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Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering

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University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Champaign, Illinois

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Programs of Study

Having top-ranked programs in mechanical engineering and theoretical and applied mechanics within the same department not only gives students more choice, but also gives them curricula with unparalleled strengths in key fundamental areas. These primary research areas include biomechanics, controls and dynamics, fluid mechanics and thermal sciences, nanomechanics and nanomanufacturing and solid mechanics and materials.

Mechanical Science and Engineering graduate students have opportunities to take courses and gain hands-on laboratory experience in emerging areas. For example, students taking the Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) Fabrication course use the Department’s class 100 Micro-Nano-Mechanical Systems (MNMS) clean room, where they learn state-of-the-art microelectronic fabrication techniques and get to keep the devices they fabricate. Students studying fluid mechanics in the laboratory for Turbulence and Complex Flows learn and develop the most advanced experimental methods for analyzing the complicated physics of fluid motion. They gain hands-on experience in the Internal Combustion Engines and Dynamics and Controls Laboratories, build their own parts using the rapid prototyping machines in the Concurrent Design and Manufacturing Lab, conduct research at major NSF-funded centers, and use of the University’s National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA).

Thirty-two semester hours of graduate-level credit are required for the M.S. degree with thesis. The Ph.D. degree requires 64 semester hours beyond the master’s degree. A direct Ph.D. program is also available (in mechanical engineering only), requiring 96 semester hours beyond the bachelor’s degree. For Ph.D. programs, a qualifying exam and a thesis research proposal are required prior to the oral preliminary exam. An oral final exam based on the Ph.D. thesis is required.

Research Facilities

The Department has several center-based research activities, including two NSF-funded research centers: the Center for Nano-scale Chemical-Electrical-Mechanical Manufacturing Systems (Nano-CEMMS) and the Center of Advanced Materials for Purification of Water with Systems (Water CAMPWS). In addition, the Department has the Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Center (ACRC), the Manufacturing Research Center, the Fracture Control Program, the Continuous Casting Consortium (CCC), the Center for Advanced Automotive Bio-Fuel Combustion Engines (GATE–a DOE-funded Graduate Automotive Technical Education program), the Center for Cellular Mechanics, the Midwest Structural Sciences Center, the Center for Process Simulation and Design, and the Global Enterprise for Micro-Mechanics and Molecular Medicine (GEM4).

Financial Aid

Approximately 90 percent of the current graduate students have received some form of financial aid. Financial assistance includes fellowships and assistantships. Fellowships and teaching/research assistantships provide a stipend plus tuition and partial fee exemption. Stipends vary with entry level into the program; the minimum rate for a half-time appointment is $1996 per month for the 2008-09 academic year.

Cost of Study

Students with fellowships or assistantships pay only partial fees, which totalled approximately $629 per semester for academic year 2008–09. Full-time Illinois residents without appointments or waivers pay a tuition rate of approximately $6315 per semester, and nonresidents pay a tuition rate of approximately $12, 692 per semester. All rates are subject to change.

Living and Housing Costs

For 2008–09, single rooms in graduate dormitories range in cost from $4450 to $5848 per academic year. For a double room, the cost ranges from $4258 to $5120 for the academic year. Housing for married students ranges from $561 to $775 per month; utilities are included for most dormitory facilities. Off-campus housing is available at similar and/or higher costs.

Student Group

The Department has approximately 325 graduate students; more than 50 percent are Ph.D. candidates. Most students enter graduate study directly after completing undergraduate work, although some come from work in industry. The majority of the M.S. candidates seek industrial positions involving research and development work; most Ph.D. recipients prefer research careers in industry/government or research/teaching at universities.

Location

The University is located in the twin cities of Urbana and Champaign (total population 180,000). It is situated about 140 miles south of Chicago, 125 miles west of Indianapolis, and 180 miles northeast of St. Louis. Willard Airport, Amtrak, and three interstate highways provide convenient transportation to and from the area. Newsweek has rated Urbana-Champaign as one of the top ten high-technology communities in the world. Urbana-Champaign combines the sophistication and cultural advantages of a large cosmopolitan university with the relaxed atmosphere and convenience of a smaller city.

