40 faculty and 20 courses in Mechanical Engineering at Pennsylvania State University, University Park.
- Robert Kunz, Professor and Associate Head for Graduate Program h-index 30
- John M. Cimbala, Professor h-index 23
Energy Systems; Thermal/Fluid Sciences Interest Areas: Fluid dynamics, flow visualization, wind tunnels, neutron radiography, turbulence, computational fluid dynamics (CFD), turbulence modeling, turbomachinery, air pollution, stratified ta
- Aman Haque, Professor
- Amrita Basak, Shuman Early Career Professor
Manufacturing; Mechanical Sciences; Multiscale and Multiphysics Modeling, Computational Analysis About Research Directory Students Industry Alumni Life@ME About With more than 60 faculty members, 330 grad
- Andrea Gregg, Director of Learning Experience Design
Educational Assessment and Evaluation; Engineering Education; Faculty Development Interest Areas: Online and distance learning; Mechanical Engineering teaching and learning efficacy; Learners' experiences in online and hybrid learning envi
- Anil Kulkarni, Professor
Energy Systems; Thermal/Fluid Sciences Interest Areas: Fluid mechanics, heat transfer, combustion, materials processing Education Publications Journal Articles PRIYANKA K PATKI, FEIYAN YU and Anil K Kulkarni, 2020, "Us
- Anne Martin, Associate Professor
Biomechanics and Mechanobiology; Mechanical Sciences; Sensors & Controls Education BS, Mechanical Engineering, University of Delaware, 2009 Publications Journal Articles Xiaowen Chen and Anne Martin, 2025, "Automated g
- Baxi Chong, Assistant Professor
- Bo Cheng, Professor
Biomechanics and Mechanobiology; Mechanical Sciences; Sensors & Controls Interest Areas: Principles of animal locomotion; biologically inspired robotics; experimental fluid dynamics; control. Education BS, Control Scie
- Brian Fronk, Professor
Energy Systems; Thermal/Fluid Sciences Education B.S., Mechanical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, 2005 M.S., Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2007 Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering
- Catherine Berdanier, Professor
Engineering Education Education BS, Chemistry, Spanish, University of South Dakota, 2010 MS, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, Purdue University, 2013 Ph D, Engineering Education, Purdue University, 2016 Publ
- Daniel Cortes, Associate Professor
Biomechanics and Mechanobiology Education Masters, Artificial Intelligence, Penn State University Publications Journal Articles Hanife T Kumru, Anilchandra Attaluri, Vitaly Gordin and Daniel Cortes Correales, 2023, "Fi
- Derek Hall, Assistant Professor
Electrochemical Energy Conversion; Material Characterization; Thermal Batteries Education B.Sc., Energy Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, 2012 Ph.D., Energy and Mineral Engineering, Pennsylvania State Univers
- Fan-Bill Cheung, George L. Guillet Professor
Energy Systems; Nuclear Power; Thermal/Fluid Sciences Interest Areas: Multiphase heat transfer, Thermal processing of materials, Nuclear reactor thermal hydraulics and safety. Education Publications Journal Articles Fa
- Gary Neal, Director of Mechanical Engineering Capstone Design Projects
- Guha Manogharan, Professor
Design & Manufacturing; Manufacturing Interest Areas: Additive manufacturing, design for additive manufacturing, biomedical applications of additive manufacturing, hybrid manufacturing, CNC machining and post-processing of additive manufac
- Ilya Kovalenko, Assistant Professor
Design & Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Sensors & Controls Interest Areas: Dynamic systems and control; intelligent systems; smart manufacturing; multi-agent systems; applied artificial intelligence; industrial automation; cyber-physical sy
- Jacqueline O'Connor, Professor and Associate Head for Faculty
Energy Systems; Thermal/Fluid Sciences; Transportation Systems Interest Areas: The Reacting Flow Dynamics Laboratory focuses on issues of reacting flows for energy and propulsion applications. High-speed laser diagnostics and other state-o
- Jason Moore, Professor
And dynamic scenes", Proc. Hum. Factors Ergon. Soc. Annual Meeting Isra Elsaadany, Jessica Gonzalez-Vargas, Jason Moore and Scarlett Miller, 2023, "Progressive Medical Simulation: an Analysis of the Integration of Progressive and Personaliz
- Jean-Michel Mongeau, Shuman Family Early Career Professor
Biomechanics and Mechanobiology; Neuromechanics; Sensors & Controls Interest Areas: Neural and mechanical control of animal locomotion, biological system identification, bio-inspired engineering, robots as tools to study control of locomot
- Jessica Menold, Associate Professor
