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Dr. Justin Weibel
Mechanical Engineering

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Dr. Suresh V. Garimella
Emeritus of Mechanical Engineering



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Dr. Shubhra Bansal
Mechanical Engineering & Materials Engineering
  Heterogeneous Integration

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Dr. Riley Barta
Mechanical Engineering
  Analysis of Thermal Systems

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Dr. Thomas Beechem
Mechanical Engineering
  Thermal Physics

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Dr. Ivan Christov
Mechanical Engineering
 Fluid Mechanics

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Dr. Chelsea Davis
Materials Engineering
 Interfacial Mechanics

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Dr. Eckhard Groll
Mechanical Engineering
 Thermal Systems, Refrigeration

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Dr. Carol Handwerker
Materials Engineering
New Materials Development

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Dr. John Howarter
Materials Engineering
Polymer Composites

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Dr. Neera Jain
Mechanical Engineering
Energy Management

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Dr. Amy Marconnet
Mechanical Engineering
Nanoscale Thermal Transport

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Dr. Partha Mukherjee
Mechanical Engineering
Energy Storage

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Dr. Liang Pan
Mechanical Engineering
Nanoscale Manufacturing

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Dr. Tim Persoons
Mechanical Engineering
Sustainable Energy

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Dr. Xiulin Ruan
Mechanical Engineering
Nanoscale Energy Transport

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Dr. Luz Sotelo
Mechanical Engineering
Nondestructive Evaluation

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Dr. Ganesh Subbarayan
Mechanical Engineering
Microsystems Packaging

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Dr. Tiwei Wei
Mechanical Engineering
Semiconductor Packaging

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Dr. Davide Ziviani
Mechanical Engineering
Thermal Systems, Refrigeration

► Ganesh Subbarayan recieves the 2024 Richard Chu Award for Excellence in Thermal and Thermo-Mechanical Management of Electronics

► Tiwei Wei awarded the 2024 Intel Rising Star Faculty Award

► Thomas Beechem recognized with the 2024 College of Engineering Faculty Excellence Award for Early Career Research

► Xiulin Ruan recieves the 2024 ASME McDonald Mentoring Award

► Xiulin Ruan recieves the 2023 Discovery in Mechanical Engineering Award

► Amy Marconnet promoted to Full Professor of Mechanical Engineering

► Davide Ziviani promoted to Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering

► Amy Marconnet promoted to Full Professor of Mechanical Engineering

► Liang Pan promoted to Full Professor of Mechanical Engineering

► Eckhard Groll receives the F. Paul Anderson Award from ASHRAE, the society's highest honor.

► Justin Weibel elected Fellow of ASME

► Neera Jain receives 2023 Outstanding Young Investigator Award from the ASME DSCD.

► Xiulin Ruan receives the 2023 Brillouin Medal for four-phonon scattering

► Carol Handwerker named inaugural member of the U.S. Department of Commerce Industrial Advisory Committee (IAC)

► Ganesh Subbarayan earns the Technical Excellence Award from Semiconductor Research Corporation

► Ivan Christov recognized as a Fulbright U.S. Scholar for the 2022-2023 Academic Year

► Xiulin Ruan and Justin Weibel awarded College of Engineering Outstanding Faculty Mentor