Welcoming Ali Erdemir
National Academy of Engineering member Dr. Ali Erdemir joins the department as the Halliburton Chair in Engineering Professor. He comes from Argonne National Laboratory, where he served as a distinguished fellow and senior scientist, and his research is directed toward developing novel tribological technologies for a broad range of applications in manufacturing, transportation, and other energy conversion and utilization systems.
Erdemir has served as president of the International Tribology Council and the Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers. He has published more than 300 papers, holds 23 U.S. patents and has generated more than 18,000 citations.
New Mechanical Engineering Faculty
Heng Pan, associate professor, earned a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests include additive manufacturing, high-throughput nanomanufacturing, nanoparticle-based printing, electronics/battery manufacturing, laser-assisted manufacturing, multi-material and multi-function integration, laser-material interactions, and multi-scale modeling of transport phenomena in manufacturing.
Jacob McFarland, associate professor, earned a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Texas A&M. His research interests include experimental and computational fluid mechanics, shock-driven hydrodynamic instabilities, multiphase flows, and reactions and magnetohydrodynamics.
Zohaib Hasnain, assistant professor, earned a Ph.D. in aerospace engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park. His research interests include dynamics and control theory, sensor technologies, applied aerodynamics and thermodynamics, and computational fluid dynamics.
FACULTY PROMOTIONS
Promotion to associate professor with tenure
- Douglas Allaire
- Jonathan Felts
- Michael Moren
- Bruce Tai
Promotion to full professor
- Ying Li
- Srikanth Saripalli
Named Appointments
Swaroop Darbha — Gulf Oil/Thomas A. Dietz Professor
Jaime Grunlan — Leland T. Jordan Chair Professor