Advanced Materials Systems
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Ashraf Bastawros Wilson Engineering Professor, Associate Chair for Research, Department of Aerospace Engineering; Courtesy Professor, Departments of Material Science and Engineering and Mechanical Engineering; Associate, Ames Lab Phone: 515-294-3039 Office: 2347 Howe Hall bastaw@iastate.edu |
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Leonard Bond Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering; Courtesy Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering Phone: 515-294-6337 Office: 2361 Howe Hall bondlj@iastate.edu |
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Research Interests: Mechanics of soft and flexible materials and structures under combined external fields; Surface evolution under stress, electrochemical, and plasma fields; Mechanics of interfaces and layered structures. | Research Interests: Ultrasonics applied to nondestructive evaluation (NDE); Advanced diagnostics and prognostics, to estimate safe service life, applied to aerospace and energy systems. | ||||||||
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Vinay Dayal Associate Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering; Associate, Center for Nondestructive Evaluation Phone: 515-294-0720 Office: 2351 Howe Hall vdayal@iastate.edu |
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Stephen Holland Associate Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering; Associate, Center for Nondestructive Evaluation Phone: 515-294-8659 Office: 2331 Howe Hall sdh4@iastate.edu |
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Research Interests: Non-contact and non-invasive methods of flaw detection in composites; NDE of wind turbine blades made of composites; Composite aerospace structures: design and analysis. | Research Interests: Vibrothermographic nondestructive testing; Location of leaks in spacecraft; Finding flaws – cracks in metals, delaminations in composites through heat signatures. | ||||||||
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Valery Levitas Anson Marston Distinguished Professor, Vance Coffman Faculty Chair Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering & Department of Mechanical Engineering (Secondary); Courtesy Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering; Faculty Scientist, Ames Laboratory Phone: 515-294-9691 Office: 2351 Howe Hall vlevitas@iastate.edu |
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Azadeh Sheidaei |
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Research Interests: Stress- and strain-induced phase transformations and chemical reactions; Theoretical and computational nano- and micromechanics; Mutliphysics theory and modeling. | Research Interests: Multiscale characterization, multiscale modeling, 3D reconstruction of heterogeneous materials, statistical continuum mechanics and microstructure design, composite processing, additive manufacturing | ||||||||
Liming Xiong Associate Professor, Dept. of Aerospace Engineering Phone: 515-294-3033 Office: 2349 Howe Hall lmxiong@iastate.edu |
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Research Interests: Atomistic and finite element modeling of materials; multiscale materials modeling: methods, algorithms and applications; dislocation plasticity, phase transformation, damage, fracture and their interactions; multiscale computer simulation of thermal and mass transport |
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Aerodynamics, Combustion and Aero-Structural Interaction
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Paul Durbin Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering Phone: 515-294-7234 Office: 2237 Howe Hall durbin@iastate.edu |
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Hui Hu Martin C. Jischke Professor, Associate Chair for Graduate Education, Department of Aerospace Engineering Phone: 515-294-0094 Office: 2251 Howe Hall huhui@iastate.edu |
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Research Interests: Turbulence and fluid dynamics of transition; Analytical models, theory, computer simulations of complex flows. | Research Interests: Advanced flow diagnostics and instrumentation.; Aircraft icing physics and anti-/de- icing technology; Bio-inspired aerodynamics and unsteady vortex flows and control; Wind energy and wind turbine aeromechanics. | ||||||||
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Valery Levitas Anson Marston Distinguished Professor, Vance Coffman Faculty Chair Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering & Dept. of Mechanical Engineering (Secondary); Courtesy Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering; Faculty Scientist, Ames Laboratory Phone: 515-294-9691 Office: 2351 Howe Hall vlevitas@iastate.edu |
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Research Interests: Stress- and strain-induced phase transformations and chemical reactions; Theoretical and computational nano- and micromechanics; Mutliphysics theory and modeling. | |||||||||
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Alric Rothmayer Vance and Arlene Coffman Endowed Department Chair, Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering; Courtesy Professor, Department of Mathematics Phone: 515-294-8851 Office: 1200 Howe Hall roth@iastate.edu |
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Partha Sarkar Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering; Director, WiST Laboratory; Courtesy Professor, Department of Civil Engineering Phone: 515-294-0719 Office: 2343 Howe Hall ppsarkar@iastate.edu |
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Research Interests: Perturbation methods and computational fluid dynamics, strong interactions and flow separation, multi-phase flows, aircraft icing. | Research Interests: Wind Engineering/Wind Energy ; Wind tunnel simulations of ABL and unconventional winds (e.g. tornado, microburst) for wind loads; Aeroelasticity (flutter) of civil and aero structures; Aerodynamic/dynamic loads and response of wind turbines. | ||||||||
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Anupam Sharma Assistant Professor and Walter W. Wilson Faculty Fellow, Department of Aerospace Engineering |
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Thomas Ward III Assistant Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering Phone: 515-294-3925 Office: 2324 Howe Hall thomasw@iastate.edu |
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Research Interests: Aero acoustics: turbo machinery fan noise; Wind turbine aerodynamics and aero acoustics; High performance computing. | Research Interests: Microfluidics for heat and mass transport; Micro scale devices for heat transfer; Electronic flapping devices; Potential flow in porous media; Multiphase/granular flow. | ||||||||
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Complex Systems and Optimization
