34 faculty and 35 courses in Mechanical Engineering at New Jersey Institute of Technology.
- Rong-Yaw Chen, Professor Emeritus h-index 80
Notable: “Heat and fluid flow in high-power LED packaging and applications” (2016) · 456 citations
- Chao Zhu, Professor, Associate Chair h-index 55
Notable: “Efficient Electrochemical Nitrate Reduction to Ammonia with Copper‐Supported Rhodium Cluster and Single‐Atom Catalysts” (2022) · 577 citations
- Pushpendra Singh, Professor h-index 54
My current research interests fall into the following three areas: the fluid dynamics of viscoelastic liquids, the direct numerical simulations of particulate multiphase fluids, electrohydrodynamic manipulation of particles, and the fluid d
Notable: “A new formulation of the distributed Lagrange multiplier/fictitious domain method for particulate flows” (2000) · 375 citations
- Xing Liu, Assistant Professor h-index 33
Fracture mechanics, Multiscale modeling, Nanomechanics, Machine learning Journal Article Dimitrios Georgiou, Danqi Sun, Xing Liu, Christos E Athanasiou. 2025. "Suppressing Mechanical Property Variability in Recycled Plastics via Bioinspired
Notable: “A machine learning approach to fracture mechanics problems” (2020) · 242 citations
- Shawn Chester, Professor h-index 26
The past few years has been the development of experimentally validated continuum level constitutive theories for large-deformation multi-physics behavior of materials, and the associated numerical implementation. My work spans most aspe
Notable: “Printing ferromagnetic domains for untethered fast-transforming soft materials” (2018) · 2,138 citations
- Dibakar Datta, Associate Professor h-index 22
Notable: “Defect-induced plating of lithium metal within porous graphene networks” (2014) · 439 citations
- Sanchoy Das, Professor h-index 22
On warehousing and distribution operations for online retail supply chains. In the healthcare systems area my research interest is specifically on modelling the relative productivity of U.S. hospitals. My research has been published ext
Notable: “An approach for estimating the end-of-life product disassembly effort and cost” (2000) · 201 citations
- Lin Dong, Assistant Professor h-index 21
Lie in the intersection of mechanical engineering, material science and biomedical engineering, covering the topics of functional nanomaterials design and synthesis, soft materials and robots, energy harvesting/sensing devices, and human-ma
Notable: “Flexible piezoelectric nanogenerators using metal-doped ZnO-PVDF films” (2020) · 157 citations
- Zhiming Ji, Professor, Interim Chair h-index 19
1. Development of Condensation-based Vacuum Generation and Integrated Waste Water Treatment Method and Device. One goal is to attain a large-volume sub-atmospheric pressure environment with the new vacuum device. Another is to Integrate the
Notable: “Measurement of balance in computer posturography: Comparison of methods—A brief review” (2008) · 157 citations
- Layek Abdel-Malek, Professor h-index 19
Stochastic modeling, inventory control
Notable: “Modeling the flexibility of order quantities and lead-times in supply chains” (2003) · 154 citations
- Eon Soo Lee, Associate Professor h-index 18
Advanced Energy Systems and Microdevices Laboratory PI: Eon Soo Lee Energy Materials and Systems Research: - Graphene-based catalyst materials synthesis and characterizations - Batteries and Fuel cell catalysts
Notable: “Carbon-based catalysts for oxygen reduction reaction: A review on degradation mechanisms” (2019) · 172 citations
- Kwabena Narh, Professor h-index 18
Crystallization kinetics and phase transitions in plastics processing, polymer degradation, melt extrusions, PVT measurements, self-reinforcing composites, nanocomposites, thermal
Notable: “Degradation of polymer solutions in extensional flows” (1990) · 126 citations
- Fatemeh Ahmadpoor, Assistant Professor h-index 17
Enhanced electromechanical properties of soft materials, entropic effects, finite temperature properties of flexible nanostructures, and interaction of nanostructures with biological systems. Education Ph.D.; University of Houston
Notable: “Flexoelectricity in two-dimensional crystalline and biological membranes” (2015) · 187 citations
- Wenbo Cai, Associate Professor h-index 17
My research is in Operations Management, a field that combines methodologies and tools from multiple disciplines, such as stochastic models and optimization techniques in operations research, game theory in economics, and human behavior in
Notable: “Quantifying the cool island effects of urban green spaces using remote sensing Data” (2017) · 306 citations
- Anthony Rosato, Professor h-index 16
Mechanics of granular materials Particle Level modeling Dynamical systems In Progress Application of Machine Learning to Discrete Interacting Particle Systems Application of machine learning models to discrete interacting particle systems u
- Paul Ranky, Professor h-index 15
Product, process, system design engineering subjects, quality, automation, robotics, sustainable green engineering, interactive multimedia, quality system design, energy management, Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). For a more accurate
