Department of Mechanical Engineering Directory

Updated 9/13/2024

DEPARTMENT CHAIRPERSON

Sridhar Santhanam, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Director, Laboratory for the Mechanics of Materials and Processing

FACULTY

Hashem Ashrafiuon, Ph.D.
Professor
Director, Heterogeneous Autonomous Vehicles Laboratory (HAVLab)
Director, Unmanned Surface and Underwater Vehicles
David Cereceda, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Garrett M. Clayton, Ph.D.
Associate Dean for Graduate Studies
Professor
Director, Center for Nonlinear Dynamics & Control
Gang Feng, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Director, High Resolution Microscopy Laboratory
Director, Materials Science Laboratory
Co-Director, Nanofabrication Laboratory
(610) 519-6654
David Jamison, IV, Ph.D.
Associate Dean for Undergraduate Affairs
Prashant Kambali, Ph.D.
Visiting Assistant Professor
Jens O.M. Karlsson, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Patrick Kirby, Ph.D.
Assistant Teaching Professor
Andrew Lee, Ph.D.
Visiting Assistant Professor
Bo Li, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
(610) 519-6679
Calvin Hong Li, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
(610) 519-6129
Sylvie Lorente, Ph.D.
Associate Dean for Research and Innovation
William M. Brown ’84, ’87 Endowed Chair in Mechanical Engineering
Stephen McGill, Ph.D.
Assistant Teaching Professor
C. Nataraj, Ph.D.
Moritz Endowed Professor of Engineered Systems
Director, VCADS Research Center
(610) 519-4994
Sergey G. Nersesov, PhD
Associate Professor
Director, Advanced Control Theory and Applications Lab
James C. O'Brien
Teaching Professor
Alfonso Ortega, Ph.D.
James R. Birle Professor of Energy Technology in the Department of Mechanical Engineering
Director, Center for Energy-Smart Electronic Systems
T Radhakrishnan, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Deeksha Seth, Ph.D.
Assistant Teaching Professor
Ani Ural, Ph.D.
Professor
Director, Computational Biomechanics and Solid Mechanics Laboratory
Director of Strategic Initiatives, College of Engineering
(610) 519-7735
Qianhong Wu, Ph.D.
Professor
Director of Graduate Studies
Director of the Cellular Biomechanics and Sports Science Laboratory (CBMSS)
(610) 519-8969

PROFESSORS EMERITI

Philip V. D. McLaughlin, Jr., Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus

Alan Whitman, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus

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