Mechanical Engineering at University of Maryland, College Park

40 faculty and 18 courses in Mechanical Engineering at University of Maryland, College Park.

Faculty

• Bo Chen, Assistant Research Scientist h-index 100
  Notable: “2D Transition‐Metal‐Dichalcogenide‐Nanosheet‐Based Composites for Photocatalytic and Electrocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution Reactions” (2015) · 1,444 citations
• Ashwani K. Gupta, Professor h-index 59
  Notable: “Co-pyrolysis of waste plastic and solid biomass for synergistic production of biofuels and chemicals-A review” (2021) · 604 citations
• Yunho Hwang, Professor h-index 57
  Notable: “Demonstration of high efficiency elastocaloric cooling with large ΔT using NiTi wires” (2012) · 501 citations
• James Duncan, Professor Emeritus h-index 49
  Notable: “Nonlinear Analysis of Stress and Strain in Soils” (1970) · 2,380 citations
• Balakumar Balachandran, Minta Martin Professor h-index 47
  Notable: “Modal Interactions in Dynamical and Structural Systems” (1989) · 283 citations
• Diganta Das, Associate Research Scientist h-index 45
  Notable: “Influence of Array Interspacing on the Force Required for Successful Microneedle Skin Penetration: Theoretical and Practical Approaches” (2013) · 268 citations
• Amr Baz, Minta Martin Professor h-index 40
  Notable: “Analytical Solutions to H∞ and H2 Optimization of Dynamic Vibration Absorbers Attached to Damped Linear Systems” (2002) · 392 citations
• Hosam Fathy, Professor h-index 39
  Notable: “A Stochastic Optimal Control Approach for Power Management in Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicles” (2010) · 563 citations
• Sunil Kumar, Professor h-index 38
  Notable: “High-Brightness Light Emitting Diodes Using Dislocation-Free Indium Gallium Nitride/Gallium Nitride Multiquantum-Well Nanorod Arrays” (2004) · 561 citations
• Abhijit Dasgupta, Jeong H. Kim Professor h-index 38
  Notable: “Solder Creep-Fatigue Analysis by an Energy-Partitioning Approach” (1992) · 223 citations
• Hugh Bruck, Professor h-index 37
  Notable: “Processing bulk natural wood into a high-performance structural material” (2018) · 1,565 citations
• Steven A. Gabriel, Professor h-index 37
  Notable: “NE/SQP: A robust algorithm for the nonlinear complementarity problem” (1993) · 204 citations
• Nikhil Chopra, Professor h-index 36
  Notable: “On Exponential Synchronization of Kuramoto Oscillators” (2009) · 429 citations
• Shapour Azarm, Professor of Mechanical Engineering h-index 35
  Notable: “Metrics for Quality Assessment of a Multiobjective Design Optimization Solution Set” (2000) · 275 citations
• Bongtae Han, Professor h-index 33
  Notable: “Advanced iterative algorithm for phase extraction of randomly phase-shifted interferograms” (2004) · 559 citations
• Jin-Oh Hahn, Professor h-index 32
  Notable: “Toward Ubiquitous Blood Pressure Monitoring via Pulse Transit Time: Theory and Practice” (2015) · 902 citations
• Avik Dutt, Assistant Professor h-index 30
• Michael Azarian, Research Scientist h-index 29
  Notable: “Motor Bearing Fault Detection Using Spectral Kurtosis-Based Feature Extraction Coupled With K-Nearest Neighbor Distance Analysis” (2015) · 480 citations
• Vikrant C. Aute, Research Professor h-index 29
  Notable: “CoilDesigner: a general-purpose simulation and design tool for air-to-refrigerant heat exchangers” (2006) · 209 citations
• Katrina Groth, Professor h-index 28
  Notable: “Hydrogen storage and delivery: Review of the state of the art technologies and risk and reliability analysis” (2019) · 1,335 citations
• Kenneth Kiger, Professor h-index 20
• David Bigio, Professor h-index 18
  Notable: “In Situ Transmission Electron Microscopy Study of Electrochemical Sodiation and Potassiation of Carbon Nanofibers” (2014) · 281 citations
• Yancy Diaz-Mercado, Associate Professor h-index 12
  Notable: “Multirobot Control Using Time-Varying Density Functions” (2015) · 194 citations
• Mohammad Fazelpour, Faculty h-index 9
  Notable: “Comparative Study of Optimization Techniques in Sizing Mesostructures for Use in NonPneumatic Tires” (2015) · 19 citations
• Johan Larsson, Professor h-index 7
  Notable: “Risk prediction models for mortality in patients with ventilator-associated pneumonia: A systematic review and meta-analysis” (2016) · 36 citations
• Cecilia Huertas Cerdeira, Faculty h-index 4
  Notable: “Flapping dynamics of an inverted flag” (2013) · 243 citations
• Aris Cleanthous, Associate Clinical Professor
• Ashutosh Giri, Faculty
• Damena Agonafer, Associate Professor & Clark Faculty Fellow
• Don DeVoe, Fischell Institute Fellow
• Harry Dankowicz, Keystone Professor
• Jay Lee, Professor
• Jungho Kim, Professor
• Lin Cheng, Assistant Professor
• Michel Cukier, Professor of Reliability Engineering
• Molly Carton, Assistant Research Professor
• Peter W. Chung, Professor
• Samuel Graham Jr., Professor
• Siddhartha Das, Professor
• Teng Li, Professor

Courses

• Careers in Mechanical Engineering ENME201
• Computing Fundamentals for Engineers ENME202
• Introduction to Automotive Engineering and Design ENME208
• Introduction to Computer Aided Design ENME272
• Fluid Mechanics ENME331
• Transfer Processes ENME332
• Electronics and Instrumentation I ENME350
• Electronics and Instrumentation II ENME351
• Vibration, Controls and Optimization I ENME361
• Product Engineering and Manufacturing ENME371
• Introduction to Materials Engineering ENME382
• Statistical Methods for Product and Processes Development ENME392
• Machine Design ENME400
• Roller Coaster Engineering ENME406
• Sustainability, Climate Change and Renewable Energy Systems ENME407
• Design Optimization ENME410
• Bio-Inspired Robotics ENME413
• Additive Manufacturing ENME416

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 2026-07-02.