Notable: “An introduction to radio frequency identification (RFID) methods and solutions” (2006) · 102 citations
- Peter Balogh, Assistant Professor h-index 15
Computational fluid dynamics modeling of biological flows in the microcirculation, numerical methods for complex fluid-structure interfaces, and code development for high performance computing. While a mechanical engineer at heart
Notable: “A computational approach to modeling cellular-scale blood flow in complex geometry” (2017) · 108 citations
- Avraham Harnoy, Professor Emeritus h-index 14
Notable: “Implementation of a friction estimation and compensation technique” (1997) · 98 citations
- SangWoo Park, Assistant Professor h-index 10
Design and analysis of algorithms for complex and large scale optimization problems, mainly related to electric power systems. Other application areas include transportation systems, healthcare systems and supply chains. Current research to
Notable: “Evaluation of thermal performance of energy textile installed in Tunnel” (2011) · 115 citations
- Samaneh Farokhirad, Assistant Professor h-index 9
In the areas of fluid mechanics and soft matter physics. Her research group will employ novel computational and theoretical models to explore the dynamics and transport of soft materials at surfaces and interfaces. Dr. Farokhirad has bee
- Ian Fischer, Professor h-index 8
Notable: “The Emperor's New Security Indicators” (2007) · 403 citations
- George Abdou, Associate Professor h-index 8
Dr. Abdou’s research interests are in the area of Robotic Palletization, expert systems for facilities planning and computer-aided process planning, adaptive control optimization for milling operations, and design and implementation of DC b
Notable: “An integrated approach to facilities layout using expert systems” (1990) · 54 citations
- Alberto Padovan, Assistant Professor h-index 8
Alberto’s research focuses on developing efficient algorithms and reduced-order models to enable the computer-assisted analysis, design, and control of large-scale physical systems. His work spans several fields, including high- and low-spe
- Athanassios Bladikas, Associate Professor h-index 6
Notable: “Estimation of Bus Arrival Times Using APC Data” (2004) · 165 citations
- Petras Swissler, Assistant Professor h-index 4
Collective robot behaviors, self-assembling systems, robot mechanism design Journal Article Petras Swissler, Michael Rubenstein. 2023. "FireAntV3: A modular self-reconfigurable robot towards free-form self-assembly using attach-anywhere con
Notable: “FireAnt3D: a 3D self-climbing robot towards non-latticed robotic self-assembly” (2020) · 49 citations
- G. Bengu, Associate Professor h-index 4
Core Technical Expertise: 1) DISCRETE EVENT SYSTEM SIMULATION MODELING, ANALYSIS AND OPTIMIZATION: Deep Understanding of Design, Operations & Economies of Systems (Analysis of Discrete Event Service/Production Systems i.e., Pharmaceutical M
Notable: “A computer-aided, total quality approach to manufacturing education in engineering” (1996) · 63 citations
- Stephen Tricamo, Professor h-index 2
Examining the current condition of higher education in the US in terms of its effectiveness, efficiency, cost, contribution to the economy, and fulfillment of mission. This to be followed by a look at future trends and how academe may need
Notable: “Growing The National Innovation System: Assessing The Needs And Skill Sets For Innovative Professional Graduate Education Defined By The Tasks And Responsibilities Of Engineer Leaders In Industry” (2020) · 8 citations
- Rajpal Sodhi, Professor h-index 2
Mechanism synthesis, Mechanical Design, Biomechanics, Rehabilitation engineering Book Rajpal Singh Sodhi, Kevin Russell. "Mechanical Design – Fundamentals to Capstone." 203 pp. NJIT Faculty Authored Text Book: Open and Affordable Textbook P
Notable: “Genetic Algorithm for Sensitivity Analysis of Automobile Hood Four-bar Mechanism Synthesis Using Motion Generation” (2022) · 4 citations
- Adeel Akhtar, Assistant Professor
Aerial Robotics Path Invariant Controllers Hybrid Controls Feedback Linearization Robust Global Controls Hybrid Geometric Controls Conference Proceeding "Global Accelerated Nonconvex Geometric Optimization Methods on SO (3)" 2023. "A Class
- Bo Shen, Assistant Professor
- Farid Alisafaei, Assistant Professor
Mechanobiology Cell and Tissue Mechanics ---------- Fibrocontractile Disease Wound Healing Skin Grafting ---------- Gene Expression Cell Reprogramming ---------- Physics of Cancer ---------- Nano & Micro Mechanics of Bio-Related Polymers Jo
- I. Rao, Professor
Es on continuum mechanics and constitutive modeling. This includes the mechanics of fluids and solids, the modeling of non-linear phenomenon observed in mechanics with an emphasis on applications in polymers, manufacturing processes and bio
- Pasquale Florio, Professor Emeritus
- Simone Marras, Associate Professor
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