Six engineering faculty join UC
New faculty members join the College of Engineering and Applied Science in spring 2023
The University of Cincinnati’s College of Engineering and Applied Science welcomed six new faculty members starting in January 2023 at the start of the spring semester. Seventeen additional faculty members joined CEAS at the start of the 2022-2023 academic year in August.
Meet the new faculty:
Assistant Professor Department of Biomedical Engineering
Research/Teaching Interests: Wearable devices; point-of-care diagnostics; biosensors; adaptive sports; neurodevelopmental disorders; sports biomechanics; human-factors engineering; public health; active-learning; problem-based learning
Assistant Professor Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering
Research/Teaching Interests: Operations research; data analytics; mathematical programming; combinatorial optimization; networks
Assistant Professor Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering
Research/Teaching Interests: Emerging organic contaminants; environmental analytical chemistry; fate and transport; environmental photochemistry; environmental organic chemistry; environmentally benign semiconductor manufacturing
Associate Professor Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering
Research/Teaching Interests: Soft matter and polymers; interfacial science; mechanics; adhesion and wetting; tribology; gels/elastomers
Assistant Professor Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering
Research/Teaching Interests: Rheology; polymer processing; advanced materials; X-ray scattering; polymer physics
Assistant Professor Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering and Construction Management
Research/Teaching Interests: Fracture simulation; reinforced concrete structure; surrogate modeling; machine learning methods and applications; data assimilation; performance-based design; regional seismic risk analysis; infrastructural digitalization; community resilience and sustainability
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