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Dr. Appa Anjanappa Professor (At UMBC since 1986) Research Interest: Mechatronics (sensors, control, and actuators), smart materials and structures, design optimization, automation, and digital controllers.

Dr. Dwayne Arola Associate Professor (At UMBC since 1997) Research Interest: Advanced manufacturing, experimental mechanics and materials. Primary research efforts concern the influence of net-shape machining to the performance of engineering and biological materials.

Dr. Dawn J. Bennett Assistant Professor (At UMBC since 2004) Research Interest: Development of electro-microfluidic devices for the control and manipulation of biological and non-biological analytes. The purpose of this research is to separate and concentrate particles using electro-hydrodynamic techniques such as electrophoresis and dielectrophoresis.

Dr. Shlomo Carmi Professor and Dean (At UMBC since 1996) Research Interest: Fluid mechanics, heat and mass transfer, stability studies in hydrodynamics and chemical and biological systems, rheology and atomization of non- Newtonian fluids & rock mechanics

Dr. Panos Charalambides Professor and Chairman (At UMBC since 1994) Research Interest: Fracture and computational mechanics, finite elements, mechanics of composite materials, manufacturing and optimal fixturing, biomechanics.

Dr. Charles Eggleton Associate Professor (At UMBC since 1998) Research Interest: In my work, I use state-of-the-art numerical approaches to understand the response of highly deformable fluid particles with complex interfaces to applied flows.

Dr. Tony Farquhar Associate Professor (At UMBC since 1995) Research Interest: Mechanical behavior of flexible structures, ranging from living plants to biomimetic machines. Basic research on interrelationships between reduced height gene mutation, wind-induced crop vibration, and plant disease resistance

Dr. Christian von Kerczek Professor (At UMBC since 1986) Research Interest: Research interests are in theoretical and computational fluid mechanics. Development of methods to predict aerodynamic and hydrodynamic forces on devices such as pumps, engines, ships, aeroplanes, etc

Dr. Akhtar S. Khan Professor (At UMBC since 1991) Research Interest: Primary research interest is in experimental and numerical studies in emerging materials and new metal alloys, related to the constitutive modeling of finite plastic behavior during the propagation of stress waves and quasi-static loading; and damage & failure modeling of composite materials and ceramics

Dr. Ronghui Ma Assistant Professor (At UMBC since 2004) Research Interest: My research interests lie in the area of computational heat transfer and fluid  dynamic with specific emphasis on novel materials processsing and MEMS devices.

Dr. Anne Spence Assistant Professor (At UMBC since 2001) Research Interest: Current research focuses on both the awareness of and interest in engineering career opportunities for students in K-16 with the hope of increasing their participation in all areas of engineering. Methods of improving teacher content knowledge in the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) areas is also an area of research. Past research focused on the aeromechanical stability of helicopters in turning flight.

Dr. Haijun Su Assistant Professor (At UMBC since 2007) Research Interest: My research interests include virtual reality applications, compliant mechanisms, kinematics and robotics, computer-aided design and solutions to polynomial equations.

Dr. Uri Tasch Professor (At UMBC since 1989) Research Interest: The research thrust in recent years has focused on the development of technology that inspects agricultural produce and detects lameness of various four and two legged animals. Bovine, ovine, equine, monkeys, and murine lameness detection and gait analysis systems for human applications are under development.

Dr. L.D. Timmie Topoleski Professor (At UMBC since 1990) Research Interest: Research in the UMBC Laboratory for Implantable Materials focuses on using mechanical engineering and material science methods to improve medical materials and procedures. One of the main research projects in the Lab is improving the wear fracture resistance of artificial joints

Dr. Liang Zhu Associate Professor (At UMBC since 1998) Research Interest: Development of a new bioheat equation for muscle tissue; effects of vascular geometry and blood perfusion on local heat transfer in microcirculation; experimental study of thermal regulation to local heat and cold stress using animal model

Dr. Weidong Zhu Professor (At UMBC since 1999) Research Interest:My research interest lies in the fields of dynamic systems, vibrations, controls, and applied mechanics. Our research combines analytical development, numerical simulation, and experimental validation.

Dr. Marc Zupan Assistant Professor (At UMBC since 2003) Research Interest: Interests include microscale testing, micro-architectured multifunctional materials, cellular solids, high temperature intermetallic alloys, dislocation core modeling, actuators and sensors.

Research Associates

Dr. Oleg Vesnovsky Research Associate (At UMBC since 1994) Advisor: Dr Tim Topoleski Research Interest: Manufacturing / mechanical engineer with primary interests in the design of non-standard mechanical evaluations. Dr. Vesnovsky is experienced in R&D and testing of medical devices and biomaterials. Wear, fatigue, crack propagation, and mechanical properties testing are the major areas of his interest. He has extensive expertise with the modification of physico-mechanical properties of material surfaces and coatings using ion implantation techniques on non-semiconductor substrates. In addition, he has long worked on the reduction of wear in cutting tools during the machining of hard-to-machine materials.

Dr. Seung-Ill Haan Research Associate (At UMBC since 1994) Advisor: Research Interest: Computational mechanics. Currently working on development of OOF2 (an object-oriented finite element analysis program for computational materials science) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).