Faculty Research Interests and Research Projects for Engineering Students Department of Engineering, RMU School of Engineering, Mathematics & Science

Manufacturing and Industrial Engineering Dr. Arif Sirinterlikci Faculty Areas of Research: Manufacturing processes and

simulation, reverse engineering, rapid prototyping, rapid tooling and manufacturing, biomedical design and manufacturing, industrial automation and robotics, entertainment technology.

Student Projects: Additive manufacturing, robotics and automation, mechatronics.

Dr. Priyadarshan Manohar Faculty Areas of Research: Materials design and

materials research, high temperature process design, failure analysis, structure - property relationships, mathematical modeling, thermomechanical process simulation, and engineering education.

Student Projects: Development of a materials sustainability app, exploring materials for 3D printing, hot rolling process modeling, HSLA steel composition and process designs for oil and gas pipelines, optimizing properties of advanced high strength steels for automobiles, systems architecture for complex systems, developing new curriculum for service design.

Manufacturing and Industrial Engineering

Dr. Sangho Shim Faculty Areas of Research: Combinatorial and

computational optimization with applications in bioinformatics, energy economics and business analytics.

Student Projects: Recoloring large scale phylogenetic trees, computational experiment for the probabilistic threshold of correctable noise on biological evolution, partitioning large scale protein-protein interaction networks, cost allocation of wind power transmission lines, conflict graphical threshold of correlation for breaking multicollinearity in regression analysis.

Dr. Ergin Erdem Faculty Areas of Research: Automatic identification systems, engineering education, heuristic methods for optimization, optimization problems in military applications, data mining, risk assessment for healthcare operations, operations management in healthcare, 3-D printing.

Student Projects: Development of design of experiments based approach for the digital light processing based custom made 3-D printer, forecasting the wind speed based on the weather and wind characteristics such as the wind direction and humidity, scheduling elective and emergency patients in the operating room, optimization in energy management (e.g. deciding on LPG delivery routes).

Software Engineering

Dr. Sushil Acharya Faculty Areas of Research: Software engineering education, software verification and validation, data mining, neural networks, and enterprise resource planning.

Student Projects: Network clusters, parallel processing,

distributed systems, client server architectures, webpage redesign, message queuing systems, software testing, google apps, and systems simulation.

Dr. Jameela Al-Jaroodi Faculty Areas of Research: Middleware, software engineering, systems software, data analytics, distributed systems and cloud computing.

Student Projects: Cloud computing models and

applications challenges, the Internet of Things, smart systems (which involve sensor networks, data analytics, mobile computing, autonomous computing, and intelligent systems), challenges and opportunities in cutting edge technologies in healthcare, robotics, sensor networks, and smart cities.

Faculty Research Interests and Research Projects for Engineering Students Department of Engineering, RMU School of Engineering, Mathematics & Science

Mechanical Engineering

Dr. Tony Kerzmann Faculty Areas of Research: Hybrid photovoltaic (PV) systems, solar desalination, energy outreach, waste heat recovery, energy efficiency, renewable energy technologies, alternative fueling stations, skin burn simulations, smart energy management devices

Student Projects: Wind site assessment, hyperloop design

project, solar powered consumer devices, wind turbine development, kinetic water turbine, energy outreach, kinetic pipe flow energy harvesting, solar powered refreshment stand

Dr. Benjamin Campbell Faculty Areas of Research: mechatronics, neural

interface device control, touch screens, laser applications, the science of music, and engineering education

Student Projects: Applications of Arduino controlled systems, adapt basic neural interface technology for mental device control, investigating prosthesis to optimize touchscreen interaction, converting 3-D data from Laser ablation tomography to a 3-D printable format, developing new curriculum for mechatronics and photonics, electro-optics summer camp.

Mechanical Engineering

Dr. Luis Monterrubio Faculty Areas of Research: Vibration, numerical

methods, finite element methods, fluid-structure interaction, computational mechanics, and acoustics.

Student Projects: Design of plastic injection molds including the use of 3D printers, design of load cells using strain gages, design for the industry using CAD/CAE, design of test benches for the industry

Mrs. Sue Spade Faculty Areas of Research: Primarily an educator, and a student advisor.

Student Projects: Please contact the faculty directly.

Biomedical Engineering

Dr. Rika Carlsen Faculty Areas of Research: Soft tissue mechanics, injury

biomechanics, cell mechanics, constitutive modeling, bio-hybrid microdevices.

Student Projects: Development of finite element computational head models, medical image analysis, characterizing mechanical response of brain tissue phantoms, designing experimental platforms for studying traumatic brain injury in animals, developing systems for collecting real-time data of head impacts.

Dr. Won Joo Faculty Areas of Research: Fracture/damage continuum

mechanics, bone biomechanics, orthopedic and prosthetic implants and medical devices, numerical modeling and finite element analysis.

Student Projects: Influence of shock absorption capacity on the stress distribution in all ceramic crown using 3D FEA, effect of stem length of reverse shoulder implant on the stress distribution, evaluation of stress pattern of implant-retained mandibular overdenture with different type of attachment system