UC welcomes new engineering faculty in three departments
Aerospace, mechanical, environmental engineering faculty join in spring semester
The University of Cincinnati welcomed three new faculty members to the College of Engineering and Applied Science in January, joining seven additional new faculty who started in August at the beginning of the 2025-2026 academic year.
Meet the new faculty
Hanxun Jin, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering
Research/Teaching Interests: Solid mechanics; micro/nano-structured biomaterials; mechanobiology; multiscale mechanical characterization; AI- and data-driven materials design; biofabrication and 3D bioprinting
Achyut Panchal, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
Research/Teaching Interests: Computational fluid dynamics; aerospace propulsion; multiphase combustion; high-speed compressible flows; turbulence modeling; large eddy simulations; high-performance computing
Mengyang Zhang, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering
Research/Teaching Interests: Environmental virology; wastewater-based epidemiology; sanitation and disinfection; infectious disease
Featured image at top: Three new faculty join the College of Engineering and Applied Science. Photos/Corrie Mayer/CEAS Marketing.
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