The University

A land-grant university founded in 1867, the University enrolled 42,326 students in fall 2008, including 11,431 graduate students (53% men, 47% women, 6% African American, 6% Latino/a, 11% Asian American, .26% Native American ,and 12.7% International), and is well known for its role in higher education, scientific research, and public service.

Applying

Prospective applicants should apply online at: http://www.grad.uiuc.edu/admissions/apply/. The application deadline for fall and summer semesters is January 15 and the application deadline for spring semester is October 1. The nonrefundable application fee is currently $60 for U.S. citizen applicants and $75 for international applicants. Scores on the GRE General Test are required of all applicants. Students who have attended a school in a country where English is not the primary language must also submit a valid TOEFL with a minimum score of 613 (pbt), 257 (cbt), or 103 (ibt). In addition, admitted students who receive an offer of financial aid must have received a minimum score of 24/30 on the speaking section of the TOEFL (iBT) or present an IELTS score with a minimum score of 8 on the speaking section before their admission will be finalized.

The Faculty and Their Research

BIOMECHANICS
E. Hsiao-Wecksler, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Berkeley, 2000. Experimental/computational musculoskeletal biomechanics, rehabilitation engineering.
Iwona Jasiuk, Professor; Ph.D., Northwestern, 1986. Mechanics of materials; micromechanics, biomechanics, composite, biological, and nano materials; bone mechanics; composite interfaces; elasticity.
Taher Saif, Professor; Ph.D., Cornell, 1993. Mechanics of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), nanoscale materials behavior, single-cell mechanics.
Amy Wagoner-Johnson, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Brown, 2001. Mechanical behavior of biomaterial composites, tissue engineering and mechanotransduction.
Ning Wang, Professor; Ph.D., Harvard, 1990. Cytoskeletal biomechanics, mechanotransduction, bio-imaging of cytoskeletal structures and stress distribution of living cells.
CONTROLS AND DYNAMICS
Andrew Alleyne, Professor; Ph.D., Berkeley, 1994. Control of nonlinear mechanical systems, theory and application.
Joseph Bentsman, Associate Professor; Ph.D., IIT, 1984. Control of nonlinear and distributed parameter systems, nonlinear oscillations, network control, stability, stochastic multiscale methods.
Harry Dankowicz, Associate Professor; Ph.D., Cornell, 1995. Dynamical systems, nonlinear dynamics, piecewise smooth dynamics, orthopedic biomechanics, and multibody dynamics.
Geir Dullerud, Professor; Ph.D., Cambridge, 1994. Control of complex systems, including multi-rate and asynchronous systems; nonlinear systems along trajectories.
Naira Hovakimyan, Professor; Ph.D. Russian Academy of Sciences, 1992. Nonlinear systems and adaptive control with particular emphasis on aerospace systems.Prashant Mehta, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Cornell, 2004. Analysis and design of equivariant (symmetric) dynamical systems, control using methods of stochastic dynamics.
Srinivasa Salapaka, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., California, Santa Barbara, 2002. Analysis and design in atomic force microscopy, combinational optimization.
Alexander Vakakis, Professor; Ph.D., California Institute of Technology,1990. Linear and nonlinear vibrations of structures, diagnosis and prognosis of faults in mechanical systems, experimental dynamics, structural wave propagation, dynamical modeling of the human joint.
