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Faculty

The Department of Mechanical Engineering Offices are located in the Engineering and Physical Science Building. Our Mechanical Engineering office is located on the 3rd Floor of the Engineering Building, Room 326 (E-326).

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John Abraham

Ph.D., Princeton University 

Professor and Chair of Mechanical Engineering

Multiphase Flows, Sprays, Combustion, Internal Combustion Engines, Fuel Chemistry, Computational Fluid Dynamics, High Performance Computing  

Dr. Kaveh Akbari Hamed 

Kaveh Akbari Hamed

Ph.D., Sharif University of Technology

Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Control Theory, Robotics, Legged Locomotion, Optimization 

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Ilenia Battiato

Ph.D., University of California, San Diego 

Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Theoretical/Computational Fluid Mechanics, Multiscale and Hybrid Methods, Multiphase Flows, Transport in Porous Media  

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Asfaw Beyene 

Ph.D., Warsaw University of Technology

Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Renewable Energy, Thermodynamic Cycles, Energy Analysis, Mathematical Modeling, Simulation of Thermal Systems  

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Subrata Bhattacharjee 

Ph.D., Washington State University

Professor of Mechanical Engineering 

Adjunct Professor of Computer Science

Computational Thermodynamics, Combustion  

Dr. Randall German 

Randall German

Ph.D., University of California, Davis

Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Powder Metallurgy, Sintering, Materials Processing, Ceramics  

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Samuel Kassegne

Ph.D., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Professor of Mechanical Engineering

MEMS/NEMS, Nanotechnology, Bioengineering and Computational Sciences  

Parag_Katira 

Parag Katira

 Ph.D., University of Florida

Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Biomolecular Motors, Cell Mechanics, Mechanosensing, Tissue Dynamics, Soft Matter Interactions, Design of Active Materials  

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Ronald Kline

Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University

Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Nondestructive Testing, Composite Materials, Solid Mechanics  

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Karen May-Newman

Ph.D., University of California, San Diego

Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Biomechanics, Biomaterials, Medical Device Design  

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Morteza Monte Mehrabadi

Ph.D., Tulane University

Dean of Engineering and Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Mechanics of Materials  

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Fletcher Miller

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley

Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering 

Combustion, Fire, Sustainable Energy, Solar Thermal Power  

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Kee Moon

Ph.D., University of Illinois, Chicago

Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Mechatronics, Precision Engineering, Machine Design  

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Khaled Morsi

Ph.D., University of Oxford, UK

Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Materials Science, Materials Processing, Powder Metallurgy  

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Peiman Naseradinmousavi

Ph.D., Villanova University, Philadelphia

Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Robotics, Smart Valves, Nonlinear Dynamics, Control Theory, Optimization, Magnetic Bearings, Mathematical Modeling  

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Eugene Olevsky

Ph.D., National Academy of Sciences, Ukraine

Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Mechanics and Materials, Powder Technology, Sintering, Computational Materials  

George_Youssef 

George Youssef

Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Mechanics of Nontraditional Materials, Polymers, Composites, Multiferroic, Experimental Mechanics

Affiliated Faculty

Stephen C. Cowin, Ph.D.
E-326

 sccowin@mail.sdsu.edu

Lecturers 

Richard Ayala, M.S.
E-425
rayala@mail.sdsu.edu
  
Stephen C. Cowin, Ph.D.
E-326

sccowin@mail.sdsu.edu

  

Julian Espinoza
E-300B

jespinoza@mail.sdsu.edu
 
 
Adrian Garcia
E-221
adrian-510@sbcglobal.net
 
 
Matthew Graham, Ph.D.
matthew.graham0@gmail.com 
 
 
 
Thomas Johnston, M.S.
E-221A
johnston@egineering.sdsu.edu
 
 

Alexander Lehman, Ph.D. 

