Faculty & Staff


Faculty

Contact Information

Areas of Expertise and Degrees

Woosoon Yim, Professor and Chairman

Office: TBE A-219

Phone: (702) 895-0956

Email: woosoon.yim@unlv.edu

Dynamics, Active material control, Robotics

B.S., Hanyang University ; M.S.,

Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Robert Boehm, Professor

Office: TBE B-124

Phone: (702) 895-4160

Email: bob.boehm@unlv.edu

Renewable energy, Thermal system design

B.S., M.S., Washington State University

Ph.D., University of California , Berkeley ; P.E., California .

Yitung Chen, Associate Professor

Office: PAR 600 Rm 621

Phone: (702) 895-1202

Email: uuchen@nscee.edu

Computational fluid dynamics, Heat and mass transfer

B.S., Feng Chia University

M.S., Ph.D., University of Utah .

William Culbreth, Associate Dean

Office: TBE A-114

Phone: (702) 895-3699

Email: william.culbredth@unlv.edu

Fluid dynamics, Aerodynamics, Nuclear eng

B.S., California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; M.S., Ph.D., University of California , Santa Barbara

Dan Cook, Assistant Professor

Office: TBE B-372A

Phone: (702) 895-4133

Email: dpcook@me.unlv.edu

Material, Heat transfer, Entertainment Eng

B.S. Ohio State University, 

M.S., Ph.D., University of California , Berkeley ;

Georg Mauer, Professor

(Undergraduate Program Coordinator)

Office: TBE B-130

Phone: (702) 895-3830

Email: mauer@me.unlv.edu

Dynamics and control, Robotics, Advanced sensor system and instrumentation

Diploma-Ingenieur; Ph.D., Technical University of Berlin .

Samir Moujaes, Professor

Office: TBE B-3265

Phone: (702) 895-3265

Email: samir@me.unlv.edu

HVAC, Thermal eng.

B.S., M.S., American University of Beirut;

Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh ; P.E., Nevada .

Brendan O'Toole, Associate Professor

(Graduate Program Coordinator)

Office: TBE B-122

Phone: (702) 895-3885

Email: bj@me.unlv.edu

Composite, Mechanics, Vehicle design

Associate Professor; 

B.S., M.S., Ph.D., University of Delaware .

Darrell Pepper, Professor

Office: TBE B-136

Phone: (702) 895-1056

Email: dwpepper@nscee.edu

Computational fluid dynamics, Heat transfer

Professor; 

B.S., M.S., Ph.D., University of Missouri-Rolla.

Douglas Reynolds, Professor

Office: TBE B-116

Phone: (702) 895-3807

Email: reynolds@nscee.edu

Acoustics, Vibration

B.S., Michigan State University

M.S., Ph.D., Purdue University .

Mohamed Trabia, Professor

Office: FDH 165

Phone: (702) 895-1056

Email: mbt@me.unlv.edu

Mechanical design, Fuzzy system, Dyanmics

B.S., M.S., Alexandria University ;

Ph.D., Arizona State University .

Zhiyong Wang, Associate Professor

Office: TBE B362

Phone: (702) 895-3442

Email: zwang@nscee.edu

Manufacturing system, Material

Associate Professor; 

B.S., M.S., Ph.D., Harbin University of Science and Technology.

William Wells (Emeritus)

Aerodynamics, Flight control

B.S., Georgia Institute of Technology; 

M.A., Harvard University; 

M.S., Ph.D., Virginia Polytechnic Institute.

V.C. Venkatesh (Visiting Faculty)

Office: RAJ 291

Phone: (702) 895-5754

Email:venkatrajvc@yahoo.com

Design for Manufacturing, Precision Engineering

B.E., University of Mysore, India, 

M.S., Institut Supérieur des Matériaux et de la Construction Mécanique, Paris, France, 

Ph.D., University of Paris , Paris 6, France

 

Research Faculty

Denis Beller
Arindam Ghosh
Hsuan-Tsung (Sean) Hsieh
Brian J Landsberger
Joon S Lee
Jian Ma
Jianhu Nie
Roger Rennels
Suresh B. Sadineni
B. R. Vijayarangan
Trevor Wilcox

 

Professional Staff

Model Designer / Machinist:
Kevin Nelson

Lab Director:

Jeffery Markle

 

 

Office Staff

Joan Conway, Administrative Assistant III