Matthew West, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, 2002. Asynchronous and structure-preserving integrators, stochastic simulation and uncertainty quantification, multi-scale and multi-physics simulations.
FLUID MECHANICS AND THERMAL SCIENCES
M. Quinn Brewster, Professor; Ph.D., Berkeley, 1981. Energy, combustion, energetic materials, thermal radiation, optical properties, solid rocket propulsion.
Kenneth Christensen, Associate Professor; Ph.D., Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2001. Experimental fluid mechanics, turbulence, development of advanced diagnostics.
Jonathan Freund, Associate Professor; Ph.D., Stanford, 1998. Fluid mechanics, bioengineering.
John Georgiadis, Professor; Ph.D., UCLA, 1987. Transport phenomena in biological and environmental systems, multiscale numerical methods, magnetic resonance imaging.
Nick Glumac, Professor; Ph.D., Caltech, 1994. Spectroscopy of reacting flows and energetic materials, combustion diagnostics, metal combustion.
Sascha Hilgenfeldt; Associate Professor; Ph.D. University of Marburg, Germany. Theoretical and experimental research on the interfacial structure and dynamical evolution of foam and soft condensed matter. His research has importation implications for drug delivery, gene therapy and cell diagnostics, as well as generally enhancing the understanding of the mechanics of life.
Anthony Jacobi, Professor and Associate Head for Graduate Programs; Ph.D., Purdue, 1989. Heat transfer, fluid mechanics with end-use energy applications.
Herman Krier, Professor; Ph.D., Princeton, 1968. Reactive gas dynamics, internal ballistics of rockets and guns, combustion physics, plasma dynamics.
Dimitrios Kyritsis, Associate Professor; Ph.D., Princeton, 1998. Energy systems and power generation with particular emphasis to combustion, reactive fluid mechanics, laser diagnostics.
Chia-Fon Lee, Professor; Ph.D., Princeton, 1995. Modeling of two-phase turbulent reacting flows, internal-combustion engines, liquid atomization and spray systems.
Moshe Matalon, Professor; Ph.D., Cornell, 1977. Combustion theory and chemically reacting flows, theoretical fluid mechanics, stability and bifurcation theory, asymptotic and perturbation methods, applied mathematics.
Carlos Pantano-Rubino, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., California, San Diego, 2000. Compressible and incompressible fluid dynamics, fluid-structure interaction, turbulence, combustion and computational fluid mechanics.
Arne Pearlstein, Professor; Ph.D., UCLA, 1983. Computational and analytical studies of incompressible flow, applications to materials processing, vortex shedding, chemically reacting systems.
David Saintillan, Assistant Professor; Ph.D. Stanford U, 2006. Fluid dynamics, complex fluids, micro fluids and biophysical fluid mechanics.
Sanjiv Sinha, Assistant Professor; Ph.D.Stanford U, 2005. Electro-thermal transport in nanostructures, semiconductor physics and close-packed nanocrystal assemblies.
D. Scott Stewart, Professor; Ph.D., Cornell, 1981. Combustion theory, fluid mechanics, applied mathematics, computational fluid mechanics.
S. Pratap Vanka, Professor; Ph.D., Imperial College (London), 1975. Computational fluid dynamics, multigrid methods, large eddy simulations of turbulence.
NANOMECHANICS AND NANOMANUFACTURING
Narayana Aluru, Professor; Ph.D., Stanford, 1995. Computational methods, multiscale modeling, MEMS, NEMS, nanofluids.
Nicholas Fang, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., UCLA, 2003. Design and manufacturing of metamaterials and devices, 3-D micro/nanofabrication.
