ME Faculty Directories

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Primary Faculty

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	Name & Position	Research Areas
	Bruce Adee Associate Professor 206-543-7446 badee@uw.edu	Hydrodynamics Ships and moored structures responding to incident waves Resistance and waves by ships in water computational model
	Alberto Aliseda Assistant Professor 206-543-4910 aaliseda@uw.edu	Fluid Mechanics Dynamics of multiphase flows Gas exchange between atmosphere and ocean atomization of liquids in combustion
	Michael Bailey Assistant Professor 206-685-8618 bailey@apl.washington.edu	Medical ultrasound, Acoustic cavitation, The role of cavitation in lithotripsy (kidney stone treatment) and ultrasound surgery
	Martin Berg Associate Professor 206-543-5288 berg@uw.edu	Control system design (involving feedback, feedforward and supervisory controllers) Continuous-time, discrete-time, and discrete event dynamic systems Dynamic system modeling, analysis, and design
	Maria de Gador Canton Research Assistant Professor 206-543-9038 gcanton@uw.edu	Biomechanics in cardiovascular diseases, flow dynamics in normal and pathological physiological processes, cardiovascular imaging
	Randal Ching Research Associate Professor 206-625-0756 rc@uw.edu	Applied Biomechanics
	Jae-Hyun Chung Associate Professor 206-543-4355 jae71@uw.edu	MEMS/Nanotechnology Micro/Nano Structures Electric field guided nanowire assembly Reactive Ion Etching assisted nanopore fabrication
	Joyce Cooper Associate Professor 206-543-5040 cooperjs@uw.edu	Design for Environment (DFE) methodologies and models Innovative, sustainable, and concurrent technology development, design, and dissemination life-cycle assessment (LCA) and environmental performance measurement Industrial Ecology
	Peter Dahl Professor 206-543-2667 dahl@apl.washington.edu	Acoustic propagation in shallow water Acoustic vector intensity and spatial coherence Underwater industrial noise Arctic underwater acoustics
	Santosh Devasia Professor 206-685-3401 devasia@uw.edu	"Controls, dynamics, and mechantronics" Ultra-high-density information storage Nano-fabrication Bio-instrumentation Distributed autonomous systems
	Ashley Emery Professor 206-543-5338 emery@uw.edu	Architectural heat transfer Finite Element Methods Numerical analysis Thermal stresses Bayesian Inference Sparse Grids and Proper Orthogonal Decomposition
	Brian Fabien Professor 206-543-6915 fabien@uw.edu	Kinematics of mechanisms Dynamic system analysis and optimization Control system design
	Eliot Fried Professor 206-543-5339 budd@uw.edu	Mechanics and thermodynamics of novel materials Liquid crystals, surfactant solutions, nematic elastomers, hydrogels, biomembranes, and nanocrystalline alloys
	Mark Ganter Professor 206-543-5487 ganter@uw.edu	Implicit solid modeling Layered manufacturing Extension of techniques for skeleton generation Fusion of multi-spectral vision images
	Dayong Gao Professor 206-543-1411 dayong@uw.edu	Thermal/fluid science Biomedical engineering Cryobiology Bio-heat-mass transfer
	Joseph Garbini Professor 206-543-5399 garbini@uw.edu	Analysis design Control of dynamic systems Mechatronics Instrumentation
	Julia Jones Senior Lecturer 206-543-5238 jhjones@uw.edu
	John Kramlich Professor 206-543-5538 kramlich@uw.edu	Energy conversion systems Combustion and pollutants/environmental control Turbulent reacting flows Biofuel combustion properties and emissions Gas turbine combustors: alternate fuels and emissions
	Vipin Kumar Associate Professor 206-543-5535 vkumar@uw.edu	Polymeric Composites Microcellular Composites Design and manufacturing Product and process design Characterization and processing of polymeric composites
