Automotive, Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering Faculty
Martin Agelin-Chaab, BSc, MEng, MSc, PhD (Manitoba), PEng
Associate Professor
Research topics:
- Bluff body/ground vehicle aerodynamics
- Turbulent flows and jets
- Vehicle and battery thermal analyses
- Sustainable energy systems
Ahmad Barari, Bsc, MSc, PhD (Western), PEng
Associate Professor
Research topics:
- Advanced Manufacturing Technologies
- Digital Manufacturing
- Precision Manufacturing
- Measurement Uncertainty. 3D Coordinate Metrology
- Additive Manufacturing and Rapid Prototyping of sculptured Surfaces
- Manufacturing surface integrity
- Surface quality
- Surface tribology
- Reverse Engineering. Surface Reconstruction
- Structural design optimization
- Topology optimization
- FEA-Based design optimization
Ibrahim Dincer, Bsc, MSc, PhD (Istanbul Technical), PEng
Professor
Research topics:
- Drying
- Energy and exergy analyses
- Energy conversion and management
- Heat and mass transfer
- Hydrogen and fuel cell systems
- Refrigeration
- Renewable energies
- Thermal energy storage
- Thermodynamics
Moustafa El-Gindy, Bsc, MSc, PhD (Technical University of Budapest), PEng
Associate Professor
Research topics:
- Aircraft landing dynamics
- Articulated heavy vehicles
- Bus testing and simulation
- Crash testing and simulations
- High-velocity impact and ballistics simulation
- Multi wheels military vehicles dynamics
- Self-steering axles simulation
- Tire mechanics
- Tire-soft and hard soils interaction
- Vehicle dynamics
- and Virtual human modelling.
Ebrahim Esmailzadeh, BSc, MPhil, PhD (London), PEng, CEng, FASME, FCSME, FCAE, FEIC, FIMechE, SMIEEE
Professor (Emeritus)
Research topics:
- Mechanical vibration
- Active vibration control
- Nonlinear vibrations
- Vehicle dynamics
- Structural dynamics
- Nonlinear and discrete control systems
- Dynamics and vibration of MEMS and NEMS
Kamiel Gabriel, BSc, MSc, MBA, PhD (Manitoba), PEng
Professor
Research topics:
- Boiling and two-phase flows
- Energy conservation
- Fluid physics and heat transfer at reduced gravity (microgravity space sciences)
- Heat-recovery systems
- and Thermofluids in power plants.
Hossam Kishawy, Bsc, MSc, PhD (McMaster), PEng
Associate Dean
Professor
Professor
Research topics:
- Manufacturing
- High Speed Machining
- Modelling and Optimization
- Finite Element Modelling
- Residual Stresses and Stress Analysis
Yuping He, BASc, MASc, PhD (Waterloo), PEng
Professor
Research topics:
- Vehicle System Dynamics
- Vehicle Chassis Design
- Vehicle Active Safety Systems
- Automated Design Synthesis
- Modelling and Simulation
- Driver-Hardware-in-the-Loop Real-Time Simulations
- Application of Multidisciplinary Design Optimization
- Mechatronic Systems
Brendan MacDonald, BASc, MASc, PhD (Toronto), PEng
Assistant Professor
Research topics:
- Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics
- Interfacial Phenomena and Phase Change Processes
- Microfluidics and Optofluidics
- Sustainable Energy
- Direct Solar Energy
- Evaporative Cooling and Evaporating Droplets
- Global Health Technology
- Solar Water Treatment
- Photocatalytic Nanotechnology
- Water Quality Monitoring
- Lab-on-a-Chip Technology
Atef Mohany, Bsc, MSc, PhD (McMaster), PEng
Department Chair and Associate Professor
Research topics:
- Aeroacoustics
- Flow-acoustic coupling and flow-induced vibrations
- Sound-structure interaction
- Noise
- Vibration and Harshness
- Active noise and vibration control
- Fatigue assessment of structures and Mechatronics
Scott Nokleby, BEng, MASc, PhD (Victoria), PEng
Professor
Research topics:
- Robotics
