Faculty

Mechanical Engineering Faculty

Zach Ballard

Senior Lecturer, Department of Mechanical Engineering

zballard@uvm.edu

Dynamics, renewable energy, solid mechanics, computational solid mechanics, finite element analysis, numerical simulation

Dylan C. Burns

Research Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering

dburns@uvm.edu

Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) for applications including subsurface detection of buried objects, monitoring and mapping underground utilities. Research and Development (R&D), electromechanical device design, RF Signals, prototype development and fabrication, hands-on experience with tools and machinery, laboratory product testing, test fixture design, data/signal processing and analysis, material testing, MATLAB, SolidWorks.

Keith Doyle

Senior Lecturer, Department of Mechanical Engineering • Head of the Engineering Management Program

Keith.Doyle@UVM.edu

Management: operations, innovation, entrepreneurship, leadership

Technical: Solid mechanics, structural dynamics, finite element analysis, optomechanics

Yves Dubief

Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Fluid mechanics, turbulence, incompressible and compressible flows, non-Newtonian flows, numerical simulation

Keith Epstein

Engineering Capstone Lecturer, Department of Mechanical Engineering • SEED Program Director

Keith.Epstein@uvm.edu

Capstone Design

Douglas Fletcher

Chair, Department of Mechanical Engineering • Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering

dfletche@uvm.edu

Laser diagnostics of compressible flows, reacting flows, and plasmas. Aerothermodynamics of planetary entry.

Nic Fiorentino

Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering

niccolo.fiorentino@uvm.edu

Biomechanics, Orthopaedics, Medical Imaging, Motion Capture, Multibody Dynamics, Finite Element Analysis.

Rachael Floreani

Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering

floreani@uvm.edu

Materials customization, tissue engineering, polymer chemistry, food biotechnology

Dryver Huston

Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering

dhuston@uvm.edu

Smart Cities and Structures, Structural Health Monitoring, Subsurface Infrastructure Sensing, Electromechanical Systems

William Louisos

Senior Lecturer, Department of Mechanical Engineering

William.Louisos@uvm.edu

Thermodynamics, Fluid Mechanics, Propulsion

Jihong Ma

Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Jihong.Ma@uvm.edu

Atomistic Simulations, Dynamics, Phononic Crystals, Topological States of Matter, Polymer Science, Nanoscale Heat Transfer

Jeffrey Marshall

Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering • Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Education

jmarsha1@uvm.edu

Fluid Dynamics, Particulate Flows, Renewable Energy Systems, Biofluids

Frederic Sansoz

Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering • ASME Fellow

frederic.sansoz@uvm.edu

Science and Engineering of Nanostructured Materials, Small-scale Mechanics, Atomistic Simulation and Multiscale Modeling

Linda S. Schadler

Dean of the College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences (CEMS) • Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Linda.Schadler@uvm.edu

Mechanical, Optical, and Electrical Behavior of Nanofilled Polymer Composites

Laura Treers

Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering

laura.treers@uvm.edu

Robotic locomotion in complex terrains, physics of granular materials, robophysics, organismal biomechanics, collective behavior, field robotics, mechanism design