Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Research Interests: Computational fluid dynamics; building energy utilization and renewable/alternative energy; turbulent multiphase and reacting flows
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Research Interests: Dynamics and control of space tethers and large flexible space structures, active debris removal, collision detection and avoidance, spacecraft dynamics
Specialty/Research Focus: Effectiveness of pre-college computing education; Introductory programming education (CS1/CS2); Broadening participation in computing and gaming; Assessment in computing education; History of computing, computing education, and computer games
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Research Interests: Multiscale modeling from atom to continuum, computational mechanics and high performance computing, with applications to nano-/bio-/energy systems
Research Topics: Strategies for intervening in mundane injustices, particularly within public-facing technical communication and equity and inclusion efforts in the academy
Research Topics: Operations research and analytics, Energy resilience and sustainability, Climate change impact assessment, Risk analysis and uncertainty modeling, Economic impact assessment, Disaster risk reduction, Growth econometrics and disaster impacts, Risk-informed decision analysis
Specialty/Research Focus: Engineering design process and methods, undergraduate conceptual knowledge in engineering science courses, Learning Assistant programs, women and girls in engineering programs, epistemology, epistemological framing, productive disciplinary engagement, student discourse, and responsive teaching
Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Research Topics: Environmental pathogen persistence and disinfection; Environmental surveillance of pathogens; Environmental exposure and human diseases
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Research Interests: Iterative learning control; high precision control; nonlinear/robust control with applications to robotics; autonomous systems; manufacturing
Research Topics: Computer vision; machine learning; multimodal data analytics; pattern recognition; large-scale visual search and mining; big data analytics
Research Topics: Innovation aspects of energy and environment; energy policy; CCS techno-economic evaluation; analysis of legal and regulatory frameworks; policy and financial instruments
Research Topics: Quality Management, Project Management and Lean Systems Engineering. 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: STEM education; social justice; social problems; sociology of education, race & ethnic relations, social networks & social capital; qualitative research methods; social media