Mechanical Engineering at Brigham Young University

37 faculty and 0 courses in Mechanical Engineering at Brigham Young University.

Faculty

• Matt Allen, Professor h-index 58
  My research team seeks to enable the design and modeling of complicated dynamic systems by creating new methods to characterize them experimentally and to accelerate modeling. Our focus is on systems that are too complicated to model using
• Larry L. Howell, Professor h-index 57
  Es on compliant mechanisms, including origami-inspired mechanisms, space mechanisms, microelectromechanical systems, and medical devices. He is the co-editor of the Handbook of Compliant Mechanisms and the author of Compliant Mechanisms whi
• Tim McLain, Professor h-index 41
  Ed on understanding the fundamental hydrodynamics pertinent to underwater manipulation, developing real-time hydrodynamic models, and developing control methods for precise, high-speed underwater manipulation from a hovering vehicle platfor
• Andrew Ning, Professor h-index 34
• David Fullwood, Professor h-index 33
  Dr. Fullwood focuses on composites / nano-composites, microscopy and computational methods in materials science. Teaching Interests Dr. Fullwood teaches materials focused courses including composites, materials selection and microsctructure
• John Salmon, Associate Professor h-index 33
  Systems engineering, design, and integration, multi-disciplinary optimization, operations research, visual and data analytics, modeling and simulation, multi-agent multi-objective decision making, sports analytics, virtual reality
• Douglas Cook, Associate Professor h-index 28
  Experimental and computational biomechanics with emphasis on crop and plant biomechanics, and the influence of biological variation in modeling predictions, stochastic modeling to provide comprehensive insights on model behavior. Teaching I
• Brian Jensen, Professor h-index 26
• Chris Mattson, Professor h-index 25
  Dr. Mattson's primary research area of interest is engineering design theory and methodology, with a particular emphasis on multiobjective/multidisciplinary optimization and decision-making at the conceptual and preliminary design stages. H
• Brian Iverson, Professor h-index 22
  Brian Iverson utilizes heat transfer and thermodynamic principles to address needs related to power systems, sensing, thermal management and microfluidics. His research begins at the nanometer scale with high-surface area to volume ratio st
• Jeff Hill, Associate Professor h-index 21
  Include, designing shock resistant packaging for electronics, improving shock testing capabilities, and developing methods for high energy absorption through novel uses of materials and structures. Doctor of Philosophy, Mechanical Engineeri
• Anton Bowden, Professor h-index 21
• Marc Killpack, Professor h-index 20
  Soft robotics, human-robot interaction, controls, mechanics and perception for robotics and other automated systems. His current research interests relate to improving modeling and control for robot manipulation in unstructured and
• Steven Charles, Associate Professor h-index 19
  Humans move gracefully and effortlessly to accomplish a staggering variety of functions, yet our understanding of how the musculoskeletal and nervous systems interact to produce such movement is very limited. Consequently, our ability to as
• Jason Porter, Associate Professor h-index 17
• Julie Crockett, Professor h-index 17
• Jonathan Blotter, Professor h-index 16
• Benjamin Terry, Associate Professor h-index 16
• Troy Munro, Associate Professor h-index 16
  Heat Transfer in Manufacturing Thermal Behavior of Materials Molten Salt Reactors Biothermal Behavior Nuclear Energy Thermophysical Properties Teaching Interests Heat Transfer Nuclear Energy Materials Science Instrumentation Experimental Me
• Oliver Johnson, Associate Professor h-index 14
  Uncertainty Quantification; Microstructure Design; Grain Boundary Networks; Structure-Property Models; Multi-scale Modeling & Homogenization; Synthesis of Advanced Materials; Teaching Interests Materials Science Education PhD Materials
• Sterling Baird, Assistant Professor h-index 12
  Es on autonomous materials discovery through self-driving laboratories, Bayesian optimization, and materials informatics. He leads the Vertical Cloud Lab , which develops cloud-accessible experimentation platforms for accelerated materials
• Nathan Speirs, Assistant Professor h-index 12
  Nathan's research incorporates high-speed photography with various visualization techniques and theoretical modeling to study interfacial fluid dynamics. Areas of particular interest include how objects enter a body of water, the dynamics o
• Brady Moon, Assistant Professor h-index 9
  Autonomous information gathering, motion planning, and machine learning for field robotics. His current research interests include task and path planning, autonomous systems, multi-agent coordination, human-robot interaction, and th
• Taylor Greenwood, Assistant Professor h-index 6
• Brad Adams, Associate Professor
• Brady Davies, Associate Teaching Professor
  MEMS, sensors, robotics, DFM Teaching Interests Design, mechanics, instrumentation, robotics, MEMS, sensors, manufacturing Courses Taught Show Previous Years
• Christopher Dillon, Assistant Professor
  Characterization of human tissue properties and bioheat transfer modeling for magnetic resonance-guided focused ultrasound (MRgFUS) thermal therapies. Dr. Dillon served a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints i
• Dale R. Tree, Professor
• Daniel Maynes, Professor
• Eric Homer, Professor
• Hongjuan Ran, Associate Professor
• Mark Colton, Teaching Professor
  Robotics, historical engineering Teaching Interests Dynamic systems, mechatronic systems, computing, dynamics, control systems Courses Taught Show Previous Years Publications Ryan GT Romero Mark B Colton Scott L Thomson Michael A Goodrich M
• Matt Jones, Associate Professor
  Professor Jones is involved in research projects related to air quality monitoring, dynamic control of radiative surface properties and reduced order modeling and analysis. Teaching Interests Professor Jones teaches heat transfer and thermo
• Nathan Crane, Professor
  Dr. Crane’s interests lay in the areas of design, materials and advanced manufacturing with a particular interest in additive manufacturing (AM) and digital microfluidics. His work focuses on applying material science, mechanical design, an
• Nathan Usevitch, Assistant Professor
  Es on designing new types of robotic systems, with a focus on robots made from compliant materials and robots that directly interact with humans. Before BYU, Dr. Usevitch worked for Meta Reality Labs designing haptic gloves for virtual real
• Steve Gorrell, Professor
  Experimental and Computational Fluid Dynamics Turbomachinery Computational Science and Engineering Engineering Education Teaching Interests Fluid Mechanics Compressible Flow Turbulence Computational Fluid Dynamics Multi-University UAV Desig
• Todd Nelson, Associate Professor

Roster/catalog compiled from the college’s public directory. Faculty counts are directory headcounts; the named list may be a subset. h-index shown only for ORCID-backed or high-confidence OpenAlex matches. Data as of 2026-07-01.