Faculty Research
![Dr. James Newman III Dr. James Newman III](/sites/default/files/styles/card_image_tablet/public/2020-06/gbg244.png?itok=TeXvwQ4C)
Dr. James C. Newman III
Department Head; Professor
Research Areas:
- Computational fluid dynamics
- Hypersonic vehicles
- Fluid structure interaction
![Prakash Dhamshala Headshot](/sites/default/files/styles/card_image_tablet/public/2020-09/szx113.jpg?itok=ebqE4_Jo)
Dr. Prakash Dhamshala
Professor
Research Areas:
- Advanced conventional and alternative energy systems
- Sustainable resources
- Engineering education
![Trevor S. Elliott headshot](/sites/default/files/styles/card_image_tablet/public/2020-10/dwm488.jpg?itok=ZI2Ekj5a)
Dr. Trevor S. Elliott
UC Foundation Assistant Professor
Research Areas:
- Additive manufacturing
- Alternative energy and building efficiency design
- Automotive engineering
- Battery characterization
- Engineering design
- Injection driven flows
- Propulsion systems and two-phase combustion
- stability modeling and simulation
![Ron Goulet headshot](/sites/default/files/styles/card_image_tablet/public/2020-10/kfk385.jpg?itok=JeTIbCq5)
Dr. Ronald Goulet
Associate Professor
Research Areas:
- Bio materials
![Hamdy Ibrahim headshot](/sites/default/files/styles/card_image_tablet/public/2020-10/hamdy-ibrahim.jpg?itok=fH6BmZKV)
Dr. Hamdy Ibrahim
Assistant Professor
Research Areas:
- Biodegradable metals
- Additive manufacturing
- Corrosion behavior of biomaterials
- Surface treatments and coatings
- Biocomposites
- Shape memory alloys
![Mohammad Mahtabi headshot](/sites/default/files/styles/card_image_tablet/public/2020-10/mahtabi-mohammad.jpg?itok=gBkDoC4i)
Dr. Mohammad Mahtabi
Assistant Professor
Research Areas:
- Additive manufacturing
- Fatigue and fracture mechanics
- Shape memory alloys
- Computational mechanics
- Multiscale modeling of materials
- Mechanical behavior of materials
![Charles H. Margraves Headshot](/sites/default/files/styles/card_image_tablet/public/2020-09/wbj514.jpg?itok=lJUKUC_f)
Dr. Charles Margraves
UC Foundation Associate Professor;
ME Graduate Coordinator
Research Areas:
- Conventional and alternative energy systems
- Zero+ energy buildings
- Air quality sensors
- Engineering education
![Gary McDonald headshot](/sites/default/files/styles/card_image_tablet/public/2020-09/nkm755.jpg?itok=2hA6EDaW)
Dr. Gary McDonald
UC Foundation Associate Professor
Research Areas:
- Engineering education
![Reetesh Ranjan Reetesh Ranjan](/sites/default/files/styles/card_image_tablet/public/2021-01/reetesh-ranjan21.jpg?itok=EF8Er0Ey)
Dr. Reetesh Ranjan
Assistant Professor
Research Areas:
- Computational fluid dynamics and combustion
- Turbulence modeling
- Reduced order modeling
- Uncertainty quantification
- High-performance computing
![Yunye Shi Headhsot](/sites/default/files/styles/card_image_tablet/public/2020-09/yunye-shi-web.jpg?itok=EZbFSFHa)
Dr. Yunye Shi
Assistant Professor
Research Areas:
- Biomass thermochemical conversion
- Biorenewable energy utilization
- Techno-economic analysis of energy systems
![Kidambi Sreenivas headshot](/sites/default/files/styles/card_image_tablet/public/2020-10/gzt145.jpg?itok=eExbqsQO)
Dr. Kidambi Sreenivas
Professor; Computational Science PhD Program Coordinator
Research Areas:
- Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) applied to complex geometry / complex physics problems
- High performance computing
- High-order methods
- Rotating machinery
![Cecelia Wigal headhsot](/sites/default/files/styles/card_image_tablet/public/2020-09/ptg482.jpg?itok=KNz-aUrK)
Dr. Cecelia Wigal
UC Foundation Professor
Research Areas:
- Engineering education