26 faculty and 0 courses in Mechanical Engineering at San Diego State University.
- Yang Yang, Assistant Professor h-index 66
Operations management, supply chain management, and strategic business modeling. She has published research in Interfaces, Journal of Industrial Management and Data Systems, Managerial Finance, International Journal of Production Pl
Notable: “A review on recent sizing methodologies of hybrid renewable energy systems” (2019) · 540 citations
- Patrick Kwon, Professor and Chair h-index 31
In manufacturing. In particular, he has worked on machining, where he focused on the fundamental wear mechanisms for various alloys and process enhancement technologies such as minimum quantity lubrication, magnetic assisted finish
Notable: “Tool wear in drilling of composite/titanium stacks using carbide and polycrystalline diamond tools” (2011) · 243 citations
- Sung-Yong (Sean) Park, Associate Professor h-index 27
Lie in the area of optofluidic bio and energy systems with applications to biosensors, lab-on-a-smartphone, water/air quality detection, solar indoor lighting, and triboelectric energy harvesting. Areas of Specialization Microfluidics, Opto
Notable: “High-speed droplet generation on demand driven by pulse laser-induced cavitation” (2011) · 150 citations
- George Youssef, Professor h-index 25
Mechanics of Nontraditional Materials, Polymers, Composites, Multiferroic, Experimental Mechanics Awards & Honors SAE Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award – Society of Automotive Engineers, 2016 Distinguished Engineering Educator – San Fer
Notable: “The effects of micro-implant assisted rapid palatal expansion (MARPE) on the nasomaxillary complex—a finite element method (FEM) analysis” (2014) · 201 citations
- Khaled Morsi, Professor h-index 21
Materials Science with a focus on processing and properties of metals, intermetallics, ceramics and their composites. He has published numerous journal articles in the areas of materials processing and powder metallurgy. His research gro
Notable: “Effect of carbon nanotube (CNT) content on the mechanical properties of CNT-reinforced aluminium composites” (2010) · 579 citations
- Asfaw Beyene, Professor h-index 20
Renewable Energy, Thermodynamic Cycles, Energy Analysis, Mathematical Modeling, Simulation of Thermal Systems Back to Top Campanile Drive San Diego, CA 92182 Colleges College of Arts and Letters College of Education Colleg
Notable: “Advances and challenges in ORC systems modeling for low grade thermal energy recovery” (2014) · 185 citations
- Amneet Bhalla, Associate Professor h-index 20
Fluid-Structure Interaction, Multiphase Flows, Aquatic Locomotion, Renewable Energy Device Modeling, Numerical Methods, High Performance Computing, Scientific Software Design Back to Top Campanile Drive San Diego, CA 92182
- Kee Moon, Professor h-index 16
In smart sensor and actuator technology and integrated systems. He has been active for creating new knowledge viavarious inventions including an innovative manufacturing technology of novel 3D organic light emitting diodes (OLED) and or
Notable: “Optimal design of a flexure hinge based XYφ wafer stage” (1997) · 207 citations
- Peiman Naseradinmousavi, Associate Professor h-index 14
Smart Flow Distribution Network, Robotics, Nonlinear Dynamics, Control Theory, Optimization, Magnetic Bearings, and Mathematical Modeling. Education Ph.D., Villanova University, Philadelphia Areas of Expertise Smart Flow Distributio
Notable: “Nonlinear mathematical modeling of butterfly valves driven by solenoid actuators” (2010) · 60 citations
- Luca Carmignani, Assistant Professor h-index 14
Vegetation-structure interactions in WUI fires, fire risks associated with plant traits, and the effect of ambient conditions and gravity on material flammability for fire safety onboard a spacecraft. Areas of Specialization Fire sc
Notable: “Analytical model for the power losses in rubber V-belt continuously variable transmission (CVT)” (2014) · 65 citations
- Fletcher Miller, Professor h-index 11
Combustion, Fire, Sustainable Energy, Solar Thermal Power Back to Top Grants Google, California Energy Commission, NIST, Sandia National Laboratory, NASA, DOE Back to Top Publications 1. Subrata Bhattacharjee, Christopher P. Paolini, Fletch
