The Ph.D. in Engineering Program is a collaborative effort in the College of Engineering and Computer Science. Program faculty at Wright State reside in the Departments of Biomedical, Industrial and Human Factors Engineering; Electrical Engineering; and Mechanical and Materials Engineering.
Here is an alphabetical list of the Program Faculty and their Research Focus Areas. For additional information about each faculty member's research interests, follow the Research Focus Area links below. You can get more detailed information about the faculty, including specific research interests and contact information, by following the faculty links within each Research Focus Area.
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Maher Amer Associate Professor  Short Biography |
Office: 132 Russ Phone: 937-775-5095 Email: |
Raman spectroscopy, polymer composites, micromechanics of multiphase materials, phase transitions in nanostructured material systems PhD Focus Areas Materials and Nanotechnology Can serve as a Primary Advisor |
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Elliott Brown Professor, Physics and Electrical Engineering Endowed Chair in Experimental Sensor Physics  Short Biography |
Office: University Park Phone: 937-775-2954 Email: |
PhD Focus Areas Electronics, Microwave, VLSI, and Nanotechnology Sensor Signal and Image Processing Can serve as a Primary Advisor |
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Henry Chen Professor  Short Biography Curriculum Vita Warning: filesize() [function.filesize]: stat failed for /Volumes/WebServer/Documents/ee/common/facstaff/cvs/chen-cv.pdf in /Volumes/WebServer/PHP-Executables/directory.php on line 224  0k |
Office: 325 Russ Phone: 937-775-5056 Fax: 937-775-3936 Email: |
Computer-aided design and test of digital, mixed-signal IC and system-on-a-chip (SoC); VLSI and FPGA/GPU design instrumentation and measurement for real-time signal processors and digital wideband receivers PhD Focus Areas Electronics, Microwave, VLSI, and Nanotechnology Can serve as a Primary Advisor |
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Frank Ciarallo Associate Professor  Short Biography Curriculum Vita Warning: filesize() [function.filesize]: stat failed for /Volumes/WebServer/Documents/bie/cvs/ciarallo.pdf in /Volumes/WebServer/PHP-Executables/directory.php on line 224 0k |
Office: 231 Russ Phone: 937-775-5024 Fax: 937-775-7364 Email: http://www.engineering.wright.edu/~fciarall/ |
Management and control of systems with uncertainty, inventory and supply chain system optimization, vehicle traffic system modeling, perturbation analysis of traffic intersections, simulation PhD Focus Areas Industrial and Human Systems Can serve as a Primary Advisor |
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Jason Deibel Assistant Professor  |
Office: 248 Fawcett Phone: 937-775-2148 Email: |
PhD Focus Areas Materials and Nanotechnology Electronics, Microwave, VLSI, and Nanotechnology Sensor Signal and Image Processing Can serve as a Primary Advisor |
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Haibo Dong Assistant Professor  Short Biography |
Office: 126 Russ Phone: 937-775-5143 Email: http://www.engineering.wright.edu/~haibo.dong/ |
PhD Focus Areas Computational Design and Optimization Can serve as a Primary Advisor |
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Marty Emmert Associate Professor  Short Biography |
Office: 415 Russ Phone: 937-775-5023 Fax: 937-775-3936 Email: http://www.engineering.wright.edu/~emmert/ |
Integrated circuit design with electronic warfare and radar receiver applications, built-in-self-test (BIST) for adaptive computer systems and mixed signal systems, and CAD tool development PhD Focus Areas Electronics, Microwave, VLSI, and Nanotechnology Can serve as a Primary Advisor |
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Amir Farajian Assistant Professor  Short Biography |
Office: 258 Russ Phone: 937-775-2619 Fax: 937-775-5082 Email: |
PhD Focus Areas Materials and Nanotechnology Electronics, Microwave, VLSI, and Nanotechnology Medical and Biological Systems Can serve as a Primary Advisor |
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John Gallagher Associate Professor  Current Research |