Placid Ferreira, Professor; Ph.D., Purdue, 1987. Nanomanufacturing, nanomechatronics, manufacturing automations and systems control, process planning, programmable machines.
Harley Johnson, Associate Professor; Ph.D., Brown, 1999. Nanomechanics of electronic and photonic materials, mechanics of nanostructures, materials behavior in MEMS.
Shiv Kapoor, Professor; Ph.D., Wisconsin–Madison, 1977. Micromachining process modeling, manufacturing process automation.
William King, Associate Professor; Ph.D., Stanford, 2002. Nanomanufacturing, scanning probe microscopy, micro/nano heat and mass transfer.
Michael Philpott, Associate Professor; Ph.D., Cranfield Institute of Technology (England), 1987. Feature-based cost analysis, micro-miniature systems design for manufacture and assembly, rapid prototyping and layered manufacturing.
Mark Shannon, Professor; Ph.D., Berkeley, 1993. Energetics of coupled phenomena, nanoelectromechanical and microelectromechanical systems (NEMS and MEMS), water purification.
Kimani C. Toussaint, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Boston University, 2004. Optical microscopy, polarization vector beams, nano and biophotonics.
Min-Feng Yu, Associate Professor; Ph.D., Washington (St. Louis), 2000. Mechanics, actuation, sensing and robotics as applied to nanoscale systems.
SOLID MECHANICS AND MATERIALS
Armand Beaudoin, Professor; Ph.D., Cornell, 1993. Metal plasticity, process modeling, simulation and biomechanics.
Gustavo Gioia, Associate Professor; Ph.D., Brown, 1996. Mechanics of solids and fluids.
Robert Haber, Professor; Ph.D., Cornell, 1980. Computational mechanics with applications to fracture, gas dynamics, nanoscale and multiscale simulation, continuum atomistic coupling, topology optimization.
Pega Hrnjak, Research Professor; Ph.D., Belgrade, 1992. Thermal systems, heat and mass transfer, refrigeration, optimization of thermal systems.
K. Jimmy Hsia, Professor; Ph.D., MIT, 1990. Mechanics of materials, micro and nanomechanics, biomechanics.
Martin Ostoja-Starzewski, Professor; Ph.D., McGill, 1983. Stochastic mechanics, mechanics and transport in random media, computational mechanics, waves, helices.
James W. Phillips, Professor and Associate Head for Undergraduate Programs; Ph.D., Brown, 1969. Stress analysis of wire rope, structural testing.
Andreas Polycarpou, Professor; Ph.D., SUNY at Buffalo, 1994. Tribology, nanotechnology, microtribology related to miniature systems, magnetic storage, surface characterization, friction/vibration interaction.
Huseyin Sehitoglu, Professor and Department Head; Ph.D., Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1983. Thermomechanical behavior of materials, phase transformations and shape memory.
Petros Sofronis, Professor and Associate Head for Mechanics Programs; Ph.D., Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1987. Solid mechanics, hydrogen embrittlement, micromechanics of solid propellant materials, elastic-plastic fracture mechanics, finite-element methods.
Brian Thomas, Professor; Ph.D., British Columbia, 1985. Metals processing simulation, modeling of continuous casting, steel processing, numerical methods for solidification phenomena.
Dan Tortorelli, Professor; Ph.D., Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1988. Theoretical development, computer implementation, and application of design and analysis methodologies in solid mechanics and other multiphysics systems.
Charles Tucker III, Professor and Associate Dean; Ph.D., MIT, 1977. Polymers and composite materials, quantitative modeling of processing/microstructure/property relationships, numerical methods.

