Mechanical Engineering
Discipline chair: Dr. Nick Krouglicof
Shafiq Alam: Extractive metallurgy (hydrometallurgy), and metals recovery/recycling from ore or waste materials using leaching, biosorption, solvent extraction, ion-exchange, membrane separation and electrowinning.
Andy Fisher: Design and product realization, manufacturing
Kelly Hawboldt: Waste gas management and recovery, combustion/pyrolysis of waste gas, oil and gas processing, environmental effects monitoring, offshore produced water and drilling cuttings treatment and disposal
Michael Hinchey: Small submersibles, hydrodynamics, icebreakers
Neil Hookey: Computational fluid dynamics, heat transfer
Faisal Khan: Safety and risk engineering, reliability modeling, human health risk assessment
Nick Krouglicof: Machine vision; automated inspection; mechatronics; embedded systems; smart sensors; instrumentation and measurement; control systems; fluid power control
Luis Lobo: Moulding polymers and machines, neural nets
George Mann: Robotics, controls
Katna Munaswamy: Corrosion, offshore structures, stress analysis
Yuri Muzychka: Heat transfer, fluid dynamics, two phase flow, process flow modelling, micro/mini-channel flows, thermal design and optimization of heat exchangers, electronics packaging and cooling
Geoff Rideout: Automated model generation and simplification in robotic, land, and sea vehicles
R. Seshadri: Inelasticity, elevated temperature design, robust simplified methods, codes and standards
Anand Sharan: Robotics, rotor dynamics, CAE
John Shirokoff: Materials characterization, interfacial phenomena