Office: 352 Russ Phone: 937-775-3929 Email: http://carl.cs.wright.edu/~johng/ |
Neural networks, computational neuroscience, machine intelligence, genetic algorithms, evolvable hardware, autonomous robotics PhD Focus Areas Computational Design and Optimization Can serve as a Primary Advisor |
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Jennie Gallimore Professor  Short Biography Curriculum Vita Warning: filesize() [function.filesize]: stat failed for /Volumes/WebServer/Documents/bie/cvs/gallimore.pdf in /Volumes/WebServer/PHP-Executables/directory.php on line 224 0k |
Office: 246 Russ Phone: 937-775-5072 Fax: 937-775-7364 Email: http://www.engineering.wright.edu/~jgalli/ |
Humans in complex systems, aviation human factors, visualization, decision support, virtual environments, medical systems PhD Focus Areas Industrial and Human Systems Can serve as a Primary Advisor |
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Fred Garber Associate Professor  Short Biography |
Office: 311 Russ Phone: 937-775-5033 Fax: 937-775-3936 Email: http://www.engineering.wright.edu/~fdgarber/ |
Decision theory and pattern recognition, communication theory PhD Focus Areas Sensor Signal and Image Processing Can serve as a Primary Advisor |
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Arthur Goshtasby Professor  Current Research Curriculum Vita NSF Curriculum Vita 29k |
Office: 495 Joshi Phone: 937-775-5170 Email: http://www.cs.wright.edu/~agoshtas/ardy.html |
Image and video understanding, medical image analysis, geometric modeling, curves and surfaces, multimodal image capture and fusion PhD Focus Areas Materials and Nanotechnology Sensor Signal and Image Processing Can serve as a Primary Advisor |
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Tarun Goswami Associate Professor  Short Biography Curriculum Vita Warning: filesize() [function.filesize]: stat failed for /Volumes/WebServer/Documents/bie/cvs/goswami.pdf in /Volumes/WebServer/PHP-Executables/directory.php on line 224 0k |
Office: 257 Russ Phone: 937-775-5120 Fax: 937-775-7364 Email: Email: |
Director of the Spine Research Group (pdf) PhD Focus Areas Industrial and Human Systems Materials and Nanotechnology Medical and Biological Systems Can serve as a Primary Advisor |
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Ramana Grandhi Distinguished Professor of Research  Short Biography Curriculum Vita Warning: filesize() [function.filesize]: stat failed for /Volumes/WebServer/Documents/mme/common/cvs/grandhi-cv.pdf in /Volumes/WebServer/PHP-Executables/directory.php on line 224 0k |
Office: 210 Russ Phone: 937-775-5090 Email: http://www.engineering.wright.edu/~rgrandhi/ |
Structural optimization, mechanical vibrations, finite-element methods, metal-forming processes design PhD Focus Areas Computational Design and Optimization Can serve as a Primary Advisor |
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Thomas Hangartner Chair Professor  Short Biography Curriculum Vita Warning: filesize() [function.filesize]: stat failed for /Volumes/WebServer/Documents/bie/cvs/hangartner.pdf in /Volumes/WebServer/PHP-Executables/directory.php on line 224 0k |
Office: 244 Russ Phone: 937-775-5070 Fax: 937-775-7364 Email: |
Biomedical engineering, medical imaging, CT scanning, instrumentation, computers, quantitative bone measurements PhD Focus Areas Sensor Signal and Image Processing Medical and Biological Systems Can serve as a Primary Advisor |
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Ping He Professor  Short Biography Curriculum Vita Warning: filesize() [function.filesize]: stat failed for /Volumes/WebServer/Documents/bie/cvs/he.pdf in /Volumes/WebServer/PHP-Executables/directory.php on line 224 0k |
Office: 205 Russ Phone: 937-775-5069 Fax: 937-775-7364 Email: |
Biomedical engineering, medical imaging, ultrasonics, instrumentation, computers PhD Focus Areas Industrial and Human Systems Sensor Signal and Image Processing Medical and Biological Systems Can serve as a Primary Advisor |
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Lang Hong Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies Professor  Short Biography Curriculum Vita Warning: filesize() [function.filesize]: stat failed for /Volumes/WebServer/Documents/ee/common/facstaff/cvs/hong-cv.pdf in /Volumes/WebServer/PHP-Executables/directory.php on line 224 0k |
