Ravel Ammerman
Dr. Ammerman specializes in undergraduate education and conducts research in the areas of electrical safety, computer applications related to energy systems, and engineering education. Dr. Ammerman is the co-project manager for the IEEE/NFPA Arc Flash Collaborative Research and Testing Project.

Joel Bach
Professor Bach's teaching and research is in the areas Computer Assisted Surgery and musculoskeletal, Orthopaedic, occupational and sports biomechanics. The Techniques used by his research group range from mechanical testing to computer simulation and modeling.

John Berger
Dr. Berger's research interests are in the general area of modeling the mechanical behavior and fracture of advanced materials. Recent projects have focused on fracture of ductile/brittle composites, elastic wave propagation in cylindrically anisotropic rods, and the development of boundary element methods for anisotropic materials.

Robert Braun
Dr. Braun's primary research interests are in SOFC systems modeling, simulation, and optimization; biofuels production, utilization, and plant simulation; advanced power generation systems, and techno-economic and life cycle analyses.

Cristian V. Ciobanu
Prof. Ciobanu's research is in the area of theory and simulations of nanoscale materials. Recent work has been focused on the development of global optimization methods for finding the atomic structure of semiconductor surfaces and nanowires; structure and mechanical properties of nanowires; and electronic properties of advanced nanomaterials.

Cara Coad
Cara Coad joined the Division of Engineering as a Lecturer in 2005. She has over 20 years of experience in industry as a design engineer. Her area of expertise is mechanical design; particularly design of machines/products that require precise motion or positioning. She teaches Machine Design, Computer Aided Engineering, and Introduction to Robotics.

Joe Crocker
Interest focuses on structural materials and design. Specializes in undergraduate instruction in geotechnical and structural engineering, and graduate instruction in structural engineering.

D. Vaughan Griffiths
Dr. Griffiths is a Professor of Civil Engineering specializing in Geotechnical Engineering. His research is directed at finite element modeling of geotechnical problems across a spectrum ranging from traditional areas of foundations engineering, to oil recovery geomechanics and probabilistic methods.

Marte Gutierrez
Marte Gutierrez is the James R. Paden Distinguished Professor of Civil Engineering. His main research interest is in the development and application of advanced computational models and information technologies for geotechnical applications.

William Hoff
William Hoff's research interests include computer vision and pattern recognition, with applications in robotics, video aided navigation, medical imaging, activity recognition, and augmented reality.

Kathryn Johnson
Kathryn Johnson's research interests focus on control systems, particularly applied to wind energy. Her recent projects have examined ways to reduce the cost of wind energy by using control to increase the energy captured without increasing system cost.

Robert Kee
Professor Kee holds the George R. Brown Distinguished chair. Dr. Kee's research interests are primarily in modeling and simulation of chemically reacting fluid flow. Applications are generally in the area of clean energy, including fuel cells, photovoltaics, and advanced combustion.

Robert King
Dr. King's research primarily focuses on integrating computer models and automated measurement. His recent projects include integrating computational fluid dynamics and environmental monitoring, and lunar-outpost excavation-force measurement and modeling.

Panos Kiousis
Panos D. Kiousis, Associate Professor, Ph.D., Louisiana State University. Self Consolidating and High Performance Concrete, Earthquake engineering, Structural Controls, Bridge Health Evaluation, Structural Optimization, Use of Fiber Reinforced Polymer (FRP) Composites to Strengthen/Repair Structures, Finite Elements, Inelastic Constitutive Modeling, Interface Characteristics of Dissimilar Materials.

Ning Lu
I am a Professor and Program Coordinator of Civil Engineering. My primary research interest is to seek common threads among basic soil physical phenomena including fluid flow, chemical transport, heat transfer, stress, and deformation. I pursue understanding of these phenomena at fundamental levels, including unifying atomic-scale potentials, inter-particle forces, and engineering-scale stresses in soils.

Mike Mooney
Mike's interests lie in intelligent geoconstruction, sensing and instrumentation, vibrations and intelligent systems. Current projects include intelligent underwater soil compaction (for the Venice lagoon restoration project), machine-soil interaction, developing pad-soil sensing systems, and the rapid assessment of layered earthwork in pavement systems. Mike is the Director for SmartGeo, an interdisciplinary graduate education program in intelligent geosystems and is involved in the Center for Automation, Robotics and Distributed Intelligence (CARDI).

Kevin Moore
Professor Moore is the G.A. Dobelman Distinguished Chair and Professor of Engineering. He is a well-known researcher in the areas of autonomous control and robotics, with a particular focus on the subject of iterative learning control.