- Mechatronics
- Mechanisms
- Automation
- Advanced Kinematics of Robots and Mechanisms
- Redundant Manipulator Systems
- Mobile-Manipulator Systems
- Mechanism and Robot Design
- Optimal Design
Remon Pop-Iliev, BASc, MASc, PhD (Toronto), PEng
NSERC-GMCL Chair in Innovative Design Engineering
Professor
Professor
Research topics:
- Engineering Design
- Manufacturing Engineering
- Engineering Materials
- and Technologies for the Manufacture of Cellular Materials and Composites
Bale Reddy, BTech, MTech, PhD (Indian Institute of Technology), PEng
Professor
Research topics:
- Biomass Combustion and Gasification
- Fluidized Bed Combustors
- Combined Cycle Power Generation
- Exergy Analysis
- Thermal Design and Optimization
- Cogeneration
- Waste Heat Recovery
- Heat Transfer
- Advanced Energy Systems
- Advanced Power Plant Cycles
- Gas-Solid Flows in Advanced Combustors
- Energy Conservation
- Solar Energy
Ghaus Rizvi, BE, MS, MASc, PhD (Toronto), PEng
Professor
Research topics:
- Polymers and composites processing and characterization
- Smart and advanced materials
- Compounding of colours in plastics
- Wood-plastic composites
- "Green" Composites
- Nano-composites
- Processes and materials for tissue scaffolds and skeletal structures
- Corrosion of ceramic coatings
Greg Rohrauer, DEC, BEng, PhD (Concordia), PEng
Associate Professor
Research topics:
- Advanced Composite Materials
- Analysis and Design of Composite Pressure Vessels
- Materials Testing
- Alternate Fuelled and Hybrid Vehicles Development
- Vehicle Dynamics
- Manufacturing Technology and Application
Marc Rosen, BASc, MASc, PhD (Toronto), PEng, FASME, FCSME, FEIC, FIEF, FCAE, FCSSE
Professor
Research topics:
- Cogeneration
- District energy
- Efficiency improvement
- Electricity generation
- Energy
- Environmental impact assessment and reduction
- Exergy analysis
- Heat transfer
- Hydrogen energy and fuel cells
- Integrated energy systems
- Modelling and simulation of energy systems
- Renewable energy
- Solar energy
- Sustainable energy
- Wind energy
- Thermal energy storage
- Thermodynamics
Haoxiang Lang, BSc, MASc, PhD
Assistant Professor
Research topics:
- Mechatronics
- Autonomous Robotics
- Visual Servoing and Advanced Controls
- Machine Learning
Dipal Patel, BEng, MSc, PhD (Newcastle UK)
Assistant Professor
Research topics:
- DNS of turbulent combustion
- Stratified Combustion
- Fuel Flexible Combustion
- Auto-ignition and spark ignition of turbulent
- combustible mixtures
- Ignition Modelling
- Spray Combustion
Carlos Rossa, BEng, MSc, PhD (UPMC - Paris VI)
Assistant Professor
Research topics:
- Mechatronics
- Robotics
- Medical and Surgical Robotics
- Haptics
- Human-Machine Interaction
- Actuators
- Sensors
- Control systems
- Magnetic fluids
Xianke Lin, BEng, MSc, PhD, (University of Michigan-Ann Arbor)
Assistant Professor
Research topics:
- Hybrid electric vehicle design and control
- Multiscale/multiphysics modeling and optimization of vehicle energy storage system
- Power electronics control and AC motor optimal control
- Vehicle active safety/automated driving
Amirkianoosh Kiani, BSc, MSc, PhD (Ryerson University), PEng
Assistant Professor
Research topics:
- Laser Materials Processing
- Micro/Nano Manufacturing
- Nano Biomaterials Fabrication
- Thin-film
- Electrospinning
Jaho Seo, BSc, MEng, PhD (University of Waterloo)
Assistant Professor
Research topics:
- Mechatronics
- Autonomous mobile machine
- Intelligent construction equipment
- Intelligent agriculture machinery
- Safety-control
- Electro-hydraulic systems
- Hardware-in-the-loop simulation
- System reliability