Mechanical Engineering
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Dr. Jim Chen’s research areas include fluid mechanics, heat transfer, thermal processing of materials, and biotransport. He has published more than 100 articles in temperature measurement and control, film cooling, jet impingement, accelerated/controlled cooling, melt spinning, interfacial heat transfer, heat pipe, biotransport, and rapid solidification. In the last five years, he has applied his expertise in thermal/fluid science and used Particle Image Velocimetry and Computational Fluid Dynamics to investigate cryosurgery and drug delivery in biomedical engineering. |
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Dr. Richard S. Cohen has research interests in the properties of matter. His original expertise is in the area of combustion and fuels with a concentration in hydrocarbons, their storage, combustion, and pollution. More recently his interests are in nanotechnology and bioengineering. He is currently collaborating in research into micro and nanosensors and devices. Most recently, he has received a grant from the Pennsylvania Department of Health researching obesity. |
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Dr. Parsaoran Hutapea is the director of the Composites Laboratory [1]. His research focus is on the mechanics of composite and smart materials. Current projects include mechanical degradation of PEM fuel cells and development of smart actuators for bioengineering applications. Dr. Hutapea’s research has been supported by grants from private foundations, state, and federal agencies. |
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Dr. Svetlana Neretina is the principle investigator at the Renewable Energy Laboratory [2]which conducts research in solar cell materials and designs. Her current work focuses on the use of exotic synthesis routes to produce CdTe thin films and nanostructured materials capable of enhancing photovoltaic efficiencies. She is also investigating the possibility of using plasmonic noble metal nanoparticles as solar cell enhancement agents. Dr. Neretina’s goal is to have these technologies integrated into next generation solar cell architectures. |
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Dr. Dmitri Vainchtein’s research interests are dynamical systems (including resonant phenomena and chaos), control theory (Schellings’ theory of aggregation in urban environments), mathematical sociology, fluid mechanics (including mixing, vortex dynamics and transport phenomena) and plasma physics. He is currently conducting analytical and numerical research on chaotic mixing in microdroplets, properties of plasma in the Earth’s magnetosphere and nonlinear dynamics in atomic force microscopy (AFM). His is the director of the Chaotic Systems Laboratory. [3] |
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Dr. George Baran’s research interests include composites and biomechanics. He is the director of the Center for Bioengineering and Biomaterials [4] which is currently undertaking research initiatives in the areas of dental restorative materials, composite reinforcement strategies and spine implant modeling. Dr. Baran is funded by grants from the National Institutes of Health. He collaborates with faculty from the Department of Chemistry at Temple University. |
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Dr. Kurosh Darvish is the director of the Biomechanics Laboratory [5]. His research focuses on the biomechanics of traumatic aortic rupture (TAR) and brain biomechanics. Using mechanistic experimental-numerical approaches, he is developing physical and computer models to produce TAR and analyzing the effects of biomechanical inputs on it. Information gained from his studies on the deformation of brain tissue resulting from a head trauma will lead to the development of tools to predict the extent of brain injury and better protective systems. |
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Dr. Mohammad Kiani is the director of the Biofluidics Laboratory [6] which conducts research in microfluidics and targeted drug delivery to cardiac tissue and tumors, biofluid mechanics and tissue engineering. He is currently developing a novel “tissue on a chip” system and investigating selective delivery of antivascular drugs to tumors and proangiogenic compounds to damaged heart tissue in order to generate new cardiac vessels. He has received funding from the National Institutes of Health, the American Heart Association, the National Science Foundation and the Department of Defense. |
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Dr. Keya Sadeghipour’s primary research interests are biomechanical engineering, dental materials, microfracture, and finite element methods. He has collaborated with faculty from Temple University’s School of Medicine and Shriner Hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania investigating forearm and elbow trauma based on forearm rotation. Currently, Dr. Sadeghipour is studying the wear analysis of dental restorative materials which is funded by a grant from the National Institutes of Health. |
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[1] Composites Laboratory: http://vader.eng.temple.eduresearch/labs/composites
[2] Renewable Energy Laboratory : http://vader.eng.temple.eduresearch/labs/rel
[3] Chaotic Systems Laboratory. : http://vader.eng.temple.eduresearch/labs/csl
[4] Center for Bioengineering and Biomaterials: http://vader.eng.temple.eduresearch/labs/cbb
[5] Biomechanics Laboratory: http://vader.eng.temple.eduresearch/labs/tbl
[6] Biofluidics Laboratory: http://vader.eng.temple.edu/research/labs/biofluidics-laboratory/
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