Notable: “Radiative, thermal, and kinetic regimes of opposed-flow flame spread: A comparison between experiment and theory” (2017) · 42 citations
- Zahra Nili Ahmadabadi, Assistant Professor h-index 8
Es on robot perception, robot control, and nonlinear systems. A key project involves developing acoustic perception and control frameworks for robots, enabling sensorimotor exploration of the environment to locate signal sources and facilit
Notable: “Nonlinear vibration control and energy harvesting of a beam using a nonlinear energy sink and a piezoelectric device” (2014) · 141 citations
- Samuel Kassegne, Professor h-index 8
In the areas of MEMS, bio-nanoelectronics, and integrated micro- and nano-fabrication technologies. His experimental research work is focused primarily in Organic-MEMS, novel applications of microfluidics/nanofluidics and microarray tec
Notable: “Numerical modeling of transport and accumulation of DNA on electronically active biochips” (2003) · 63 citations
- Elisa Torresani, Assistant Professor
Advanced Processing of Powder Materials, Field Assisted Sintering, Sintering-Assisted Additive Manufacturing, Numerical and Experimental Methods in Material Science Back to Top Campanile Drive San Diego, CA 92182 Colleges
- Eugene Olevsky, Dean of the College of Engineering, Professor
Mechanics and Materials, Powder Technology, Sintering, Computational Materials Back to Top Campanile Drive San Diego, CA 92182 Colleges College of Arts and Letters College of Education College of Engineering College of Gra
- Joaquin Camacho, Associate Professor
Multiphase Flows, Sustainable Energy, Nanomaterial Theory and Fabrication, Combustion, Aerosol Dynamics, Carbon Materials Back to Top Campanile Drive San Diego, CA 92182 Colleges College of Arts and Letters College of Educ
- Karen May-Newman, Professor
Biomechanics, Biomaterials, Medical Device Design Back to Top Campanile Drive San Diego, CA 92182 Colleges College of Arts and Letters College of Education College of Engineering College of Graduate Studies College of Heal
- Lingping Kong, Assistant Professor
Es on understanding the fundamental sciences of material's structure-properties relationship using advanced characterization techniques, manufacturing electrochemical energy storage devices as well as developing sustainable recycling techno
- Meysam Heydari-Gharahcheshmeh, Assistant Professor
Advanced manufacturing, chemical vapor deposition methods, texture and nanostructural engineering, energy harvesting and storage materials, polymers and thin film deposition. Back to Top Campanile Drive San Diego, CA 92182
- Parag Katira, Professor
Lie in using mathematical modeling techniques to study the dynamics of active matter such as cells, tissues, bacterial biofilms and synthetic molecular-motor assemblies. A key topic of research in Dr. Katira’s lab is force generation and se
Notable: “CarD-T: LLM Automated Literature Review for the Nomination & Analysis of Potential Human Carcinogens” (2024)
- Santosh KC, Assistant Professor
On computational materials modeling and simulation of various materials for technological applications such as Li-ion batteries and semiconductor devices. Dr. KC uses high-performance computing (HPC) resources to perform simulations of t
- Sara Adibi, Assistant Professor
Computational Mechanics & Biomechanics, Multiscale Materials Modeling and Development, Predictive Materials Design, Data-driven and Physics-Based Material Modeling Back to Top Campanile Drive San Dieg
- Subrata Bhattacharjee, Professor
Fire detection, infra-red pyrometry and knowledge-based distributed intelligence. For the past several years Prof. Bhattacharjee and his collaborators from Gifu University, Japan, have been studying flame dynamics in the space envir
- Sungbum (John) Kang, Assistant Professor
- Wenwu Xu, Associate Professor
Computational Multiscale Modeling of Materials (continuum, microscopic, atomistic, and quantum mechanics) and characterization of material microstructure at multiple scales from 2D (electron microscopy) to 3D (synchrotron X-ray comp
- Zhijie Wang, Assistant 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 2026-07-02.