Leadership

School Director

Associate Director

Terry Alford

Terry Alford

Terry Alford
Associate Director and Professor
Materials science and engineering

Research Interests
Materials properties for low-power electronics and novel integrated-circuit components formation and adhesion of sol-gel metal systems for biomedical applications.

 

[email protected]
480-965-7471
Tempe Campus, ENGRC 242
Mailcode 6106

Undergraduate program chairs

David Nielsen

David Nielsen

David Nielsen
Professor
Undergraduate program chair, chemical engineering

Research Interests
Developing microbial platforms and biotechnologies to convert renewable resources into useful fuels and chemicals.

[email protected]
480-965-4113
Tempe Campus, GWC 552
Mailcode 6106

Sefaattin Tongay

Sefaattin Tongay

Sefaattin Tongay
Professor
Materials science and engineering

Research Interests
Tongay’s research focuses on synthesis of next generation low-dimensional materials and understanding their optical, electrical, mechanical, and magnetic properties using state-of-art experimental and theoretical techniques.

[email protected]
480-727-4301
Tempe Campus, ENGRC 283
Mailcode 6106

Valana Wells

Valana Wells

Valana Wells
Associate professor
Undergraduate program chair, aerospace engineering and mechanical engineering

Research Interests
Computational acoustics; rotary-wing aeroacoustics; noise control; rotorcraft design; aeronautical engineering education

[email protected]
(480) 965-4777
Tempe Campus, ENGRC 393A
Mailcode 1604

Graduate program chairs

Peter Crozier

Peter Crozier

Peter Crozier
Professor
Graduate program chair, materials science and engineering

Research Interests
Seeing materials with Electrons: Synthesis, characterization and evolution of nanomaterials and nanostructures related to energy and the environment; strong emphasis on advanced electron microscopy imaging and spectroscopy.  Catalytic materials, electroceramics. photocatalysis.

[email protected]
480-965-2934
Tempe Campus, ENGRC 251
Mailcode 6106

Marc Mignolet

Marc Mignolet

Marc Mignolet
Professor
Graduate program chair, aerospace and mechanical engineering

Research Interests
Structural dynamics, vibrations, modeling of uncertainty in structures, stochastic multiscale analyses.

[email protected]
480-965-1484
Tempe Campus, ENGRC 411
Mailcode 6106

Kaushal Rege

Kaushal Rege

Kaushal Rege
Professor
Graduate program chair, Biological Design

Research Interests
Molecular and nanoscale bioengineering, drug and gene delivery, nanobiotechnology, theranostics, synergistic therapeutics, sub-cellular delivery, biological separation.

[email protected]
480-727-8616
Tempe Campus, GWC 616
Mailcode 6106

Cesar Torres

Cesar Torres
Professor
Graduate program chair, chemical engineering

Research Interests
Microbial electrochemistry fermentations, and photosynthetic production of biofuels. Develop microbiological technologies that provide energy or high value chemicals to society; engineer microorganisms to carry out reactions that are difficult or impossible through other chemical routes.

[email protected]
480-727-9689
Tempe Campus, GWC 548
Mailcode 6106