Meet Our Faculty

The College of Engineering and Applied Science offers robust learning and research opportunities in a multitude of fields. Our faculty members are pioneers in the engineering community, and are passionate about developing students into strong independent researchers and professionals.

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Kyri Baker
Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering
Power systems, smart grids, renewable energy, stochastic and distributed optimization

Chemical and Biological Engineering

[video:https://youtu.be/KZM0oRsutmc]

Michael D. McGehee
Professor

Research Areas
Renewable Energy
Perovskite Solar Cells
Dynamic Windows

Smead Aerospace Engineering

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=873yhvxNjA4&list=PLtyCPsLRcgtIism2HSRfAgKztmZS2i7e7]

Brian Argrow
Chair, Smead Aerospace Engineering Sciences
Director of Integrated Remote and In Situ Sensing (IRISS)

Research Areas
Automatic Control
Fluid Dynamics
Unmanned Vehicles (RECUV)

Chemical and Biological Engineering

[video:https://youtu.be/VcXuTGNphPY]

Anushree Chatterjee
Assistant Professor

Research Areas
Develop antimicrobial treatments and diagnostics

Chemical and Biological Engineering

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89oShslellU&index=2&list=PLtyCPsLRcgtIism2HSRfAgKztmZS2i7e7]

Kristi Anseth
Associate Director, BioFrontiers Institute

Research Areas
Biomaterials
Drug Delivery
Stem Cells
Regenerative Medicine

Electrical, Computer, & Energy Engineering

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpCDx2EpiW8&index=9&list=PLtyCPsLRcgtIism2HSRfAgKztmZS2i7e7]

Robert McLeod
Director, Materials Science & Engineering

Research Areas
Optics
Nanostructures
Bioengineering

Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering

[video:https://youtu.be/xCG45_aO8iM]

Amy Javernick-Will
Associate Professor

Research Areas
Post-disaster reconstruction in resource limited communities
Management of project organizations
Knowledge mobilization 
Risk management

Electrical, Computer, & Energy Engineering

[video:https://youtu.be/fy2fo1tT7sM]

Juliet Gopinath
Associate Professor

Research Areas 
Semiconductors
Chalcogenides
Nonlinear optical material properties
Lasers
Optofluidics
Electrowetting

Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering

[video:https://youtu.be/WrrfPIhb4tI]

Evan Thomas
Director, Mortenson Center in Global Engineering
Mortenson Endowed Chair in Global Engineering

Research Areas
Water and air testing in developing communities
Satelite-based sensing

Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3c1d7uU68w&list=PLtyCPsLRcgtIism2HSRfAgKztmZS2i7e7&index=7]

Keith Molenaar
Associate Dean of Research
K. Stanton Lewis Professor of Construction Engineering and Management

Research Areas
Construction Engineering and Management
Alternative Project Delivery
Project Cost and Risk Analysis
Cost Engineering

Eric Frew
Smead Aerospace Engineering Sciences
Autonomous systems for unmanned aircraft

Mechanical Engineering

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hf6Gwve1n2Y&list=PLtyCPsLRcgtIism2HSRfAgKztmZS2i7e7&index=5]

Greg Rieker

Research Areas

  • Laser Spectroscopy
  • Laser-Based Sensing and Control in Energy, Atmospheric and Industrial Systems

 

Computer Science

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Do0njseS2IE&index=8&list=PLtyCPsLRcgtIism2HSRfAgKztmZS2i7e7]

Orit Peleg

BioFrontiers Institute

Research Areas

  • Collective Mechanical Adaptation
  • Optimal Intermittent Reorientation
  • Systems Biophysics of Protein-Protein Interaction
  • Micro Phase Separation in Polymer Gels
  • Nanopores and Nuclear Pore Complexes
Smead Aerospace Engineering

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYoGGqBRtr4&index=6&list=PLtyCPsLRcgtIism2HSRfAgKztmZS2i7e7]

Scott Palo

Research Areas

  • Remote Sensing, Earth, & Space Sciences
  • Vehicle Systems
  • Astrodynamics & Satellite Navigation

Karl Linden

Environmental Engineering

Advanced treatment technologies for water
and wastewater reuse applications