Mechanical Engineering Research

Various research from Mechanical Engineering

Areas of Research Conducted by our Faculty

Research Facilities

Snapshot of Select Funded Research 

Dynamics and Mechatronics 

Ronald Miles (PI), Changhong Ke (Co-PI)

  • Capacitive Pressure/ Velocity Probe for Acoustic Measurements in the Human Ear Canal - National Inst on Deafness & Other Comm Disorders

Sherry Towfighian (PI) 

  • MEMS High Voltage Triboelectric Levitation: A Generactuator - National Science Foundation
  • Self-Powered Load Sensors for Total Knee Replacement Health Monitoring - The National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases

Kaiyan Yu (PI)

  • CAREER: Simultaneous and Independent Control of Nanostructured Objects Through the Use of Coupled External Electric Fields - National Science Foundation

Jian Zhou

  • Broadband Tunable Nano-Opto-Electro-Mechanical Resonators for Ultrasensitive Adaptive Sensing - National Science Foundation

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Manufacturing and Materials

Jennifer Iacabucci (PI),  Junghyun Cho (Co-PI), SB Park (Co-PI) 

  • Artificial Intelligence Collaborative Research Alliance - IBM 

Jingzhou (Frank) Zhao

  • Thermal Drawing of Composite Fibers for Wearable Energy Textiles - National Science Foundation 

Guangwen Zhou

  • Collaborative Research: Coordinated In-Situ Dynamic Experiments and Atomistic Modeling of Surface Segregation in Alloys- National Science Foundation
  • In Situ Visualization and Theoretical Modeling of Early Stages of Oxidation of Metals and Alloys - US Department of Energy

Changhong Ke 

  • Exploiting Nanoscale Interfaces to Enhance Bulk Mechanical Response of Additively Manufactured Boron Nitride Nanotube-Metal Composites – National Science Foundation 

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Solid Mechanics and Mechanical Design

Changhong Ke

  • Collaborative Research: Mechanics of Tough and 3D Printable Ceramics Nanocomposites - National Science Foundation 

SB Park

  • Development of Advanced 2.5D Si Interposer - Sejong University

Mir Jalil Razavi (PI), Dehao Liu (co-PI)

  • CDS&E/Collaborative Research: Physics-Informed Machine Learning for Tailoring the Multidirectional Mechanical Properties of Composite Materials - National Science Foundation

Pu Zhang

  • CAREER: Electro-Mechanical Behaviors of Soft Conductive Composites Embedded with Liquid Metal Fiber Networks - National Science Foundation 

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Thermofluid and Energy Sciences

Paul Chiarot

  • Artifical Intelligence Guided Electrospray Deposition of Polymeric Films - National Science Foundation 

Cosan Daskiran

  • Off-grid tidal turbine-driven centrifugal reverse osmosis system - US Department of Energy

Bahgat Sammakia

  • SCALE: A Microelectronic Workforce Development Production Project - Purdue

Bahgat Sammakia (PI), Scott Schiffres, SB Park (co-PI’s)

  • Radiation-Hard Microelectronics Workforce Development Consortium Subagreement No. 13000844-021 – Purdue University 

Scott Schiffres 

  • I-Corps: Additive Laser Metal Deposition onto Sillicon for Enhanced Electronics Cooling – National Science Foundation
  • Intermetallic Interfacial Thermal Transport for Advanced Electronics Manufacturing - National Science Foundation CAREER

Scott Schiffres (PI), Bahgat Sammakia, Changhong Ke (co-PI’s) 

  • PFI-TTT: Enhanced Electronic Cooling via 3D Printing from Additive Laser Fabrication of Heat Removal Devices – National Science Foundation 

Jifu Tan 

  • CAREER: Multiscale Modeling of Thrombus Formation and its Response to External Loads - National Science Foundation 
  • ERI: Integration of Computational Modeling and Machine Learning for Clot Mechanics - National Science Foundation 

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