Office: 329 Russ Phone: 937-775-5053 Fax: 937-775-3936 Email: |
Stochastic control systems, computer vision, image processing and pattern recognition, robotics, multiple sensor integration and target tracking PhD Focus Areas Sensor Signal and Image Processing Can serve as a Primary Advisor |
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Hong Huang Assistant Professor  Short Biography |
Office: 259 Russ Fax: 937-775-5082 Email: |
PhD Focus Areas Materials and Nanotechnology Can serve as a Primary Advisor |
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George Huang Chair  Short Biography Curriculum Vita Warning: filesize() [function.filesize]: stat failed for /Volumes/WebServer/Documents/mme/common/cvs/huang-cv.pdf in /Volumes/WebServer/PHP-Executables/directory.php on line 224 0k |
Office: 209B Russ Phone: 937-775-5043 Email: |
Flow Physics Modeling and Computational Fluid Dynamics PhD Focus Areas Computational Design and Optimization Can serve as a Primary Advisor |
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Bor Jang Professor  |
Office: 401 Russ Email: |
PhD Focus Areas Materials and Nanotechnology Can serve as a Primary Advisor |
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Marian Kazimierczuk Professor  Short Biography Curriculum Vita Warning: filesize() [function.filesize]: stat failed for /Volumes/WebServer/Documents/ee/common/facstaff/cvs/kazimierczuk-cv.pdf in /Volumes/WebServer/PHP-Executables/directory.php on line 224 0k |
Office: 418 Russ Phone: 937-775-5059 Fax: 937-775-3936 Email: |
Power Electronics, Switching-Mode PWM and Resonant DC/DC Power Converters, DC/AC Inverters, Resonant
Rectifiers, RF Tuned Power Transistor Amplifiers and Oscillators, Power Management, Magnetic Devices, Semiconductor
Device Modeling, Power Integrated Circuits, Electronic Ballasts, Lighting Systems, Modeling and Controls
of Power Converters, Sensors, Electronic Circuits, Integrated Circuits, Energy Harvesting, Renewable Energy,
Energy Scavenging, CAD, and Engineering Education PhD Focus Areas Electronics, Microwave, VLSI, and Nanotechnology Can serve as a Primary Advisor |
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Nathan Klingbeil Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Professor  Short Biography Curriculum Vita Warning: filesize() [function.filesize]: stat failed for /Volumes/WebServer/Documents/mme/common/ABET_Vitas/Klingbeil_ABET_CV.pdf in /Volumes/WebServer/PHP-Executables/directory.php on line 224 0k |
Office: 228 Russ Phone: 937-775-5088 Email: |
Solid mechanics, fracture mechanics and fatigue crack growth, mechanics and materials issues in layered manufacturing processes PhD Focus Areas Computational Design and Optimization Can serve as a Primary Advisor |
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Gregory Kozlowski Associate Professor, Physics  |
Office: 253 Fawcett Phone: 937-775-3433 Email: |
PhD Focus Areas Electronics, Microwave, VLSI, and Nanotechnology Materials and Nanotechnology Medical and Biological Systems Can serve as a Primary Advisor |
Lok Lew Yan Voon |
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PhD Focus Areas Electronics, Microwave, VLSI, and Nanotechnology Can serve as a Primary Advisor |
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Junghsen Lieh Associate Professor  Short Biography Curriculum Vita Warning: filesize() [function.filesize]: stat failed for /Volumes/WebServer/Documents/mme/common/ABET_Vitas/Lieh_ABET_CV.pdf in /Volumes/WebServer/PHP-Executables/directory.php on line 224 0k |
Office: 236 Russ Phone: 937-775-5086 Email: |
Dynamics and control of mechanical systems, manufacturing, impact mechanics, biomechanics, vehicle systems, instrumentation PhD Focus Areas Controls and Robotics Can serve as a Primary Advisor |
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Yan Liu Assistant Professor  Short Biography Curriculum Vita Warning: filesize() [function.filesize]: stat failed for /Volumes/WebServer/Documents/bie/cvs/liu.pdf in /Volumes/WebServer/PHP-Executables/directory.php on line 224 0k |
Office: 230 Russ Phone: 937-775-5161 Email: http://www.wright.edu/~yan.liu/ |