	Jiangyu Li Associate Professor 206-543-6226 jjli@uw.edu	Physical behaviors of materials Structure-property relationship of multifunctional materials Electroactive polymers Ferroelectrics Ferromagnetism
	Yuanchang Liang Research Assistant Professor 206-685-6722 yliang@uw.edu	Active materials Shape memory alloys (SMA) Ferromagnetic MSA Novel compact actuators
	Philip Malte Professor 206-685-2171 malte@uw.edu	Energy and environmental combustion Low-emission combustion Computational Fluid Dynamics Chemical reactor networks
	Ramulu Mamidala Professor 206-543-5349 ramulum@uw.edu	Mechanics of Materials Modeling Manufacturing Processes & Surface Integrity Machining & drilling Science of Composite Materials Micro-mechanics Fracture Mechanics & Fatigue
	Ann Mescher Associate Professor 206-616-8517 mescher@uw.edu	Energy transport and phenomena during processing Processes for advanced manufacturing applications Introduce interdisciplinary design projects in consultation with industry
	Brian Polagye Research Assistant Professor 206-543-7544 bpolagye@uw.edu	Sustainable electricity generation from kinetic energy in moving water Characterization and monitoring of tidal energy sites Tidal energy micropower for instrumentation
	Jonathan Posner Associate Professor 206-543-9834 jposner@uw.edu	Micron- and nanometer-length scale fluid dynamics Transport physics at the interface of chemistry, biology and the environment.
	Per Reinhall Professor and Department Chair 206-685-6665 reinhall@uw.edu	Dynamical systems Fluid-structure interaction Acoustics Vibration and noise control Biomechanics Medical devices Sensors and actuators
	James Riley Professor 206-543-5347 rileyj@uw.edu	Transitioning and turbulent flows Two-phase flows Boundary layer transition Free shear flows Chemically reacting flows
	Eric Seibel Research Associate Professor 206-616-1486 eseibel@uw.edu	Optical scanning for image acquisition Biomedical device and instrumentation Early detection and treatment of cancer
	Amy Shen Associate Professor 206-221-0372 amyshen@uw.edu	Fluids and energy Flow-induced nano-materials synthesis Biomimetrics Bio-sensors Actuators BioMEMS
	Steve Shen Professor 206-543-5718 ishen@uw.edu	Vibration and Dynamics PZT Thin-Film Sensors and Actuators Intracochlear Microphones and Acoustic Actuators Rotor Dynamics Disk Drive Dynamics Damping Technologies Bearing Diagnosis and Identification
	Nathan Sniadecki Assistant Professor 206-685-6591 nsniadec@uw.edu	Mechanobiology Bio-instrumentation BioMEMS Cell Mechanics Nanotechnology Microfabrication Soft Lithography
	Duane Storti Associate Professor 206-543-2956 storti@uw.edu	Computational manufacturing and design Innovative mathematical foundations for geometric design Implicit solid modeling Rapid prototyping Geometry characterization
	Minoru Taya Boeing-Pennell Professor 206-685-2850 tayam@uw.edu	Energy harvesting materials and devices Composite Materials Percolation Theory Dislocation Theory Electronic Composites Processing of Composites Shape memory alloys (SMA) Ferromagnetic SMA Piezocomposites Designed actuators Electrochromic windows(ECW) and energy-harvesting ECW Bioinspired active and sensing materials and devices
	Mark Tuttle Professor 206-543-5710 tuttle@uw.edu	Applied solid mechanics Viscoelasticity Composite Materials Adhesion mechanics
	Alexander Veress Research Assistant Professor 206-543-6933 averess@uw.edu	Soft tissue Cardiac mechanics Deformation in soft tissue Combining finite element models with imaging phantoms
	Junlan Wang Associate Professor 206-543-4601 junlan@uw.edu	Mechanics of materials Thin films and coatings, nanoporous materials, biomaterials Mechanical, interfacial and surface properties High strain-rate behavior
	Wei-Chih Wang Research Associate Professor 206-543-2479 wang@uw.edu	Optical MEMS Fiber optic sensors Biomedical instrumentation

