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Faculty Affiliated Faculty Staff	Faculty Satya Atluri Distinguished Professor	Contact satluri@uci.edu (949) 824-9966 EG3230	Research Areas Continuum mechanics, computational mechanics, computer modeling and simulation, integrated product and process design, damage tolerance and structural integrity, failure prevention, computational microelectronics.
Faculty Affiliated Faculty Staff	James E. Bobrow Professor	jebobrow@uci.edu (949) 824-4116 EG3226	Robotics, mechatronics, and design optimization.
	Jack Brouwer Assistant Professor	jbrouwer@uci.edu (949) 824-1999 x221 ELF221	Fuel cells, energy systems dynamics, electrochemical systems design and analysis, chemical kinetics, reacting flows.
	Donald Dabdub Professor	ddabdub@uci.edu (949) 824-6126 EG4226	Mathematical modeling of urban and global air pollution, dynamics of atmospheric aerosols, secondary organic aerosols, impact of energy generation on air quality, chemical reactions at gas-liquid interfaces.
	Derek Dunn-Rankin Professor and Chair	ddunnran@uci.edu (949) 824-8745 EG3224	Combustion, optical particle sizing, particle aerodynamics, laser diagnostics and spectroscopy.
	Said E. Elghobashi Professor	selghoba@uci.edu (949) 824-6131 EG4220	Direct numerical simulation of turbulent chemically reacting and dispersed two-phase flows
	Manuel Gamero-Castano Associate Professor	mgameroc@uci.edu (949) 824-6597 EG4232	Electric propulsion, with emphasis on colloid thruster technology for precision formation flying missions and Hall thrusters. Electrohydrodynamic atomization of liquids and related problems like electrospray ionization and technological applications of electrosprays. Aerosol diagnostics.
	Faryar Jabbari Professor	fjabbari@uci.edu (949) 824-6433 EG3221	Optimal control theory, distributed parameter systems, parameter identification.
	John C. LaRue Professor	jclarue@uci.edu (949) 824-6724	Fluid mechanics, heat transfer, turbulence.
	Robert H. Liebeck Adjunct Professor	rliebeck@uci.edu (949) 824-9480 EG4230	Aerodynamics, hydrodynamics, and aircraft design.
	Feng Liu Professor	fliu@uci.edu (949) 824-1750 EG3201	Computational fluid dynamics, turbomachinery, propulsion.
	Marc J. Madou Chancellor's Professor	mmadou@uci.edu (949) 824-6585 EG3231	Miniaturization science (MEMS and NEMS) with emphasis on chemical and biological applications. Current projects include polymer actuators (for drug delivery), C-MEMS and CD based fluidics. Besides miniaturization techniques and materials choices, scaling laws are considered.
	J. Michael McCarthy Professor	jmmccart@uci.edu (949) 824-6893 EG4203	Design of mechanical systems, computer aided design, kinematic theory of spatial motion.
	Vincent McDonell Adjunct Professor	vgmcdone@uci.edu (949) 824-5950 ELF221	Combustion.
	Lawrence Muzio Adjunct Professor	lmuzio@ferco.com	Thermodynamics, combustion and combustion in practical systems, air pollution formation and control, advanced diagnostics applied to practical combustion systems
	Kenneth D. Mease Professor	kmease@uci.edu (949) 824-5855 EG3233	Nonlinear dynamics and control; flight guidance and control.
	Dimitri Papamoschou Professor	dpapamos@uci.edu (949) 824-6590 EG4214	Compressible turbulence, jet noise, mixing enhancement, respiratory flows.
	Roger H. Rangel Professor	rhrangel@uci.edu (949) 824-4033 EG4212	Heat transfer, fluid mechanics, spray combustion, two-phase flows, fluid instability and atomization.
	Timothy Rupert Assistant Professor	trupert@uci.edu (949) 824-4937 EG 4233	Mechanical behavior, nanomaterials, structure-property relationships, microstructural stability, grain boundaries and interfaces, materials characterization.
	David J. Reinkensmeyer Professor	dreinken@uci.edu (949) 824-5218 EG3225	Biomedical engineering, robotics.
