UC welcomes new engineering faculty
Faculty join the College of Engineering and Applied Science in three departments
The University of Cincinnati welcomed three new faculty members, including a new department head, to the College of Engineering and Applied Science at the start of the spring semester. These three faculty members join 10 new faculty who were hired at the start of the 2024-2025 academic year in August.
Meet the new faculty
Alex Mejia, Ph.D.
Professor and Head, Department of Engineering and Computing Education
Research/Teaching Interests: Latino/a/x/é engineers; engineering culture and discourse; the development of critical consciousness among engineers; engineering for social justice; broadening participation in engineering spaces
Dhuree Seth, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor Educator, Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
Research/Teaching Interests: Multirotor and fixed-wing UAS design, development, flight testing and acoustic measurements; active flow control; unsteady aerodynamics; rotorcraft aerodynamics; wind and water tunnel testing; structure dynamic testing methodologies
Eric Stewart, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering
Research/Teaching Interests: Coupled multi-physics mechanics of solid materials; inelasticity, inertial effects, and damage in solid materials; computational solid mechanics; electromagnetic fields and forces; soft robotic sensors and actuators
Note: Andrew Barth, Ph.D., also started in January as Assistant Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics. Barth, who had earned his Ph.D. from UC in 2024, died Feb. 9, 2025. He was 49. Read the In Memoriam to learn more about his industry work supporting NASA and his research on intelligent robotics for space applications.
Featured image at top: UC's Mantei Center. Photo/John Martini
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