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Ping He |
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Leifur Leifsson Assistant Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering Phone: 515-294-6549 Office: 2331 Howe Hall leifur@iastate.edu |
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Research Interests: Mulitdisciplinary design optimization, computational fluid dynamics, aircraft design, machine learning | Research Interests: Surrogate-based modeling and optimization; Multidisciplinary design optimization; Aerodynamic shape optimization | ||||||||
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Kristin Y. Rozier Assistant Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering; Courtesy Professor, Department of Computer Science; Courtesy Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Phone: 515-294-6956 Office: 2335 Howe Hall kyrozier@iastate.edu |
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Research Interests: Formal methods, safety-critical systems, biomedical privacy, secure protocols, model checking, property-based design, model-based design, automated reasoning, runtime monitoring | |||||||||
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Engineering Education |
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Benjamin Ahn |
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Research Interests: Engineering workforce development; mentoring and diversity; teaching and learning mechanisms | |||||||||
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Guidance, Controls, Astrodynamics and Space Systems
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Bong Wie Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering Phone: 515-294-3124 Office: 2355 Howe Hall bongwie@iastate.edu |
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Peter Sherman Associate Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering; Associate Professor, Department of Statistics Phone: 515-294-0091 Office: 2339 Howe Hall shermanp@iastate.edu |
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Research Interests: Guidance, navigation, and control of space vehicles and missiles; GN&C technologies, astrodynamics, and space mission design for asteroid deflection/disruption. | Research Interests: Estimation theory; Random processes; Dynamical systems; UAV Surveillance and Guidance. | ||||||||
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Kristin Y. Rozier Assistant Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering; Courtesy Professor, Department of Computer Science; Courtesy Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Phone: 515-294-6956 Office: 2335 Howe Hall kyrozier@iastate.edu |
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Research Interests: Control, optimization, statistical machine learning, and artificial intelligence for air transportation systems and aviation systems. | Research Interests: Formal methods, safety-critical systems, biomedical privacy, secure protocols, model checking, property-based design, model-based design, automated reasoning, runtime monitoring. | ||||||||
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Ossama Abdelkhalik Associate Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering Phone: 515-294-3613 Office: 2241 Howe Hall ossama@iastate.edu |
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A Ram (Bella) Kim Assistant Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering Phone: 515-294-8850 Office: 2239 Howe Hall bellakim@iastate.edu | ||||||
Research Interests: Orbital mechanics; dynamics and control; ocean wave energy conversion; optimization. |
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Research Interests: Control for swarming of Unmanned Aerial Systems; guidance, navigation and control; optimal control; flight dynamics and control. |
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Dae Young Lee Assistant Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering Phone: 515-294-0095 Office: 2312 Howe Hall daylee@iastate.edu |
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Research Interests: Space systems; cubesat development; model predictive control. |
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Non-Destructive Testing and Evaluation
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Leonard Bond Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering; Courtesy Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering Phone: 515-294-6337 Office: 2361 Howe Hall bondlj@iastate.edu |
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Dale Chimenti Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering; Associate, Center for Nondestructive Evaluation Phone: 515-294-5853 Office: 2345 Howe Hall chimenti@iastate.edu |
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Research Interests: Ultrasonics applied to nondestructive evaluation (NDE); Advanced diagnostics and prognostics, to estimate safe service life, applied to aerospace and energy systems. | Research Interests: Ultrasonic study of the propagation of elastic waves in anisotropic, layered advanced materials; Experimental measurements of guided elastic waves in highly inhomogeneous layered composites. | ||||||||
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Thomas Chiou Associate Scientist, Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering Phone: 515-294-0299 Office: 2361 Howe Hall |
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Vinay Dayal Associate Professor Department of Aerospace Engineering Associate, Center for Nondestructive Evaluation Phone: 515-294-0720 Office: 2351 Howe Hall vdayal@iastate.edu |
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Research Interests: Non-contact and non-invasive methods of flaw detection in composites; NDE of wind turbine blades made of composites; Composite aerospace structures: design and analysis. | |||||||||
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Timothy Gray Adjunct Assistant Professor Scientist, Center for Nondestructive Evaluation Phone: 515-294-7743 Office: 127 ASC II |
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Stephen Holland Associate Professor Department of Aerospace Engineering Associate, Center for Nondestructive Evaluation Phone: 515-294-8659 Office: 2331 Howe Hall sdh4@iastate.edu |
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Research Interests: Vibrothermographic nondestructive testing; location of leaks in spacecraft; finding flaws – cracks in metals, delaminations in composites through heat signatures. | |||||||||
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Norio Nakagawa Adjunct Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering; Scientist, Center for Nondestructive Evaluation Phone: 515-294-9741 Office: 181 ASC II |
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Ronald Roberts |
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