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Faculty and staff
NAU Mechanical Engineering Department
Our faculty members draw on varied areas of expertise to support our interdisciplinary research and teaching missions.
Faculty and Staff – Listed by Last Name
Timothy Becker
Professor of Practice
Email: Tim.Becker@nau.edu
Phone:928-523-1468
Research Interests: Medical device development; Aneurysm and stroke modeling; Brain vessel modeling; Biomaterials characterization
Kate Carroll
Lecturer
Email: Katherine.Carroll@nau.edu
Phone: 928-523-5801
Teaching Interests: Computer-Aided Design; Materials Science; Machine Design; Thermal Fluids Lab
Constantin Ciocanel
Professor, Department Chair
Email: Constantin.Ciocanel@nau.edu
Phone: 928-523-2439
Research Interests: Modeling; Multi-field Characterization and Implementation of Smart Materials; Development and characterization of multifunctional composites; Fatigue and fracture mechanics; Self-healing materials
Subhayan De
Assistant Professor
Email: SUBHAYAN.DE@nau.edu
Phone: 928-523-9726
Research Interests: Scientific Machine Learning; Topology Optimization; Uncertainty Quantification; Probabilistic Model Validation
Zhongwang Dou
Assistant Professor
Email: Zhongwang.Dou@nau.edu
Phone: 928-523-0468
Research Interests: Experimental Fluid Mechanics; Biofluids; Biomedical Devices; Insect Flight Dynamics; Particle-Laden Flow; Flow-Structure Interaction
Heidi Feigenbaum
Professor
Email: Heidi.Feigenbaum@nau.edu
Phone: 928-523-5326
Research Interests: Continuum mechanics; Constitutive modeling; Solid mechanics; Plasticity; Adaptive materials and structure
Santi Hindes
Administrative Services Assistant, Senior
Email: Santi.Hindes@nau.edu
Phone: 928-523-8099
Zachary Lerner
Associate Professor
Email: Zachary.Lerner@nau.edu
Phone: 928-523-1787
Research Interests: Robotics; Control; Biomechanics; Neuromuscular disorders
Carson Pete
Assistant Professor of Teaching
Email: Carson.Pete@nau.edu
Phone: 928-523-4970
Teaching Interests: Engineering Design; Heat Transfer; Computer-Aided Design
Reza Sharif Razavian
Assistant Professor
Email: Razavian.Reza@nau.edu
Research Interests: Robotics, human-robot interaction, human motor control, computational motor neuroscience, musculoskeletal biomechanics, bio-robotics, neural prosthetics
Michael Shafer, Associate Chair of Graduate Studies
Associate Professor
Email: Michael.Shafer@nau.edu
Phone: 928-523-8696
Research Interests: Energy harvesting; Advanced actuation technologies; Bio-inspired engineering systems; UAV systems; Ecological tools development
Peter Vadasz
Professor
Email: Peter.Vadasz@nau.edu
Phone: 928-523-5843
Research Interests: Transport Phenomena in Porous Media; Heat and Mass Transfer; Fluid Dynamics; Non- Linear Dynamics, Stability, Bifurcation and Routes to Chaos; Bio-Engineering; Energy Conversion and Storage; Engineering Economics
Jennifer Wade
Assistant Professor
Email: Jennifer.Wade@nau.edu
Phone: 928-523-1528
Research Interests: Energy materials; membrane separations; carbon capture; direct air capture; electrochemical energy systems
David Willy
Associate Teaching Professor, Associate Chair for Undergraduate Programs
Email: David.Willy@nau.edu
Phone: 928-523-5322
Teaching Interests: Thermal fluids; Renewable energy; Engineering design
Perry Wood
Instructional Lab Cd, Sr – SPF
Email: Perry Wood@nau.edu
Phone: 928-523-4421
Teaching Interests: Engineering graphics; Material science; Manufacturing
Emeritus Faculty – Listed by Last Name
Tom Acker
Professor Emeritus
Email: Tom.Acker@nau.edu
Research Interests: Thermal-fluid system analysis; Aerodynamics system analysis; Viscous fluid mechanics; Combustion-driven acoustic instabilities; Renewable energy systems; Statistical thermodynamics; Compressible gas dynamics; Wind turbine aerodynamics
F. Ernesto Penado
Professor Emeritus
Email: Ernesto.Penado@nau.edu
Research Interests: Mechanics of composite materials; Fracture mechanics; Finite element analysis; Optomechanics