atlehman@mail.sdsu.edu
  
Morteza Mohssenzadeh, M.S.
 E-401
mmohssenzadeh@mail.sdsu.edu
 
 
Charles Negus, Ph.D.
E-326 
me202.sdsu@gmail.com
   
Hamid Nourollahi, M.S.
E-301B 
hdnourollahi@aol.com
 
 
Terrie Riley
E-221 
triley@mail.sdsu.edu

 


Visiting Professors

Dr. Hidemitsu Furukawa
2016 

 furukawa@yz.yamagata-u.ac.jp

Dr. Ajit Khosla
2016

 khosla@gmail.com 
Dr. Vinicio Magi
2015
vinicio.magi@unibas.it

 

Dr. María Concepción Garrido Astray
(Dpto. CC. Morfológicas y Biomedicina
Universidad Europea)
2013 

mconcepcion.garrido@uem.es

 

Dr. Shifferaw Taye-Tesema 
(Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia)
2012-13

shifferaw.taye@aait.edu.et

Dr. Sofia Faddeeva (Tec de Monterrey, Estado de Mexico)
2011-12

sofia_faddeeva@hotmail.com

Dr. Shimon Haber (Technion, Israel)
2012 

shimonhaber@gmail.com

Dr. Hungsuk Cho (KAIST, Korea)
2012

hscho@dgist.ac.kr

Adjunct Faculty

Dr. Wei Li

 

wli@mail.sdsu.edu 

Dr. Fernand Marquis

(831) 747-4395 

fmarquis@mail.sdsu.edu 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Professor Emeriti

Greg W. Bailey

farnuff.labs@gmail.com
Robert L. Bedore

rlbedore@yahoo.com
George T. Craig


 
Jack W. Hoyt


Nahad A. Hussain
 

Thomas J. Impelluso

timpellu@mail.sdsu.edu
George A. Mansfield Jr.

gmansfield75@gmail.com
Robert J. Murphy


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Staff

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Anna Flores (E-326A)

Administrative Support Coordinator

aflores@mail.sdsu.edu

(619) 594-6067 

 Mike Lester  

Michael Lester  (E-105A)

Fabrication Support

lester@mail.sdsu.edu

(619) 594-0319 

 Greg Morris  

Greg Morris

Fabrication Support

gmorris@mail.sdsu.edu 

(619) 594-6063




Student Assistants

 Email: mestudentassistant@gmail.com

 nishant4_sa 

Nishant Billava (E-326)

Student Assistant

(619) 594-7050 

Nicolette_SA

Nicolette Mychajluk (E-326)

Student Assistant

(619) 594-7050

Lauren Lee

Lauren Lee (E-326)

Student Assistant

(619) 594-7050  




 


  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Smart Health Institute

SDSU awarded $10M NIH grant

ME Professor, Dr. Kee Moon is one of the PIs on a $10M NIH award entitled "Building Capacity and Infrastructue for Population Health and Health Disparities Research at San Diego State University".

1000 publications

1000+ Scientific Publications by SDSU Professor

Congratulations to Dr. Randall German, ME Professor, for exceeding the milestone of 1,000 scientific publications in powder-based materials and sintering, including 16 books. He is currently the most cited author in his field.

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Modeling Sintering Anisotropy

Dr. Eugene Olevsky has received a $630k NSF award to conduct a multi-scale fundamental investigation of sintering anisotropy.

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Concentrating Solar Power SunShot Research Award

Dr. Fletcher Miller is the PI on a $3.8M DoE grant for developing a Small-Particle Solar Receiver for High-Temperature Brayton Power Cycles.

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$18M NSF Engineering Research Center

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Dr. Kee Moon leads SDSU's efforts in the NSF Engineering Research Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering. Partner Universities include UW and MIT.

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Department of Mechanical Engineering Job Opportunities

  

  • Part-Time Faculty (Lecturer) 
  • Instructional Student Assistant
  • Graduate Assistant
  • Teaching Associate