Mechanical Engineering at University of Tennessee, Knoxville

40 faculty and 0 courses in Mechanical Engineering at University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Faculty

• Matthew Mench, Dean, Tickle College of Engineering, Condra Chair, and Chancellor's Professor h-index 56
  Notable: “Redox flow batteries: a review” (2011) · 2,008 citations
• Caleb Rucker, B. Ray Thompson Professor h-index 34
  Notable: “Continuum Robots for Medical Applications: A Survey” (2015) · 1,503 citations
• Siamak Farhad, Professor h-index 34
  Notable: “Heat generation in lithium-ion batteries with different nominal capacities and chemistries” (2017) · 205 citations
• Chad Duty, Professor h-index 33
  Notable: “Highly oriented carbon fiber–polymer composites via additive manufacturing” (2014) · 1,479 citations
• Kenneth Kihm, Professor h-index 32
• Xiangyu Li, Assistant Professor h-index 32
  Notable: “Ultrawhite BaSO4 Paints and Films for Remarkable Daytime Subambient Radiative Cooling” (2021) · 595 citations
• William Miller, Lecturer h-index 29
  Notable: “Methods of creating solar-reflective nonwhite surfaces and their application to residential roofing materials” (2006) · 309 citations
• Brett Compton, Stewart McCorkle Faculty Fellow and Associate Professor h-index 26
  Notable: “3D‐Printing of Lightweight Cellular Composites” (2014) · 1,599 citations
• Bradley Jared, Associate Professor h-index 24
  Notable: “Additive manufacturing: Toward holistic design” (2017) · 198 citations
• John Schmisseur, Director, UTSI, Associate Dean, and Professor of Aerospace Engineering h-index 22
  Notable: “Hypersonics into the 21st century: A perspective on AFOSR-sponsored research in aerothermodynamics” (2014) · 111 citations
• Kivanc Ekici, Department Head and John W. Fisher Professor h-index 20
  Notable: “Harmonic balance methods applied to computational fluid dynamics problems” (2013) · 128 citations
• Mark Gragston, Assistant Professor h-index 18
• Damiano Baccarella, Assistant Professor h-index 16
  Notable: “Review of combustion stabilization for hypersonic airbreathing propulsion” (2020) · 241 citations
• Pingen Chen, Associate Professor h-index 16
  Notable: “Experimental investigation of diesel and biodiesel post injections during active diesel particulate filter regenerations” (2014) · 89 citations
• Manikandan Palanisamy, Research Assistant Professor h-index 16
  Notable: “Hybrid solid electrolyte with the combination of Li 7 La 3 Zr 2 O 12 ceramic and ionic liquid for high voltage pseudo-solid-state Li-ion batteries” (2016) · 103 citations
• Sicheng He, Assistant Professor h-index 15
  Notable: “CAS FGOALS-f3-L Model Datasets for CMIP6 Historical Atmospheric Model Intercomparison Project Simulation” (2019) · 186 citations
• Subhadeep Chakraborty, Associate Professor h-index 15
  Notable: “Automated vehicle data pipeline for accident reconstruction: New insights from LiDAR, camera, and radar data” (2022) · 63 citations
• Madhu Madhukar, Associate Professor h-index 14
  Notable: “Fibre-matrix adhesion and its relationship to composite mechanical properties” (1993) · 412 citations
• Andrew Dickerson, Associate Professor h-index 14
  Notable: “Hydrodynamics and surface properties influence biofilm proliferation” (2020) · 269 citations
• Phillip Kreth, Associate Professor h-index 13
  Notable: “Investigating Unsteady Dynamics of Cylinder-Induced Shock-Wave/Transitional Boundary-Layer Interactions” (2018) · 51 citations
• Paul Palies, Associate Professor & C-PARC Director h-index 12
• Ragini Acharya, Associate Professor h-index 12
  Notable: “Effect of Chamber Pressure and Propellant Composition on Erosion Rate of Graphite Rocket Nozzle” (2007) · 94 citations
• Trevor Moeller, Jack D. Whitfield Professor, Associate Professor h-index 12
  Notable: “Numerical simulations of high frequency transverse pulsed jet injection into a supersonic crossflow” (2020) · 67 citations
• Hans DeSmidt, Professor and AE Program Coordinator h-index 12
  Notable: “Coupled Torsion-Lateral Stability of a Shaft-Disk System Driven Through a Universal Joint” (2002) · 53 citations
• James Evans Lyne, Clinical Associate Professor h-index 11
  Notable: “Earth aerobraking strategies for manned return from Mars” (1992) · 56 citations
• Tayfun Efe Ertop, Assistant Professor h-index 8
  Notable: “Autonomous medical needle steering in vivo” (2023) · 47 citations
• Reza Abedi, Professor h-index 4
  Notable: “Effect of random defects on dynamic fracture in quasi-brittle materials” (2017) · 36 citations
• Robert E. Bond, Senior Lecturer h-index 4
  Notable: “Experimental comparison of Dual Bell and Expansion Deflection Nozzles” (2011) · 22 citations
• Esteban Cisneros-Garibay, Assistant Professor h-index 3
• Andy Sarles, James Conklin Fellow and Professor
• Anming Hu, Associate Professor
• Bruce LaMattina, Senior Director for Space and Defense Programs and Research Professor
• Delower Hossain, Assistant Professor
• Devina Sanjaya, Assistant Professor
• Doug Aaron, Associate Department Head, Undergraduate Programs, Research Associate Professor
• J. Mark Barker, Senior Lecturer
• Marcias Martinez, B.H. Goethert Professor
• Omer San, Associate Professor
• Romeo Fono Tamo, Research Assistant Professor
• Sagar V. Kanhere, 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.