Southern Illinois University Carbondale

Faculty & Research > Civil Engineering

Rolando Bravo, Associate Professor; Ph.D., Houston, 1990; PE, PH: surface and subsurface hydrology, hydraulics and fluid mechanics.
Gary Butson, Associate Professor; Ph.D., Illinois, 1981: mechanics of materials, vibrations, solid mechanics.
Lizette Chevalier, Associate Professor and Chair; Ph.D., Michigan State, 1993; EIT: environmental restoration of groundwater aquifers, experimental investigation of immiscible flow, numerical modeling of subsurface transport.
Bruce DeVantier, Associate Professor; Ph.D., California, Davis, 1983; PE: water quality modeling, sediment transport, turbulence modeling, finite element methods.
William F. Eichfeld, Assistant Professor; M.S., Wisconsin-Madison, 1973; PE: structural analysis, strength of materials, highways and highway construction materials.
Roy R. Frank Jr., Assistant Professor; M.S., Southern Illinois at Carbondale, 1983; IPLSA: surveying, photogrammetry, GIS, GPS, heavy construction.
J. Kent Hsiao, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Utah, 2000; PE, SE: structural earthquake engineering, structural reliability, structural design of buildings and bridges using steel, reinforced or prestressed concrete masonry and wood.
Zhiqiang Hu, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., University of Connecticut, 2002; PE: biological processes, emerging energy systems, nanobiotechnology.
Aslam Kassimali, Professor; Ph.D., Missouri-Columbia, 1976: structural engineering, nonlinear structural analysis, structural dynamics and stability.
Sanjeev Kumar, Professor; Ph.D., Missouri-Rolla, 1996; PE: dynamic soil-structure interaction, piles under lateral loads, settlement prediction of landfills, hydraulic conductivity of clay barriers, seismic analysis and design of landfills, ground motion amplification in soils, liquefaction of silts and sands, machine foundations.
Shashi S. Marikunte, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Michigan State, 1992: structural analysis, reinforced and prestressed concrete and structural steel design, construction materials, fiber-reinforced cementcomposites.
John W. Nicklow, Associate Professor; Ph.D., Arizona State, 1998; PE, PH: water resources and hydraulic engineering, application of operations research to water resources systems, sediment transport, applied hydrology.
Vijay K. Puri, Professor; Ph.D., Missouri-Rolla, 1984: geotechnical engineering, soil dynamics, machine foundations, liquefaction of soils.
Jale Tezcan, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., RiceUniversity, 2005: non-linear structural behavior, neural networks in system identification and structural control, rehabilitation and retrofitting of structures damaged by earthquakes.
Shing-Chung Yen, Professor; Ph.D., Virginia Tech, 1984: composite materials and structures, solid mechanics, structural dynamics and vibrations, experimental mechanics.

Faculty & Research > Electrical and Computer Engineering

Nazeih M. Botros, Professor; Ph.D., Oklahoma, 1985: digital hardware design, artificial intelligence, bioengineering.
Morteza Daneshdoost, Professor; Ph.D., Drexel, 1984: power systems analysis, expert systems, man-machine interface, neural network applications to power.
Glafkos D. Galanos, Professor and Chair; Ph.D., Manchester (England), 1970: power systems, control, power electronics, AC/DC systems.
Lalit Gupta, Professor; Ph.D., SMU, 1986: computer vision, pattern recognition, digital signal processing.
Themistoklis Haniotakis, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Athens (Greece), 1998: VLSI design, VLSI testing, fault tolerant systems.
Frances J. Harackiewicz, Professor; Ph.D., Massachusetts at Amherst, 1990: electromagnetics, antennas, microwaves and millimeter waves, ferrites and microstrip-phased arrays.
Constantine I. Hatziadoniu, Professor; Ph.D., West Virginia, 1987: power systems; modeling, simulation, and control; high-voltage DC transmission; power electronics.
Dimitrios N. Kagaris, Associate Professor; Ph.D., Dartmouth, 1994: VLSI design automation, digital circuit testing, communication networks.
William Osborne, Professor and Dean, Ph.D., New Mexico State, 1970:modulation, coding, wireless and space communications.
Farzad Pourboghrat, Professor; Ph.D., Iowa, 1984: control, robotics, mechatronics, adaptive control systems, neural networks.
Mohammad R. Sayeh, Professor; Ph.D., Oklahoma State, 1985: neural networks, optical information processing.
Spyros Tragoudas, Professor; Ph.D., Texas at Dallas, 1991: computer-aided design for VLSI design and test, routing in computer networks.
R. Viswanathan, Professor; Ph.D., SMU, 1983: spread spectrum systems, wireless communications, detection and estimation theory.
Haibo Wang, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., University of Arizona, 2002: mixed-signal VLSI design and testing, VLSI design automation.
Ning Weng, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Massachusetts, 2005: network processing systems, system architecture, analytical performance modeling, low power design.
Wei Zhang, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University, 2003: computer architecture, compiler and low power system design.

