Meet some of our Diverse Faculty in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Research Topics: Vulnerable road user safety; use of virtual reality to study human interactions with CV/AV technology and alternative roadway designs; development of CV/AV applications; and transportation equity and sustainability

Specialty/Research Focus: Power and energy management; dielectric phenomena; pulsed power; insulation performance/reliability

Research Topics: Product development, product life-cycle management, multi-criteria decision making

Specialty/Research Focus: Power electronics control; ​dc microgrid; power system optimization

Research Topics: Quality Management, Project Management, Lean Systems Engineering and Engineering Education. Overall, my research interests lie in identifying, articulating, and integrating engineering and management principles for developing effective product development and continuous improvement deployment frameworks for successful and sustained performance excellence.

Research Topics: Human behavior modeling; sign language understanding; probabilistic modeling

Research Topics: Sustainable urban freight transportation, supply chain optimization, and humanitarian/disaster response logistics

Specialty/Research Focus:: Curriculum design and innovation, problem-based learning, active learning, and problem solving in engineering education research

Specialty/Research Focus: Cultures of wellbeing, institutional diversity, faculty advancement, equity and inclusion assessment, Data Science teaching and learning, social responsibility, social justice

Research Topics: Information fusion, military operations research

Research Topics: STEM education; social justice; social problems; sociology of education, race & ethnic relations, social networks & social capital; qualitative research methods; social media

Research Topics: Programming, network optimization, interdiction, logistics optimization