Correspondence and Information

University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
Graduate Admissions Coordinator
Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering
158 Mechanical Engineering Building
1206 West Green Street
Urbana, Illinois 61801
Telephone: 217-244-3416
Email: mechse-grad@illinois.edu

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These primary research areas include biomechanics, controls and dynamics, fluid mechanics and thermal sciences, nanomechanics and nanomanufacturing and solid mechanics and materials. Mechanical Science and Engineering graduate students have opportunities to take courses and gain hands-on laboratory experience in emerging areas. For example, students taking the Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) Fabrication course use the Department’s class 100 Micro-Nano-Mechanical Systems (MNMS) clean room, where they learn state-of-the-art microelectronic fabrication techniques and get to keep the devices they fabricate. Students studying fluid mechanics in the laboratory for Turbulence and Complex Flows learn and develop the most advanced experimental methods for analyzing the complicated physics of fluid motion. They gain hands-on experience in the Internal Combustion Engines and Dynamics and Controls Laboratories, build their own parts using the rapid prototyping machines in the Concurrent Design and Manufacturing Lab, conduct research at major NSF-funded centers, and use of the University’s National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). Thirty-two semester hours of graduate-level credit are required for the M.S. degree with thesis. The Ph.D. degree requires 64 semester hours beyond the master’s degree. A direct Ph.D. program is also available (in mechanical engineering only), requiring 96 semester hours beyond the bachelor’s degree. For Ph.D. programs, a qualifying exam and a thesis research proposal are required prior to the oral preliminary exam. An oral final exam based on the Ph.D. thesis is required. Research Facilities The Department has several center-based research activities, including two NSF-funded research centers: the Center for Nano-scale Chemical-Electrical-Mechanical Manufacturing Systems (Nano-CEMMS) and the Center of Advanced Materials for Purification of Water with Systems (Water CAMPWS). In addition, the Department has the Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Center (ACRC), the Manufacturing Research Center, the Fracture Control Program, the Continuous Casting Consortium (CCC), the Center for Advanced Automotive Bio-Fuel Combustion Engines (GATE–a DOE-funded Graduate Automotive Technical Education program), the Center for Cellular Mechanics, the Midwest Structural Sciences Center, the Center for Process Simulation and Design, and the Global Enterprise for Micro-Mechanics and Molecular Medicine (GEM4). Financial Aid Approximately 90 percent of the current graduate students have received some form of financial aid. Financial assistance includes fellowships and assistantships. Fellowships and teaching/research assistantships provide a stipend plus tuition and partial fee exemption. Stipends vary with entry level into the program; the minimum rate for a half-time appointment is $1996 per month for the 2008-09 academic year. Cost of Study Students with fellowships or assistantships pay only partial fees, which totalled approximately $629 per semester for academic year 2008–09. Full-time Illinois residents without appointments or waivers pay a tuition rate of approximately $6315 per semester, and nonresidents pay a tuition rate of approximately $12, 692 per semester. All rates are subject to change. Living and Housing Costs For 2008–09, single rooms in graduate dormitories range in cost from $4450 to $5848 per academic year. For a double room, the cost ranges from $4258 to $5120 for the academic year. Housing for married students ranges from $561 to $775 per month; utilities are included for most dormitory facilities. Off-campus housing is available at similar and/or higher costs. Student Group The Department has approximately 325 graduate students; more than 50 percent are Ph.D. candidates. Most students enter graduate study directly after completing undergraduate work, although some come from work in industry. The majority of the M.S. candidates seek industrial positions involving research and development work; most Ph.D. recipients prefer research careers in industry/government or research/teaching at universities. Location The University is located in the twin cities of Urbana and Champaign (total population 180,000). It is situated about 140 miles south of Chicago, 125 miles west of Indianapolis, and 180 miles northeast of St. Louis. Willard Airport, Amtrak, and three interstate highways provide convenient transportation to and from the area. Newsweek has rated Urbana-Champaign as one of the top ten high-technology communities in the world. Urbana-Champaign combines the sophistication and cultural advantages of a large cosmopolitan university with the relaxed atmosphere and convenience of a smaller city. The University A land-grant university founded in 1867, the University enrolled 42,326 students in fall 2008, including 11,431 graduate students (53% men, 47% women, 6% African American, 6% Latino/a, 11% Asian American, .26% Native American ,and 12.7% International), and is well known for its role in higher education, scientific