David R. Muñoz
Dr. Munoz earned the Ph.D. and MS from Purdue University and the BS from the University of New Mexico, all in Mechanical Engineering. He spent a sabbatical year as a Visiting Professor to Monterrey Tech. (ITESM) in Monterrey, Mexico and has taught several thermo-fluid science and design courses. His interests include engineering design for global sustainability.

Paul Papas
Dr. Papas earned a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology and Ph.D. in Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering from Princeton University. His research interests include flame extinction, ignition, hydrodynamic and combustion instabilities, and high-temperature fuel oxidation kinetics.

Terry Parker
Professor Parker is the Engineering Division director and he has held this position since May of 2006. His research interests center around combustion, optical diagnostic measurements for reacting flows, and energy conversion. He is especially well known for his contributions to non-intrusive measurements in high pressure diesel sprays.

Anthony J. Petrella
Dr. Petrella is director of the Computational Biomechanics Group. Areas of research interest include computational and also experimental study of the musculoskeletal system. Specific areas of focus include spine, hip, and knee mechanics.

Jeff Schowalter
Dr. Schowalter received a BA degree in General Studies from the University of WI-Milwaukee, BSEE and MSEE degrees from the Air Force Institute of Technology, and a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of WI-Madison. Before joining CSM, he was a controls engineer for Tyco Fire and Building Products. Previous to that, he worked as a faculty associate for the University of WI-Madison, as a technical specialist for McDonnell Douglas Space Systems at Kennedy Space Center, and as an active duty engineering officer in the U.S. Air Force.

Marcelo Simoes
The area of Power Electronics is really exciting because it is applied in many sectors of our everyday life. For example, power electronics is used in computers, automobiles, telecommunications, motors, lighting and alternative energy (solar and wind energy applications). The main areas for power electronics engineering and research include: electronic devices, control and regulation, power converter circuit of various topologies for converter circuits, magnetic components, electronic circuit packaging, manufacturing and control of electrical motors.

Catherine Skokan
My research interests include engineering applications of geophysics, groundwater exploration and contamination studies, especially in the arena of humanitarian engineering, curriculum development, and K-12 outreach.

John P.H. Steele
Dr. Steele's research interests are in the area of intelligent machines and mechatronics, especially robots. Recent projects have focused on robotic welding, mobile robot navigation, and design of rock cutting machines for NASA.

Neal Sullivan
Research and development on solid-oxide fuel cells. Optimization of fuel-cell architecture and materials for robust operation on hydrocarbon and biomass fuel streams. Director of the Colorado Fuel Cell Center.

Candace Sulzbach
Candace Sulzbach is a Lecturer in the Division of Engineering where she has taught since August 1983. Candy teaches Mechanics of Materials, Design of Steel Structures, Design of Reinforced Concrete Structures, Field Session - land surveying and Surveying II.

Siddharth Suryanarayanan
Sid Suryanarayanan's primary research interests in electric power systems are in the areas of design, operation, control, and economics of sustainable microgrids. Secondary research interests are in application of systems-based approaches to electric power markets and the relationship between climate change and the electric power industry.

Cameron J. Turner
Dr. Turner's teaching and research focus on the areas of design and computational engineering methods. This work examines methods and techniques that allow the engineer to collaborate with computers during the innovation process, to optimize and visualize concepts in the design process, and to manufacture products through automation and rapid prototyping techniques.

Tyrone Vincent
Tyrone Vincent's research interests are in system identification and estimation, with applications in areas such as augmented reality, video aided navigation, automated welding, and semiconductor and photovoltaic manufacturing.

Michael Wakin
Michael Wakin's research interests include sparse, geometric, and manifold-based models for signal and image processing, approximation, compression, compressive sensing, and dimensionality reduction.

Judith Wang
Judith Wang, assistant professor of engineering, has research and teaching interests in the areas of dynamic soil-structure interaction, soil dynamics, structural dynamics, earthquake engineering, reliability, and the history and heritage of civil engineering.

Alexandra Wayllace
Alexandra Wayllace is a lecturer and lab coordinator in the Division of Engineering. She is interested in designing and conducting experiments to measure different soil properties for saturated and unsaturated soils

Manoja D. Weiss
My research focus is electromagnetic waves in communication and sensing. Current projects include robot repositioning for enhanced wireless reception, development of biomedical instrumentation, and millimeterware imaging.

Ray Ruichong Zhang
Dr. Zhang's research interest resides in continuum mechanics, vibration theory, stochastic processes and fields, and advanced data processing and analysis for sensory systems, disaster assessment and mitigation, and structural/geotechnical nondestructive evaluation and health monitoring.