Human-computer interaction, information visualization, data mining, and decision making/aiding PhD Focus Areas Industrial and Human Systems Can serve as a Primary Advisor |
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James Menart Assistant Professor  Short Biography Curriculum Vita Warning: filesize() [function.filesize]: stat failed for /Volumes/WebServer/Documents/mme/common/ABET_Vitas/Menart_ABET_CV.pdf in /Volumes/WebServer/PHP-Executables/directory.php on line 224 0k |
Office: 125 Russ Phone: 937-775-5145 Email: http://www.engineering.wright.edu/~jmenart/ |
Thermal sciences, heat transfer, plasma science, magnetoaerodynamics PhD Focus Areas Computational Design and Optimization Can serve as a Primary Advisor |
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Sharmila Mukhopadhyay Professor  Short Biography Curriculum Vita Warning: filesize() [function.filesize]: stat failed for /Volumes/WebServer/Documents/mme/common/ABET_Vitas/Mukhopadhyay_ABET_CV.pdf in /Volumes/WebServer/PHP-Executables/directory.php on line 224 0k |
Office: 129 Russ Phone: 937-775-5092 Email: http://www.engineering.wright.edu/~smukhopa/ |
nanoscale phenomena, surfaces and interfaces in solids, spectroscopic and microscopic techniques, interdisciplinary science and engineering education PhD Focus Areas Materials and Nanotechnology Can serve as a Primary Advisor |
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S Narayanan Dean Professor  Short Biography Curriculum Vita Warning: filesize() [function.filesize]: stat failed for /Volumes/WebServer/Documents/bie/cvs/narayanan.pdf in /Volumes/WebServer/PHP-Executables/directory.php on line 224 0k |
Office: 405 Russ Phone: 937-775-5001 Fax: 937-775-5009 Email: http://www.engineering.wright.edu/~snarayan/ |
Modeling and simulation of complex technological systems, cognition, computational representation, interactive systems PhD Focus Areas Industrial and Human Systems Can serve as a Primary Advisor |
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Pratik Parikh Assistant Professor  Short Biography Curriculum Vita Warning: filesize() [function.filesize]: stat failed for /Volumes/WebServer/Documents/bie/cvs/parikh.pdf in /Volumes/WebServer/PHP-Executables/directory.php on line 224 0k |
Office: 232 Russ Phone: 937-775-5150 Fax: 937-775-7364 Email: |
Supply chain design, warehousing/transportation/inventory optimization, manufacturing systems design, facility layout and location, health-care management, applied operations research, soft computing PhD Focus Areas Industrial and Human Systems Materials and Nanotechnology Medical and Biological Systems Can serve as a Primary Advisor |
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Ravi Penmetsa Assistant Professor  Short Biography Curriculum Vita Warning: filesize() [function.filesize]: stat failed for /Volumes/WebServer/Documents/mme/common/ABET_Vitas/Penmetsa_ABET_CV.pdf in /Volumes/WebServer/PHP-Executables/directory.php on line 224 0k |
Office: 227 Russ Phone: 937-775-5089 Email: http://www.engineering.wright.edu/~pravi/ |
Robust design, multidisciplinary design optimization, uncertainty quantification PhD Focus Areas Computational Design and Optimization Can serve as a Primary Advisor |
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Doug Petkie Associate Professor, Physics |
Office: 243 Fawcett Phone: 937-775-3124 Email: |
Engineering Physics PhD Focus Areas Electronics, Microwave, VLSI, and Nanotechnology Materials and Nanotechnology Sensor Signal and Image Processing Can serve as a Primary Advisor |
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Chandler Phillips Professor  Short Biography Curriculum Vita Warning: filesize() [function.filesize]: stat failed for /Volumes/WebServer/Documents/bie/cvs/phillips.pdf in /Volumes/WebServer/PHP-Executables/directory.php on line 224 0k |
Office: 204 Russ Phone: 937-775-5067 Fax: 937-775-7364 Email: |
Mathematical modeling of biomechanics, fuzzy decision making in rehabilitation, functional electrical stimulation PhD Focus Areas Industrial and Human Systems Sensor Signal and Image Processing Medical and Biological Systems Can serve as a Primary Advisor |
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Kuldip Rattan Professor  Short Biography |
Office: 108 Russ Phone: 937-775-5052 Fax: 937-775-3936 Email: http://www.engineering.wright.edu/~krattan/ |
