. Corradini

Wisconsin Distinguished Professor Emeritus

Contact: corradini@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 263-1648

Also: Mechanical Engineering, Engineering Physics

Research interests: Multi-phase fluid mechanics and heat transfer, fission and fusion reactors, nuclear reactor safety, severe accident phenomena, power plant operation and design, energy policy, nuclear fuel cycle

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Other affiliations: Wisconsin Shock Tube

Marvin F. Devries

Professor Emeritus

Contact: devries@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 262-2557

Research interests: Metal-cutting processes, computer-integrated manufacturing, manufacturing systems

Neil Duffie

Professor Emeritus

Contact: neil.duffie@wisc.edu

Also: Interdisciplinary Professional Programs

Research interests: Robotics, computer control, manufacturing process automation, dynamics and robustness of production planning and control, distributed system control, manufacturing systems, manufacturing logistics, computer-int...

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Other affiliations: Manufacturing Systems Engineering

Frederick Elder

Adjunct Professor Emeritus

Contact: elder@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 263-9328

Also: Engineering Physics

Research interests: Mechanical systems, energy systems design

Roxann Engelstad

Stephen P. Timoshenko Professor Emeritus and
Bernard A. & Frances M. Weideman Professor Emeritus

Contact: engelsta@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 262-5745

Research interests: Structural dynamics, nonlinear vibrations, mechanical design, computer modeling and simulation

Other affiliations: Manufacturing Systems Engineering Program

Patrick Farrell

Professor Emeritus

Contact:

Research interests: Fluid mechanics, optical diagnostics, combustion, heat transfer

Other affiliations: Engine Research Center

David Foster

Phil and Jean Myers Professor Emeritus

Contact: foster@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 263-1617

Research interests: Thermodynamics, heat transfer, fluid mechanics, internal combustion engines, combustion kinetics, emission formation, optical diagnostics in engines

Other affiliations: Engine Research Center

Frank Fronczak

Professor Emeritus

Contact: fronczak@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 231-1660

Also: Biomedical Engineering

Research interests: Biomedical equipment design, hydraulics, fluid power systems, machine design, product design, rehabilitative and assistive technology

Other affiliations: Manufacturing Systems Engineering Program

Kent Hobson

Adjunct Assistant Professor Emeritus

Contact: hobson@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 263-2893

Research interests: Computer graphics, geometric modeling, computer-aided design, architectural and engineering graphics

Sanford Klein

Ouweneel-Bascom Professor Emeritus

Contact: klein@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 263-5626

Research interests: Solar energy applications, thermodynamics, heat transfer, conservation, simulation methods, educational software, sorption processes

Other affiliations: Solar Energy Laboratory

Edward G. Lovell

Professor Emeritus

Contact: lovell@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 262-0944

Research interests: Structural mechanics, stress analysis , pressure vessels, thermal stresses, micromechanical sensors, buckling, vibrations

Other affiliations: Computational Mechanics Center, Wisconsin Center for Applied Microelectronics

Vladimir J. Lumelsky

Professor Emeritus

Contact: vjlumels at wisc.edu

Research interests: Pattern recognition, computer vision, Kinematics, dynamics, Control theory, industrial automation, Sensor-based intelligent systems, Human spatial reasoning, human-robot interaction, Navigation, localization, a...

Jay Martin

Professor Emeritus

Contact: martin@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 263-9460

Also: Biomedical Engineering, Materials Science Program

Research interests: Research, Design, and Product Development - Assistive Technology, Access to Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Education and Careers for Individuals with Disabilities, Formative Assessment Methods...

Other affiliations: Center for Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology

Wayne D. Milestone

Professor Emeritus

Contact: mileston@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 262-0023

Research interests: Mechanical design, machine design, innovation and creativity, stress & fatigue analysis, fretting-fatigue, fasteners, hybrid and hybrid electric vehicles

Other affiliations: Manufacturing Systems Engineering Program

John W. Mitchell

Elmer R. and Janet A. Kaiser Professor Emeritus

Contact: mitchell@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 262-5972

Research interests: Convective heat transfer, solar energy applications, energy utilization, bulding HVAC systems

Other affiliations: Solar Energy Laboratory

David R. Otis

Professor Emeritus

Contact: otis@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 262-3591

Research interests: Energy storage, heat transfer, fluid dynamics

Kenneth W. Ragland

Professor Emeritus

Contact: ragland@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 263-3231

Research interests: Fluid dynamics, combustion processes, bioenergy, air pollution control

Rolf Reitz

Wisconsin Distinguished Professor Emeritus

Contact: reitz@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 262-0145

Also: College of Engineering, Mechanical Engineering

Research interests: Combustion, gas dynamics, sprays-motion & formation, hydrocarbon kinetics, engine fluid dynamics, computer modeling

Robert Rowlands

Professor Emeritus

Contact: rowlands@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 262-3205

Also: Materials Science and Engineering

Research interests: Laser applications to mechanics, composite and advanced materials, digital image analysis, structural mechanics, experimental mechanics and stress analysis

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Other affiliations: Wisconsin Structures and Materials Testing Laboratory

Christopher Rutland

Phil and Jean Myers Professor Emeritus

Contact: rutland@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 262-5853

Research interests: Computational fluid dynamics, turbulence, combustion, and spray modeling for IC engines, turbulent reacting flows, large eddy simulation, IC engine aftertreatment modeling

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Other affiliations: Engine Research Center

Vadim Shapiro

Bernard A. and Frances M. Weideman Professor Emeritus

Contact: vshapiro@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 262-3591

Also: Computer Sciences

Research interests: Model-Based Engineering, Digital design, manufacturing, and simulation, Geometric, solid, and physical modeling, Cyber-physical systems

Other affiliations: Spatial Automation Laboratory

John J. Uicker

Professor Emeritus

Contact: uicker@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 262-0225

Research interests: Kinematics, mechanical system dynamics, solid modeling, simulation of solidification in metal castings, simulation of multi-body dynamic systems