research, and public service. Applying Prospective applicants should apply online at: http://www.grad.uiuc.edu/admissions/apply/. The application deadline for fall and summer semesters is January 15 and the application deadline for spring semester is October 1. The nonrefundable application fee is currently $60 for U.S. citizen applicants and $75 for international applicants. Scores on the GRE General Test are required of all applicants. Students who have attended a school in a country where English is not the primary language must also submit a valid TOEFL with a minimum score of 613 (pbt), 257 (cbt), or 103 (ibt). In addition, admitted students who receive an offer of financial aid must have received a minimum score of 24/30 on the speaking section of the TOEFL (iBT) or present an IELTS score with a minimum score of 8 on the speaking section before their admission will be finalized. The Faculty and Their Research BIOMECHANICS E. Hsiao-Wecksler, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Berkeley, 2000. Experimental/computational musculoskeletal biomechanics, rehabilitation engineering. Iwona Jasiuk, Professor; Ph.D., Northwestern, 1986. Mechanics of materials; micromechanics, biomechanics, composite, biological, and nano materials; bone mechanics; composite interfaces; elasticity. Taher Saif, Professor; Ph.D., Cornell, 1993. Mechanics of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), nanoscale materials behavior, single-cell mechanics. Amy Wagoner-Johnson, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Brown, 2001. Mechanical behavior of biomaterial composites, tissue engineering and mechanotransduction. Ning Wang, Professor; Ph.D., Harvard, 1990. Cytoskeletal biomechanics, mechanotransduction, bio-imaging of cytoskeletal structures and stress distribution of living cells. CONTROLS AND DYNAMICS Andrew Alleyne, Professor; Ph.D., Berkeley, 1994. Control of nonlinear mechanical systems, theory and application. Joseph Bentsman, Associate Professor; Ph.D., IIT, 1984. Control of nonlinear and distributed parameter systems, nonlinear oscillations, network control, stability, stochastic multiscale methods. Harry Dankowicz, Associate Professor; Ph.D., Cornell, 1995. Dynamical systems, nonlinear dynamics, piecewise smooth dynamics, orthopedic biomechanics, and multibody dynamics. Geir Dullerud, Professor; Ph.D., Cambridge, 1994. Control of complex systems, including multi-rate and asynchronous systems; nonlinear systems along trajectories. Naira Hovakimyan, Professor; Ph.D. Russian Academy of Sciences, 1992. Nonlinear systems and adaptive control with particular emphasis on aerospace systems.Prashant Mehta, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Cornell, 2004. Analysis and design of equivariant (symmetric) dynamical systems, control using methods of stochastic dynamics. Srinivasa Salapaka, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., California, Santa Barbara, 2002. Analysis and design in atomic force microscopy, combinational optimization. Alexander Vakakis, Professor; Ph.D., California Institute of Technology,1990. Linear and nonlinear vibrations of structures, diagnosis and prognosis of faults in mechanical systems, experimental dynamics, structural wave propagation, dynamical modeling of the human joint. Matthew West, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, 2002. Asynchronous and structure-preserving integrators, stochastic simulation and uncertainty quantification, multi-scale and multi-physics simulations. FLUID MECHANICS AND THERMAL SCIENCES M. Quinn Brewster, Professor; Ph.D., Berkeley, 1981. Energy, combustion, energetic materials, thermal radiation, optical properties, solid rocket propulsion. Kenneth Christensen, Associate Professor; Ph.D., Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2001. Experimental fluid mechanics, turbulence, development of advanced diagnostics. Jonathan Freund, Associate Professor; Ph.D., Stanford, 1998. Fluid mechanics, bioengineering. John Georgiadis, Professor; Ph.D., UCLA, 1987. Transport phenomena in biological and environmental systems, multiscale numerical methods, magnetic resonance imaging. Nick Glumac, Professor; Ph.D., Caltech, 1994. Spectroscopy of reacting flows and energetic materials, combustion diagnostics, metal combustion. Sascha Hilgenfeldt; Associate Professor; Ph.D. University of Marburg, Germany. Theoretical and experimental research on the interfacial structure and dynamical evolution of foam and soft condensed matter. His research has importation implications for drug delivery, gene therapy and cell diagnostics, as well as generally enhancing the understanding of the mechanics of life. Anthony Jacobi, Professor and Associate Head for Graduate Programs; Ph.D., Purdue, 1989. Heat transfer, fluid mechanics with end-use energy applications. Herman Krier, Professor; Ph.D., Princeton, 1968. Reactive gas dynamics, internal ballistics of rockets and guns, combustion physics, plasma dynamics. Dimitrios Kyritsis, Associate Professor; Ph.D., Princeton, 1998. Energy systems and power generation with particular emphasis to combustion, reactive fluid mechanics, laser diagnostics. Chia-Fon Lee, Professor; Ph.D., Princeton, 1995. Modeling of two-phase turbulent reacting flows, internal-combustion engines, liquid atomization and spray systems. Moshe Matalon, Professor; Ph.D., Cornell, 1977. Combustion theory and chemically reacting flows, theoretical fluid