Computer-aided design, digital signal processing and control, bioengineering, robotics, fuzzy control, prosthetic/orthotics and microprocessor applications PhD Focus Areas Controls and Robotics Can serve as a Primary Advisor |
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Saiyu Ren Assistant Professor  Curriculum Vita Warning: filesize() [function.filesize]: stat failed for /Volumes/WebServer/Documents/ee/common/facstaff/cvs/ren-cv.pdf in /Volumes/WebServer/PHP-Executables/directory.php on line 224 0k |
Office: 328 Russ Phone: 937-775-5051 Fax: 937-775-3936 Email: |
RF and mixed signal integrated circuit design with applications to wireless transceivers, communications and signal processing PhD Focus Areas Electronics, Microwave, VLSI, and Nanotechnology Can serve as a Primary Advisor |
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David Reynolds Associate Professor  Short Biography Curriculum Vita Warning: filesize() [function.filesize]: stat failed for /Volumes/WebServer/Documents/bie/cvs/reynolds.pdf in /Volumes/WebServer/PHP-Executables/directory.php on line 224 0k |
Office: 206 Russ Phone: 937-775-5068 Fax: 937-775-7364 Email: |
Biomedical engineering, biofluid mechanics, engineering approaches to respiratory/pulmonary physiology and to orthopedics and prosthetics PhD Focus Areas Industrial and Human Systems Materials and Nanotechnology Medical and Biological Systems Can serve as a Primary Advisor |
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Brian Rigling Associate Professor  Curriculum Vita Warning: filesize() [function.filesize]: stat failed for /Volumes/WebServer/Documents/ee/common/facstaff/cvs/rigling-cv.pdf in /Volumes/WebServer/PHP-Executables/directory.php on line 224 0k |
Office: 313 Russ Phone: 937-775-5100 Email: http://www.engineering.wright.edu/~brigling/ |
Sensor signal processing including
synthetic aperture processing, autofocus, array processing, imaging,
parametric modeling, and target detection/classification. Radar systems
engineering. PhD Focus Areas Sensor Signal and Image Processing Can serve as a Primary Advisor |
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Joseph Shang Research Professor  |
Office: 127 Russ Phone: 937-775-5094 Email: |
computational physics, computational fluid dynamics PhD Focus Areas Computational Design and Optimization Electronics, Microwave, VLSI, and Nanotechnology Can serve as a Secondary Advisor |
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Arnab Shaw Professor  Short Biography Curriculum Vita Warning: filesize() [function.filesize]: stat failed for /Volumes/WebServer/Documents/ee/common/facstaff/cvs/shaw-cv.pdf in /Volumes/WebServer/PHP-Executables/directory.php on line 224 0k |
Office: 427 Russ Phone: 937-775-5064 Fax: 937-775-3936 Email: http://www.engineering.wright.edu/~ashaw/ |
Communication theory and stochastic processes, estimation and detection, signal modeling and signal processing, simulation of communication systems PhD Focus Areas Sensor Signal and Image Processing Can serve as a Primary Advisor |
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Julie Skipper Research Associate Professor, WSRI  Short Biography Curriculum Vita Warning: filesize() [function.filesize]: stat failed for /Volumes/WebServer/Documents/bie/cvs/skipper.pdf in /Volumes/WebServer/PHP-Executables/directory.php on line 224 0k |
Office: 242 Russ Phone: 937-775-5097 Fax: 937-775-7364 Email: http://www.wright.edu/~julie.skipper/ |
Medical imaging, computed tomography, radiation detector systems, hyperspectral imaging, image processing PhD Focus Areas Industrial and Human Systems Sensor Signal and Image Processing Medical and Biological Systems Can serve as a Primary Advisor |
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Joseph Slater Professor  Short Biography Curriculum Vita |
Office: 238 Russ Phone: 937-775-5085 Email: http://www.engineering.wright.edu/~jslater/ |
Structure dynamics and control PhD Focus Areas Computational Design and Optimization Controls and Robotics Can serve as a Primary Advisor |
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Raghavan Srinivasan Professor  Short Biography Curriculum Vita Warning: filesize() [function.filesize]: stat failed for /Volumes/WebServer/Documents/mme/common/ABET_Vitas/Srinivasan_ABET_CV.pdf in /Volumes/WebServer/PHP-Executables/directory.php on line 224 0k |
