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| Piero M. Armenante Distinguished Professor |
Study of single and multiphase mixing in reactors and stirred vessels; biological treatment of hazardous substances; contingency planning for industrial emergencies; pharmaceutical process and equipment design; biomedical engineering. |
| Basil C. Baltzis Professor |
Experimental and modeling studies of reaction engineering for applications in pollution prevention and control and in production of pharmaceuticals. |
| Robert B. Barat Professor |
Terahertz spectroscopy and imaging for homeland security; environmental pollutants monitoring and intelligent process control; applied optics in engineering and research; high intensity combustion, incineration, flame velocities; pharmaceutical reaction engineering and control. |
| Ecevit Bilgili Assistant Professor |
Powder Technology, particle engineering, pharmaceutical solids manufacturing technology, rubber elasticity, finite thermoelasticity, rubber processing, recycling |
| Rajesh Dave Distinguished Professor |
Particle Technology; Pattern Recognition/Cluster Analysis/Image Processing |
| Edward L. Dreizin Professor |
Metal combustion, high-energy density materials, solid propellants and fuels. Combustion and transport phenomena in microgravity. Physics and chemistry of arc plasmas. Micro-joining, metal surface treatment. |
| Costas Gogos Distinguished Research Professor |
Polymer Processing, Applied Rheology, Extrusion, Injection Molding, Flow (stress) – induced Crystallization, Melt Fracture, Reactive Processing, Polymer Processing Equipment Design, Fluidized Bed Polymer Coating of Particulates, Technical R&D Program Management. Current Research Projects: Melting mechanisms in twin-rotor polymer processing equipment. Polymer processing equipment design. Processes for polymerizable fluid coating of particulates. Clustering mechanisms of particulates |
| Teddy Greenstein Professor |
Low Reynolds number hydrodynamics; fermentation processes and bioelectrochemical fuel cells in biochemical engineering. |
| Deran Hanesian Professor |
Chemical reaction engineering and kinetics; pollution prevention and abatement ; in situ soil remediation; plastics recycling; Undergraduate Research Experience. |
| Michael Huang Research Professor |
Theory: Using statistical mechanics to study properties of soft condensed matter such as polymer and liquid crystal with particular interests in self-assembled structures and mesophase transitions. Experiment: Developing new technologies with soft matter. Phospholipid membranes and unilamellar vesicles; amphiphilic properties of room temperature ionic liquids (RTILs) and polymer synthesis; microencapsulation of fine particles with polymers in supercritical CO2. |
| Kun Sup Hyun Research Professor |
Polymerization; extrusion. |
| Boris Khusid Professor |
Theoretical and experimental studies focus on: Fundamentals of the micro- and nano-scale behavior of suspensions subject to a high-gradient strong ac electric field and a shear flow; Development of electro-microfluidics for the control and manipulation of fine particles, cells, and micro-organisms; The fundamentals of micro-scale electro-hydrodynamics to the level where it will become useful in the design and operation of novel sensors for applications ranging from bioagent detection to healthcare industry. |
| Howard Kimmel Professor |
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| Norman W. Loney Associate Professor |
Mathematical modeling of chemical processes such as Membrane Separation, Chemical Vapor Deposition, Solvent Sublation and NOx/SOx Control; engineering solutions to turbulent boundary layer problems involving mass transfer; modeling of drug delivery systems. |
| Angelo J. Perna Professor |
In situ soil remediation via ultrasonics. |
| Robert Pfeffer Distinguished Professor Emeritus |
Fluid-particle systems. |
| Laurent Simon Associate Professor |
Decision-based approaches to bioengineering design; model predictive control; control of apoptosis in mammalian cell processes; state variables estimation with neural networks. |
| Kamalesh K. Sirkar Distinguished Professor |
Membrane separation techniques and technologies for solving separation problems in chemical, environmental, food, pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries (involving both gas mixtures and liquid solutions); develop new and improved membrane separation techniques and membrane structures, characterize them, model membrane separation performance and apply them to problem solving; membranes for selective removal of CO2 or VOCs from air/N2; microporous and porous membrane-based equilibrium contacting processes; membrane reactors for production of chemicals and degradation of hazardous substances; fermentation-extraction processes; membrane-based bioseparations; development of novel membrane-based controlled release techniques. |
| Reginald P.T. Tomkins Professor |
Corrosion engineering; electrochemical methods for analysis; solubility of gases in molten salts. |
| Xianqin Wang Assistant Professor |
Synthesis and characterizations of the advanced functional nanomaterials for environmental protection, clean energy production, biology and pharmaceutical engineering. |
| Marino Xanthos Professor |
Polymer blends/composites/foams; polymer modification and polymer reactive processing; plastics recycling and life-cycle assessment; polymer processing / structure / property relationships; environmental considerations in polymer processing; smart polymeric materials; composites for biomedical applications. |
| Ming-Wan Young Research Associate Professor |