Mechanical Engineering at Northwestern University

41 faculty and 0 courses in Mechanical Engineering at Northwestern University.

Faculty

• Zdeněk Bažant, McCormick Institute Professor, Walter P. Murphy Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering h-index 114
  Notable: “Crack band theory for fracture of concrete” (1983) · 3,468 citations
• Wing Liu, Walter P. Murphy Professor of Mechanical Engineering & Civil and Environmental Engineering h-index 99
  Notable: “Reproducing kernel particle methods” (1995) · 2,819 citations
• Jian Cao, Associate Vice President for Research, Cardiss Collins Professor of Mechanical Engineering h-index 87
  Notable: “Financial time series forecasting model based on CEEMDAN and LSTM” (2018) · 692 citations
• Horacio Espinosa, Walter P. Murphy Professor of Mechanical Engineering h-index 77
  Notable: “Measurements of near-ultimate strength for multiwalled carbon nanotubes and irradiation-induced crosslinking improvements” (2008) · 1,115 citations
• Julio Ottino, Walter P. Murphy Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering and Mechanical Engineering h-index 70
• Ping Guo, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering h-index 63
  Notable: “Sequential Optimization and Reliability Assessment Method for Efficient Probabilistic Design” (2004) · 1,105 citations
• Kornel Ehmann, Professor Emeritus of Mechanical Engineering h-index 53
  Notable: “Deep learning predicts path-dependent plasticity” (2019) · 603 citations
• Michael Peshkin, Professor of Mechanical Engineering h-index 52
  Notable: “Cobot architecture” (2001) · 356 citations
• Kevin Lynch, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Director, Center for Robotics and Biosystems h-index 50
  Notable: “Stability and Convergence Properties of Dynamic Average Consensus Estimators” (2006) · 505 citations
• Richard Lueptow, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Senior Associate Dean h-index 50
• Gianluca Cusatis, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Mechanical Engineering h-index 47
  Notable: “Lattice Discrete Particle Model (LDPM) for failure behavior of concrete. I: Theory” (2011) · 471 citations
• Neelesh Patankar, Professor of Mechanical Engineering h-index 46
• Gregory Wagner, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Director of Graduate Studies for Mechanical Engineering h-index 41
  Notable: “Coupling of atomistic and continuum simulations using a bridging scale decomposition” (2003) · 655 citations
• Petia Vlahovska, Professor of Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics and Mechanical Engineering h-index 39
• Yip-Wah Chung, Professor of Instruction h-index 33
  Notable: “Low energy electron diffraction and electron spectroscopy studies of the clean (110) and (100) titanium dioxide (rutile) crystal surfaces” (1977) · 317 citations
• Elizabeth Gerber, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science h-index 32
  Notable: “Crowdfunding” (2013) · 710 citations
• Junsoo Kim, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering h-index 30
  Notable: “A flexible and highly sensitive strain-gauge sensor using reversible interlocking of nanofibres” (2012) · 1,676 citations
• Brenna Argall, Professor of Computer Science, Professor of Mechanical Engineering h-index 27
  Notable: “A survey of robot learning from demonstration” (2008) · 3,258 citations
• Sandip Ghosal, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics h-index 26
• Q. Jane Wang, Joseph Cummings Professor in Mechanical Engineering h-index 4
  Notable: “Real time prediction of ship motion based on iTransformer with EWT-SampEn data processing” (2025) · 5 citations
• Bahador Bahmani, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering
• Cheng Sun, Professor of Mechanical Engineering
• J. Edward Colgate, Walter P. Murphy Professor of Mechanical Engineering
• Jennifer Dunn, Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering and Mechanical Engineering
• John Rogers, Louis Simpson and Kimberly Querrey Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Biomedical Engineering and Neurological Surgery
• John Rudnicki, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Mechanical Engineering
• Malcolm MacIver, Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering
• Manohar Kulkarni, Clinical Full Professor and Assistant Chairperson of Mechanical Engineering
• Michael Rubenstein, Associate Professor of Computer Science and Mechanical Engineering
• Mitra Hartmann, Chair and Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Professor of Mechanical Engineering
• Naichen Shi, Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences and Mechanical Engineering
• Oluwaseyi Balogun, Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Mechanical Engineering
• Ryan Truby, Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Mechanical Engineering
• Sam Kriegman, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical and Biological Engineering
• Seth Lichter, Professor of Mechanical Engineering
• Sinan Keten, Jan and Marcia Achenbach Professor, Associate Chair of Mechanical Engineering
• Sridhar Krishnaswamy, Professor of Mechanical Engineering
• Tao Sun, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
• Todd Murphey, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Director of Transformative Research
• Wei Chen, Chair and Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Wilson-Cook Professor in Engineering Design
• Yonggang Huang, Jan and Marcia Achenbach Professorship in Mechanical Engineering

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.