Graduate Catalog 1993-1994
College of Engineering
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Faculty in the Graduate Program

TSU WEI CHOU, PH.D. (STANFORD), Jerzy L. Nowinski Professor of
   Mechanical Engineering: Composite materials, crystal defect
   theory, micro-biomechanics, fracture of solids and applied
   mechanics.
JAMES E. DANBERG, PH.D. (CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY), Professor Emeritus:
   Fluid mechanics, aerodynamics, turbulent boundary layers.
MICHAEL D. GREENBERG, PH.D. (STANFORD), Professor: Applied
   mathematics, fluid mechanics.
IRWIN G. GREENFIELD, PH.D. (PENNSYLVANIA), Unidel Professor of
   Engineering Emeritus: Mechanical metallurgy, electron microscopy,
   effects of surfaces on mechanical properties, point defects in
   solids.
SELCUK I. GUCERI, PH.D. (NORTH CAROLINA STATE), Professor: Heat
   transfer, computational fluid mechanics, flow of viscoelastic
   fluids and suspensions, composites manufacturing, thermal
   stresses.
HERBERT B. KINGSBURY, PH.D. (PENNSYLVANIA), Professor: Structural
   dynamics, aerospace structures, composite materials, anisotropic
   structures, biomedical engineering.
JOHN D. MEAKIN, PH.D. (LEEDS), Professor; also Senior Scientist,
   Institute of Energy Conversion: Photovoltaic materials, electron
   microscopy, x-ray diffraction, corrosion.
LEONARD W. SCHWARTZ, PH.D. (STANFORD), Professor, also Professor of
   Mathematical Sciences: Fluid mechanics, multiphase flow, applied
   mathematics.
IVAR STAKGOLD, PH.D. (HARVARD), Professor, Department of Mathematics:
   Nonlinear boundary value problems.
JACK R. VINSON, PH.D. (PENNSYLVANIA), H. Fletcher Brown Professor of
   Mechanical Engineering, also H. Fletcher Brown Professor of
   Mechanical Engineering, College of Marine Studies: Structural
   mechanics, structures of anisotropic composite materials, plate
   and shell theory, structural optimization, aerospace structures.
DICK J. WILKINS, PH.D. (OKLAHOMA), Professor: Composite structures,
   CAD/CAM, durability and damage tolerance, structural mechanics,
   expert systems, educational productivity, methods for design,
   analysis, and testing.
JOHN R. ZIMMERMAN, PH.D. (LEHIGH), Professor Emeritus: Mechanical
   design, computer methods, land vehicle dynamics.
SURESH G. ADVANI, PH.D. (ILLINOIS), Associate Professor: Computational
   fluid mechanics and heat transfer, polymer and composites
   processing, transport phenomena in manufacturing processes, non-
   Newtonian fluid mechanics and rheology.
IAN W. HALL, PH.D. (LEEDS), Associate Professor, also Chair, Materials
   Science Program: Metal matrix composites, microscopy, materials
   science.
MICHAEL KEEFE, PH.D. (MINNESOTA), Associate Professor: Computer-aided
   design, mechanical design, system modeling and synthesis in
   design.
AZAR PARVIZI-MAJIDI, PH.D. (SURREY), Associate Professor and Interim
   Chair: Fracture and failure of composites, ceramic matrix
   composites, experimental methods, corrosion.
MICHAEL H. SANTARE, PH.D. (NORTHWESTERN), Associate Professor:
   Fracture mechanics, continuum mechanics, composite structures,
   orthopedic biomechanics.
ROBERT H. ALLEN, PH.D. (CARNEGIE-MELLON), Assistant Professor:
   Computer-aided engineering, design, vibrations.
RALPH D. COPE, PH.D. (OHIO STATE), Assistant Professor: Biomechanics,
   robotic and composite materials, creative machine design.
AJAY K. PRASAD, PH.D. (STANFORD), Assistant Professor: Particle
   imaging techniques for fluid mechanics and heat transfer,
   centrifugal instabilities, thermal, convection, viscous flow.
R. VALERY ROY, PH.D. (RICE), Assistant Professor: Nonlinear stochastic
   and deterministic dynamics, chaotic dynamics, vibrations,
   numerical analysis, applied mathematics.
ANTHONY S. WEXLER, PH.D. (CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY),
   Assistant Professor: Atmospheric aerosols, air pollution modeling,
   renal concentrating mechanism.