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Mechanical Engineering Directory

Faculty Contact Research Interests
 Lukas Bichler lukas.bichler@ubc.ca
250.807.8816
EME4223
  • Advanced characterization of materials
  • New alloy development
  • Manufacturing processes
Yang Cao yang.cao@ubc.ca
250.807.9643
EME4285
  • Reconfigurable control of robots
  • Hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) control
  • Stability analysis of SCSS.
  • Unified, Reconfigurable Open Control Architecture (UROCA) systems.
Mina Hoorfar mina.hoorfar@ubc.ca
250.807.8804
EME4281
  • Fundamental research in fuel cells
  • Surface and interfacial engineering
  • Digital (droplet-based) microfluidics
  • Research in biomedical engineering
 Sunny Li sunny.li@ubc.ca
250.807.8715
EME4233
  • Cooling technologies for electronics
  • Thermal/fluid sciences in sustainable energy systems
  • Fluid instabilities and multiphase flows
 Kian Mehravaran kian.mehravaran@ubc.ca
250.807.9809
EME4271
  • Turbulent reactive flows
  • Two-phase flows, atomization and sprays
  • Internal combustion engines
Abbas S. Milani abbas.milani@ubc.ca
250.807.9652
EME4229
  • Textile Composites
  • Robust Inverse Methods
  • Material Selection for End-of-Life Design Strategies  
  • Design and Analysis of Computer & Physical Experiments  
Homayoun Najjaran homayoun.najjaran@ubc.ca
250.807.8713
EME4263
  • Robotics and intelligent machines
  • Mechatronics focused on sensor technologies
  • Soft Computing and approximate reasoning
  • Bioengineering and bioinformatics research
 AndrĂ© Phillion andre.phillion@ubc.ca
250.807.9403
EME4269
  • Advanced Solidification Phenomena
  • X-ray Imaging of Materials and Structures
  • Mathematical Modelling of Materials and Processes
Vladan Prodanovic vladan.prodanovic@ubc.ca
250.807.8161
EME4207
  • Thermodynamics and heat transfer
  • Two-phase flows and boiling heat transfer
  • Jet impingement boiling
  • Cooling processes in steel manufacturing
Rudolf Seethaler rudolf.seethaler@ubc.ca
250.807.8801
EME4205
  • Mechatronics for Automobiles
  • Electromagnetic valve trains for automobiles
  • Distributed control / sensor fusion / power distribution
  • Hybrid propulsion systems
Ray Taheri ray.taheri@ubc.ca
250.807.8802
EME4283
  • Electroless Nickel-Phosphorus coatings
  • Corrosion and wear resistance coatings
  • Materials selection
  • Mircostructural failure analysis
Claire Yan yu.yan@ubc.ca
250.807.8631
EME4221
  • Computational fluid dynamics
  • Renewable energy technologies
  • Heat and mass transfer
  • Flow in porous medium 
Spiro Yannacopoulos spiro.yannacopoulos@ubc.ca
250.807.8714
EME4249
  • Material science, metallurgy
  • Weldability of linepipe steels
  • Weldability of steels for wind towers
  • Aluminum alloys for automotive applications

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