Engineering Design Education Ph D, Mechanical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, 2017 Publications Research Projects Honors and Awards Hartz Family Career Professorship, The Pennsylvania State University
- Joseph Najem, Associate Professor
Biomedical/Bioengineering; Design & Manufacturing; Energy Systems; Mechanical Sciences; Sensors & Controls Interest Areas: Development of smart materials that have the characteristics of biological systems: sensing, actuation, signal proce
- Katie Fitzsimons, Assistant Professor
Biomechanics and Mechanobiology; Mechanical Sciences; Sensors & Controls Education Bachelor of Science, Mechanical Engineering, Michigan State University, 2013 Master of Science, Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern Un
- Margaret Busse, Assistant Professor
- Margaret Byron, Trethewey Early Career Professor
Biomechanics and Mechanobiology; Experimental Fluid Dynamics Interest Areas: Multiphase flow, turbulence, animal locomotion, intermediate Reynolds number phenomena. Education BSE, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
- Mary Frecker, Department Head of Mechanical Engineering
Biomechanics and Mechanobiology; Design & Manufacturing; Mechanical Sciences Interest Areas: Optimal design, compliant mechanisms, smart structures, medical device design Education BME, Mechanical Engineering, Universi
- Melissa Brindise, Assistant Professor
Biomedical/Bioengineering; Experimental Fluid Dynamics; Thermal/Fluid Sciences Interest Areas: Cardiovascular flows: flow in cerebral aneurysms, traumatic brain injury (TBI), cognition, heart disease; experimental fluid mechanics; transiti
- Reid Berdanier, Bryant Early Career Professor
Energy Systems; Thermal/Fluid Sciences Education BS, Mechanical Engineering, Syracuse University, 2010 MS, Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University, 2012 Ph D, Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University, 2015 Publicati
- Reuben Kraft, Professor
Biomechanics and Mechanobiology; Mechanical Sciences Interest Areas: Computational solid mechanics, finite element analysis, numerical modeling, blast physics, high performance computing Education Ph D, Mechanical Engi
- Sachin Gore, Director of Undergraduate Studies
- Samuel Grauer, Kenneth Kuan-Yun Kuo Early Career Professor
Sensors & Controls; Thermal/Fluid Sciences Interest Areas: Fluid and combustion diagnostics; inverse problems; scientific machine learning; data assimilation; uncertainty quantification About Research Dir
- Satadru Dey, Assistant Professor
Energy Systems; Sensors & Controls; Transportation Systems Interest Areas: Smart cities, energy storage systems (batteries and supercapacitors), connected and autonomous vehicles, transportation networks, electric vehicles, cyber-physical
- Scarlett Miller, Paul Morrow Professor of Engineering Design and Manufacturing
Engineering Design; Human Factors/Ergonomics Interest Areas: Dr. Miller's research has three main thrusts: ergonomic product design, design cognition and human-computer interaction. Education Publications Journal Artic
- Sean Brennan, Professor
Mechanical Sciences; Sensors & Controls; Transportation Systems Interest Areas: Ground vehicle dynamics and automation, mechatronics and embedded systems, data representations for map-based localization and robot guidance. &n
- Siu Ling Leung, Teaching Professor and Director of Undergraduate Laboratories
- Stephen Lynch, Professor
Energy Systems; Thermal/Fluid Sciences Interest Areas: Convective heat transfer and turbulent boundary layers, gas turbine heat transfer and aerodynamics, advanced experimental diagnostics Education BS, Mechanical Engi
- Sukwon Choi, Professor
Energy Systems; Thermal/Fluid Sciences Interest Areas: Micro/nanoscale thermal characterization; Multi-physics analysis of microelectronics and MEMS; Wide bandgap/ultra-wide bandgap semiconductor devices; Thermal management of microelectro
- Tamy Guimaraes, Assistant Professor
- Xiaogang Hu, Dorothy Foehr Huck and J. Lloyd Huck Chair in Neurorehabilitation
Mechanical Sciences; Sensors & Controls Interest Areas: Bi-directional neural-machine interface, neural rehabilitation, control of biological and bionic hands, assistive technologies, and health monitoring Education Ba
- Zoubeida Ounaies, Distinguished Professor and Associate Director of Materials Research Institute
Design & Manufacturing; Energy Systems; Mechanical Sciences; Sensors & Controls Interest Areas: Development of unique combinations of mechanical-electrical-chemical coupling in polymers and polymer nanocomposites. Educ
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.