	G. Scott Samuelsen Research Professor	gss@uci.edu (949) 824-5468 ELF223	Combustion, sprays, laser diagnostics, air quality, turbulent transport, alternative fuels, modeling reacting flows, practical systems, energy and environmental conflict.
	William R. Seeker Adjunct Professor	randy.seeker@uci.edu (949) 824-8191 EG4224	Energy and environment.
	Andrei Shkel Professor	andrei.shkel@uci.edu (949) 824-8843 EG4208	Design and advanced control of micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS); High-precision micro-machined gyroscopes; MEMS-enhanced optical systems, tools, and prosthetic appliances; Electro-mechanical and machine-information systems integration.
	Athanasios Sideris Professor	asideris@uci.edu (949) 824-8139 EG3205	Control systems, neural networks.
	William A. Sirignano The Henry Samueli Endowed Chair in Engineering and Professor	sirignan@uci.edu (949) 824-3700 EG3202	Combustion theory and computational methods, multiphase flows, turbulent reacting flows.
	Lorenzo Valdevit Assistant Professor	valdevit@uci.edu (949) 824-4173 EG4227	Multifunctional optimization of thermo-mechanical structures, Micro-architected materials, Multi-scale mechanics, Development of MEMS sensors and actuators for mechanical characterization of small-scale materials, structures and biological systems.
	Benjamin F. Villac Assistant Professor	bvillac@uci.edu (949) 824-8148 EG3227	Astrodynamics, dynamical systems theory, global optimization, interval computing.
	Yun Wang Associate Professor	yunw@uci.edu (949) 824-6004 EG4231	Fuel cells, computational modeling, thermo-fluidics, two-phase flows, electrochemistry, CFD, turbulent combustion.
	Gregory N. Washington Dean and Professor	gregory.washington@uci.edu Dean's Office: 5200 Engineering Hall	Core area of interest lies in the area of dynamic systems, with an emphasis on modeling and control of smart material systems and devices.

Affiliated Faculty Joyce Keyak Associate Professor, Orthopaedic Surgery	Contact jhkeyak@uci.edu (714) 456-3660 PAV III 2nd floor Irvine Medical Center	Research Areas bone mechanics, finite element modeling, quantitative computed tomography, prosthetic implants, osteoporosis, metastatic tumors in bone, radiation therapy
Arash Kheradvar Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering	arashkh@uci.edu (949) 824-9968 2410 Engineering Hall	Research is focused on cardiovascular engineering with emphasis on cardiac mechanics, cardiac imaging and cardiovascular devices.
Abraham Lee Professor, Biomedical Engineering	aplee@uci.edu (949) 824-9691 ET716F	Integrated micro- and nano-fluidic chip processors for the manipulation and self-assembly of biomolecules and other synthesized nanoparticles.
Farghalli Mohamed Professor, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science	famohame@uci.edu (949) 824-9691 ET716F	Mechanics of materials, mechanical behavior and design principles, plasticity, dislocation, theory diffusion and phase transformations.
Edriss Titi Professor, Mathematics	estiti@uci.edu (949) 824-3156 RH476	Partial differential equations, nonlinear analysis.
Frederic Wan Professor, Mathematics	fwan@uci.edu (949) 824-5529 MSTB267	Applied mathematics

	Staff Gregory Reinhard Manager	Contact greinhar@uci.edu (949) 824-4028 EG 4218
	Marcia Aguirre Assistant to the Chair	maguirre@uci.edu (949) 824-4998 EG4207
	Tanya Eberhard Editorial Assistant Undergraduate Coordinator	tanya.e@uci.edu (949) 824-3722 EG4202
	Ted Ediss Laboratory Mechanician	trediss@uci.edu (949) 824-6747 ET100
	David Hartwig Laboratory Technician	dhartwig@uci.edu (949) 824-6227 EG2118
	Steven Heck Laboratory Technician	sheck@uci.edu
	Tiffany Shin Payroll/Personnel Analyst	shint@uci.edu (949) 824-5469 EG4206
	Louise Yeager Graduate Coordinator	lyeager@uci.edu (949) 824-7984 EG4201