Office: 128 Russ Phone: 937-775-5145 Email: http://www.engineering.wright.edu/~rsrin/RSrinivasan_Home.htm |
High-temperature deformation, materials behavior modeling, materials engineering PhD Focus Areas Materials and Nanotechnology Can serve as a Primary Advisor |
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Scott Thomas Associate Professor  Short Biography Curriculum Vita Warning: filesize() [function.filesize]: stat failed for /Volumes/WebServer/Documents/mme/common/ABET_Vitas/Thomas_ABET_CV.pdf in /Volumes/WebServer/PHP-Executables/directory.php on line 224 0k |
Office: 124 Russ Phone: 937-775-5142 Email: http://www.engineering.wright.edu/~sthomas/ |
Heat and mass transfer, fluid mechanics, two-phase flow PhD Focus Areas Computational Design and Optimization Can serve as a Primary Advisor |
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Mitch Wolff Professor  Short Biography Curriculum Vita Warning: filesize() [function.filesize]: stat failed for /Volumes/WebServer/Documents/mme/common/ABET_Vitas/Wolff_ABET_CV.pdf in /Volumes/WebServer/PHP-Executables/directory.php on line 224 0k |
Office: 123 Russ Phone: 937-775-5141 Email: |
Fluid mechanics, turbomachinery, unsteady aerodynamics, CFD, aeroelasticity, instrumentation, power systems, fuel cells, high altitude airships, two-phase flow PhD Focus Areas Computational Design and Optimization Can serve as a Primary Advisor |
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Zhiqiang (John) Wu Associate Professor  |
Office: 481 Joshi Phone: 937-775-5060 Fax: 937-775-3936 Email: |
PhD Focus Areas Sensor Signal and Image Processing Can serve as a Primary Advisor |
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Kefu Xue Chair Associate Professor  Short Biography Curriculum Vita Warning: filesize() [function.filesize]: stat failed for /Volumes/WebServer/Documents/ee/common/facstaff/cvs/xue-cv.pdf in /Volumes/WebServer/PHP-Executables/directory.php on line 224 0k |
Office: 311 Russ Phone: 937-775-5037 Fax: 937-775-3936 Email: http://www.engineering.wright.edu/~kxue/ |
Image processing and computer vision, stochastic processes and filtering, computer and communication systems, control and estimation theory PhD Focus Areas Sensor Signal and Image Processing Can serve as a Primary Advisor |
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H. Daniel Young Assistant Professor  Short Biography Curriculum Vita Warning: filesize() [function.filesize]: stat failed for /Volumes/WebServer/Documents/mme/common/ABET_Vitas/Young_ABET_CV.pdf in /Volumes/WebServer/PHP-Executables/directory.php on line 224 0k |
Office: 130 Russ Phone: 937-775-5027 Email: |
Nanochannel materials, multimaterial fiberous materials, laser micromachining and forward transfer techniques PhD Focus Areas Materials and Nanotechnology Can serve as a Primary Advisor |
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Xinhui Zhang Associate Professor  Short Biography Curriculum Vita Warning: filesize() [function.filesize]: stat failed for /Volumes/WebServer/Documents/bie/cvs/zhang.pdf in /Volumes/WebServer/PHP-Executables/directory.php on line 224 0k |
Office: 234 Russ Phone: 937-775-5151 Fax: 937-775-7364 Email: http://www.wright.edu/~xinhui.zhang/ |
Mathematical programming/optimization, manufacturing/production and inventory control, logistics/transportation, and decision science PhD Focus Areas Industrial and Human Systems Can serve as a Primary Advisor |
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Frank Zhang Assistant Professor  |
Office: 335 Russ Fax: 937-775-4463 Email: http://www.engineering.wright.edu/~xiaodong.zhang/ |
Intelligent Control Systems, Integrated Health Management Systems, Distributed & Cooperative Control Systems, Smart Adaptive Systems PhD Focus Areas Controls and Robotics Materials and Nanotechnology Can serve as a Primary Advisor |
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Yan Zhuang |
Office: 421 Russ Phone: 937-775-4556 Email: http://www.wright.edu/~yan.zhuang |
PhD Focus Areas Electronics, Microwave, VLSI, and Nanotechnology Materials and Nanotechnology Can serve as a Primary Advisor |
