Faculty Expertise Guide - College of Engineering - Virginia Tech

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College of engineering faCulty expertise listing 2010-2012 AQUACULTURE SYSTEMS see Environment, Boardman AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS see Environment, Hession Environment and Fluvial Hydraulics, Hester ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE see Computer Science, Egyhazy ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY see Human-Computer Interaction, Quek ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCE see Remote Sensing, Bailey ATMOSPHERIC AND RADIO SCIENCE Name: Wayne A. Scales Department: Electrical and Computer Engineering Office Phone: 540-231-5622 Home Phone: 540-953-2109 FAX: 540-231-3362 E-mail: wscales@vt.edu Specialty: Atmospheric and Radio Science Applications: GPS applications Expertise: Computation science; plasma science; global positioning systems Examples of Funding Sources: National Science Foundation, U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Naval Research, U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research, NASA AUTOMOBILES see Acoustics, Fuller Injury Biomechanics, Duma Vehicle Dynamics, Ahmadian AUTOMOTIVE POWERTRAINS / ENERGY SYSTEMS Name: Douglas Nelson Department: Mechanical Engineering Office Phone: 540-231-4324 FAX: 540-231-9100 E-mail: doug.nelson@vt.edu URL: www.me.vt.edu/people/faculty/nelson.html Specialty: Design, Modeling, Analysis, Testing and Research on Hybrid, Plug-in and Electric Vehicle Systems Applications: Design of hybrid and electric vehicle powertrains to meet performance and fuel economy goals; advance vehicle technology competitions for student projects; construction, testing and validation of vehicle powertrain systems; fuel cell systems for transportation applications; autonomous vehicle energy storage and propulsion Expertise: Vehicle systems design; energy use in vehicles; electric traction drive systems; battery systems and integration; control systems and hardwars-in-the-loop (HIL); fundamentals of fuel cell energy systems Examples of Funding Sources: U.S. Department of Energy, Environmental Protection Agency, General Motors AUTOMOTIVE SAFETY see Impact Biomechanics, Hardy AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS Name: Alexander Leonessa Department: Mechanical Engineering Office Phone: 540-231-6661 FAX: 540-231-9100 11
College of engineering faCulty expertise listing 2010-2012 E-mail: aleonessa@vt.edu Specialty: Nonlinear and Adaptive Control, Robotics, Dynamical Systems and Control Theory, Nonlinear System Identification, Underwater Autonomous Vehicles, Control and Navigation Systems, Functional Electrical Stimulation of Human Muscles Applications: Active control and modeling of propulsion systems; autonomous vehicle control systems; attitude stability and control; robot control; human-robot interaction; functional electrical stimulation Expertise: System design of robotic platforms; adaptive, selflearning control of autonomous systems; dynamical systems and control theory Examples of Funding Sources: National Science Foundation, U.S. Office of Naval Research, DARPA AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES see Automotive Powertrains / Energy Systems, Nelson Control Theory, Woolsey Hydrodynamics, Neu AVIATION Aviation Modeling, Airport Design and Engineering Name: Antonio A. Trani Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering Office Phone: 540-231-4418 Home Phone: 540-953-1617 FAX: 540-231-7532 E-mail: vuela@vt.edu URL: www.atsl.cee.vt.edu/ Specialty: Modeling and Simulation of Aviation Systems, Largescale Model Development to Study the Efficiency of Airports and Airspace Applications: Aviation demand modeling; airport engineering and airport design Expertise: Aviation systems modeling; airport engineering; airspace and airport analysis interactions Examples of Funding Sources: NASA, Federal Aviation Administration, National Science Foundation BEARINGS see Rotating Machinery, Kasarda BIOCHEMICAL ENGINEERING / BIOTECHNOLOGY Name: Chenming (Mike) Zhang Department: Biological Systems Engineering Office Phone: 540-231-7601 FAX: 540-231-3199 E-mail: cmzhang@vt.edu Specialty: Recombinant Protein Expression (Transgenic Plants), Recovery and Purification, Bioprocess Engineering, Biochemical Engineering, Protein Characterization, De Novo Drug Design Applications: Protein expression, recovery and purification from transgenic plants and other biological systems; therapeutic protein and vaccine production from plants; protein characterization; value-added products from biomaterials and residues; drug designs Expertise: Process development and optimization for protein recovery and purification; economic assessment of protein purification processes; protein characterizations; plant transformations; design of specific binding domains for enhanced drug-enzyme interaction Examples of Funding Sources: National Science Foundation, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Jeffress Memorial Trust, National Pork Board 12
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