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Mechanical Engineering (ME)

Venkattraman (Venkatt) Ayyaswamy

Associate Professor

vayyaswamy@ucmerced.edu

(209) 228-2359

SRE 365

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

Mehmet Z. Baykara

Associate Professor and Graduate Program Chair (ME)

mehmet.baykara@ucmerced.edu

(209) 228-3371

SRE 359

Nanomechanics
Nanotribology
Scanning Probe Microscopy
Surface Science

YangQuan Chen

Professor

ychen53@ucmerced.edu

SRE 327

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

Po-Ya Abel Chuang

Associate Professor

achuang5@ucmerced.edu

SRE 361

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

jcobian3@ucmerced.edu

SRE 363

Heat transfer
Fluid Mechanics
Wildfires
Data Science
Science Communication

Francesco Danzi

Assistant Professor

fdanzi@ucmerced.edu

SRE 347

Structural Analysis and Optimization
Composite Structures
Energy Harvesting
Vibrations
Nonlinear Dynamics

Gerardo Diaz

Professor

gdiaz@ucmerced.edu

SRE 343

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

Reza Ehsani

Professor

rehsani@ucmerced.edu

SRE 331

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

Sachin Goyal

Associate Professor

sgoyal2@ucmerced.edu

SRE 329

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