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Engineering & Physical Science

Engineering and Physical Science faculty consist of full-time professors with degrees from some of the most prestigious universities in the U.S. and abroad. Our faculty members are involved in world-class research sponsored by national agencies and industries. 

Amit Tandon

Amit
Tandon, PhD

Professor

SMAST / Estuarine & Ocean Sciences
School for Marine Science & Technology East, New Bedford 234

Exploring the Upper Ocean: Tandon Laboratory at UMass Dartmouth

Research

Research interests

  • Fluid dynamics and heat transfer of the ocean, and the engineering tools needed to study them
  • Oceanic sub-mesoscale frontal gradients and mesoscale eddies, and their role in setting up the circulation and the air-sea interaction
  • Theory, simulations, and observational analysis of sub-mesoscale features in the ocean

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Amit Tandon

Amit
Tandon, PhD

Professor

Mechanical Engineering
School for Marine Science & Technology East, New Bedford 234

Exploring the Upper Ocean: Tandon Laboratory at UMass Dartmouth

Research

Research interests

  • Fluid dynamics and heat transfer of the ocean, and the engineering tools needed to study them
  • Oceanic sub-mesoscale frontal gradients and mesoscale eddies, and their role in setting up the circulation and the air-sea interaction
  • Theory, simulations, and observational analysis of sub-mesoscale features in the ocean

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Banafsheh Seyedaghazadeh

Banafsheh
Seyedaghazadeh, PhD

Assistant Professor

Mechanical Engineering
Science & Engineering 116C

Fluid-Structure Interactions Research Laboratory

Research

Research interests

  • Fluid-Structure Interactions
  • Flow-Induced Vibration
  • Experimental Fluid Dynamics
  • Vibrations
  • Renewable Energy

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Changsheng Chen

Changsheng
Chen

Professor & Montgomery Charter Chair

SMAST / Fisheries Oceanography
School for Marine Science & Technology East, New Bedford 226

Research

Research interests

  • Modeling and observational exploration of coastal ocean circulation
  • Oceanic frontal processes
  • Biological and physical interactions
  • Arctic Ocean and Climate Change
  • Multi-scaling ocean model developments

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Daniel MacDonald - professor - SMAST, College of Engineering, Civil & Environmental Engineering

Daniel
MacDonald, PhD

Professor

SMAST / Estuarine & Ocean Sciences
School for Marine Science & Technology East, New Bedford 233

Research Website

Research

Research interests

  • Environmental Fluid Mechanics
  • Turbulence and Mixing
  • River Plume Dynamics
  • Marine Renewable Energy
  • Environmental Data Collection with Autonomous Vehicles

508-910-6334dmacdonald@umassd.edu

Daniel MacDonald - professor - SMAST, College of Engineering, Civil & Environmental Engineering

Daniel
MacDonald, PhD

Professor / Co-Chairperson

Civil & Environmental Engineering
Violette Research 107B

Research Website

Research

Research interests

  • Environmental Fluid Mechanics
  • Turbulence and Mixing
  • River Plume Dynamics
  • Marine Renewable Energy
  • Environmental Data Collection with Autonomous Vehicles

508-910-6334dmacdonald@umassd.edu

Geoffrey Cowles

Geoffrey
Cowles

Associate Professor

SMAST / Fisheries Oceanography
School for Marine Science & Technology East, New Bedford 218

Research Website

Research

Research interests

  • Marine Renewable Energy
  • Ocean Modeling
  • Shape Optimization and Design
  • High Performance Computing
  • Coupled Marine Bio-Physical Models

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Hangjian Ling

Hangjian
Ling, PhD

Assistant Professor

Mechanical Engineering
Violette Research 214

Research site

Research

Research interests

  • Experimental fluid dynamics in turbulence, boundary layers, multiphase flows
  • Super-hydrophobic surfaces and the wetting dynamics
  • Collective behavior such as bird flocks, fish schools, human crowds and cell colonies
  • 3D Imaging technologies using digital holography and stereo-imaging

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Mehdi Raessi

Mehdi
Raessi, PhD

Professor / Graduate Program Director

Mechanical Engineering
Textiles 226

Raessi Research Group

Research

Research interests

  • Interfacial flows
  • Multi-phase flows with phase change
  • Energy systems (renewable/conventional)
  • Computational fluid dynamics and heat transfer
  • Scientific and High-Performance Computing

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Miles Sundermeyer

Miles
Sundermeyer

Professor

SMAST / Estuarine & Ocean Sciences
School for Marine Science & Technology West, New Bedford 110A

Research Website

Research

Research interests

  • Small-scale vertical and horizontal mixing processes
  • Dye release and Lagrangian drifter studies
  • Numerical modeling of two- and three-dimensional turbulent flows
  • Numerical modeling of physical and biological interactions

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Arghavan
Louhghalam, PhD

Associate Professor

Civil & Environmental Engineering
Textiles 210

IRDS Analytics Lab

Research

Research interests

  • Quantitative Engineering Sustainability, Design, Development and Maintenance of Sustainable Civil Infrastructures
  • Fracture Mechanics and Material Durability
  • Risk and Reliability Assessment of High-Performance Structural Systems
  • Dynamics and Random Vibrations
  • Application of Data Mining and Machine Learning Techniques to Civil Engineering Pro

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Caiwei Shen

Caiwei
Shen, PhD

Assistant Professor

Mechanical Engineering
Textiles 211

Research site

Research

Research interests

  • Multifunctional composites
  • Energy storage materials
  • Nanomaterials
  • Sensors
  • Electrochemistry

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Jun Li, Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, UMass Dartmouth

