Mechanical Engineering Research

Various research from Mechanical Engineering

Areas of Research Conducted by our Faculty

Research Facilities

Snapshot of Select Funded Research 

Design and Manufacturing 

Changhong Ke 

  • Exploiting Nanoscale Interfaces to Enhance Bulk Mechanical Response of Additively Manufactured Boron Nitride Nanotube-Metal Composites – National Science Foundation 

SB Park

  • Development of Closed-Loop Control and Optimization Modules of the Printed Circuit Board Assembly Processes in Surface Mount Technology - Koh Young Technology Incorporated

Mir Jalil Razavi Aghjeh

  • Mechanics of the Formation of Cortial Folding Patterns in the Developing Human Brain - National Science Foundation

Bahgat Sammakia (PI), Scott Schiffres, SB Park (co-PI’s)

  • Radiation-Hard Microelectronics Workforce Development Consortium  – Purdue University 

Scott Schiffres (PI), Bahgat Sammakia, Changhong Ke (co-PI’s) 

  • PFI-TTT: Enhanced Electronic Cooling via 3D Printing from Additive Laser Fabrication of Heat Removal Devices – National Science Foundation 

Pu Zhang

  • Polymer-Based Conformal Space Radiation Shield with Thermal Management Manufactured by Five-Axis 3D Printing Platform - Advanced Cooling Technologies

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Dynamics and Mechatronics 

Ronald Miles (PI), Changhong Ke (Co-PI)

  • Capacitive Pressure/ Velocity Probe for Acoustic Measurements in the Human Ear Canal - National Inst on Deafness & Other Comm Disorders

Sherry Towfighian (PI) 

  • MEMS High Voltage Triboelectric Levitation: A Generactuator - National Science Foundation
  • Self-Powered Load Sensors for Total Knee Replacement Health Monitoring - The National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases

Kaiyan Yu (PI)

  • CAREER: Simultaneous and Independent Control of Nanostructured Objects Through the Use of Coupled External Electric Fields - National Science Foundation

Jian Zhou

  • Broadband Tunable Nano-Opto-Electro-Mechanical Resonators for Ultrasensitive Adaptive Sensing - National Science Foundation

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Materials

Jennifer Iacabucci (PI),  Junghyun Cho (Co-PI), SB Park (Co-PI) 

  • Artificial Intelligence Collaborative Research Alliance - IBM 

Jingzhou (Frank) Zhao

  • Thermal Drawing of Composite Fibers for Wearable Energy Textiles - National Science Foundation 

Guangwen Zhou

  • Collaborative Research: Coordinated In-Situ Dynamic Experiments and Atomistic Modeling of Surface Segregation in Alloys- National Science Foundation
  • In Situ Visualization and Theoretical Modeling of Early Stages of Oxidation of Metals and Alloys - US Department of Energy

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Solid Mechanics and Mechanical Design

Changhong Ke

  • Collaborative Research: Mechanics of Tough and 3D Printable Ceramics Nanocomposites - National Science Foundation 

SB Park

  • Development of Advanced 2.5D Si Interposer - Sejong University

Mir Jalil Razavi (PI), Dehao Liu (co-PI)

  • CDS&E/Collaborative Research: Physics-Informed Machine Learning for Tailoring the Multidirectional Mechanical Properties of Composite Materials - National Science Foundation

Pu Zhang

  • CAREER: Electro-Mechanical Behaviors of Soft Conductive Composites Embedded with Liquid Metal Fiber Networks - National Science Foundation 

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Thermofluid and Energy Sciences

Paul Chiarot

  • Artifical Intelligence Guided Electrospray Deposition of Polymeric Films - National Science Foundation 

Cosan Daskiran

  • Off-grid tidal turbine-driven centrifugal reverse osmosis system - US Department of Energy

Bahgat Sammakia

  • SCALE: A Microelectronic Workforce Development Production Project - Purdue

Bahgat Sammakia (PI), Scott Schiffres, SB Park (co-PI’s)

  • Radiation-Hard Microelectronics Workforce Development Consortium Subagreement No. 13000844-021 – Purdue University 

Scott Schiffres 

  • I-Corps: Additive Laser Metal Deposition onto Sillicon for Enhanced Electronics Cooling – National Science Foundation
  • Intermetallic Interfacial Thermal Transport for Advanced Electronics Manufacturing - National Science Foundation CAREER

Scott Schiffres (PI), Bahgat Sammakia, Changhong Ke (co-PI’s) 

  • PFI-TTT: Enhanced Electronic Cooling via 3D Printing from Additive Laser Fabrication of Heat Removal Devices – National Science Foundation 

Jifu Tan 

  • CAREER: Multiscale Modeling of Thrombus Formation and its Response to External Loads - National Science Foundation 
  • ERI: Integration of Computational Modeling and Machine Learning for Clot Mechanics - National Science Foundation 

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