All Faculty
Chair
Chair, William Holland Hall Professor, Dean Emeritus
Broad field of aeroelasticity, acoustics, nonlinear dynamics, structural dynamics, and unsteady aerodynamics.
J A Jones Professor
Professor Bejan's research covers a wide range of topics in thermodynamics, heat transfer, fluid mechanics, convection and porous media. More recently, he developed the constructal law of design in nature.
Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies
fluid mechanics, aerodynamics, acoustics, and structural dynamics
Assistant Professor
Our research deals with experimental and theoretical investigations of small-scale physicochemical hydrodynamics, where transport and interfacial phenomena closely interact with each other. By manipulating surface tension actively and passively, e.g. using electric fields and surface structures, we...
Theo Pilkington Professor of Biomedical Engineering (primary appt: Biomedical Engineering)
Chilkoti's research focuses on biomolecular materials and surface science and emphasizes the development of applications that span the range from bioseparations, biosensors, patterned biomaterials, and targeted drug delivery.
Professor
A wide variety of areas in materials science, including crystal growth, mechanical properties of kidney stones, lunar science, diffraction optics, materials for radiation detection, and radiation shielding.
Mary Milus Yoh and Harold L. Yoh Jr. Professor of Engineering and Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Modeling quasi-static and dynamic fracture of structural components, the evolution of interfaces with nonlinear constitutive laws, and developing models for stimulus-responsive hydrogels
Paul Ruffin Scarborough Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Associate Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Design and analysis of methods and algorithms for learning and computational intelligence. Theory and approximation properties of network models, such as neural and probabilistic networks, for the purpose of enhancing their learning abilities and improving reliability. Approximate dynamic...
Professor of Practice and Associate Dean for Student Programs
Franzoni specializes in acoustics, and structural dynamics and vibration. Practical applications of this work include: acoustics of enclosures (rooms or vehicle interiors) and underwater acoustics (acoustic radiation and scattering from submarines).
Professor (primary appt: Electrical & Computer Engineering) and Hogg Family Director, Eng. Management & Entrepreneurship
Jeffrey T. Glass is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and is the Director of the Pratt School?s Master of Engineering Management Program at Duke University. He also holds the Hogg Family endowed chair in Engineering Management and Entrepreneurship. Formerly, he...
Lazlo Ormandy Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery in the Department of Surgery and Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Julian Abele Professor
Dr. Hall specializes in unsteady aerodynamics, structural dynamics, and aeroelasticity of turbomachinery and aerospace vehicles. Novel approaches to modeling complex physical phenomena using computational fluid dynamics. Optimization and sensitivity analysis. Fluid dynamics of animal propulsion.
Assistant Professor
My research interests are in the area of interfacial transport phenomena and thermodynamics in energy technology including phenomena at the micro- and nanoscale. Thermodynamics aspects of photovoltaics, novel sustainable energy conversion technologies, and chemical reactions are an essential part...
Associate Professor
Hydroelastic modeling of deformable structures, transport in thermal and chemical systems, experimental and computational fluid dynamics, nonlinear and complex systems, heat and mass transport in biological systems, stability of fluid motions, machine learning, data mining, econophysics, reduced...
Professor (primary appt: Civil and Environmental Engineering) and Director of Graduate Studies
mechanics of materials, theoretical soil mechanics, rock mechanics, and environmental geomechanics, theory of plasticity
Associate Chair
Conducts research and supervises graduate students in the areas of unsteady aerodynamics, aeroelasticity, mistuning, damping, and probabilistic methods. Principal investigator on AFOSR, DARPA, NASA, and Industrial funded research projects. Provides consultion services to turbine engine companies...
Associate Professor and Co-director, Energy & Environment Certificate; Associate-Director, Gendell Center
Fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, heat transfer, and dynamics
James B. Duke Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Leong's research interest focuses on biomaterials design, particularly on synthesis of nanoparticles for DNA-based therapeutics, and nanostructured biomaterials for regenerative medicine.
Professor (primary appt: Biomedical Engineering)
Prof. Lopez' professional interests lie in research and education in biomaterials science and engineering, bioanalytical chemistry and biointerfacial phenomena.
Associate Professor
Nonlinear dynamics and vibration utilizing analytical, numerical, and experimental techniques. Fundamental investigations of phenomenon and application areas where dynamical systems theory plays an important role.
Professor
The invention of the atomic force microscope (AFM) in 1986 by Binnig, Quate and Gerber (Phys. Rev. Lett. 56, 930) started a revolution in many branches of science by realizing an unprecedented possibility to visualize and manipulate individual molecules under ambient conditions including water,...
Professor
Dr. Needham's research program combines the fields of Materials Science with Colloid and Surface Chemistry focusing on "Biological and other Soft Wet Materials". The program is in the general area of forming, coating and encapsulation of solid, liquid and gaseous particles in the colloidal size...
Mary Milius Yoh and Harold L. Yoh, Jr. Bass Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Associate Research Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery
Professor
Analytical, experimental, and computational studies of flow problems arising in biology, medicine, and biotechnology as well as in more traditional mechanical engineering applications.
Professor
Professor Virgin's research is centered on studying the behavior of nonlinear dynamical systems. This work may be broadly divided into two components. First, investigation of the fundamental nature of nonlinear systems based on a mathematical description of their underlying equations of motion....
Professor (primary appt: Mathematics)
My primary area of expertise is the solution
of nonlinear ordinary and partial differential equations via perturbation
methods. Using asymptotics along with a mixture of other applied mathematical techniques in
analysis and scientific computing I study a broad range of applications
in physical...
Assistant Professor
Theoretical and Experimental studies on concentration gradients arising in ionic fluids and magnetic liquids.
Alfred M. Hunt Faculty Scholar and Professor and Director of Graduate Studies
Nano-mechanical and nano-tribological characterization (elasticity, friction, adhesion) of materials including organic thin films; self-assembled monolayers, polymeric gels, and cellulosics; Fabrication of polymeric nanostructures by scanning probe lithography; Colloidal probe and atomic force...
Assistant Professor
Dr. Zhao's research is motivated by new materials and phenomena emerging on the interface between engineering and biology. He is currently particularly interested in soft materials which are easily deformed by multiple thermodynamic forces (e.g. stress, electric field, magnetic field, and chemical...
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Propulsion and power generation at the micro scale; dynamics and control of microsystems; and financial valuation, modeling, and analysis of engineered systems in aerospace and defense.
Emeritus Professor
The main emphasis of research in the Robotics and Manufacturing Automation Laboratory is on the control of multiple robots that can work together. Multiple robotic control of the two ABB industrial robotic arms was sponsored by the National Science Foundation. The sensor modeling, data acquisition...