Adjunct and Joint Faculty

	Name	Adjunct Department or Organization
	Adam M. Alessio	Radiology
	Karl F. Bohringer	Electrical Engineering
	Lucien N. Brush	Materials Science & Engineering
	Guozhong Cao	Materials Science & Engineering
	Peter R. Cavanagh	Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine
	Dana Dabiri	Aeronautics & Astronautics
	James Fridley	Joint with Forest Management and Engineering
	Albert Folch	Bioengineering
	James C. Hermanson	Aeronautics & Astronautics
	Kailash C. Kapur	Industrial Engineering
	Eli Livne	Aeronautics & Astronautics
	Alexander Mamishev	Electrical Engineering
	Matthew O'Donnell	Bioengineering
	Joan E. Sanders	Aeronautics & Astronautics
	John A. Sidles	Orthopaedics
	Sundar Srinivasan	Orthopaedics
	Wendy E. Thomas	Bioengineering
	Karl Vesper	Joint with Management and Organization
	Zelda B. Zabinsky	Industrial Science & Engineering

Affiliate Faculty

Name	Affiliation
Thomas M. Abbott	VisionGate, Inc.
Daan Hein Alsem	Hummingbird Scientific
Ping Ao	Shanghai Jian Tong University
Ryland Bryant	VisionGate, Inc.
Keith E. Elder	Affiliate Faculty
Michael E. Hahn	Seattle VA Hospital
Mohamed Hashish	Flow International Corp.
Jon W. Hayenga	VisionGate, Inc.
Jeong-Beom Ihn	The Boeing Company
Glenn K. Klute	Seattle VA Hospital
Christy Lancaster	VisionGate, Inc.
Cameron M. Lee
William R. Ledoux	Seattle VA Hospital
Hyong-Hoon Lee	NanoFacture, Inc.
Wei Li	University of Texas
Gregory S. Mason	Seattle University
Michael G. Meyer	VisionGate, Inc.
Leonard Y. Nelson
Thomas Neumann	VisionGate, Inc.
David G. Nicol	Armature
Igor Novosselov	Affiliate Assistant Professor
Jorge A. Ochoa	Archus Orthopedics, Inc.
Florence W. Patten	VisionGate, Inc.
Makoto Saito	Nabtesco Corporation
Daniel G. Sanders	The Boeing Company
Robert R. Scheibe	GT Engineering
Teodora R. Shuman	Seattle University
David E. Steinhauer	VisionGate, Inc.
Anna Touorovskaia	VisionGate, Inc.
Mathew D. Watson	VisionGate, Inc.
John E. Weller	Janicki Industries
Chunye Xu	University of Science & Technology of China

Emeritus Faculty

Alexander, Daniel
Balise, Peter
Bodoia, John
Chalk, William
Chalupnik, James
Collins, James
Corlett, Richard
Daly, Colin
Day, Emmett
Depew, Creighton
Firey, Joseph
Ford, Paul
Forster, Fred
Galle, Kurt
Gessner, Fred
Holt, Richard

Hyman, Barry
Jorgensen, Jens
Kieling, William
Kippenhan, Charles
Kobayashi, Albert
Love, William
McCormick, Norman
McFeron, Dean
Pratt, David
Sherrer, Robert
Sandwith, Colin
Taggart, Raymond
Vlases, George
Wilson, William

Faculty Honors & Awards

National Academy of Engineering
Albert S. Kobayashi, 1986

DARPA Young Faculty Award
Nathan J. Sniadecki, 2011

NSF Early CAREER Awards
J. Chung, 2009
Nathan Sniadecki, 2009
Junlan Wang, 2009
Alberto Aliseda, 2008
Jonathan Posner, 2008
Amy Shen, 2008

Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
Wei Li, 2004

Additional Successes
Twenty-six fellows of professional associations

Of the 10 startup companies launched in FY 2009 using technologies originated at UW, ME faculty developed three of them.