Affiliated Faculty


Jan D. Achenbach
Walter P. Murphy Professor and
Distinguished McCormick School Professor

Oluwaseyi Balogun
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering

L. Catherine Brinson
Jerome B. Cohen Professor of Engineering
Chair, Department of Mechanical Engineering

James Conley
Clinical Professor of Technology Industry Management
Kellogg School of Management
Courtesy Appointment, Mechanical and Industrial Engr. Depts.
McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science

Isaac M. Daniel
Walter P. Murphy Professor

Horacio Espinosa
Professor of Mecahnical Engineering

Morris E. Fine
Walter P. Murphy Professor
Technological Institute Professor Emeritus of Materials Science and
Engineering in Service and Member of the Graduate Faculty

Sridhar Krishnaswamy
Director, Center for Quality Engineering & Failure Prevention
Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Jianmin Qu
Walter P. Murphy Professor
Chair, Civil & Environmental Engineering


Program Assistant


Marcia L. Hilliard
Center for Quality Engineering & Failure Prevention


Research Associates


Brad Regez

Intelligent Structural Health Management /
Nondestructive Evaluation
Yinian Zhu
Fiber Optic Sensor Development
Name Research Area

Graduate Students


Phillip Ahn
Surface Plasmon Enhanced Photoacoustic Microscopy
Zhongbi Chen
Smart Structures based on Shape Memory Polymers
Moshe Cohen
Intelligent Structural Health Management
Minghe Liu
Characterization of Infrastructure Materials using Nonlinear Ultrasonics
Gautam Naik
Nanomaterials for Sensing and Actuation
Bradley Sherman
Nonlinear Ultrasonic Wave Propagation in Thin Films
Brandon Strom

Ultrasonic Guided Wave Scattering
Guangxin Tang
Wave Propagation in Nonlinear Media
Shijie Zheng
Photonic Crystal Fiber Sensors
Name Research Project