Faculty & Research > Manufacturing Systems

Feng-Chang Roger Chang, Associate Professor and Chair; Ph.D., Ohio State, 1985: computer-integrated manufacturing systems, production planning and control, decision support systems, knowledge-based system.
Bruce DeRuntz, Associate Professor; Ph.D., Southern Illinois at Carbondale,2005: six-sigma, quality assurance,statistical process control.
Julie K. Dunston, Associate Professor; Ph.D., Florida State, 1995: neural networks, composites manufacturing, design optimization, concurrent engineering.
Ronald Marusarz, Associate Professor; Ph.D., Southern Illinois at Carbondale, 1999: microprocessor-based control systems, instrumentation, analog and digital electronic system design.
Mandara Savage, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Iowa State, 1999: machine tool dynamics, fuzzy control, human factors engineering.
Carl Spezia, Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Southern Illinois at Carbondale, 2002: power systems, industrial control systems, electric machines.
Tomas Velasco, Associate Professor; Ph.D., Arkansas, 1991: quality control, statistics, reliability, artificial intelligence.

Faculty & Research > Mechanical Engineering and Energy Processes

Serge Abrate, Professor; Ph.D., Purdue, 1983: structures, structural dynamics, vibrations, design, composite materials.
Om P. Agrawal, Professor; Ph.D., Illinois at Chicago, 1984: computer-aided analysis and design of rigid/flexible multibody systems, numerical analysis, finite element methods, continuum mechanics.
James Blackburn, Professor; Ph.D., Tennessee, 1988: biokinetics, bioremediation, biotechnology and pollution prevention.
Philip Chu, Professor; Ph.D., South Carolina, 1982: CAD/CAM composite materials, NDE, FEA.
Jarlen Don, Associate Professor; Ph.D., Ohio State, 1982: materials creep and creep fatigue, surface phenomena, carbon-carbon composites.
Asghar Esmaeeli, Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Michigan, 1995: Numerical simulations of peristaltic pumping, computations of spray cooling.
Kambiz Farhang, Professor; Ph.D., Purdue, 1989: CAD, controls, vibrations.
Peter Filip, Professor; Ph.D. Tu Ostrava, Czech Republic, 1989: Carbon-carbon materials and advanced applications, friction and wear mechanisms, biomaterials, shape memory alloys, and metallurgy.
Edwin J. Hippo, Professor; Ph.D., Penn State, 1977: coal conversion and cleaning, solid-carbon materials, scanning tunneling microscopy.
Rasit Koc, Professor; Ph.D., Missouri-Rolla, 1989: ceramic materials, powder processing.
Ajay Mahajan, Professor; Ph.D., Tulane, 1994: robotics, controls, intelligent and autonomous systems.
James A. Mathias, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Ohio State, 2001: thermodynamics, heat transfer, micro-technology, nano-technology, low-grade energy utilization.
Kanchan Mondal, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Southern Illinois University, 2001: Electrochemistry, energy from coal, catalysis, reactor systems and design.
Emmanuel C. Nsofor, Associate Professor; Ph.D., Mississippi State, 1993: energy systems, thermal analysis and design, HVAC.
Marek L. Szary, Associate Professor; D.Engr., Wroclaw Technical (Poland), 1977: mechanical aspects of robots, acoustics.
Alan J. Weston, Associate Professor; Ph.D., Southern Illinois at Carbondale, 1991: chemical processes, process control.
Tomasz S. Wiltowski, Professor, Ph.D., Institute of Catalysis, 1983, energy and environment, hydrogen production from fossil fuels, gasification, renewable energy sources.
Dale E. Wittmer, Professor and Chair; Ph.D., Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1980: high-temperature-resistant materials, high-temperature sintering, processing and properties of composites and advanced ceramics, and X-ray diffraction studies.

Faculty & Research > Mining Engineering

Yoginder Chugh, Professor; Ph.D., Penn State, 1971: rock mechanics and ground control, production engineering in surface and underground coal mines, mining subsidence, management of coal combustion residues.
Satya Harpalani, Professor and Chair; Ph.D., Berkeley, 1985: mine ventilation and cooling, methane recovery from coal, solution mining, carbon sequestration in geologic media, utilization of mine waste.
Manoj K. Mohanty, Associate Professor; Ph.D., Southern Illinois University Carbondale, 1997: mineral processing.
Bradley C. Paul, Associate Professor; Ph.D., Utah, 1989: solution mining, minerals processing, underground mining, management of coal combustion residues.