mechanics, stability and bifurcation theory, asymptotic and perturbation methods, applied mathematics. Carlos Pantano-Rubino, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., California, San Diego, 2000. Compressible and incompressible fluid dynamics, fluid-structure interaction, turbulence, combustion and computational fluid mechanics. Arne Pearlstein, Professor; Ph.D., UCLA, 1983. Computational and analytical studies of incompressible flow, applications to materials processing, vortex shedding, chemically reacting systems. David Saintillan, Assistant Professor; Ph.D. Stanford U, 2006. Fluid dynamics, complex fluids, micro fluids and biophysical fluid mechanics. Sanjiv Sinha, Assistant Professor; Ph.D.Stanford U, 2005. Electro-thermal transport in nanostructures, semiconductor physics and close-packed nanocrystal assemblies. D. Scott Stewart, Professor; Ph.D., Cornell, 1981. Combustion theory, fluid mechanics, applied mathematics, computational fluid mechanics. S. Pratap Vanka, Professor; Ph.D., Imperial College (London), 1975. Computational fluid dynamics, multigrid methods, large eddy simulations of turbulence. NANOMECHANICS AND NANOMANUFACTURING Narayana Aluru, Professor; Ph.D., Stanford, 1995. Computational methods, multiscale modeling, MEMS, NEMS, nanofluids. Nicholas Fang, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., UCLA, 2003. Design and manufacturing of metamaterials and devices, 3-D micro/nanofabrication. Placid Ferreira, Professor; Ph.D., Purdue, 1987. Nanomanufacturing, nanomechatronics, manufacturing automations and systems control, process planning, programmable machines. Harley Johnson, Associate Professor; Ph.D., Brown, 1999. Nanomechanics of electronic and photonic materials, mechanics of nanostructures, materials behavior in MEMS. Shiv Kapoor, Professor; Ph.D., Wisconsin–Madison, 1977. Micromachining process modeling, manufacturing process automation. William King, Associate Professor; Ph.D., Stanford, 2002. Nanomanufacturing, scanning probe microscopy, micro/nano heat and mass transfer. Michael Philpott, Associate Professor; Ph.D., Cranfield Institute of Technology (England), 1987. Feature-based cost analysis, micro-miniature systems design for manufacture and assembly, rapid prototyping and layered manufacturing. Mark Shannon, Professor; Ph.D., Berkeley, 1993. Energetics of coupled phenomena, nanoelectromechanical and microelectromechanical systems (NEMS and MEMS), water purification. Kimani C. Toussaint, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Boston University, 2004. Optical microscopy, polarization vector beams, nano and biophotonics. Min-Feng Yu, Associate Professor; Ph.D., Washington (St. Louis), 2000. Mechanics, actuation, sensing and robotics as applied to nanoscale systems. SOLID MECHANICS AND MATERIALS Armand Beaudoin, Professor; Ph.D., Cornell, 1993. Metal plasticity, process modeling, simulation and biomechanics. Gustavo Gioia, Associate Professor; Ph.D., Brown, 1996. Mechanics of solids and fluids. Robert Haber, Professor; Ph.D., Cornell, 1980. Computational mechanics with applications to fracture, gas dynamics, nanoscale and multiscale simulation, continuum atomistic coupling, topology optimization. Pega Hrnjak, Research Professor; Ph.D., Belgrade, 1992. Thermal systems, heat and mass transfer, refrigeration, optimization of thermal systems. K. Jimmy Hsia, Professor; Ph.D., MIT, 1990. Mechanics of materials, micro and nanomechanics, biomechanics. Martin Ostoja-Starzewski, Professor; Ph.D., McGill, 1983. Stochastic mechanics, mechanics and transport in random media, computational mechanics, waves, helices. James W. Phillips, Professor and Associate Head for Undergraduate Programs; Ph.D., Brown, 1969. Stress analysis of wire rope, structural testing. Andreas Polycarpou, Professor; Ph.D., SUNY at Buffalo, 1994. Tribology, nanotechnology, microtribology related to miniature systems, magnetic storage, surface characterization, friction/vibration interaction. Huseyin Sehitoglu, Professor and Department Head; Ph.D., Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1983. Thermomechanical behavior of materials, phase transformations and shape memory. Petros Sofronis, Professor and Associate Head for Mechanics Programs; Ph.D., Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1987. Solid mechanics, hydrogen embrittlement, micromechanics of solid propellant materials, elastic-plastic fracture mechanics, finite-element methods. Brian Thomas, Professor; Ph.D., British Columbia, 1985. Metals processing simulation, modeling of continuous casting, steel processing, numerical methods for solidification phenomena. Dan Tortorelli, Professor; Ph.D., Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1988. Theoretical development, computer implementation, and application of design and analysis methodologies in solid mechanics and other multiphysics systems. Charles Tucker III, Professor and Associate Dean; Ph.D., MIT, 1977. Polymers and composite materials, quantitative modeling of processing/microstructure/property relationships, numerical methods. Correspondence and Information University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign Graduate Admissions Coordinator Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering 158 Mechanical Engineering Building 1206 West Green Street Urbana, Illinois 61801 Telephone: 217-244-3416 Email: mechse-grad@illinois.edu
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