Jun
Li, PhD

Assistant Professor

Mechanical Engineering
Violette Research 219

Computational Mechanics & Materials Lab Website

Research

Research interests

  • Composite materials
  • Hierarchical materials and lightweight structures
  • Random heterogeneous materials
  • Inverse problems and optimization methods
  • Image-based multiscale modeling

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Mazdak Tootkaboni

Mazdak
Tootkaboni

Associate Professor

Civil & Environmental Engineering
Textiles 227

Research

Research interests

  • Stochastic computational mechanics and uncertainty quantification
  • Construction of consistent data-driven stochastic models
  • Stochastic multi-scale modeling of heterogeneous materials
  • Design topology optimization under uncertainty
  • Stochastic non-linear analysis of thin-walled structures

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Patick Cappillino

Patrick
Cappillino, PhD

Associate Professor / Graduate Program Director

Chemistry & Biochemistry
Violette Research 201C

Cappillino Research Group

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Vijaya B. Chalivendra

Vijaya
Chalivendra, PhD

Professor

Mechanical Engineering
Textiles 209

Research website

Research

Research interests

  • Composite Materials
  • Experimental Mechanics
  • Dynamic Characterization of Materials
  • Damage Sensing
  • Nano-mechanical Characterization

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Wei-Shun Chang

Wei-Shun
Chang, PhD

Assistant Professor

Chemistry & Biochemistry
Dion 112

Single Particle Imaging and Spectroscopy Group

Research

Research interests

  • Plasmonics and metamaterials
  • Electocatalysis and photocatalysis
  • Optoelectronics (2D materials, hybrid structures)
  • Chiral metamaterials
  • Single molecule/particle spectroscopy development

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Photograph of Walaa Mogawer

Walaa
Mogawer, PhD

Commonwealth Professor

Civil & Environmental Engineering
Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship, Fall River 131A

Research

Research interests

  • Asphalt materials and mixtures
  • Pavement Design and Management
  • Superpave
  • Traffic and transportation Engineering

508-910-9824wmogawer@umassd.edu

David R. Manke

David
Manke, PhD

Associate Professor / Chairperson

Chemistry & Biochemistry
Violette Research 201B

Research

Research interests

  • Organometallic Chemistry
  • Covalen Metal-Organic Networks
  • Catalysis and Small Molecule Activation
  • Metal-Organic Frameworks
  • Historical Werner Complexes

508-910-6554dmanke@umassd.edu

Patick Cappillino

Patrick
Cappillino, PhD

Associate Professor / Graduate Program Director

Chemistry & Biochemistry
Violette Research 201C

Cappillino Research Group

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Wei-Shun Chang

Wei-Shun
Chang, PhD

Assistant Professor

Chemistry & Biochemistry
Dion 112

Single Particle Imaging and Spectroscopy Group

Research

Research interests

  • Plasmonics and metamaterials
  • Electocatalysis and photocatalysis
  • Optoelectronics (2D materials, hybrid structures)
  • Chiral metamaterials
  • Single molecule/particle spectroscopy development

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Kihan Park

Kihan
Park, PhD

Assistant Professor

Mechanical Engineering
Textiles 213

Research

Research interests

  • Medical Robotics
  • Micro-scale Sensing/Actuation
  • Machine Learning
  • Biosignal Processing

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Ramprasad Balasubramanian

Ramprasad
Balasubramanian, PhD

Interim Provost/Vice Chancellor

Academic Affairs / Provost
Foster Administration 008B

Research

Research interests

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Autonomous Mobile Robotics
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Motion Detection and Tracking
  • Pattern Recognition

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COE - Depts - ECE - Faculty - Brown - New

David
Brown, PhD

Professor

Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship
Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship, Fall River 123

Research

Research interests

  • Transducer modeling
  • Training of undergraduate and graduate students in engineering acoustics

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COE - Depts - ECE - Faculty - Brown - New

David
Brown, PhD

Professor

Electrical & Computer Engineering
Science & Engineering 214F

Research

Research interests

  • Transducer modeling
  • Training of undergraduate and graduate students in engineering acoustics

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Dayalan Kasilingam

Dayalan
Kasilingam, PhD

Professor / Chairperson

Electrical & Computer Engineering
Science & Engineering 217C

Research

Research interests

  • Adaptive signal processing
  • Applied Electromagnetics
  • Remote Sensing
  • Wireless Communications

508-999-8534dkasilingam@umassd.edu

Honggang Wang

Honggang
Wang, PhD

Professor

Electrical & Computer Engineering
Science & Engineering 221B

Research Website

Research

Research interests

  • Internet of Things and Connected Health
  • Body Area Networks (BAN) and Wireless Multimedia
  • Multimedia Processing and Communications, Cyber and Multimedia Security, Mobile Multimedia and Cloud, Edge Computing
  • Wireless Networks and Cyber-physical System
  • Big Data in mHealth, Data Engineering and Machine Learning

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John Buck

John
Buck, PhD

Chancellor Professor

Electrical & Computer Engineering
Dion 324B

Research

Research interests

  • Signal Processing
  • Underwater Acoustics
  • Animal Bioacoustics
  • Engineering Pedagogy

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COE - Depts - ECE - Faculty - Gendron

Paul
Gendron, PhD

Associate Professor

Electrical & Computer Engineering
Science & Engineering 214D

Research

Research interests

  • Adaptive filtering for angle-delay-Doppler spread channels
  • Low probability of detection acoustic communications
  • Magnetic anomaly detection and tracking
  • Seismic event detection and classification

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Yifei Li

Yifei
Li, PhD

Professor

Electrical & Computer Engineering
Science & Engineering 214B

Professor Yifei Li RF Photonics Lab

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