Mechanical Engineering (ME)

- Stochastic methods for engineering applications
- Non-equilibrium fluid mechanics and plasma physics
- Simulating plasma processing of nanostructured materials
- Nano/microfluidics and microplasma

- Nanomechanics
- Nanotribology
- Scanning Probe Microscopy
- Surface Science

- Mechatronics Control systems
- Unmanned aircraft systems
- Cyber-physical systems
- Applied fractional calculus

- PEM fuel cell
- Heat exchanger
- Thermal management
- Two-phase heat transfer and fluid flow
- Loop heat pipe
- Porous material
- Carbon fiber

Jeanette Cobian-Iñiguez
Assistant Professor
- Heat transfer
- Fluid Mechanics
- Wildfires
- Data Science
- Science Communication

- Energy conversion systems
- Dynamic simulation and control of thermal systems
- Adaptive thermal networks
- Absorption chillers and heat pumps
- Vapor compression systems with alternate refrigerants
- Microchannel heat exchangers
- Artificial neural networks and genetic algorithm for optimization of thermal components

- Engineering systems for agriculture
- Automation and intelligent machines for production and postharvest of agricultural crops
- Precision agriculture technology
- Sensors for biotic and abiotic plant stress detection
- Mechanical harvesting machines and robotic systems for fruit and nut trees

- Computational dynamics, mechanics and controls, with applications primarily in micro-scale biological systems
- Continuum-dynamics- and multi-body-dynamics-based modeling, and inverse modeling, of DNA and proteins, and their interactions
- Constitutive law modeling of bio-filaments from their molecular dynamics simulations

- Engineering Education
- Experiential Learning
- Structural Mechanics
- Computational Mechanics

- Electrochemical energy conversion and storage (e.g., fuel cells and batteries)
- Next generation non-volatile memory (e.g., resistive switching memory)
- Electrochemical nano-patterning
- Nanoscale electrochemistry
- Nanoscale material interface and surface phenomena
- Scanning probe microscopy based observations

- Mesoscale non-diffusive heat transfer
- Mesoscale mass and energy transport in energy systems
- Thermal management of electronics and energy systems
- Environment-friendly water desalination systems

Tribology: Friction, wear and lubrication

- Radiative heat transfer
- Heat transfer in combustion
- Heat transfer in hypersonic plasma

Thermal and electrokinetic transport processes with applications in:
- Thermal management
- Energy storage
- Water purification
- Advanced manufacturing

- control systems
- automation
- robotic vehicles
- power conversion

- Vibrations
- Noise Control
- Industrial Automation
- Sensors
- Actuators
- Bio-Mechanics
- Physical Rehabilitation
