Department of Mechanical Engineering

South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

Department of Mechanical Engineering at South Dakota School of Mines and Technology has 19 faculty on GradNova.

Faculty

Dr. Weibing Xing

Pearson Chair/Associate Professor

Department of Mechanical Engineering

South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies

Advanced Battery Technologies Research

Advancements in Battery Materials

Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Composites

Dr. Xun (Vincent) Wang

Assistant Professor

Department of Mechanical Engineering

South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

Dr. Cristian Vargas-Ordóñez

Assistant Professor

Department of Mechanical Engineering

South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

Biomedical and Engineering Education

Creativity in Education and Neuroscience

Empathy and Medical Education

Engineering Education and Curriculum Development

Dr. O. Haldun Unalmis

Professor

Department of Mechanical Engineering

South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

Dr. Albert Romkes

Associate Professor

Department of Mechanical Engineering

South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

Advanced Mathematical Modeling in Engineering

Advanced Numerical Methods in Computational Mathematics

Computational Fluid Dynamics and Aerodynamics

Elasticity and Material Modeling

Dr. Daniel Rederth

Senior Lecturer

Department of Mechanical Engineering

South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

Magnetic Field Sensors Techniques

Photonic Crystals and Applications

Quantum and Electron Transport Phenomena

Semiconductor Quantum Structures and Devices

Dr. Micah Lande

Associate Professor/E.R. Stensaas Chair

Department of Mechanical Engineering

South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

Biomedical and Engineering Education

Design Education and Practice

Engineering Education and Curriculum Development

Engineering Education and Pedagogy

Ardell Knudson

Instructor

Department of Mechanical Engineering

South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

Dr. Joseph John Thalakkottor

Assistant Professor

Department of Mechanical Engineering

South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer

Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows

Innovative Microfluidic and Catalytic Techniques Innovation

Lattice Boltzmann Simulation Studies

Dr. Prashant Jha

Assistant Professor

Department of Mechanical Engineering

South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

Electromagnetic Simulation and Numerical Methods

Geotechnical Engineering and Underground Structures

Model Reduction and Neural Networks

Numerical Methods in Engineering

Dr. Hossein Ghorbani

Lecturer

Department of Mechanical Engineering

South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

Dr. Yu (Eunice) Fu

Lecturer

Department of Mechanical Engineering

South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

Dr. Prasoon Diwakar

Associate Professor

Department of Mechanical Engineering

South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces

Laser-Induced Spectroscopy and Plasma

Motor Control and Adaptation

Remote Sensing and Lidar Applications

Dr. Sonya Dick

Assistant Professor

Department of Mechanical Engineering

South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

Computational Fluid Dynamics and Aerodynamics

Energetic Materials and Combustion

High-Pressure Geophysics and Materials

High-Velocity Impact and Material Behavior

Dr. Taher Deemyad

Assistant Professor

Department of Mechanical Engineering

South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence

Robot Manipulation and Learning

Robotic Mechanisms and Dynamics

Smart Agriculture and AI

Dr. Mohan Bodduluri

Lecturer

Department of Mechanical Engineering

South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

Dr. Cassandra Birrenkott

Professor/Alva L. Addy Professor

Department of Mechanical Engineering

South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

Design Education and Practice

Engineering Education and Curriculum Development

Mechatronics Education and Applications

Photochromic and Fluorescence Chemistry

Dr. Jason Ash

Associate Professor

Department of Mechanical Engineering

South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

Aerospace Engineering and Energy Systems

Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Composites

Mechanical Behavior of Composites

Metal and Thin Film Mechanics

Dr. Pierre Larochelle

Department Head and Professor

Department of Mechanical Engineering

South Dakota School of Mines and Technology